“The Virgin of Guadalupe, America’s Patron, and her influence in the conversion of people”
Professor Silvio Cajiao – Saverian University – Bogotá (Colombia) Pope John Paul II recognised Our Lady of Guadalupe as the “first evangelist of Latin America” (see. 6-V-1990, No. 4). The reasons for this are prozably to be found in the times preceding the encounter between the Virgin of Tepeyac and the native inhabitant Juan Diego, […]
ON THE INTERIOR OF MARY.
Fr. Jean Grou, S.J. “Mary kept all these things in her heart.” THAT we may judge well of the interior of Mary, let us see what God did for her, and what she did for God. God, Who had predestinated her from all eternity to be the Mother of Jesus Christ, bestowed on her all […]
Two Hearts Beating as One
Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D. On June 19 this year [2020], the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; the following day, the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The two feasts are not situated by coincidence but by the careful plan of the Church. The heart of Jesus began beating beneath […]
The dogma of the Assumption.
The boy who, guided by the Virgin, revealed to the Pope the dogma of the Assumption The fantastic story of Guilles Bouhours, and the miracle that marked the pontificate of Pope Pius XII – Dogma of the Assumption of Notre-Dame. At the age of 4, he carries a message from the Most Holy Virgin Mary, […]
Jesus and his mother
Well, my dear friends, you don’t need to have much imagination to imagine Our Lady in the seventh month, the eighth month, the ninth month, with life stirring within Her. As like all mothers-to-be, She was crocheting and knitting and preparing for the birth of the child. And then one morning, a selfish, moody, compulsive […]
A History of the Holy Rosary
Victor R. Claveau, MJ In the dark ages of ninth century Ireland, the Monks recited or chanted the 150 Psalms of David day-after-day as a community prayer or “Praise to the Lord”. The local peasants outside the monastery wanted to join in with their brothers in Christ in this praise, but they could neither read […]
Mary’s Perpetual Virginity
The doctrine that Mary was a virgin before, during and after the birth of Christ. Objections to Mary’s Continued Virginity. There are some very common objections to the belief that Mary remained a virgin after the birth of Jesus. The first considers the “brothers” of Jesus from the Gospels. Mt 12:46–50; Mk 3:31; […]
Mary’s Mediatorship
Catholics do not believe that there is any other mediator of redemption than our Savior Jesus Christ, “And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). When we call the Blessed Mother or any other saint […]
Mary’s Assumption into Heaven
The teaching of the Church that at the death of the Blessed Virgin Mary her body was preserved from corruption and that shortly afterwards it was assumed into heaven and reunited to her soul. Even if reliable historical reports as to the place (Ephesus, Jerusalem), the time, and the circumstances of Mary’s death are […]
Mary, Mother of God
Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ, who is God and man. She is therefore the Mother of God. This is a dogma of the Faith accepted as such from the earliest times, as is evident from countless expressions of the Fathers. It does not mean, of course, that Mary generated the Godhead. It […]