Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2024

Il est là, le cadeau de Noël : un Dieu qui m’aime au-delà de tout ce que je peux imaginer et qui veut me donner sa paix.
À tous, bonne fête de Noël !

Il est là, le cadeau de Noël : un Dieu qui m’aime au-delà de tout ce que je peux imaginer et qui veut me donner sa paix.
À tous, bonne fête de Noël !

What brought Christian Layral, a former drug-addicted partygoer, to Montligeon? Watching this man with a neatly combed white beard pray for hours a day in the basilica, how hard to imagine his journey to conversion.

Can the damned, the very people whom, in our imagination, are roasting in the fires of hell, change their mind after all? Find out more with Rev. Fr. Thomas Lapenne who refreshes a few truths on what hell is about, and how the dramatic possibility of ending there out of one's free will engages one's responsibility in one's daily life.

In a most touching testimony, Sylvia and Franck share how their lives changed entirely once they encountered God in their life. And, furthermore, how they discovered the potency of praying for the souls in purgatory.

Sometimes it takes only a few words to help someone let go and pass away. Drawing from her experience as a nurse and that of accompanying people at the end of life, Sister Cecilia recalls how a liberating cue allowed a dying woman to let go and pass away in peace.

At the start of the new liturgical year, Fr. Paul Denizot offers three tips to make the most of Advent. It is a special moment to consider time in faith, and as a positive reality. It is also an opportunity to clean up old habits. Finally, Advent is an invitation to step back and turn to people.

“Pray for your priests, and pray for vocations”, such was the message that the Archbishop of Rouen, Msgr. Dominique Lebrun, addressed to the faithful from the dioceses of Normandy and to the pilgrims in Montligeon. 130 priests from the province…

The Archbishop of Kinshasa, Fridolin Cardinal Ambongo, was interviewed by Radio Maria Congo on 12 November 2023. For him, the shrine of Montligeon epitomizes the place where to be in communion with our brothers and sisters who have entered into the great mystery of death.

An illustrated children's book on purgatory is a hit in the U.S.A. Its author and a friend of the shrine of Montligeon, Susan Tassone, is famous in North America for her many books on purgatory.