When Catholics cry out Hail Mary, we do so to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Immaculate Conception, the Holy Mother of God; the glorious Queen of Heaven and Earth. If any person describes this singular, and holy Lady, as a “normal girl,” do make a mental note to yourself that they might not have read, or if they have read it, do not understand, Ineffabilis Deus. Ineffabilis Deus was published on December the 8th, 1854, by Blessed Pope Pius IX; and it details the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception. The following is a portion of Ineffabilis Deus to read, to understand; and, if you are Catholic: to believe: “Wherefore, in humility and fasting, we (Pope Pius IX refers to himself as “we”- added by SF) unceasingly offered our private prayers as well as the public prayers of the Church to God the Father through his Son, that he would deign to direct and strengthen our mind by the power of the Holy Spirit. In like manner did we implore the help of the entire heavenly host as we ardently invoked the Paraclete. Accordingly, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, for the honor of the Holy and undivided…
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The Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen
I have written about the Blessed Virgin Mary in The Marian Room for some time; though, to be more precise, most of the writing(s) presented are those of saints, theologians, and popes, all on the traditional Catholic teaching about the Blessed Virgin Mary. I have not presented novelity, and avoid apparition-talk. I dislike novelty in regards to Catholic teaching about Our Lady, because I have seen how novelty leans towards the talk of people who wish to deny her grandeurs and titles; all besowed on her by the Church; which, by the way, has given us dogma(s) in reference to her. She has been worthy of receiving titles, grandeurs, lauds, and love, from us, from the Church, and from God her creator. One can simply think of the fifth glorious mystery of the Rosary where she is crowned by Christ as Queen of Heaven and Earth, and realize we are not speaking of a “normal” women in her regards. She is singular. She is The Immaculate Conception. As I said yesterday, just take a walk around a grand cathedral built…
Pope Pius X Speaks On The Immaculate Conception
For can anyone fail to see that there is no surer or more direct road than by Mary for uniting all mankind in Christ and obtaining through Him the perfect adoption of sons, that we may be holy and immaculate in the sight of God? For if to Mary it was truly said: “Blessed art thou who hast believed because in thee shall be fulfilled the things that have been told thee by the Lord” (Luke i., 45); or in other words, that she would conceive and bring forth the Son of God and if she did receive in her breast Him who is by nature Truth itself in order that “He, generated in a new order and with a new nativity, though invisible in Himself, might become visible in our flesh” (St. Leo the Great, Ser. 2, De Nativ. Dom.): the Son of God made man, being the “author and consummator of our faith”; it surely follows that His Mother most holy should be recognized as participating in the divine mysteries and as being in a manner the guardian of them,…
The Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 2025
“As the vine I have brought forth a pleasant odour: and my flowers are the fruit of honour and riches. I am the mother of fair love, and of fear, and of knowledge, and of holy hope. In me is all grace of the way and of the truth, in me is all hope of life and of virtue. Come over to me, all ye that desire me, and be filled with my fruits. For my spirit is sweet above honey, and my inheritance above honey and the honeycomb. My memory is unto everlasting generations. They that eat me, shall yet hunger: and they that drink me, shall yet thirst. He that hearkeneth to me, shall not be confounded: and they that work by me, shall not sin. They that explain me shall have life everlasting.” ~from today’s Mass, Eccli. 24:23-31 [Sirach] Today is the feast of the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary which commemorates the first of the four Marian dogmas: the Divine Motherhood of Mary, and for this happy day I am re-posting the bit that follows: Dom Gueranger…
May the 8th: The Supplica
The commemoration of Our Lady of Pompeii occurs on May the 8th. The day is celebrated all over the world with the recitation at Noon of a prayer called The Supplica which was written by Blessed Bartolo Longo (born 1841- died 1926). Blessed Longo wrote The Supplica years after he converted from being a Satanist priest to the Catholic Faith. After his conversion, Longo spent his life promoting the Rosary, and building up a shrine to Our Lady in Pompeii, Italy. The shrine is massive and one can see it from a great distance, as I did in April of 2024. It is stunning, and a testament to the faith of Blessed Bartolo Longo, and the Catholic people of the region, and beyond. As we await a new pope, our Catholic devotions and traditions do not change, including the recitation of The Supplica at Noon on May the 8th. Here is a text of The Supplica: O August Queen of Victories, O Sovereign of Heaven and Earth, at whose name the heavens rejoice and the abyss trembles, O glorious Queen…