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Mary for Today: Mary and Apparitions (2)
We need to examine the question of apparitions, or more precisely, the attitude we take to them. Some have been recognised by the Church and have become very important places of pilgrimage. Others have become sites for the celebration of significant events attributed to Mary. Popular piety regards these sanctuaries as places where people love […]
Mary for Today Mary in the Year of Faith: Apparitions
Their Place in the Order of Things: We need to remember the distinction in Christian theology between truths that are essential and primary (necessary for everyone) and truths that are accidental and secondary (real truth that takes its importance only in relationship to more essential truth). It can be true that the Blessed Virgin appeared […]
With Blessed Joseph her Spouse
In this Year of Faith we are celebrating 50 years since the opening of the second Vatican Council. One of the things that John XXIII (Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli) did to ensure the success of the Council was to put it under the patronage of St Joseph. In doing this he would have been aware of […]
Friday 23 August
Ruth 1:1,3-6,14-16,22, Ps.146, Matthew 22:34-40 Your people shall be my people, your God, my God Ruth, along with three others, is a gentile woman in Jesus’ genealogy. She says those wonderful words ‘wherever you go, I will go, wherever you live, I will live. Your people shall be my people, your God, my God.’ Mary […]
Thursday 22 August
Queenship of Mary – memorial Judges 11:29-39, Ps.40, Matthew 22:1-14 Mary, our Queen, help us joyfully share the wedding invitation Who doesn’t love weddings, especially those attended by the Queen? They are celebrations of love. Guests anticipate them for months, buying presents, choosing clothes, making plans. Baptism invites us to the heavenly wedding banquet clothing […]
Thursday 15 August
the ASSUMPTION of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Patronal Feast for Aotearoa New Zealand Apocalypse 11:19, 12:1-5,10, Ps.45, 1 Corinthians 15:20-26, Luke 1:39-56 Mary Assumed into heaven, pray for Aotearoa New Zealand We speak of Mary as like the moon, shining only the reflected light of Christ. Her bodily assumption into heaven shines the sure […]
Monday 12 August
Deuteronomy 10:12-22, Ps.147, Matthew 17:22-27 Circumcise your heart Moses called for an integrated life of worship, which became crusted by external observance. Mary lived true circumcision of the heart. The image suggests vulnerability, openness, cutting away whatever keeps us from intimacy with God. As new covenant people, we’re asked to live with circumcised hearts; worshipping […]
Mary for Today – Mary in the Year of Faith
New Marian Dogmas Unlikely This article is a response to a request to reflect on the call for new Marian dogmas. It is based on a conviction that rather than go down new paths we need to give life to the truths about Mary we already have, to let them speak anew into our 21st […]
Healing the World through the Immaculate Heart of Mary
The brutal murder of British soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich England indicates that there is an underlying conflict of world religions that can break out at any time even in the most settled of countries. The two assassins were unusual in that they remained at the scene to deliver a message to passers-by, which was […]
On Mary, Tenderness and Poverty
Learning from Mary to keep the Word of God Keeping the Word of God: what does this mean? Do I receive the Word, and then take a bottle and put the word into the bottle and keep it there? No. Keeping the Word of God means that our heart opens, it is open to that […]
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