When taking her vows, she added Mary’s name to her name. She always had visions of Our Lady, but she never spoke of this mystical experience. She remained among the Visitandines for over twenty years, receiving extraordinary graces, but also performing many penances and mortifications, always with a smile on her face. However, the nuns and superiors did not believe her, in fact, they even mocked her, implying that she was sick or crazy.
“She was about 12 years old when her mother died, and she implored the Virgin Most Holy to be her mother.”
Pope Francis, who has been vaccinated against the virus, has spoken about about the altruistic and health value of vaccinations amid the pandemic, which is seeing a resurgence in many countries. But today, one of the challenges of Covid-19 vaccination efforts is guaranteeing an equitable distribution of vaccines around the world. To address this situation, some Catholic-inspired institutions and companies are working to give vulnerable communities and countries better access to health resources.
Lord, help me to be a humble leader. Help me to let Your heart of love and mercy shine forth and to lead by the goodness and kindness of Your merciful heart. Help me to set aside all pride and egotism and to become a servant of all. Jesus, I trust in You.
The arrival of the Dutch to Southeast Asia and East Asia forced the Portuguese and Spaniards, until then mutually hostile, to occasional collaborations, as they now had a powerful and determined rival willing to literally take the bread out of their mouths, or rather saying, and in this case, taking the spices out of the bags when they were already well stored.
The person who wishes to obtain an indulgence must perform a good work to which an indulgence is attached. The Church has compiled the list of indulgences in the Apostolic Penitentiary’s Enchiridion indulgentiarum (Manual of Indulgences, 4th edition, 1999. English online edition).
ACN calculates that more than 340 million Christians “live in a country where they suffer some form of persecution, such as arbitrary arrest, violence, a full range of human rights violations and even murder.”
While always having a house full of kids to look after, they had four more of their own, adopted one more, and have eleven grandchildren.
The question of the use of vaccines, in general, is often at the center of controversy in the forum of public opinion. In recent months, this Congregation has received several requests for guidance regarding the use of vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19, which, in the course of research and production, employed cell lines drawn from tissue obtained from two abortions that occurred in the last century. At the same time, diverse and sometimes conflicting pronouncements in the mass media by bishops, Catholic associations, and experts have raised questions about the morality of the use of these vaccines.
Dedicating Masses to important figures of the Catholic world was not only a way to honor them, but also a way to implore their intercession in liturgical prayer (at least in the case of those honored for clear Christian virtues), was to recognize through the harmony of music that so many brothers and sisters have preceded us on the journey of faith and, show us the way through their example. (Image: The organ in the ‘Rutland Psalter’ from ca. 1260. British Library MS add. 62925)