Oh, most beautiful flower of Mt Carmel, fruitful vine, splendor of heaven, blessed ... your power. O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee. Holy mother, I place ...

In 1875 Mary was elected Mother General ... fed by long hours of prayer and great devotion to the Eucharistic Sacrifice and to Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. From childhood she had looked ...

When we view the witness of the Blessed Mother, we can see that faith ... of a deep union with God in her daily prayer life. Consider how close Mary must have been to the heart of God!

A Michigan teen might hold the key to sainthood for the Blessed Solanus Casey, the Capuchin friar who worked at St. Bonaventure Monastery in Detroit.

Roughly 100 Catholics from across the county paraded down Worth Avenue, singing hymns and reciting prayers in veneration of the Virgin Mary.

Her mother started a novena, a nine-day period of prayer to ask for ... praying for the Blessed Solanus Casey to intercede not only by physically healing Mary, but by bringing her peace "to ...