by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke | Jun 15, 2021 | 2021, Missio Article, Special
The Incarnation of the Son of God was made possible through the consent of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Annunciation, who was already legally espoused to St. Joseph, but prior to their living together. In order to have a correct understanding of the marriage of...
by Msgr. Arthur B. Calkins | Apr 23, 2021 | 2021, Missio Article, The Marian Issue
According to the penetrating insights of Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner, the crisis in the Church today requires the faithful to live with a faith matching the Fiat of the Virgin, in the spirit of prayer and penance-reparation, that is, in a coredemptive spirit, and in...
by Fr John Lawrence Polis, FI | Mar 8, 2021 | 2020, Missio Article, The Immaculate: Mystery and Revelation
At Christmas, the Son of God was born of the Virgin Mary. This mystery has an intimate connection with the mystery of the Eucharist, one celebrated in the hymn that begins Ave verum Corpus natum de Maria Virgine: “Hail, true Body, born of the Virgin Mary.” The hymn...
by Sr. M. Ancilla Matter, F.S.G.M. and Fr. Elias Mills, F.I | Jan 13, 2021 | 2020, Missio Article, The Immaculate: Mystery and Revelation
For centuries, the ancient Gregorian chant Tota Pulchra has been the joyful hymn with which the Church, and in particular the Franciscan Order, greets Mary, calling to mind the Mystery of the Immaculate Conception. This hymn of veneration, from the Church’s lips,...
by Fr Josemaria Barbin, FI | Oct 1, 2020 | 2020, Missio Article, The Immaculate: Mystery and Revelation
“The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like ‘religion’, to cults or practices,...
by Msgr. Arthur B. Calkins | Sep 8, 2020 | 2020, Missio Article, The Marian Issue
By God’s design, Mary is united with her Son Jesus in the work of our salvation, not in a passive way, but by her active cooperation. This is why Mary is said to “occupy center stage” in our redemption—not substituting for or replacing Jesus, but never separated from...
