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Mary for Today – Part 3
The Second Millennium Changing Times: Among the new factors emerging in the church of the second millennium was a growing legal system within church office, an increasingly severe penitential system, and an increasing remoteness from the risen Christ as a saving figure who was now turned into a stern and just judge. Eternal salvation was regarded […]
Tuesday 10 April
Easter Octave Acts 2:36-41; Ps 33; John 20:11-18 Magdalen’s path “Mary stayed outside… she stooped to look inside… she turned round… she went.” Mary Magdalene at first is fixed where she is. She had to adopt a different stance to come to a deeper faith. Next, she turns round, encounters Jesus and is then sent […]
Saturday 7 April
Holy Saturday Matthew 28:1-10 Tonight, Matthew’’s gospel recounts that, “Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices with which to go and anoint him.” Elizabeth Rooney in her poem Easter Saturday writes: “…Anger relaxes into despair as we remember our helplessness, remember him hanging there. We have purchased the spices but […]
Mary for Today
At the Council: At Vatican II two patterns of approach to Mary came into conflict, and the first millennium won as the pattern for the third Christian millennium. Let us examine the two in more detail. Of the 2,500 bishops at the Council, 600 asked for a specific statement from the Council on Mary, 400 […]
Monday 19 March
St Joseph, Husband of Mary 1.2 Samuel 7:4-5,12-14,16Ps. 89 2. Romans 4:13, 16-18,22Matthew 1:16,18-21, 24 A man for all seasons From a woman’s perspective I think a lot of blokes have a hard role and road in life. Maybe its because they have to relate to women. So today let us simply thank God for […]
Friday 9 March
Gen. 37:3-4, 12-13, 17-28 Ps. 105, Matthew 21:33-43,45-46 Fruit of the vine. A vineyard is a very fitting image to reflect on for readers of this publication. If you’ve been to ‘the Mount’ in Taradale you will have seen those healthy grape laden vines that produce excellent wines that are now enjoyed throughout the world. […]
Mary For Today
The Battle for a Renewed Mariology Introduction: Any attempt to understand Mary today has to begin with the bloodiest battle of Vatican II, the issue of whether to give Mary her own document and continue along the road that had begun with the definitions of Immaculate Conception and Assumption, of exalting her privileges with new definitions […]
Saturday 11 February
Our Lady of Lourdes (Feast) Isaiah 66:10-14; Judges 13: 18-19. John 2:1-11. On February 11, 1858 a young lady appeared to a poor girl, Bernadette Soubirous, at Lourdes in south west France. The lady identified herself as ‘the Immaculate Conception,’ Mary, the mother of Jesus. She was exempted from any stain of sin through the […]
Mary, Joseph and the baby are alive at Dadim
Report from Catholic Mission Australia. Words by Dan McAloon, pictures by Bruce Dynan/Catholic Mission The famine afflicting millions in the Horn of Africa appears so vast you could wonder what your donations could possibly do to alleviate this terrible situation. The truth is, in this very minute, you are saving lives. The emergency feeding programme […]
The Tradition of Mary’s Death
One of the apparent mysteries of the early Church is what happened to the Virgin Mary at the end of her life on earth. The New Testament is silent on the matter. The last we hear of Mary is immediately after her Son’s Ascension into heaven, when the apostles returned to the Upper Room. According […]
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