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...
by Msgr. Arthur B. Calkins | Aug 27, 2018 | 2018, Missio Article
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...
by Roderic Burke | Aug 25, 2018 | 2018, Missio Article
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...
