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Our Lady of Guadalupe: Woman Clothed With the Sun
Pregnant and “clothed with the sun,” Our Lady of Guadalupe is exactly what our country, our world, our Church need right now.
Pregnant and “clothed with the sun,” Our Lady of Guadalupe is exactly what our country, our world, our Church need right now.
Things have gotten worse since I wrote this blog post for National Catholic Register. We need not sit idly watching the chaos and tragedy unfold. There’s something we can do.
The Catholic Church celebrates the Assumption of Mary annually on August 15. But there are no relics to venerate. Why?
When the father of a family dies, the entire family is shaken. When the Savior of the world dies, the entire universe is shaken. Walk with Mary through Holy Week.
Mary never refused the slightest of God’s requests and sought always to do his holy Will. Astonished as she was at Gabriel’s Annunciation message, it was a matter of course for her to respond with her simple, humble, yes.
At the Presentation, the Holy Family adhered to Jewish custom, not for their own sakes, but for ours so as to show us how to acknowledge the Authority that supercedes all human authority – God alone. Later in their lives, they would show us how to oppose wrongful authority even to the point of our Lord’s Passion and Crucifixion.
Through the centuries the Church has become ever more aware that Mary, ‘full of grace’ through God, was redeemed from the moment of her conception. That is what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses. Here are five ways to celebrate Mary’s Immaculate Conception..