Today, The Marian Room continues its countdown to the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception with a post containing an extensive text written for this feast from the book, The Liturgical Year: Advent, by the Very Reverend Dom Prosper Gueranger, Abbot of Solesmes, translated from the French by the Revered Dom Laurence Shepherd, Monk of the English-Benedictine Congregation, 2nd edition, 1870. Since there are just…
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St. Catherine Laboure: November 28
Today, the Roman Catholic Church commemorates the French saint Catherine (Zoe) Laboure (b. 1806- d. 1876). Catherine was a farmer’s daughter who grew up in France during turbulent times; and besides the cultural turbulence, the little Zoe, as she was known to her family, experienced personal turbulence when she lost her mother to death at the tender age of nine. At the…
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Mary, the Mother of Fair Love
The coming of the Blessed Virgin Mary was prophesied in the Old Testament in beautiful descriptive language. One such Old Testament phrase which describes Our Lady states that she is the Mother of Fair Love 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…
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The Immaculate Conception: Mother of Sweet Hope
“It is especially the devotion to Mary in her Immaculate Conception, which proves a powerful weapon in our strife against hell. If you are severely tempted, say one Ave every night and morning, in honor of the Immaculate Conception. Call on the Blessed Virgin in the hour of temptation, and you will be victorious. When confidence fills the warrior’s breast,…
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The Child Mary
In the fall of 2017, a painting of the child Mary, and her saintly mother, Anne, were discovered by A. Therese in the town of Sorrento, Italy. A. Therese was walking down the street, and there they were. She took this (above) picture to commemorate the happy moment. This posted painting leads one to think of the childhood of the Blessed…
