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2 days ago · Sister Lúcia said that although the elderly nun’s health has declined a little in the last couple of weeks, on the days when she is well she is very talkative and playful. Until recently, she continued, Sister Inah “painted napkins, made cards, did many things.
2 days ago · Their cousin Sister Lucia, who had experienced the apparitions alongside the two, wrote in her memoirs that Jacinta was affectionate, with a sweet singing voice and a gift for dancing. Francisco, she revealed, had a placid disposition; he, too, was somewhat musically inclined, and he liked to be by himself to think.
4 days ago · Joseph Pronechen, July 16, 2022. “Yes, the Rosary and the scapular are inseparable,” Sister Lúcia said during an interview with two Carmelite priests, one a prior from New York, visiting with her in 1949. One Carmelite Father Donald O’Callaghan again asked if she “thought the scapular was a part of the Fatima message.”.
5 days ago · Sister Lúcia and Our Lady of Fatima Explain Fasting and Sacrifice Fatima visionary Sister Lúcia explains how our Christian tradition of asceticism can help us grow in love of God and...
4 days ago · Shepherd children Lúcia dos Santos, age ten, and her cousins, Francisco (nine) and his sister Jacinta Marto (seven) said they saw a lady “all in white, more brilliant than the sun and indescribably beautiful” as they were out in a field tending to their herd.
1 day ago · Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone ( c. 1181 – 3 October 1226), known as Francis of Assisi, [b] was an Italian mystic, poet, and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. Inspired to lead a Christian life of poverty, he became a beggar [7] and itinerant preacher.
4 days ago · 5 min read. For 99 percent of Catholics out there, there is no difference in their mind between a nun and a sister, nor between an order and a congregation. But in view of the law of the Church — canon law — there are differences, but I will limit myself to only a broad description of the differences.
