“the Marian Option offers the key to personal and societal transformation in ways that no other saint or noble leader can, precisely because of who she is—the Mother of God, our spiritual mother, and the perfect link between heaven and… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“Motherhood, more than most other types of love, quickly acclimates us to what true love is: an act of the will, not simply a… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“Pope Pius X said. “If we were to lose Mary,” the pope explained, “the world would wholly decay. Virtue would disappear, especially holy purity and virginity, connubial love and fidelity. The mystical river through which God’s graces flow to us would dry up. The brightest star would disappear from heaven, and darkness would take its place.”23 Sadly, we need not… — Carrie Gress Copy Share
“Explaining hell, Lúcia wrote, “Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames that issued from within themselves together with great clouds of smoke, now falling back on every side like sparks in a huge fire,… — Carrie Gress Copy Share
“As historian Arnold Toynbee (1889–1975) noted, civilizations rarely die simply from external assault; they are first hollowed out by internal moral decline. “Civilizations,” Toynbee… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“In one of Mary’s apparitions to Bernadette, Our Lady asked her to dig in the dirt. As she dug, a spring trickled through the… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“When the storms of temptation encompass you, look up to this star, invoke Mary. When the waves of pride are washing over your ship,… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“There are also new stories pouring out of Iraq as Islamic State–controlled territories are losing ground and Iraqis are reclaiming Christian territories. One miraculous… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“The story of Lourdes starts centuries before young Bernadette encountered the beautiful woman at Massabielle. While the area of Massabielle was known as a… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“To eliminate her from Scripture is to deform the story—to not tell it correctly—and actually dishonors Jesus. Consider how much the common man honors… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“All grace,” says St. Maximilian Kolbe, “ultimately comes to us from God the Father, through the merits of Jesus Christ, His Son, and is… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“the height of European culture was centered on devotion to Our Lady. In the places where European culture soared, so too did devotion to… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“Salette, France (1846) The next apparition at La Salette happened four years later, in 1846. High up in the French Alps, Mary appeared to… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
