The day breaks, and like my fellow Catholics throughout the world, I remember the Most Holy Blessed Virgin Mary, the Immaculate Conception, on her grand feast day. For this delightful day, I am posting an article which was printed on Rorate Caeli, and was written by Fr. Serafino M. Lanzetta, titled: The Primacy of Mary as Immaculate Conception. The source…
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Our Lady, Refuge of Sinners: January 16
On January the 16th, the Roman Catholic Church commemorates the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title of Refuge of Sinners. St. Alphonsus Liguori (b. 1696- d. 1787) wrote quite a bit about the manner in which Our Lady is a refuge for sinners in his book The Glories of Mary. I never tire of reading of this glory of Mary; the glory whereby…
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The Great Novena to the Immaculate Conception
Today, on the feast of St. Andrew, the Great Novena to the Immaculate Conception begins, for it is nine days until December 8th, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. The following details this novena, and explains its history: France knows what is called the “Great Novena of the Immaculate Conception,” which is held annually from November 30 to December 8.…
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Mary is Necessary
This was spotted on Instagram this morning by K. Anne: This humorous meme speaks the truth that Mary is necessary for salvation as St. Louis de Montfort wrote: “We must conclude that, being necessary to God by a necessity which is called “hypothetical”, (that is, because God so willed it), the Blessed Virgin is all the more necessary for…
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Flowers and Our Lady
“The rose,” Mary told Saint Brigid, “gives a fragrant odor; it is beautiful to the sight, and tender to the touch, and yet it grows among thorns, inimical to the beauty and tenderness. So may also those who are mild, patient, beautiful in virtue, be put to a test among adversaries. And as the thorn, on the other hand, guards,…
