 Friday 5 September 2008
Former hostage Íngrid Betancourt said she is sure that the intercession
of Our Lady of Guadalupe will bring an end to the Colombian conflict
and free those held captive by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia.
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 Friday 5 September 2008
After the Second Vatican Council there was a gap in interest in
Mariology, one that Mariologist Mark Miravalle has sought to fill with
a comprehensive compilation of the Church's teaching on Mary.
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Thursday 4 September 2008
Private Marian apparitions serve to remind mankind that God exists, and
to provide an opportunity to conduct a "global examination of
conscience," according to Mariologist Mark Miravalle.
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Monday 18 August 2008
Overlooking the courtyard at the Apostolic Palace of Castel Gandolfo,
Pope Benedict recited the Angelus with those present for the Solemnity
of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 15 August.
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 Thursday 24 July 2008
Mexico's
oldest pilgrimage -- and the one that attracts the most pilgrims, with
50,000 participants this year -- concluded Sunday at the feet of Our
Lady of Guadalupe.
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 Monday 2 June 2009
Here is a translation of the address Pope Benedict XVI gave Saturday evening
during a gathering in St Peter's Square, Vatican City, marking the conclusion of May,
the month dedicated to the Mary.
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 Monday 2 June 2008
The rosary is a school of Mary in which Christians can learn to let the
lamp of faith shine brighter in their hearts, says Pope Benedict XVI.
The Pope said this Saturday evening at a gathering in St Peter's
Square, Vatican City, marking the conclusion of May, the month
dedicated to the Mary.
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 Tuesday 27 May 2008
Love of Mary is not something sentimental but is a gift from Christ on the cross, said a Vatican spokesman.
Jesuit Fr Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican press
office, affirmed this on the latest episode of the weekly Vatican
Television program "Octava Dies."
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 Tuesday 27 May 2008
Pope Benedict XVI appointed
Cardinal Godfried Danneels, archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels, as his
special envoy to celebrations marking the 75th anniversary of the
apparitions of the Virgin of the Poor.
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Friday 23 May 2008
Pope Benedict XVI has composed a prayer to Our Lady of Sheshan to
celebrate the Day of Prayer for the Church in China, which will be
observed on 24 May.
In a letter written to the Catholic Church in China last year, the
Holy Father expressed his hope that 24 May, the memorial of Our Lady
Help of Christians, who is venerated at the shrine of Seshan in
Shanghai, would become a day of prayer for the Church in China.
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Thursday 22 May 2008
An antidote to the challenges facing the Church and society today is
the glorification of Mary through the proclamation of a fifth Marian
dogma, says Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil of the Syro-Malabar Catholic
Church.
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Tuesday 20 May 2008
At a meeting with young people in the northern Italian city of
Savona, Pope Benedict XVI recited the Angelus prayer with the young
people and invited them to trust in Mary. He recalled the words the
Virgin Mary spoke to shepherd Benedict Pareto in the year 1400 urging
him to build a shrine on Mount Figogna, the place where she appeared.
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Monday 19 May 2008
'Trust in me!' Mary Repeats This Again to Us Today"
Here is a translation of the greeting Benedict XVI gave today before
praying the Angelus in Piazza Matteotti during his pastoral visit to
Genoa, Italy.
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Friday 16 May 2008
Catholics prayed the rosary with
Pope John Paul II thanks to recordings of the Polish Pontiff leading
the Marian prayer. According to a Vatican spokesman, this desire to
pray with the Pope was renewed with Pope Benedict XVI's election.
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Thursday 15 May 2008
As pilgrims celebrate the 150th
anniversary of the Marian shrine at Lourdes, the Church has officially
recognised a new pilgrimage site in France.
On 4 May Bishop Jean-Michel di Falco of the Diocese of Gap, officially
recognised the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to Benoite Rencurel at
the sanctuary of Laus in the area of Hautes-Alpes, France.
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 Tuesday 6 May 2008
Proclaiming Mary as the Spiritual Mother of All Humanity would
benefit ecumenical and interreligious dialogue because it would help
non-Catholics to understand many things about the Mother of God, says
Cardinal Telesphore Toppo.
The archbishop of Ranchi, India, and former president of the
episcopal conference of India is one of the five cardinal co-sponsors
of the 2005 International Symposium on Marian Co-redemption, held in
Fatima, who are asking Pope Benedict XVI to declare a fifth Marian
dogma.
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Tuesday 6 May 2008
The rosary is not a "pious practice" to be relegated to the past, says Pope Benedict XVI.
The Pope led the praying of the rosary Saturday at the Basilica
of St Mary Major. Afterward, he addressed a few words to the faithful
gathered.
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 Friday 25 April 2008
By Annamarie Adkins
The
secular press recently was full of articles on how Mother Teresa had a
"crisis" of faith for decades, but the untold story is how Mary
sustained Mother Teresa during that time.
For insight, ZENIT
turned to Missionary of Charity Fr Joseph Langford, cofounder with
Mother Teresa of her community of priests, the Missionaries of Charity
Fathers, and author of "Mother Teresa: In the Shadow of Our Lady,"
published by Our Sunday Visitor.
