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A little stone in the wall of the bark of the Apostle

If you walk from the City across the Ponte Sant’ Angelo, past the Angel’s Castle, you will come upon the road of Conciliation, that leads you to the largest house of God in the world. It’s the funeral basilica of Peter, the fisherman. One afternoon I was near there.

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Blessed Pope John Paul II

On this Dominica in Albis:  a new Beatus to pray for us to God! Imagine if a mother offered her son a gift that would only improve his life, would offer him brighter prospects, greater happiness, that would be uniquely to his advantage… Would I, citizen of the universal Church, member of the beautiful Body [...]

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In our mother’s month

This is the month of our mothers, because it is our Mother’s month, she who is the Queen of our hearts, whose heart and body are without macula, free of the stain of the first sin. In the city where I study is the oldest known icon of Virgin and Child in the world, here [...]

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