by Fr Donald Calloway, MIC | May 16, 2020 | 2020, St. Joseph
For nearly two millennia, the Church has found solace in the Virgin Mary’s motherly embrace. St. Joseph has historically assumed a much lower profile, but this situation has been changing, especially since Blessed Pius IX declared him Patron of the Universal Church in...
by Msgr. Arthur B. Calkins | Mar 9, 2020 | 2020, Mary and the Saints
“Piously meditating on [Mary] and contemplating her in the light of the Word made man,” the Second Vatican Council states, “the Church with reverence enters more intimately into the great mystery of the Incarnation.” The recently canonized Cardinal John Henry Newman,...
by Sr. M. Ancilla Matter, F.S.G.M. and Fr. Elias Mills, F.I | Feb 4, 2020 | 2019, The Immaculate: Mystery and Revelation
In this second part of the article on the Stabat Mater we see the Golden Thread of the Franciscan Order includes this important meditation on the compassion of Our Lady Coredemptrix. With the help of the Franciscan mystics, Ven. Mary of Agreda and St. Veronica...
by Sr. M. Ancilla Matter, F.S.G.M. and Fr. Elias Mills, F.I | Oct 25, 2019 | 2019, The Immaculate: Mystery and Revelation
Saint Maximilian Kolbe believed the Immaculate Conception was the “Golden Thread” running throughout the history of the Franciscan Order. This article examines the claim that one could say this “Golden Thread” has shades of coredemption in it as well. We recount in...
by Gloria Falcão Dodd | Sep 13, 2019 | 2019, The Immaculate: Mystery and Revelation
The Church presently celebrates the Presentation of Mary (as distinct from that of Jesus) as a liturgical memorial on November 21. Our main source of knowledge of this event, apart from the liturgy, lies in aprocryphal writings which the Church has rejected as not...
by J. Isaac Goff, Ph.D. | Jul 21, 2019 | 2019, Mariology
“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...
