Since Friday was the Feast of the Archangels – Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, and today is the memorial of the Guardian Angels, I thought I would provide you with a prayer to […]
“Mondays with Mary” – Prayer to Our Lady, Queen of the Angels
“Mondays with Mary” – Our Lady Queen of May
Since today is the 1st of May, I wanted to briefly explain to you why May is the month of Mary. During the month of May, we celebrate the Queen Jewel of […]
“Mondays with Mary” – Mary, The Queen of All Saints
Since yesterday was the Solemnity of All Saints, the great feast where we celebrate not only the canonized Saints of the Church, but also the unknown saints that have reached the Heavenly […]
“Mondays with Mary” – The Marian Prayer of St. Anthony of Padua
Since this Saturday, June 13, was technically the feast of St. Anthony of Padua in the Roman Catholic Liturgical Calendar (the Immaculate Heart of Mary fell on this Saturday as well), I […]
“Mondays with Mary” – The Queen of Mercy
With the memorial of the Queenship of Mary being celebrated by the Latin lung of the Catholic Church this Friday, I found it fitting to provide a blog post on Mary’s role […]
“Mondays with Mary” – The Esheth Yahil (Woman of Valor)
Besides Mary as the New Ark of the Covenant, which I have written about in a previous post, the image of her from Proverbs 31 as the Esheth Yahil or Woman of […]
“Mondays with Mary” – John the Apostle: Mother, I Beseech You
In honor of Mother’s Day, I turn our attention to the relationship of the Blessed Virgin Mary and John the Apostle. If you are a weekly reader of “Mondays with Mary”, you […]
“Mondays with Mary” – ‘The Beetles of Our Lady’
We are one month away from celebrating the two year anniversary of my “Mondays with Mary” – a series that is on the cusp of its 100th post. Although the majority of […]
“Mondays with Mary” – The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Even though yesterday was the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time in the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church, September 8th is also the day we celebrate the Feast of The Nativity of […]
Pope St. John Paul II on the Queenship of Mary
Everyone that has ever really taken the time to listen or read Pope St. John Paul II will know that his love for the Blessed Mother began in his youth, after the […]
The Queenship of Mary: Advocate, Co-Redemptrix, and Mediatrix
The Second Vatican Council in the document, Lumen Gentium – the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, declares in Chapter VIII, “Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this salvific duty, […]
“Mondays with Mary” – 5 Quotes from the Saints on the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
This week in the Catholic Church we celebrate a major solemnity in the liturgical calendar. For Catholics, it’s a Holy Day of Obligation. In the East, we have the Dormition of the […]
“Mondays with Mary” – Mary is the Church on Pentecost
Yesterday was Pentecost Sunday – the day we celebrate the Holy Spirit descending upon Mary and the Apostles. This day also commemorates the birth of the Catholic Church. It’s a joyful time […]
Happy Mother’s Day
During this month of Mary, we celebrate the great day known to us MOTHER’S DAY. It is a day where we honor those women in our lives that cared for us in […]
“Mondays with Mary” – The Importance of Studying Marian Theology
I have often said on previous “Mondays with Mary”, in talks that I have given, and in classes that I have taught, my relationship with the Blessed Mother radically changed for the […]
Blessed John Paul II on the 1550th Anniversary of the Council of Ephesus
It’s January 1, 2013 and the Catholic Church (Western lung) celebrates the great Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. While the secular world dives deeper into revelry and chaos, Catholics gather at […]
“Mondays with Mary” – The Most Holy Name of Mary
If you hadn’t figured it out yet, I have a devotion and love for the Blessed Mother. I had always looked to her for guidance in my life, however it was not […]
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