Today God is showing his scars in living tissue to convince our doubting Thomases, just as the Virgin is multiplying her appeals to prayer, penance, and conversion. It is easy to find fault with what Mary is reported to have said during her early apparitions in Medjugorje, a small town in the former Yugoslavia. What I find especially consoling is that something in each apparition always seems deliberately placed there by heaven to contradict the expectations of the learned. I speak in parables so that hearing, they do not understand. On that occasion, the skeptics had a field day.
People recite the rosary.
We all can vouch for the fact that, in the normal course of our life, we do not readily find the best conditions for fervent prayer.