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 Friday 22 February 2008
The bishop of Lourdes says the pilgrimage site in his diocese is like a promise that never betrays.
That's how Bishop Jacques Perrier of Tarbes et Lourdes described the spot on 10 February, eve of the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, during his homily at Mass celebrated in the grotto. "The apparitions in Lourdes," the bishop said, "like Lent, propose to us the same question, that of hope, to which our Pope has dedicated his second encyclical. In what do we place our hope? What are we ready to do to enter into the great hope? |
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 Tuesday 12 February 2008
Mary did not seek devotion from St Bernadette Soubirous and Catholics but instead sought devotion to Jesus and the Eucharist, said Bishop Jacques Perrier of Tarbes and Lourdes.
In the apparitions at the Massabielle grotto, Mary led St Bernadette to Jesus and today intercedes for pilgrims and leads them to Jesus, the bishop said at an outdoor international Mass in Lourdes 11 February, the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes and the World Day of the Sick.
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 Tuesday 12 February 2008
St Bernadette Soubirous was 14 years old, poor, illiterate and did not know the catechism enough to make her first Communion when Mary appeared to her in the grotto at Lourdes.
Though St Bernadette lived in poverty, she was born into a family with comfortable means. Her mother, Louise, and father, Francois, took ownership of her grandfather's mill outside Lourdes, a small town of about 4,000 people in the Pyrenees Mountains. The family was living comfortably when St Bernadette was born in the Boly Mill 7 January 1844. She was the first of nine children. |
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Monday 11 February 2008 By Michael Pieris
150 years ago, on 11 February 1858, Our Blessed Mother Mary appeared to Bernadette Soubirous, a poor little peasant girl at a remote grotto in the French foothills of the Pyrenees in Massabielle. She appeared 18 times during a period of six months from February to July 1858 and at the 16th apparition on 25 March 1858 (Feast of the Annunciation)little Bernadette implored this beautiful Lady to reveal Her identity. |
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 Monday 11 February 2008
The 150th anniversary of the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes is today, 11 February. Before reciting the Angelus at the Vatican yesterday, Pope Benedict XVI spoke with the faithful about this special anniversary.
"This year the beginning of Lent coincides with the 150th anniversary of the apparition of Lourdes. Four years after the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception by Blessed Pius IX, Mary appeared for the first time on February 11, 1858 to St. Bernadette Soubirous in the grotto at Massabielle. After successive apparitions accompanied by extraordinary events, the Holy Virgin revealed to the young visionary in the local language, ‘I am the Immaculate Conception’," the Pope recalled. |
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Tuesday 12 February 2008 Five cardinals have sent a letter inviting prelates worldwide to join them in petitioning Benedict XVI to declare a fifth Marian dogma they said would "proclaim the full Christian truth about Mary."
The text, released last week, includes the petition that asks the Pope to proclaim Mary as "the Spiritual Mother of All Humanity, the co-redemptrix with Jesus the redeemer, mediatrix of all graces with Jesus the one mediator, and advocate with Jesus Christ on behalf of the human race." |
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 Wednesday 12 December 2007
Our Lady of Guadalupe is a model for communicators because she adapted herself to her listeners, says the president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications
Archbishop Claudio Celli addressed a message to communicators of America in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe's feast today. He proposed Our Lady, proclaimed patroness of the Americas by Pope John Paul II in 1999, as the model of communication. The archbishop especially urged communicators to adapt themselves, as Mary did, to the mentality of their listeners. |
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When I was a young boy growing up in East Bentleigh in the 1960’s, devotion to Mary was very much a part of our ordinary Catholic experience. I can still remember having a holiday from school on the Feast of the Assumption, for example, and feeling very superior when the kids at the state school had to go to school and we didn’t – although I didn’t feel so great when we had to go to school on public holidays and they didn’t! I can remember being enrolled in the Brown Scapular, and being told by the sisters that we should never, ever take the scapular off, because if we died with the scapular round our necks, then Our Lady would reach down to us in Purgatory and yank us by the scapular into heaven. I also remember the nuns telling us, however, that wearing the scapular wasn’t an absolute guarantee that we would get to heaven. |
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Thursday 6 December 2007 This year marks the 150th anniversary of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Lourdes, France. On the occasion of the celebrations, Pope Benedict XVI has extended the opportunity for the faithful to receive a plenary or full indulgence. According to a decree made public yesterday and signed by Cardinal James Francis Stafford and Bishop Gianfranco Girotti, O.F.M. Conv., respectively penitentiary major and regent of the Apostolic Penitentiary, Benedict XVI will grant the faithful Plenary Indulgence for the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes. |
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 Monday 7 January 2008
Rwanda’s bishops are launching a huge campaign of evangelisation after the huge success of silver jubilee celebrations which climaxed with a Mass attracting more than 50,000 pilgrims at the Marian shrine of Kibeho.
Following the anniversary celebrations marking the apparitions of Our Lady to school-children in Kibeho, the national Episcopal conference is planning a campaign of catechesis and evangelisation to mark the year of St Paul. |
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