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...
by Msgr. Arthur B. Calkins | Jul 21, 2019 | 2019, The Saints and Our Lady
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...
by Fr. Giacinto Marie Dagesse | Mar 14, 2019 | 2019, The Immaculate in Scripture
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...
by Sr. M. Faustina Olson, F.H.I. | Dec 10, 2018 | 2018, Marian Shrines
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...
