Category Archives: Mary
A Mary word
A “Mary word” for today, Saturday, her day: All the sins of your life seem to be rising up against you. Don’t give up hope! On the contrary, call your holy mother Mary, with the faith and abandonment of a child. She will bring peace to your soul. ~St. Josemariá Escrivá
You do not suffer in vain
For those of you who are suffering . . . even in this Easter season . . . here is a word from John Paul II: You have not suffered or do not suffer in vain. Pain matures you in spirit, purifies you in heart, gives you a real sense of the world and of …
How can we ever comfort Him?
Today we remember the depths of Christ’s love for us. But how can we ever love Him in return, how can we comfort Him in His suffering? His suffering is too huge and our love is so small. As I was pondering that question last night, the Holy Spirit called to mind something I read …
Loving with Mary
This morning as I woke up, I began thinking again about contemplating our Lord’s Passion with Mary. I was immediately struck by the thought of how much of her time and love was spent through these difficult days in loving those that Christ loved. Peter would surely have flown to her after his denial. How …
Contemplating with Mary
There were two options for the Opening Prayer for Mass last Thursday–something I hadn’t seen yet in the new missal. Our priest chose the second option, and I will be forever grateful. The prayer reads: O God, who in this season give your Church the grace to imitate devoutly the Blessed Virgin Mary in contemplating …
The other book
The other book I’m reading at the moment that I would like to tell you about is 33 Days to Morning Glory, A Do-It-Yourself Retreat In Preparation for Marian Consecration. This is a book for those of you who feel an inclination to entrusting your life more to the Mother of God, but get bogged …
Our Lady = Laser Light
A Sunday poem about Our Lady: Our Lady = Laser Light Our Lady, Laser Beam, incredible creature held in God’s omnipotent hand, for help of deviant, unwise man; pure straight-line, steady, truth’s most leashed light, love’s billions more than surface-sun concentrated fire, sure, unwavering, non-fanning beam, heaven-homing radar-ray. Coherent, clear, no unsimple spectrum spread, but …
Greater tenderness
“The mystery of the Immaculate Conception allows us to understand how Mary is surrounded by the Father with greater tenderness and love than the love surrounding Eve before her sin. Through this mercy, Mary is able to enter into a unique intimacy with the Father; she is the beloved little child, the smallest, the ‘Benjamin.’ …
The Presentation of Mary
“Listen, O daughter, give ear to my words . . . So will the King desire your beauty.” (Ps 45.11-12) Come, all believers, and praise her who alone is without blemish, whom the prophets foretold, who was brought into the temple. From all eternity she was predestined to be Mother. And in these last times …
“We need have no fear”
Pope Benedict’s address yesterday as he completed his visit to Germany is a word for us as well: On Mary’s “Yes” “In All Our Cares We Need Have No Fear, God Is Good” FREIBURG, Germany, SEPT. 25, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Here is a Vatican translation of the address Benedict XVI delivered before praying the midday Angelus …
