Tag Archive for ‘Our Lady’
Tuesday 3 November
St Martin de Porres (Patron saint of mixed-race people and those seeking interracial harmony) Ps131; Romans 12:5-16; Luke 14:15-24 Compassion Today, the parable of the banquet. The guests were all too busy so the servants were commanded to bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame. Many choose to work like Martin […]
Tuesday 15 September
Our Lady of Sorrows Hebrews 5:7-9; Ps.31; John 19:25-27 Standing at the Cross This Feast was placed in the Roman calendar in 1814 under the title Our Lady of Compassion. Picture yourself standing at the foot of the Cross with Mary, a brave and heartbroken woman. Who else is there with you? Who do you […]
Saturday 22 August
Queenship of Mary Ruth 2:1-3,8-11,4:13-17; Ps 128; Matthew 23:1-12 Blessed art thou Our love for Mary, Queen of Heaven, is evident in the many beautiful names she has been given over the millennia: Handmaid of the Lord, Virgin Most Pure, Immaculate Mother, Mother of Christ, Mother of God, Star of the Sea, Bride of Heaven, […]
Wednesday 27 May
St Augustine of Canterbury Ecclesiasticus 36:1, 4-5, 10-17, Ps. 79, Mark 10:32-45 Service “Anyone who wants to be first among you must be slave to all. For the Son of Man himself did not come to be served but to serve” (Mark 10:44-45). Parents serve, teachers serve, parking wardens, cooks, and fruit pickers serve, posties […]
Wednesday 13 May
Acts 17:15, 22-18:1, Ps. 148, John 16:12-15 We are all God’s children The Spirit of truth leads Paul to speak to important leaders in Athens; and the Spirit of truth drew some of those who listened to become believers. Paul spoke of the immensity of God, of God’s gifts in creation, of us and of […]
Mary for Today: Mary Gives Birth to Jesus
Readings: Luke 2:6-19; Matthew 2:1-2, 9-11. A Real Birth: Birth, the word opens up a world of meaning; a woman in childbirth is on the threshold of life and death. Her body struggles to bring the future into being, but her pain and exhaustion consume her to the point where she experiences a dying as […]
Our Lady of the Rosary
The painting is by Bernardo Cavallino, 1640. According to Dominican tradition, in 1214, St. Dominic received a vision of the Blessed Virgin, who gave him the Rosary as a tool against heretics. While Mary’s giving the rosary to St. Dominic is generally acknowledged as a legend, the development of this prayer form owes much to […]
Monday 15 September
Our lady of sorrows Hebrews 5: 7-9; Psalm 31; Luke 2: 33-35 Seven Swords? The devotion to Our Lady’s seven sorrows had its beginning in the Servite Order, founded in the 13th century. Why seven sorrows? Surely Mary’s whole life up until Our Lord’s Resurrection was marked by deep interior pain. As the daughter of […]
Tuesday 11 February
Our Lady of Lourdes World Day of Prayer for the Sick 1 Kings 8:22, 23, 27-30; Ps 84; Mark 7:1-13 Rules, regulations and the Holy Spirit The Gospel reveals the conflict between religion as a set of rules, and religion as loving God and neighbor. True religion can never be the product of the mind […]
The Shrine
My Mom’s name was Agnes Cecelia Taylor McKee; she was the youngest child in a family of ten children. She was born on November 29, 1911 and died of a sudden heart attack on April 11, 1977 at the age of 65. Her parents were Anne Herbert and Louis Taylor, and her siblings were Katherine […]
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