“All those who place themselves under my green mantle of mercy I will protect.” “He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High and abides in the shade of the Almighty says to the Lord: My refuge, my stronghold, my God in whom I trust” (Ps 90: 1-2) Meditation: Our Lady is often invoked […]
“Never stop saying the Holy Rosary, I am always with you to help you.” “Then he told them … about the need to pray continually and never lose heart.” (Lk 18:1) Meditation Like every good Mother, the Virgin of Revelation always gives her children advice to help them on their journey through life: pray the […]
The Easter Triduum begins with the Mass of the Lord’s Supper, where the Church commemorates the institution of the Eucharist, the greatest gift Christ entrusted to His people. One of the most striking visual meditations on this mystery is The Last Supper by the Spanish Renaissance painter Juan de Juanes (1560s). His masterpiece draws us […]
Once again this year, the Lenten journey is interrupted by the great solemnity in honor of St. Joseph, the Church’s most powerful and humble saint. Resounding in the celebration of this day is the remembrance of Pope Gregory XV, who in 1621 declared March 19 a feast of precept. The evangelist Matthew, giving greater prominence […]
“If you knew the gift of God” is the phrase that Jesus said in the episode in which He met the Samaritan woman at the well of Sicar that is recorded in chapter 4 of St John’s Gospel from verses 1 to 10 (Jn 4:1-10). Let us try to understand Jesus’ words together, entering into […]
11 February 2001 – 2026 25th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Missionaries of Divine Revelation Everything Is Grace On 11 February 2026, with profound joy and heartfelt gratitude, we celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of our foundation in an atmosphere of prayerful recollection. We were lovingly accompanied by our Spiritual Guide, His Eminence Cardinal Mauro […]
“Of you my heart has said, ‘Seek his face!’ Your face, Yahweh, I seek” (Ps 27, 8) Man has always searched to contemplate the face of God. Jesus told us that “to see Him is to see the Father” (Jn 14:9) and so, the contemplation of Christ’s face is the very contemplation of […]
Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci, better known as Pietro Perugino (1450-1523), was an Umbrian painter of the High Renaissance who realised the exceptional fresco entitled ‘The Handing of the Keys to St Peter’ between 1481/2 in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome. The fresco forms part of a series of mural decorations that gave the Sistine […]
The Angelus was painted by JF Millet (1814-1875) in 1859. His early life was spent in rural France working on the family farm whilst being instructed in the classics by the priests from the local parish. Millet inherited his father’s artistic talent and as a boy copied prints from the Bible and so his artistic […]
In 1823, Saint Paul Outside the Walls basilica, Rome, was destroyed in a terrible fire. During the reconstruction works in 1838, a splendid sarcophagus from the 4th century AD was found near St Paul’s tomb. The beauty and the profound nature of the Biblical scenes that were sculpted on the face of the tomb, has […]