Surely, from now on all generations will call me blessed ... for a midnight ceremony in her honor. Certain images and stories of the Virgin Mary are so powerful they help define a country.

The prayer was granted, and before Mary departed she blessed the ... with holy images of the second Eve. Here are some of the most outstanding ones: - Axion estin (It is truly meet…) is the name given ...

Beside the sign of the cross and holy water there are many other sacramentals, such as blessed candles, ashes, palms, crucifixes, images of the Blessed Virgin ... then the Hail Mary on each ...

Both St. Peter’s Church, 3655 Oberlin Ave. in Lorain, and Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church, 418 W. 15th St. in ...

The Vatican is providing its long-awaited assessment on one of the more contested aspects of Roman Catholicism in recent years: the reported “apparitions” of the Virgin ...

Catholic worshipers who claim to have seen and spoken to the Virgin Mary at a Bosnian landmark received mixed messages from the Vatican on Thursday after the Church refused to say whether their ...

‘All generations will call me blessed': ‘The Church's devotion ... an ‘epitome of the whole Gospel,' express this devotion to the Virgin Mary." 1 1. CCC, 971. The internal quotes are from ...

wrote of the white lily as the emblem of the Blessed Virgin; the white petals symbolized the purity of her body and the golden anthers the beauty of her soul. Later, St. Bernard praised the Virgin ...

Pilgrims say their prayers next to the statue of the Virgin Mary in Medjugorje (Armin Durgut/AP) It listed no example of any negative experiences associated with Medjugorje, or reference to ...

The Vatican has given the green light for Catholics to continue flocking to a southern Bosnian village where children reported seeing visions of the Virgin Mary VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican on ...