accepted, if it does not meet with a response of thanksgiving. Passivity in the presence of grace, faith's "letting itself be moved" by grace - these are the source of a new activity: receptivity turns into

clamors of the feast mingle. Are you not the sweet melody, the virginal music of heaven's feast? Faithful Virgin, keep us pure... Revive in us the hunger for inaccessible joys... You are beautiful and dazzling

one of us by name. Our task is to learn how to listen, to perceive his call, to be courageous and faithful in following him and, when all is said and done, to be found trustworthy servants who have used

Jews, the land where they dwelled had been set aside for them. They could only keep it by being faithful to the Covenant made with God for the people he had chosen among the nations. Whenever the Romans

supernatural character of the apparitions in these terms: “We think it is good to declare worthy of faith the visions which the children received at Cova de Iria, parish of Fatima ... on the 13th of each