Our Lady, the Blessed Virgin Mary, is everything that we tend not to be. Mary is patient and pure. Our Lady is humble and holy. The Virgin is totally given to Christ and receptive to his will. Where we fail, she succeeds. When we choose selfishness, she chooses self-sacrifice. Our Lady is the most perfect [...]
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Mary’s Advent
Posted in Encounter Christ, Have Hope, Mary - Our Mother Too on November 28, 2011 |
Our Lady’s Assumption
Posted in A Time To Pray, Mary - Our Mother Too on August 15, 2011 |
Today’s solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary brings back wonderful boyhood memories for me. During many summers, I would spend a week with my cousins at their home in Lewis Run and the week almost always corresponded with this wonderful Marian feast. Those carefree times were full of bike riding, swimming, hiking, [...]
A Deeper Thanksgiving
Posted in Mary - Our Mother Too on November 22, 2010 |
Thanksgiving Day is not specifically a feast of the universal Church, but it is certainly a day filled with Christian meaning. Most Christian families will seek God’s blessing before their Turkey Day meal, many will offer charity to those who go without, and even the most nominal of Christians is likely to offer a word [...]
Asleep In His Arms
Posted in A Time To Pray, Faith Takes Action, Mary - Our Mother Too on November 15, 2010 |
As I walked through the church door the other evening for a time of adoration, I was joined by a young father and his young son. I took the left side of the fourth pew, they took the right side of the third. Clearly modeling his dad, the boy was reverent and content to be [...]
The Assumption
Posted in Mary - Our Mother Too on August 16, 2010 |
August 16, 2010 I’m blessed to have a wonderful mom here on earth, but I sure do love our heavenly mother as well. Mary, the Virgin Mother of God, is a mirror in which we can ponder all the virtues of Christ her son. The saints describe Jesus as being like the celestial sun – [...]
An Easter Story
Posted in Mary - Our Mother Too on April 5, 2010 |
April 5, 2010 We played a lot of tackle football when we were kids. A neighborhood lot or back yard served as the field, and we played without helmets or pads. It’s not a particularly safe way to play, but that’s what young boys do. Consequently, sometimes kids got hurt. I lost a tooth one [...]
Mary
Posted in Mary - Our Mother Too on December 14, 2009 |
How blessed we are to have Mary, the Mother of God, as our mother, too! Not content to simply keep a watchful eye on humanity in general, she cares for each of us in particular. Mary truly is, our Mother. As the mystic, Caryll Houselander, once wrote: each of us is Mary’s “only child.” We [...]
