The Queenship of Mary in History and Tradition
Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home Your house is on fire and your children are gone All except one, and that’s Little Anne For she has crept under the warming pan. * * * * * Throughout...
View ArticleTHE FRUIT OF HER WOMB: John Meets His Cousin for the First Time
Today we celebrate the Feast of the Visitation, that day when the pregnant Mary travels from Nazareth to Bethany in the hill country to visit her older cousin Elizabeth. Mary seeks support, advice,...
View ArticleMARY, THE MOTHER OF GOD – Honored in World’s Largest Stained Glass Window
The largest stained glass church window in the world is in [choose one]: (1) Cologne, Germany; (2) The Vatican; (3) Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France; or (4) Covington, Kentucky. If you guessed...
View ArticleKISSING THE FACE OF GOD
For a moment I wondered, Is this too sappy? Too wrought with emotion? But no—This is Mary in her humanity, glowing with love for her newborn. And it’s Jesus—winsome, eliciting coos and cuddles as...
View ArticleHAIL, MARY, FULL OF GRACE: A New Look at the Annunciation
On March 25—exactly nine months before Christmas—the Catholic Church commemorates the Annunciation, when the Angel Gabriel appeared to a young Jewish girl and told her that God would like her to be the...
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