!GRACIAS, Josefina Rojo! Manoppello es una JOYA que-por suerte, hasta cierto punto-no ha sido envadida por el "turismo"...SE RESPIRA UNA TRANQUILIDAD, sobre todo muy temprano, al entrar al Santuario, y unirse a la Hermana Blandina y a los monjes, para comenzar el día, adorando la Santa Faz de Nuestro Sr...
P.D. Cuando tenga tiempo subiré más sobre nuestro peregrinaje y visitas, rumbo a la Beatificación del Papa Juan Pablo II, en Roma:
http://www.gloria.tv/?media=151960

Me ha gustado tanto, tantísimo que lo puse en Diseños Católicos para compartirlo más.. Gracias otra vez...http://graficoscatolicos.blogspot.com/2011/05/mi-domingo-en-manoppello.html

Josefina, Lo que N. Sr. nos regala-HAY QUE COMPARTIRLO...También me da gusto poder hacerlo a través de gloria.tv.... Por anyos guardaba todo en álbumes, y mis amigas se cansaban de ver tanta foto...Ahora, gracias a que conocí a Don Reto en el verano del 2009, puedo compartir todo esto con otros católicos, que quizá también tengan los mismos intereses que yo
Un abrazote, igualmente te manda, "Ira"

Irapuato: no tienes idea de lo que me saltó el corazón...¿cómo darte ls gracias por todo el trabajo que te tomaste para que también nosotros estuvieramos ahi? Dios te bendiga con todo su amor. Sobre todo por la oración que hiciste por nosotros. ¡Cuántas bendiciones. Un abrazo muy grande con toda nuestra gratitud.

I got up at 3:00 a.m. this morning to upload this--these things take forever

!GRACIAS, Josefina!

¡Qué regalazo nos has brindado! Maravillosa visita!!!

Congratulations, Finland!
Finland took home the gold tonight.
They beat long-time rival Sweden 6 to 1 in the final match of the world ice hockey championship played in Slovakia.
http://www.allmediany.com/details_news_article.php?news_artid=1107

First part, Visit with Sister Blandina:
http://rm.gloria.tv/?media=154461

Manoppello: the Volto Santo (Sacred Face)
Where does this mysterious relic come from? According to the tradition based on a historic account written by Father Donato from Bomba in 1640, it arrived in Manoppello on an unknown day in the year 1506, when the physicist and astrologer Giacomo Antonio Leonelli, while was talking with some people, met a foreign man. He was invited to follow him into the Church. He received a mysterious wrapped veil. He should have taken care of the mysterious object. … [Altro]

Padre Domenico da Cese (1905-1978), Stigmatist Capuchin Who Gave the Holy Face Back to the World
http://holyfaceofmanoppello.blogspot.com/2009/04/padre-domenico-da-cese-1905-1978.html
Padre Domenico, friend and fellow Capuchin of St. Padre Pio, also bore the Stigmata, marks of the wounds of Christ. From 1965 to 1978 Padre Domenico was the Rector of the Shrine of the Holy Face of Manoppello. During those years he devotedly dedicated himself to the spreading of the knowledge of the Holy Face, … [Altro]

Santa Maria Arabona is a Cistercian abbey in Abruzzo, in central Italy. It is located at Manoppello in the frazione also called Santa Maria Arabona. In Roman times the area was sacred to the goddess of fertility and virginity Bona Dea. The most important of the abbey buildings still extant is its church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, whose construction began in 1208 with the transept and the apse. The edifice remained partly unfinished, due to financial and political troubles within the order. … [Altro]

The Holy Face Basilica of Manoppello has a very interesting Museum..In this video I include more information on this Sanctuary, our visit to Santa Maria Arabona Abbey, our stay at the Villa Pardi Villa...before continuing on to Aquila, the Amalfi Coast, Naples, Solarno, Pietrelcina, Montecassino, and Rome.
(See collage: http://all.gloria.tv/?media=151960.)