the Assumption of Mary), along with the Japanese domination that had lasted for 35 years. On December 8, 1948 (feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary), Korea was admitted to the United Nations. These [...] in this region: from 1801 to 1831, the Church of Korea, composed of 10,000 faithful, remained without priests and kept the faith through devotion to Mary; between 1839 and 1846, 6,000 Catholics died as [...] midst of the communist occupation, the Catholics built a new church in Pyonyang in 1988, dedicating it to "Our Lady of Perpetual Help." In South Korea, WWII fighting ended on August 15, 1945 (feast of the
Could not Mary still have attained “Queen of Heaven and Earth” status without being a perpetual virgin? (Indiana) A: As to your specific question, whether Mary could be thought of as queen of heaven and [...] been a perpetual virgin, the answer of course is yes. But that is not the issue here. The teaching of Mary’s perpetual virginity is one of the longest defined dogmas of the church. It was taught by the earliest [...] Lady of Basella (Italy, 1356) Did Mary have other children after Jesus? Q: When I was an evangelical, the standard take on Mary’s virginity was that she remained a virgin until after the birth of Jesus
April 3 – Our Lady of the Cross (Italy, 1490) The Virgin Mary is with me as I pray on my rehab bike I love reading your daily email (Editor's note: A Moment with Mary) about the Virgin Mary. Thanks to this [...] a sense of hopelessness. Anticipating a total loss of autonomy in the near future, I was contemplating ending my life so as not to become a burden to my family. The priest gave me a penance of 10 rosaries [...] exercise bike without a feeling of joy at the idea of praying the rosary while pedaling. Now, when I'm on my bike, Our Lady accompanies me and doesn't leave me for the rest of the day. I am not saying it's
the Gospel of Luke, Mary is silent at the birth of Jesus. In the Gospel of John, she is silent at the time of Jesus' death. In the first letter to the Corinthians, St. Paul contrasts "the word of the cross" [...] cross" and "the wisdom of the word"; that is, the language of the cross and the language of human wisdom. The difference is this: the wisdom of the word, or the wisdom of the world speaks with words and fine [...] 23:27), there are no reports of Mary's cries or lamentations as she stood beneath the cross. Unlike the passage where Jesus was found in the Temple, or at Cana in Galilee, none of her words were transmitted
April 7 – Our Lady of Zyrovic (Lithuania, 1432) Shrines where Mary's presence shines forth The places where Mary comes to meet us are a special demonstration of her motherhood to men, as are the houses [...] particular presence of the Mother. These places and houses are very numerous. They range from the simplest oratories in privates homes or along roads enshrining beautiful images of the Mother of God shines, to [...] people feel the presence of their Mother in a particularly strong way. Sometimes these places have an international influence...Such are the Marian shrines. In them, the words of the liturgy ring true: "You
Archbishop of Conakry (capital of Guinea). At the age of 34, he became one of the youngest bishops in the world and in the history of the Church. In 2010, Benedict XVI created him a cardinal. At the end of 2014 [...] against the arbitrary actions of the President of Guinea, Ahmed Sékou Touré, sometimes at the risk of his life. When the latter died in 1984, Fr. Robert Sarah was on the eve of being arrested and executed [...] 30 – Our Lady of Miracles (Lucca, Italy, 1588) Mary occupies a prominent place in Cardinal Sarah’s faith "I owe everything to Christ because he gave me everything. I was the only son of a poor farming
April 1 – Our Lady of Suasia (Italy, 1556) A mother whose autistic toddler went missing believes he was kept safe by the Virgin Mary Anthony "AJ" Elfalak, who is non-verbal, went missing from his family's [...] frantic search of the rugged bushland around his home. AJ’s mum opened up about the harrowing event on social media this week, saying she believes her son was being watched over by the Virgin Mary. “We’re a [...] I always say that the Virgin Mary and all the saints and the angels are with my kids every day,” Kelly Elfalak said in an online video, News Corp reports. “The Virgin Mary is always with us and I knew
from Our Lady of Yanouh to Our Lady of Elige, to Our Lady of Qadisha and then Our Lady of Deman and finally Our Lady of Bkerke. Here we see the extent of the Virgin’s influence in the life of the Maronite [...] explained the doctrine of the person and nature of Christ, it expounded the fact that Mary is the “Mother of God”. The disciples of Saint Maroun were among the strongest defenders of this doctrine. Consequently [...] the face of Mary, as the Mother of God but also the observant Mother of the Church, there from the birth of the church in the upper room. The Maronite Church performs its rites, after the Feast of Pentecost
the mystery of the Word made flesh a new light of your glory has shone upon the eyes of our mind, so that, as we recognize in him God made visible, we may be caught up through him in love of things invisible [...] March 13 - Our Lady of Rose (Italy, 1635) Like Mary, let us reflect on the past year in our heart Do you know who remembers more about your childhood than you do? Your mother. Men have memories, but we [...] we cannot recall. St. Luke’s infancy narrative twice mentions Mary’s memory. When the shepherds withdraw from the manger, we are told, “Mary kept all these things, reflecting on them in her heart” (2:19)
impassibility of the same God and Father, out of pity, in his love for mankind, for our fallen nature, of his own free will, by the will of God who has begotten him, and with the divine approval of the Spirit [...] Saint Sophronius, patriarch of Jerusalem (Palestine) God took our likeness in Mary's womb “On the subject of the Incarnation, I believe that God the Verb, the only-begotten Son of the Father, who before all [...] completely divine way, he entered Mary's womb, all shining with virginal purity - Mary the holy and radiant Virgin, full of divine wisdom, and exempt from all defilement of body, soul and spirit. He, the
