Tag: Mary
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The Holiness No One Sees
A Reflection on The Mother of the Saviour and Our Interior Life There is a kind of holiness the world will never understand. It does not build a platform. It does not announce itself. It does not need to be noticed, praised, followed, or remembered. It simply belongs to God. And perhaps no human life…
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Beneath Her Mercy: What Christianity’s Oldest Surviving Marian Prayer Reveals About the Early Church
Long before Gothic cathedrals, medieval rosaries, Renaissance Madonnas, or the great Marian shrines of Europe, Christians were already turning to the Blessed Virgin Mary in prayer. One of the clearest witnesses to this ancient devotion is a short Greek prayer commonly known by its Latin title, Sub Tuum Praesidium—“Under Thy Protection.” Preserved on a damaged…
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Medjugorje: A Call to Conversion, Prayer, Fasting, and Peace
What the reported apparitions teach—and how Catholics can approach them faithfully Estimated audio length: 7:43Category: Marian Apparitions, Catholic Spirituality, ConversionTags: Medjugorje, Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Peace, Five Stones, Prayer, Fasting, Conversion At the Foot of the Cross Medjugorje is more than a disputed apparition site or a destination on a Catholic pilgrimage map. For…
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Genesis 3:15, Jerome, and the Woman Who Crushes the Serpent
Some Protestants claim that Catholics invented Marian doctrine by mistranslating Genesis 3:15. The accusation usually goes like this: St. Jerome changed the Bible from “he shall crush your head” to “she shall crush your head” in order to force Mary into the text. That charge sounds powerful. It is also historically shallow. The truth is…
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Mary Carried Jesus: Microchimerism and the Mystery of the Incarnation
When the angel Gabriel announced that Mary would conceive the Son of God, he told her: “The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the most High shall overshadow thee. And therefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.” —Luke 1:35, Douay-Rheims The…