Heaven, a foretaste of the life to come. And the Sabbath itself is seen, mystically, as a Virgin (i.e. bride) Queen—the Sabbath Queen. Each Friday evening the oncoming Sabbath is greeted with the following
Varna : Saint Mary's Cathedral. Tir novo: Saint Mary's Cathedral. Church of the "Neopalima Kapina" (i.e. the Burning Bush). Rila: Monastery dedicated to the Virgin Protectress (Ossenovitza). This monastery
Among others we can see the constellation of the lion, known in the Aztec language as Nahui Ollin , i.e “center of time and space”! And the most important star in this constellation, the star we call Regulus
from the II Vatican's Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium (LG), that Mary remained "semper virgo", i.e. always a virgin: The Virgin Birth is reaffirmed at the beginning of Lumen Gentium's chapter 8, in reference
The Church of Saint John venerates Mary as "the mother of Jesus" (Jn 2), "The Woman" (Jn 2, Jn 19), i.e. the wife of the Covenant, and "the mother of the disciple," according to the revelation of Jesus on
bless the foundation stone for the reconstruction of the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Counsel, the "Zoja e Shkodra" Church. On that day, all Albanians were side by side: Catholics, Orthodox and Muslims, giving
practice a coherent and committed Christian way of life. For example, in her most famous work, Scivias , i.e. "Know the Way," she summarizes in 35 visions the events of the history of salvation, from the creation
received authority to found two reformed houses of men. Soon after the first monastery of discalced (i.e. barefooted) Carmelite friars was established in Duruelo. St John entered this new "Bethlehem" in a
element when seeking the Truth, since the Holy Spirit has given special light of guidance to them (i.e. the traditions passed down to us by the Fathers, or the opportunity of improving our Marian knowledge
______ Bibliography: M. CALVAGNO, Il Cielo sulla roccia, Belpasso-Catania, Tipolitografia Lombardo e Ricciarello, 1988. René LAURENTIN and Patrick SBALCHIERO, "Belpasso" in: René LAURENTIN and Patrick
