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  • Angelus ad Virginem

    On this seventh day of the month of Our Lady, I am posting a medieval poem in Mary’s honor which is titled, Angelus ad Virginem. This delightful ode to our Queen dates to the thirteenth century; and is notable for the fact that its authorship is unknown. The Angelus ad Virginem is based on the prayer, the Hail Mary; and I…

  • Mary and the Convert

    The following is an essay from the Catholic convert Gilbert Keith Chesterton (b. 1874- d. 1936) which is titled, Mary and the Convert. In this essay, Chesterton details his childhood interest in the Blessed Virgin Mary despite the Protestant- based Marian antipathies which surrounded him. He, then, details his full turning to the Blessed Virgin Mary in adulthood as he…

  • The Blessed Virgin Mary: Necessary for Salvation

    Luther said that he “could not endure the thought that the Church of Rome should call Mary, who is only a creature, ‘our hope,’ for God alone [he said], and Jesus Christ as our Mediator, is our hope.” But the Church does teach us to invoke Mary on all occasions and call her our hope: “Hail, our hope!” ~St. Alphonsus…

  • Keep Mary in Christmas

    “Those holy heads are too near together for the halos not to mingle and cross.” ~G.K. Chesterton As you think of the Christmas story this week, notice something very Catholic in it; specifically, the origins of our love and devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Our devotion to Our Lady springs from the fact that the Son of God was conceived by…

  • The World’s First Love

    “As the mother knows the needs better than the babe, so the Blessed Mother understands our cries and worries and knows them better than we know ourselves.” Venerable Fulton J. Sheen, The World’s First Love: Mary, Mother of God