How They Love Mary: 28 Life-Changing Stories of Devotion to Our Lady is a powerful 30-day devotional to help you invigorate your love for Our Lady by exploring the many ways in which holy men and women have venerated Mary throughout time.
When we celebrate the Presentation of Mary, we are giving her the honor she deserves and witnessing to her perfect purity as the Virgin of Nazareth and the Mother of God.
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.
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.