Category Archives: Mary
The mystery of Mary
The Mystery of Mary She is our Mother But she is also our daughter. A little girl and the Queen of Heaven. The Queen of the Angels– and yet she is still a little girl! Remember this! Georges Bernanos
Mother Mary, pray in my heart
“Mother Mary, pray your Fiat and Magnificat in my heart.” (Mother Teresa)
Mary words
“You need not be afraid, am I not here?” (The Blessed Mother, to St. Juan Diego)
Mary words
“Mary’s motherhood is not some vague or abstract sort of thing. It’s concrete and personal. And even though it’s universal, it’s also intensely particular. Mary is your mother. She is my mother. In this light, John Paul thinks it’s significant that Mary’s new motherhood on Calvary is expressed in the singular, ‘Behold, your son’ not ‘Behold, your billions of spiritual children.’ The …
True obedience
The meditation for today from the Magnificat Advent Companion: How appropriate that commemoration of the events that lead to the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe begin immediately after the feast of the Immaculate Conception. For Mary, preserved from original sin, knows that the deepest and truest need of our heart is to be loved by God …
December Eighth
December Eighth Beloved, Mother of us all, To-day we remember That, of all earth’s millions, You, Mary, in the womb, Were shining, whole, And Godward-turned. You only, O Morning Star, Lighted the clouds of sin and waiting. You only, Immaculate Ark, Glided above the depths of the primal curse; For you were to bear safely …
“My thought was with St. Mary”
from Fr. Mark Daniel Kirby’s blog, Vultus Christi: “I was sitting with Abba Poemen one day and I saw him in ecstasy and as I was on terms of great freedom of speech with him, I prostrated myself before him and begged him, saying, ‘Tell me where you were.’ He was forced to answer and he …
Saturday: Mary words
“O Queen of Martyrs, sea of sorrows, do not forsake me when, beneath the burden of suffering, I feel my strength and virtue weakening.” (Bl. Barbolo Longo)
Mary words
“When your heart is anxious, turn to Mary and say, ‘Mary, put my heart at peace.’ When your mind is too busy, look to Mary and pray, ‘Mary, settle down my mind.’ When you want to grow and deepen you life, look to Mary and beg, ‘Mary, just as you helped Jesus grow in wisdom and grace, help …
Our travel companion
We are not alone. In the selection below, Pope Benedict encourages us to recognize that the Lord has given us Mary as our travel companion in life. What a gift. When we are needed to go to places that we are uncomfortable going to, when we are called to do things beyond our confidence, or …
