Tag Archive for ‘Our Lady’
Mary for Today – Mary for the Third Millennium (3)
Given the directions outlined in Pope Paul VI’s Marialis Cultus, I will continue to develop the lines he recommended. Mary and Liturgy This has been another area of significant change. The numerous feast days of Mary, some with a very doubtful historical basis, have been trimmed. Those left, and even those added to the liturgical […]
Thursday 12 December
Our Lady of Guadalupe Is 41:13-20, Ps 144:1, 9-13, Matthew 11:11-15 Being great! You and I are greater than John the Baptist! Can you believe that? Surely not, you say! Yet that’s exactly what Jesus tells us in St Matthew’s Gospel. However, before we get too self important we should understand the source of this […]
Icon: Our Lady of Tenderness
Icon of Our Lady of Tenderness, She who points the way, was commissioned in 2012 “for the work of Mary” AMDG & DGH and is privately owned. It was written at the Studio of John the Baptist, Auckland, New Zealand – www.sacredart.co.nz and was blessed and anointed for grace, healing and blessing. The Icon is available […]
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 […]
Mary for Today: Mary in the Year of Faith:
‘Always a Virgin’ Theology and Physicality: This belief comes from tradition rather than Scripture or a definitive council. Only the virginal conception of Jesus is directly mentioned in the New Testament, where the emphasis is placed not so much on Mary or on virginity as such, but on Jesus and the great new event signified […]
Thursday 26 July
Sts Joachim and Ann, Parents of Mary Ecclesiasticus 44:1,10-15, Ps.132, Matthew 13:16-17 Parents and Grandparents We think of Joachim and Ann as having been wonderfully blessed. So they were, to have Our Lady as daughter and Jesus himself as a grandchild. Still, it must have been hard. Hard to believe your teenage daughter with her […]
Saturday 16 June 2012
Immaculate Heart of Mary ,Canticle of Samuel;:Isaiah 61: 9-11, Ps 92; Luke 2: 41-51 “Hail Mary full of grace” Just as the Sacred Heart opens us to his love, the Immaculate Heart of Mary opens us to her example of a perfect interior life, lived in complete obedience to God for love of him. Our […]
Mary for Today – Part 4
Compromise at Vatican II From Mediatrix to Model: No text could be written to satisfy both sides in Vatican II. The group that saw Mary in parallel with Christ (as type of Christ) continued to urge the definition of Mary as mediatrix or at least as mother of the church. The very title of the […]
The Mother of God / Crisis in family life
Venerating the Mother of God Means Learning to Become a Community of Prayer 14/3/2012 The Pope focused his remarks today on the figure of Mary as she appears in the Acts, when with the Apostles she awaits the coming of the Holy Spirit. Benedict XVI told the more than 10,000 pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s […]
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