Jul 3, 2021 | Our Lady, The Spiritual Life
For all who profess a devotion to the Mother of God, it is a salutary – in fact, a necessary – task to stop from time to time and to compare the practice of our devotion to those descriptions given by the Church, by the Popes and by the great Marian saints...
Jul 1, 2021 | Our Lady, The Spiritual Life
Image: (C) Fr Hugh Gillespie SMM Our recent Holy Fathers have set us a very good and powerful example on giving everything to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and to Jesus through Her. Pope Francis prays at Her altar in Santa Maria Maggiore before and after every trip he...
Jun 11, 2021 | Fatima, Our Lady
The story of Fatima is a broad catechesis of the Catholic Faith. The Angelic appearances in 1916 taught the children the reality of the True Presence of Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament; of His desire for reparation for the sins committed against Him; of the...
May 31, 2021 | Church, Our Lady
I often wonder at how very blessed Elizabeth was, that the Mother of the Lord should visit her – and not just visit, but remain with her for three whole months. And once I have thought about this, I remind myself that we, too – all of us, every one –...
May 12, 2021 | Fatima, Our Lady
Speaking at the weekly General Audience in Saint Peter’s Square in Rome this morning, our Holy Father Pope Francis had this to say – “Tomorrow we remember, with great veneration, Our Lady of Fatima. Let us place ourselves confidently under Her...
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