God was preparing Lucia before the visions took place. Father Joe notes that Lucia's mother urged her to ask God to make her a saint, and Lucia made a self-offering.
Father Joe Roesch, MIC, the Marians' vicar general, talks about Our Lady's call for a simple prayer — the Rosary. Pray it daily, says Fr.
The Lord’s “Secretary of Divine Mercy,” St. Faustina, wrote what has become a modern-day spiritual classic: a blueprint for living a sacramental life in union with Jesus Christ.
After the Soubirous family encountered financial downfall, they moved into a former jail cell that was unfit for living in. Father Joe Roesch, MIC, shares about this time in St.