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BREAKING! Relics of St Margaret Mary at Visitation In Como Italy May 23-25
The relics of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque were welcomed on the afternoon of Friday, May 23, at the Visitation Monastery on Via Briantea in Como. A Visitandine nun who lived in the 17th century, Saint Margaret had mystical experiences that she recounted, at the...
Conclusion of Sacred Heart Jubilee Year in Paray le Monial
Thursday, June 26 2025 TimetablesPlacePlaces6:30 p.m.Holy Mass in Honour of the Eucharistic HeartBasilica8:45 p.m.Holy Hour animated by the Petits Chanteurs at the Croix de BoisBasilica10:00 pm - 7:00 amNight of AdorationChapel of the Apparitions Friday, June 27, 2025...
Newsletter for Sun Chat May 25
If Jesus Is the Only Foundation, How Is Saint Peter Also a Foundation? For Sunday's Living Jesus chat, in the continued wake of the election of Pope Leo XIV, we will reflect on another article by St. Francis de Sales on the papacy. Original version found here. We will...
Blessed Mother’s Visit to us
St Francis de Sales Commentary The Visitation. Mary's Visits to Our Souls What a lovely and beneficial thing it is to be visited by this Holy Lady, since her visit always brings us many benefits! My God! we might say, I wish she would do me the grace of visiting me!...
Special Envoy to the concluding celebrations of the 350th anniversary of the apparitions of the Sacred Heart to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque
The Holy Father Pope Leo XIV has appointed His Eminence Cardinal François-Xavier Bustillo, O.F.M. Conv., bishop of Ajaccio, as his special envoy to the concluding celebrations of the 350th anniversary of the apparitions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to Saint Margaret...
St Francis de Sales on the Visitation
The Visitation. Reasons for the Journey Our most amiable and ever-beloved Queen and Lady, the glorious Virgin, had scarcely given consent to the words of the Archangel Saint Gabriel when the mystery of the Incarnation was fulfilled in her; and having learned from the...
Sun chat May 18
Why are names so important to God, and why is it so important that Simon was renamed Peter? Was this just a casual nickname?How can Peter be “the rock”? Isn’t Jesus the rock of our faith? Or at least isn’t Peter’s profession of faith “the rock upon...
St Francis de Sales and Mary
by Antonio ESCUDEROMary in the life and thought of Francis de SalesPaths and contexts of Marian devotion St Francis de Sales Conference18-20 November 2022 SFDS-2002-Parte-2-Aula-Escudero-ENG.pdf SummaryFrancis de Sales fully embraces the traditional teaching on the...
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