“You are all fair, my love; there is no flaw in you.” (Song of Songs 4:7). Mary was always immune from every sin. First of all in her very conception. For it […]
December 8 – The Feast of the Immaculate Conception
“Mondays with Mary” – The Marian Prayer of Pope Saint Pius X
Since Wednesday is the memorial for Pope Saint Pius X, I thought I would share with you a Marian prayer that he wrote. This prayer was written for the fiftieth anniversary of […]
The Immaculate Conception Explained (in the Thomistic style)
Today, in the Catholic Church, we celebrate the great Marian Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. One of the most misunderstood dogmas of the Catholic Church since many people believe this is the […]
“Mondays with Mary” – Mary in the Old Testament: The “Virgin Earth” (Part 4)
Picking up from where I left off last week in regards to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Old Testament, here is the next installment of a series that I wrote some […]
“Mondays with Mary” – Bishop Fulton Sheen and ‘The Assumption and the Modern World’
When I read many of the great Catholic authors of the 20th century – G.K. Chesterton, Bishop Fulton Sheen, Flannery O’Connor, Romano Guardini, and others like them, it seems to me as […]
“Mondays with Mary” – Our Lady of Health (Our Lady of San Juan)
After reading Kathy Schiffer’s article on National Catholic Register, which is titled, Who is the Lady in Blue that Pope Francis Venerated in Mexico?, I decided to do some research of my […]
“Mondays with Mary” – The 12 Marvelous Privileges of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Since we are in the month of December, the month we joyfully celebrate the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on December 8, and since I have not touched upon the Immaculate Conception […]
Quick Lessons from the Catechism: ‘Conceived by the Holy Spirit and Born of the Virgin Mary’
Last week, my first book was published through Emmaus Road Publishing, the newly minted publishing arm of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology. The title of the book is Understanding Catholic […]
“Mondays with Mary” – The Marian Prayer of St. Ephraem the Deacon
Since tomorrow is the optional memorial for the Deacon and Doctor of the Church, St. Ephrem, I found it fitting to share with you one of his Marian prayers. As an Early […]
“Mondays with Mary” – The Blessed Virgin Mary in Lumen Gentium, Part I
I have been waiting 2 ½ years to write these next three blog posts featured in the “Mondays with Mary” series. Why have I been waiting three years? Well it’s because the […]
“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 […]
Pray for Lily!
Friends of mine from Franciscan University of Steubenville are asking everyone to Storm Heaven with prayers, for their daughter, Lily, who was born via an emergency c-section last weekend. Lily has been […]
“Mondays with Mary” – Mary in the Old Testament, Part 3
Today, we continue with the third part of Mary in the Old Testament. In the month of September, we looked at Mary in the Old Testament in two parts – part 1 […]
“Mondays with Mary” – Our Lady of Aparecida (Brazil)
I would imagine that many Catholics outside of Brazil, like myself, had never heard of Our Lady of Aparecida before the celebrations this week at World Youth Day in Rio de Janerio. […]
“Mondays with Mary” – Saint Bernadette and Our Lady of Lourdes
This coming Tuesday is the feast day for St. Bernadette. She is famous for receiving eighteen visions at the grotto of Massabiele, beside the River Gave in Lourdes, France. This Marian apparition […]
“Mondays with Mary” – Our Lady of Lourdes
Thirteen years ago, when I was the youth coordinator at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Avondale, Arizona, one of my teenagers brought me back a small glass container of holy water […]
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