Marian 
Stories or teachings about the Blessed Virgin Mary
“This is how much I love you….At that moment my life changed.”
In Medjugorje God told me: “This is how much I love you….At that moment my life changed.” (Translated by Google Translate. Published originally at La Luce Di Maria) I felt the urge to look up in the sky and suddenly or felt like … a stroke of love, which took me straight to the heart,… Read More ›
Our Lady of Knock: Icon of the Domestic Family
The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared on August 21, 1879 in a small Irish village named Knock. The apparition, when compared to others, is quite unique. There were 15 official witnesses of the apparition, and it is said that there were more. And Mary wasn’t the only one who made an apparition at Knock. She came with… Read More ›
The oldest known Marian prayer is from Egypt
The Sub tuum praesidium is probably the oldest Christian prayer dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. This prayer was long used in both Eastern and Western rites, even if numerous variants existed at the time. In 1917, the John Rylands Library in Manchester managed to acquire a large panel of Egyptian papyrus — the exact… Read More ›
Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Today we celebrate an important truth about Mary: From infancy onward, she was dedicated to God, totally committed to letting God’s purposes be fulfilled in her life. Because of her dedication from an early age, she was called by God to become an even greater temple than the magnificent temple in Jerusalem. If the Jerusalem… Read More ›
Our Lady of Sorrows
CNA/EWTN: The feast of Our Lady of Sorrows commemorates the seven great sorrows which Mary lived in relation to Her Son, as they are recorded in the Gospels or through Tradition. Today we are invited to reflect on Mary’s deep suffering: 1. At the prophecy of Simeon: “You yourself shall be pierced with a sword… Read More ›
Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary
CNA/EWTN: The Catholic Church celebrates today the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary on its traditional fixed date of September 8, nine months after the December 8 celebration of her Immaculate Conception as the child of Saints Joachim and Anne. The circumstances of the Virgin Mary’s infancy and early life are not directly recorded in… Read More ›
Titles of Our Lady According to the Church Fathers
Recently someone asked me where do we get the idea or title of Queen of Heaven. The Encyclical by the Venerable Pope Pius XII gave me the answer. Below is a summary of those titles from the encyclical. St. Ephrem: “. . . Majestic and Heavenly Maid, Lady, Queen, protect and keep me under your… Read More ›
Archbishop Indicates Medjugorje Will Be Approved This Year
Spirit Daily: A Catholic news website in Poland, Religia Deon.pl, interviewing the Pope’s envoy to Medjugorje, reports: “In Medjugorje, everything is going in the right direction,” says Archbishop Henryk Hoser, who examines as a delegate of the Holy See the pastoral situation in this extraordinary place, where 2.5 million pilgrims arrive each year. Abp Hoser positively evaluates… Read More ›
The Assumption of Mary: A belief Since Apostolic Times
The course of this life having been completed by Blessed Mary, when now she would be called from the world, all the Apostles came together from their various regions to her house. And when they had heard that she was about to be taken from the world, they kept watch together with her. And behold,… Read More ›
Fatima Seers and the ‘Roaring Twenties’: What Does It Now Portend?
In private apparitions after the major ones, Fatima seer Jacinta Marto — said she was told a few things that should give modern society pause — rather urgently. For example: “The sins of the world are very great.” “The sins that lead more souls to hell are the sins of the flesh.” “Fashions that will… Read More ›