Tag Archive for ‘Our Lady’
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 […]
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 […]
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