We celebrate today the feast day of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta. On this day in 1997, she who was called "The Living Saint" because of her dedication to the service of the least and the last in society, joined her Father in heaven.Mother Teresa or Gonxha (Agnes) Bojaxhiu was ...
August contains two special days to honor the Blessed Mother, the Assumption and the Queenship of Mary. At the end of Mary’s earthly life, she was assumed into heaven and upon entering she became Queen of Heaven. By looking into the Scriptures, how can we deduce these things? Many non-...
including massive logs for the roof, had to be carried from the valley below. Supposedly Friar Juan had gained both the confidence of the Acoma people and access to the mesa by saving an infant from a fall off the mesa's edge. His delivery of the child back to the mother was considered...
Finally she became so lonely that she prayed Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary for death. An angel visited her and promised that within three days, she would enter heaven, where Jesus awaited her. The angel presented her with a palm branch, which Mary in turned handed to St. John, ...
It is celebrated nine months before the feast of the Nativity of Mary, which is celebrated on September 8. The Immaculate Conception is a dogma maintaining that from the moment when she was conceived the Blessed Virgin Mary was kept free of original sin and was filled with the sanctifying ...
) Today the deacon preached about the Gospel (the wedding at Cana) and how the Blessed Mother told the waiters to do whatever Jesus told them to do. Then he told them the story of the apparitions at Lourdes, and how Saint Bernadette also did the will of God. Finally, he reminded them...
O loving Jesus, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mother, our model in reparation, deign to receive the voluntary offering we make of this act of expiation; and by the crowning gift of perseverance keep us faithful unto death in our duty and the allegiance we owe to Thee, so...
Feast of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary There are two days we commemorate the dry martrydom -- i.e., a martyrom of suffering, but not of blood -- of Our Lady: on September 15 and today, the "Friday of Sorrows." The seven sorrows we commemorate are: The ...
This day marks the Feast Day of the Nativity (birth) of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus. History of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary The date of birth of Mary is not recorded in the bible. The earliest writings about her life come from the 'Protoevangelium of James' which was wr...
Feast of the Holy Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Octave of the Birth of Our Lord, Solemnity of Mary The Gospel according to Luke (2:21) reports that eight days after Jesus was born, Joseph and Mary named him and had him circumcised. In doing so, they conformed to an old Jewish cus...