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Missio ImmaculataeThe Marian-Franciscan Legacy of Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner
“Mary kept all these words, pondering them in her heart.” “Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye.” Christus unus omnium Magister. De Maria numquam satis. These passages from St. Luke, St. John, St. Bonaventure and St. Bernard express the heart of Fr. Peter...
Blessed Conchita (Concepción Cabrera de Armida) – Part 3
The great mystics of the Church are famed for allowing the Holy Spirit to reproduce the lives of Jesus and Mary in their souls. For Conchita, reproducing faithfully the interior life of Mary, as she was called to do, meant entering into the mystery of Our Lady’s...
The Annunciation: A Commentary on Luke 1:26-29
At the Annunciation, Mary, the “full of grace,” the creature beloved by God in a singular way, responded to God’s saving plan for her in a likewise unheralded manner, when she joined her “yes” to the “yes” of the Word who took flesh in her womb in obedience to the...
Our Lady of Monte Berico
At the foot of the Vicentine Alps in northeastern Italy is a popular Shrine commem-orating the fifteenth-century apparition of Our Lady, who interceded to save the region from a virulent pestilence. Centuries later, she intervened once again to protect the area from...
The Venerable Conchita (Concepción Cabrera de Armida) — Part 1
Among the ranks of little-known but gigantic saintly figures is Conchita, a laywoman and mystic who lived during the troubled years of the Mexican persecutions of the twentieth century. Hers was a sublime participation in Mary’s spiritual maternity, especially in...
Mary to the Moon!
The moon has often been seen as a symbol of the Virgin Mary—as the moon does not generate light of its own, but reflects the light of the sun, so the Virgin reflects and participates in the glory of God. Similarly, as the moon is, in our own day, increasingly viewed...
Mary, the Visitrix
The visit of Our Lady to St. Elizabeth, narrated by St. Luke in his Gospel, is the model for every visit she makes to her spiritual children and an enduring sign of her maternal presence in the Church. She comes to bring us Christ and, with Him, divine grace. Are we...
“A Great Sign Appeared in the Sky”
Missio Immaculatae International is pleased to present a special report on the solemn re-consecration of Nigeria to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, made by the country’s bishops in union with thousands of faithful in Benin City, Nigeria, on October 13, 2017, one hundred...
A Marian Respect for the Clergy
By her practice of perfect obedience, piety, prudence and charity even in the face of the unjust exercise of authority, the Virgin Mary, united with her Son in the work of the Redemption, has not only given us an example to imitate, but also reserved for us the grace...
The Marian Devotion of Solanus Casey
All saints are distinguished by their profound devotion to the Mother of God, and the newly-beatified Solanus Casey, a Capuchin Franciscan friar who passed from this life only sixty years ago, is no exception. This humble soul was drawn to the Blessed Mother in his...