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The Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God

January 1, 2025December 31, 2024 Articles, Mary

New Year’s Day coincides with the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. This noteworthy feast begins each new year with a celebration of Mary’s maternity to Jesus, rooted both in Scripture and its own Church Council. The Visitation, found in the Gospel of Luke, has the first reference to Mary as “Mother of God”. Mary’s […]

Our Lady of Champion, Matchmaker?

May 1, 2023May 1, 2023 Articles, Family and Kids, Mary

As many Relevant Radio associates prepare for the Walk to Mary and its sold-out Tenth Anniversary celebration, producer and co-host Maggie Groeschl prepares for her wedding, exactly one year after she met her soon-to-be-husband… one of her intentions for the Walk to Mary in 2022. The temporary Park Ridge office in which Maggie worked sat […]

Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of Relevant Radio

December 12, 2022December 9, 2022 Articles, Mary

The last feast on our Miracles, Mysteries, and Mary calendar is incredibly close to our hearts as associates of Relevant Radio. Today is 491 years since the appearance of Mary’s image on the tilma of Saint Juan Diego, and on the smaller scale of history, today also marks twenty-two years since Relevant Radio received its […]

Our Lady of Loreto… Patroness of Aviation?

December 10, 2022December 9, 2022 Articles, Mary

In 1920, aviation experts and pioneers asked Pope Benedict XV to bless their work and the skies. He obliged – after all, if Our Lady was the delight of mariners, she should certainly be patroness of air fare – and declared patronage of the skies to Our Lady of Loreto. This title, coming from the […]

Defining the Definition of the Immaculate Conception

December 8, 2022December 8, 2022 Articles, Mary

Today’s great Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary is a doctrine that is misunderstood by many. If you have ever correctly explained this teaching to someone else, congratulations! You’re well ahead of many Catholics. The Immaculate Conception is often confused with the Virginal Conception of Jesus, at the Annunciation (which we celebrate on March […]

Our Lady of Kibeho

November 28, 2022December 14, 2022 Articles, Mary

Our Lady of Kibeho is the only Church-approved Marian apparition in the fifty-four nations of continental Africa. Spanning eight years and three visionaries at Kibeho College in Rwanda, it all began on November 28th, 1981, when Our Lady appeared to seventeen-year-old Alphonsine Mumureke while she was serving other children: “She could have chosen me when […]

Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal

November 27, 2022November 23, 2022 Articles, Mary

Catherine Labouré was only with the Daughters of Charity in Paris three months before she was awoken in the night by a call. At the foot of her bed stood a beautiful child, insisting she get up and go straight to the chapel. The young sister obeyed in haste, and soon enough, the reason for […]

Lessons from The Presentation of Mary

November 21, 2022November 18, 2022 Articles, Mary

The Presentation of Mary, celebrated today, is traditionally found in the Protoevangelium of James – a non-canonical gospel account from around 200 AD. This text reveals to us the names of Mary’s parents, Anne and Joachim, and in its seventh chapter gives us an event found nowhere else in early accounts. At the young age […]

Our Lady of Good Help: Go and Fear Nothing

October 9, 2022September 29, 2023 Articles, Mary

When Adele Brise received her first communion in Belgium, she decided to devote herself to Our Lady and educate children in the Catholic faith. Her plan was thrown for a loop when she and her parents emigrated in the summer of 1853, creating a farm just outside Luxembourg, Wisconsin. The next six years Adele spent […]

Holy Mary, Ransom of Captives

September 24, 2022November 18, 2022 Articles, Mary

In 1960, the feast of Our Lady of Ransom was officially added to the liturgical calendar, celebrating the foundation of the Order of the Mercedarians (or the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy) in Barcelona, Spain. Founded on a dream (quite literally) by St. Peter Nolasco, a war veteran and tutor to fellow […]

Hope in Our Lady of Sorrows

September 15, 2022December 16, 2022 Articles, Mary

Today the Church reflects upon the sufferings of Mary, most notably remembered through the Seven Sorrows and the Seven Sorrows Rosary (popularized by the Servite and Dominican Orders). But for many of us, meditating upon these pivotal sorrows that accompanied the Son of God’s life and ministry can present a challenge to our joy-filled and […]

Power in the Name of Mary

September 12, 2022November 18, 2022 Articles, Mary

As Pope Innocent XI watched the overwhelming Ottoman troops close in on Vienna, Austria, vulnerable and with little allied support, he did the one thing we should all do in times of uncertainty, difficulty, and (in the case of King John III Sobieski of Poland, a major combatant) crisis: he turned to the Blessed Mother […]

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