Category: Blessed Virgin Mary

Mais, priez, mes enfants!

17 January 2008

January 17th is the feast of Our Lady of Pontmain, also called Our Mother of Hope. During my retreat last October at the Benedictine Monastery...

Banneux: Seventy-Five Years

15 January 2008

The Other Marian Jubilee in 2008 2008 is the Jubilee Year of Lourdes: 150 years since the apparitions to Saint Bernadette. 2008 also marks the...

Fra Leone and Nuestra Señora de la Expectación

18 December 2007

Monsignor Patrick Brankin was kind enough to remind me that the Basilica of Nuestra Señora de Zapopan in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico is dedicated to the...

Heart of Jesus, Formed by the Holy Spirit in the Womb of the Virgin Mary

18 December 2007

I pray thee, O Most Holy Virgin Mary, that I might hear the Heartbeat of redeeming Love, and that with Thee I might adore the...

Feast of the Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

18 December 2007

Yes, today, December 18th, is one of the liturgy’s loveliest old Advent festivals of the Blessed Virgin Mary, that of the Expectatio Partus. It was...

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