It is Monday, December the 2nd, and, as such, Catholics remain in the midst of the Great Novena of the Immaculate Conception (read here). For today, I am posting an essay (with some edits) that I wrote last year about the Immaculate Conception. ~SCF When Catholics cry out Hail Mary, we do so to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Immaculate Conception, the Holy Mother of…
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Love the Rosary
~The following piece was published in The Marian Room last year. Today, as we are in the month of October, the month dedicated to the Most Holy Rosary in the Roman Catholic Church, I am re-posting it with a few edits and additions. May you have a good day. ~SCF “The Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which…
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In September: the Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The month of September is dedicated in the Roman Catholic Church to remembering the sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The sorrows of Our Lady are: The Prophecy of Simeon, The Flight into Egypt, The Loss of Jesus in the Temple, The Meeting of Jesus and Mary on the Way of the Cross, The Crucifixion, The Taking Down of the…
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Sweet Queen, Remember Us
Here in The Marian Room we say a loving Hail! to Our Lady on her feast day. We state in this little room that we love her most heartily and depend on her for all things. All things. Today. In this age, at this moment. As all Catholics have done. We will not break with Tradition or with practice. Hail Mary! You…
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St. John Vianney Speaks on the Blessed Virgin Mary
“The Heart of Mary is so tender towards us, that those of all the mothers in the world put together are like a piece of ice in comparison to hers.” ~St. John Mary Vianney Today, I am posting a short instruction from our French Catholic ancestor, St. John Mary Vianney (b. 1786- d. 1859), on the topic of the Blessed…