Tag Archive for ‘Our Lady’
How to Have a ‘Mary’ Christmas
Let us learn from the Virgin Mary how to be bolder in obeying the Word of God. Lessons for Living – from Mary, the Mother of Jesus Pope Francis When friends and colleagues learned that Protestant theologian Dr Scot McKnight was writing a book about Mary, he was often asked, “Why?” His answer was simple and […]
The Town of Le Puy in Early Marist History
Part 1 of 2 Forty years after he heard Mary’s call to form the Society of Mary, Jean-Claude Courveille wrote to Gabriel-Claude Mayet in February 1852. He gave this account of what he “heard” from Our Lady: “Here is what I want. I have always imitated my Divine Son in everything. I followed Him to […]
The Town of Le Puy in Early Marist History
Part 1 of 2 The Cathedral town of Le Puy, with a population of about 19,000, is 140 km south-west of Lyons. The town is built in the crater of a volcano. Two volcanic plugs — puy, in French – rise over it. The chapel of Saint Michel D’Aguilhe, almost 1100 years old and 630 […]
Marist Mission in Bahia
The Mission of the Society of Mary in Bahia, Brazil, began in 1987. This happened after much research in order to find a diocese that was located in a poor area of the country where we could offer support, not only in parish ministry, but also to the diocese as a whole. The idea was […]
Mary’s Month
I have never been convinced by the claim of northern hemisphere Catholics that “May is Mary’s Month.” I have never been convinced by explanations that try to attach Christian meanings to non-Christian customs and festivals. I prefer to follow the liturgical year and the church calendar that have been set out for us in the […]
Saturday 21 April
Acts 9:31-42; Ps 116; John 6:60-69 Miracles Peter is performing miracles. Firstly for Aeneas, who was paralysed, then raising Tabitha from the dead. Do you know someone who is critically ill? Pray for that person, perhaps through the intercession of Venerable Suzanne Aubert, the Founder of the Daughters of Our Lady of Compassion.
Our Lady of Perpetual Succour
Our Lady of Perpetual Succour is familiar to most Catholics and, like many well-known pictures of Our Lady, it has a chequered past. It was believed to have been painted in the 15th century for the Greek Orthodox Church by an artist in Crete, although some think the image is much older, originating from St […]
A Reflection on Mary, Mother of God
There are at least eleven explicit and/or implicit references to Mary in the Gospel of Luke
Mary and the Reformation (1) – Erasmus
500 years ago Many things contributed to the breaking up of the Catholic Christian world of the Middle Ages: the Hundred Years War, the Black Death, the Western Schism, and the Islamic invasions. Humanism found a warm reception in Rome with the popes of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, all worldly men more […]
Entries(RSS)