~The following is a revised post from October of 2018. It remains pertinent to today. ~SCF “Let us run to Mary, and, as her little children, cast ourselves into her arms with a perfect confidence.” –Saint Francis de Sales One of the titles of the Blessed Virgin Mary is Health of the Sick. Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O. P. (b. 1877-…
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Our Lady of Confidence
Mater Mea, Fiducia Mea! My Mother, My Confidence! For generations, the Roman people have loved Our Lady in the beautiful image (above) of Our Lady of Confidence. They have invoked her aid by the simple prayer, “My Mother, My Confidence!” May this tradition of invoking Our Lady in our daily needs continue in us; in our homes, and in…
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Notes on the Immaculate Conception
It is beginning to cool down in the OV from which I am writing this week, and lo, I looked at the calendar and noted that the beloved day, December the eighth, is rapidly approaching: the day in which our Mother, the Roman Catholic Church, celebrates the feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Why is this…
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The Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
“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…
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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…
