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What Can We Learn from Mary?

Melanie Rigney May 3, 2019

Mary’s moments in the New Testament are few, precious, and significant. Sometimes, she teaches by her actions. Other times, she teaches us by her seeming inaction. Why would Mary, the mother of Jesus, born free of original sin, need to purify her heart? We venerate her Immaculate Heart to contemplate her love of God and the earthly journey on which he took her. What could we, normal, struggling children of God hope to learn from such a woman about purifying our own hearts? Ah, that’s the thing about Mary.

Joseph, Husband of Mary

Fr. Gary Caster March 19, 2024

Joseph and Mary’s life does not fit into ordinary human categories.

Mary Finds Us

Maureen O'Brien March 11, 2024

It is our mother who will never forget. It is our mother who will always find her child.

Holy Mary: Model of Patience

Murray Bodo, OFM September 12, 2023

“Be it done to me according to your word.” So it was for Mary, so it can be for us who wait in silent prayer seemingly unable to do anything to change our circumstances.

Mary, Queen of Heaven

Ginny Kubitz Moyer May 25, 2023

As Mary’s story shows us, one person’s faith can forever change the world.

Let Us Pray: A Canticle to Mary

Carol Ann Morrow May 1, 2023

Jesus will fill my soul with the wine of wisdom, and I’ll know what to do. His mother told him, and he’ll do it!

Hail Mary, Full of Grace

Colleen C. Mitchell April 24, 2023

Mary is the ultimate illumination of a woman filled with Christ’s presence, of a woman lit up from within by grace.

Mary, Mother of God

Pope Francis January 1, 2023

Mary treasured all these things and pondered them in her heart!” (Luke 2:19).

Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Franciscan Media August 22

The notion of a queen is somewhat foreign to American ears, but this feast of Mary recognizes her role in the Kingdom of her Son, Jesus.

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Franciscan Media August 15

The doctrine of the Assumption of Mary is recent: 1950. But the belief among the faithful that Mary was assumed body and soul into heaven at the time of her death dates to the early Church.

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