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This month is the perfect time to lean into the loving embrace of our Mother and to allow her tears to act as a balm for our souls.
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By uniting ourselves to her sufferings we draw close to the sufferings of Christ which can help us endure our daily struggles.
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If you’ve ever talked to anyone, especially kids, about heaven, oftentimes the talk of what people wear in heaven will come up. While we don’t know if we will be naked as we were in the Garden of Eden, or wear white robes as often depicted in paints and images of heaven in the Book
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Mary has over 2,000 titles! Her title Our Lady of Mount Carmel reminds us that closeness to Mary is closeness to Jesus.
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He is known as the patron of bees, beekeepers, and candlemakers, but also known as the Patron of the Veneration of Mary.
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September is observed as the month of Our Lady of Sorrows. On the feast day, September 15th, some Catholics partake in the devotion to the seven Sorrows of Mary by praying seven Hail Marys while meditating on each of her seven sorrows. As revealed to St. Bridget of Sweden in the 14th century, by partaking
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Need a good Marian meme? We’ve got you covered.
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Pentecost, literally translating to “the fiftieth day” occurs 50 days after Easter (or on the Sunday after the 50th day) and is the celebration of the descent of the Holy Spirit. Jesus foretells of the Holy Spirit’s arrival: “The Advocate, the holy Spirit that the Father will send in my name—he will teach you everything
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On May 12, Pope Francis gave the green light for Catholics to pilgrimage to Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which the sight of alleged Marian apparitions. Papal spokesman Alessandro Gisotti said in a statement the same day that this authorization of pilgrimage should not be taken as “authentication” of the alleged apparitions, “which still require an
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When a fellow parishioner returned from a Marian pilgrimage, she brought me a rosary from the shrine of Our Lady of Montserrat. I was happy to receive the gift, even if I didn’t know a single thing about this particular Marian apparition. When I asked friends, none of them had heard of her either. It
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I have learned that the more a person learns about a particular subject or person, there exists a direct correlation in an increased amount of titles or synonyms to describe them. For example, I had a lot of nicknames as an infant and toddler because of my parent’s love for me. I have inherited that
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In the liturgical calendar of the Latin Church, December 18 has been known as the Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Although it is not currently in the liturgical calendar, I first came upon this feast in 2013 after reading through an old missal that was given to me as a gift. As someone that has
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Why is Mary’s Immaculate Conception during Advent each year? Many incorrectly believe that the Church’s celebration of the Immaculate Conception was Jesus’s conception, but that we celebrate it 17 days before Christmas should clue everyone in that it’s not (that would be an Immaculate Gestation!). The Immaculate Conception is 8 December each year. Now put
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Last month we celebrated the month of the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady and this month we celebrate Our Lady of the Rosary. It seems like we have a lot of Marian feast days (and month) sprinkled throughout the year but did you know that there used to be more of these feast days? Prior
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With the recent abuse issues in the Catholic Church, it is fitting that we’ve entered the month of Our Lady of Sorrows. I can only imagine our Blessed Mother grieving over the same things we’re mourning—the multitude of abuse cases, the years of hurt the victims and their families have endured, and seeing the helplessness
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Dr. Carrie Gress searched high and low for a book or resource that made Marian consecration accessible for little kids. “I assumed I would have a lot to choose from, but was astounded to find very little,” she remembers. Finally, exasperated, she turned to a priest to see if he had any book suggestions. “There
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Ignatius Press, the leader in quality Catholic publications has three excellent new resources for your devotions (and scholarship) to Mary. It took a month for me to get through all three of them, and I consider them a set, though you can buy them separately. In any case, if you’re serious about Mary, the Immaculate
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To fight against evil, to right the wrongs in this world; this is what heroic stories are made of. What happens, then, to a society when suffering is understood to be the greatest of all evils? What happens when any form of suffering must be eradicated at all costs? Suffering is king Here in
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