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 ...
The Feast of the Assumption August 15th The Feast of the Assumption is an important day in the Catholic religion. It is the principal feast of the Blessed Virgin, the mother of Jesus Christ. This feast commemorates two events: the departure of Mary from the soul life and the assumption of...
Feast of the Dedication- (Judaism) an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem in 165 BC Channukah,Channukkah,Chanukah,Chanukkah,Feast of Dedication,Feast of Lights,Festival of Lights,Hannukah,Hanukah,Hanukkah ...
The Feast of the Assumption is an important day in the Catholic religion. It is the principal feast of the BlessedVirgin1, the mother of Jesus Christ. This feastcommemoratestwo events: the departure of Mary from the soul life and the assumption of her body into heaven. In 1950, Pope Pius...
from the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary (Santo Domingo Church) on Quezon Avenue in Quezon City with the images of Dominican saints and the centuries-old image of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary of La Naval, the first image of the Blessed Mother in Asia to be canonically crowned....
Moses was saved from this murder when his mother placed him in a little ark and floated him in the river. Moses's sister watched from afar as the Pharaoh's daughter found the child (Exodus 2). The massacre from which Moses was spared is a type, a foreshadowing, of the massacre of th...
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...
The Blessed Mother as Queen Second, it is completely undeniable that Mary is the mother of Jesus, the King of Kings, and therefore the queen mother (Tweet this). The position of the queen mother is well documented in the history of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah in 1 and 2 Kings. ...
The tomb was empty-proof that rather than being subjected to the usual process of physical decay, her body had been "assumed" into heaven, where it was reunited with her soul. The commemoration of this event is called the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God in the Eastern Church, ...
The story of Our Lady of Guadalupe has been a vital part of Mexican heritage since the 16th century. The tale begins with a humble indigenous man, originally named Cuauhtlatohuac, who, after baptism, was known as Juan Diego. He was a 57-year-old widower living near Mexico City. On a ...