Each of my grandmothers, maternal and paternal, was beautiful. Yes, physically. But that was such a small bit of their beauty ...

Born in 1842 in Melbourne, Australia, Mary Helen learnt to ... Sacrifice and to Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. From childhood she had looked on the Blessed Mother of God as her mother.

‘All generations will call me blessed ... to the Mother of God and Marian prayer, such as the Rosary, an ‘epitome of the whole Gospel,' express this devotion to the Virgin Mary." ...

In celebrating Lent and in every season of the liturgical year, it is good to recall the teaching of the Second Vatican ...