does not speak of Mary’s birth, the oldest account is believed to come from a 2nd century apocryphal text. It has been celebrated by Catholics as early as the 6th century. There has been no statement from

received the extraordinary favor of conversing on three occasions with the Virgin Mary. The following text was told by Saint Catherine herself. "It would be impossible for me to describe what I experienced

with the Virgin Mary and saying the Rosary. When I woke up, I felt fine. In the morning I received a text message from one of my friends quoting the hymn to Mary: "Look at the star, call upon Mary, if you

"masters of tradition") were the teachers of the Masorah, which faithfully transmitted the ancient text of the Hebrew Bible, with its nuances of pronunciation and vocalization, at a time when the ancient

Institutions, attributed to the Rhineland mystic Johannes Tauler OP (†1361), are a collection of mystical texts of Rhenish or Flemish origin from the 14th century. They were hugely popular from the moment the

sorrowful mother stood”). A Franciscan friar named Jacopone da Todi is said to have written the original text of the Stabat Mater in the 13th century, although some scholars have attributed it to Pope Innocent [...] numerous composers including Bach, Vivaldi, Haydn, Schubert, and Verdi have set the original Latin text to music. The Stabat Mater was used frequently in the Liturgy for centuries before it became a sequence

decisions. My companionship with Mary, nearly 20 years later, was enriched by the discovery of a powerful text by Father Doncoeur on the Virgin Mary in masculine lives 1 . The more I studied the male identity [...] firm presence. (1) La Vierge Marie dans nos vies d’hommes (The Virgin Mary in Our Lives as Men). This text appeared in the minutes the Marian congregations in 1935. I am grateful to Bishop Ravel for making

gs us back to Jesus through her Rosary! She is truly the Mother of Reconciliation! Adapted from a text by Father Mario Attard, OFM Cap., a reader of A Moment with Mary from Malta - February 2021

that is not found anywhere else: the Magnificat . Inspired by the Holy Spirit, Mary referred to texts of the Old Testament, but penetrated them so deeply that she elevated and transfigured their meaning

Council on November 21, 1964, Pope Paul VI declared the Virgin Mary "Mother of the Church." Here is the text of the official papal declaration of the council: "By the promulgation of today's Constitution, which