On Friday, May 5, 2023, at the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, the ceremony for the opening of the boxes of the Acts of the diocesan process of the Cause of beatification and canonization of Marta Obregón, by way of martyrdom, took place. It was a simple but solemn, moving and emotional ceremony. This step marks the resumption of the in-depth research carried out in this second phase.
Appointment of the Members of the Dicastery for Evangelization. Section for Fundamental Questions of Evangelization in the World. Pope Francis receives the International Team Responsible for the Neocatechumenal Way on September 20, 2019. The Holy Father, Pope Francis, has appointed today, April 25, 2023, the Members of the Dicastery for Evangelization, Section for the fundamental questions of the evangelization of the world, with a mandate for 5 years. Among these,
Intervention on Carmen Hernández by María Ascensión Romero
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God wanted me to find the church of Fuentes de Carbonero abandoned in 1965, when I was looking for a place of retreat and prayer. While I was walking through the Castilian plateau on a cloudy day, a ray of light illuminated the mica stones that abound in the area and suddenly everything was illuminated and I was very impressed: the church in the middle of that steppe was a true apparition. It was open and empty; it still had the altarpiece and some images; the sacristy with a wooden platform served as a place for me to sleep. I lived there for fifteen days, praying, alone and with great fruits. Seeing that it was a wonderful place, I retired there other times, living in solitude, fasting and praying and sleeping with my sleeping bag in the sacristy.
Since there was a river nearby, I decided to take the brothers of the shantytown with me for a few days in summer so that they could also have a vacation. We had a week of rest, communion and love. I was impressed that while all the houses in the village were destroyed, the only thing left standing in that abandoned village was the church, and a church full of poor people. I told the brothers from the shantytown to gather straw. They went to the field and each family prepared a bed with straw and blankets. It was exciting, like making a movie. Outside, all the houses were in ruins; inside, the church was full of poor people.
Discovering Charles de Foucauld in the Farlete Grottos “There I spent three days in a grotto, the grotto of St. Caprasio, alone, without food, studying Charles de Foucauld, who gave me a way of living in the presence of the Lord.” Kiko in the Beginning of the Year Convivence 2016-17 Before beginning a trip through Europe and to prepare for it, Fr. Aguilar wanted to take Kiko to the desert
The Virgin of the Pillar On January 2, 40, on the banks of the Ebro River, the Virgin Mary, still living in Palestine, came in mortal flesh to Zaragoza to comfort the apostle James (Santiago), accompanied by a small group of converts, who had been preaching all day. Mary left them a jasper column around which the Christians of the first century built, as a memorial, a chapel that was