Category: Blessed Virgin Mary

Ave, Maria, gratia plena

30 March 2008

This beautiful painting of the Annunciation was the work of 11 year old Joseph Gillain who painted it in 1925, after receiving a box of...

The Virgin of the Passion

13 March 2008

Commemoration of the Compassion of the Blessed Virgin Mary Did you know that tomorrow, Friday in the Fifth Week of Lent (Passiontide), is the Commemoration...

Our Lady’s Seven Dolours

20 February 2008

Beginning Lent in Knock My pilgrimage the Shrine of Our Lady of Knock a fortnight ago renewed my longstanding devotion to the Rosary of the...

Thank you, Holy Father!

22 January 2008

“One cannot contemplate Mary without being attracted by Christ and one cannot look at Christ without immediately perceiving the presence of Mary.” I am profoundly...

Our Lady of Sion

20 January 2008

“I cannot explain it. All I know is, that I entered the church knowing nothing, and I left it seeing clearly.” (Marie–Alphonse Ratisbonne) Today, January...

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