Since this is the month of the great solemnity of the Annunciation, I want to focus on Mary’s Virginity and her Fiat (“Be it done unto me”) for the next few “Mondays […]
“Mondays with Mary” – The Teachings of Mary’s Virginity in the Catechism
“Mondays with Mary” – The Flowers of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Although the Sacred Scriptures never reveal the Blessed Virgin Mary ever holding or carrying flowers, in many artistic renderings throughout the centuries, we often see Mary with different types of flowers. I […]
“Mondays with Mary” – The Marian Prayer of St. Peter Damian
This past Friday we celebrated the feast day of one of the great 35 Doctors of the Church, Saint Peter Damian. Besides being a simple Benedictine monk and a monitor to a […]
“Mondays with Mary” – My Favorite Marian Title
Anyone that reads these weekly posts should know that I have a pretty intense devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. My relationship completely changed with her after a class in graduate school […]
“Mondays with Mary” – Three Marian Prayers That Need to be Prayed More
The title of the blog post says it all… Memorare Remember O, gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help or sought […]
“Mondays with Mary” – Saint Francis de Sales on the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Yesterday, in the Western Church, we celebrated the feast of the Presentation of Our Lord, or otherwise known historically as the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is from the Gospel […]
“Mondays with Mary” – A Look Back at the Last Five Posts
For today’s “Mondays with Mary”, I want to provide you with the last five blog posts written on the Blessed Mother. In the case you might have missed one, being that it […]
“Mondays with Mary” – Mary, Motherhood, and Sacrament of Baptism
Luke 2:21-22 says, “And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. And […]
“Mondays with Mary” – Mary and the Word of God
During the month of November, I taught a class for men studying for the permanent diaconate here in the Diocese of Phoenix. One of the texts we used for the short 5-week […]
The Declaration of the Theotokos at the Council of Ephesus
Since tomorrow is the Solemnity of Mary, The Holy Mother of God, and a Holy Day of Obligation for Catholics (in the Western lung of the Church), todays post is dedicated to […]
“Mondays with Mary” – ‘Mother of Fairest Love’
The phrase “mother of fairest love” is revealed to us in Chapter 24 of the Book of Sirach in the Latin Vulgate text and states, “I am the mother of fairest love, […]
“Mondays with Mary” – Pope Benedict XVI on Mary and the Mystery of Christmas
Since yesterday was the 4th Sunday of Advent and in two days is Christmas, I give you the words of Pope Benedict XVI and his explanation of Mary and the Mystery of […]
“Mondays with Mary” – The Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Historically, in the Liturgical Calendar, December 18 (Wednesday 2013) is the Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Although this feast is not in the current calendar, nearly the entire Latin Church still […]
“Mondays with Mary” – The Immaculate Conception
Traditionally on the Liturgical Calendar, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception falls on December 8, however, this year we celebrated the Second Sunday of Advent. When a memorial, feast, or solemnity falls […]
“Mondays with Mary” – “The Virgin Mary Perfectly Incarnates the Spirit of Advent”
As I was praying over the readings today during Dismissal with our Catechumens in the RCIA program at the parish I now work at here in Arizona, I thought to myself that […]
“Mondays with Mary” – Pope Francis on “The Faith of Mary”
For “Mondays with Mary” this week, I provide to you some of the words from Pope Francis on his catechesis from October 12, 2013 on “The Faith of Mary.” Bolded in RED […]
“Mondays with Mary” – ‘Mary, Mother of God’s Word’
As I was preparing to teach Section 1 of Pope Benedict’s Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation, Verbum Domini, I read his striking words on how Mary play’s such an important part in knowing the […]
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