[Song of Songs 7:7] How beautiful you are, how pleasing, my love, my delight!
"Child, you do not know what I see in a soul completely surrendered to me. There is nothing more beautiful on earth! No other human will ever attain the perfection found in my Mother, holy and blessed. But all my children are capable...

Why is God letting me suffer in this way? Why are there so many obstacles to happiness and growing in holiness? Why does life have to be so painful? It feels as though I go from valley to valley (even though I know there are peaks in between). Why, God?

The Shroud of Turin is an icon of "the most radical solidarity: Christ sharing the loneliest moment of human existence by lying in a tomb, Pope Benedict XVI said after he knelt in silent prayer before the linen cloth. The Pope did not discuss the authenticity of the shroud..."

"What am I to do, child of my heart, when my children turn from me? The false peace of this world lures them and in the end will destroy them. They think they have done enough in consecrating themselves to my Immaculate Heart. It is not enough. That which I ask for and is most important..."

"The Fatima message's fulfillment is necessary for you, my children, threatened and stricken, so that you may attain salvation. Its fulfillment is necessary for the Church, so wounded and crucified, so that from its painful and bloody trial it might emerge beautiful, without spot..."

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