Mary

The Joyful Invitation of Our Lady’s Birth

September 8, 2022November 18, 2022 Articles, Mary

When celebrating the saints, the Church most often commemorates them with one feast day. Naturally, for the Blessed Mother, we celebrate many more. We recall her Immaculate Conception on December 8th, her Assumption into Heaven in August, and today, Mary’s birthday. Today, the Church invites us to renewed joy and anticipation in Mary’s birth, as […]

The Resilience of Our Lady of Częstochowa

August 26, 2022November 18, 2022 Articles, Mary

In August 1384, Władysław Opolczyk, an advisor to the King of Poland and Hungary, passed by the town of Częstochowa with a Hodegetria Marian icon in his possession. His horses suddenly stopped, refusing to go any further, and it took a night and a divinely inspired dream for Opolczyk to figure out that the icon […]

Queenship and the New Eve

August 22, 2022November 18, 2022 Articles, Mary

“Crowned in glory – as she appears in the last Glorious Mystery – Mary shines forth as Queen of the Angels and Saints, the anticipation and the supreme realization of the eschatological state of the Church.” Pope Saint John Paul II, Rosarium Virginis Mariae Hymns, ancient prayers, and historic liturgical documents have revered Mary as […]

What does the Assumption of Mary teach us?

August 15, 2022November 18, 2022 Articles, Mary

The Assumption of Mary is the fourth and most recently declared Marian dogma – Church teachings about Mary that are considered essential for all practicing Catholics to believe. Proclaimed in 1950, this feast and dogma has been celebrated within early Christian circles as early as the fifth century – but some of the traditional stories […]

Models to Mary: The Feast of Saints Joachim and Anne

July 26, 2022July 25, 2022 Articles, Mary

This summer, you may be using some of your vacation to visit relatives—your parents, perhaps, or your grandparents, if they’re still living. July 26th is the Feast of Saints Joachim and Anne — the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the grandparents of Jesus. And they weren’t too far away for the Holy […]

The Visitation, a Feast of Service

May 31, 2022May 31, 2022 Articles, Mary

“During those days Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.” (Luke 1:39-40) When I was in college, I regularly participated in Alternative Breaks – spring trips that brought me to new communities and made me a […]

Light of the World, Prophesied: The Presentation of Jesus

February 2, 2022February 11, 2022 Articles, Mary

Today marks the Feast of the Presentation, otherwise celebrated as Candlemas. While it denotes the end of the Christmas season, it is also a new beginning. Since the fourth century, Christians all over the globe bring their candles to their local churches to have them blessed, and these everyday objects serve as powerful reminders of […]

Our Lady, Queen of Peace

January 24, 2022December 16, 2022 Articles, Mary

Humans, universally, have many worries. In 1917, Pope Benedict XV surely had his fair share. As pope during World War I, the Influenza epidemic, and the Russian Revolution, he knew that the world desperately needed a beacon of peace. There had to be something, or someone, who could placate the feeling of reigning uncertainty. He […]

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