Mary, image of the Church, the Bride without spot or wrinkle, which by imitating you “preserves with virginal purity an integral faith, a firm hope and a sincere charity”, sustain consecrated persons on their journey towards the sole and eternal Blessedness. To you, Virgin of the Visitation, do we entrust them, that they may…
The “pilgrimage of faith’ 7. I wrote in Novo Millennio Ineunte: “One can never really reach Jesus except by the path of faith” (n. 19). This was the path that Mary followed throughout her earthly life and it is the path of the pilgrim Church until the end of time. The Second…
THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD “The Son of God made man to make us God”[1] In this the mystery of Christmas can be summed up, a mystery that we will celebrate in a few more days. Beautifully says our Directory of Spirituality (25): “To become man God is the…
Holy Father, eternal source of existence and love, who, in living man, show the splendour of your glory, and who put in his heart the seed of your call, let no-one, by reason of our negligence, ignore or lose this gift, but may everyone walk, with wholehearted generosity, towards the realisation…
