Filling the Protestant Void (Part 1): Mary

Neil Babcox, before his conversion to the Catholic Church, had been a member of the Protestant clergy.  After reading Sam’s comment on my previous post (i.e., Sam of Contemplative Christian), I remembered hearing Neil’s testimony and wanted to share it here, not with conversion uppermost in my mind - but not without that possibility hovering around either – [...]

Songs for Mary

The latest episode of one of my favourite podcasts,  Catholic Praise Cast, is dedicated to Mary.  Just click on #22 in the sidebar of Catholic Praise Cast to listen, or you can download the podcast if you’d like.  I particularly like the last song, called “Come Hold My Son”, by Thirsting.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Today is a Marian “optional memorial” wherein we commemorate several things:  Our Lady of Mount Carmel, the Marian spirituality of the Carmelites, the scapular and consecration of oneself to Mary.
Picking up on the theme from my previous post, I would like to share a little bit from the Dictionary of Mary :
“The commemoration of Our Lady of Mount [...]

Our Lady of Lourdes, from India

Mid-June, over at Contemplative Haven, I posted a link to a video of the trailer/promo for the movie, Our Lady of Lourdes, written and produced by Mr. Kamalakar Rao Ponnapalli.  As well as wishing to help in some small way to spread the word about this movie, I was curious as to why Mr. Ponnapalli, a Hindu, was inspired to create [...]

Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Today is a very special day, as we celebrate here both the Visitation and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Although Marian feasts are broken down into Solemnities, Feastdays, Memorials, “other” feasts and “local” feasts according to the liturgical calendar, they will all be treated as Feastdays in my “Categories”, because that is what they are [...]

The Feast of the Visitation

The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth before the birth of Saint John the Baptist is the second joyful mystery of the Rosary.  The theme of the liturgical celebration of this Marian Feast is “sharing feelings of joy by praising God.” 
Everywhere we turn in the unfolding of the Visitation we find [...]

For Trinity Sunday: How the Trinity Sees Mary

When I began this blog in December 2007 it was with a certain amount of trepidation.  I was daunted by the idea of attempting to present Mary to others.  The awareness of Mary in my own life was just beginning to take shape.  My Consecration had been only a few months prior, and I knew that the field of Mariology [...]

EWTN Special

I’m sorry I didn’t see the announcement in time to post this earlier (so the Saturday and Sunday showings have gone by already), but EWTN will be reprising a 90 minute program on St. Louis de Montfort called, “Jesus Living in Mary” on Thursday, May 1st, 2008 at 1:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern time/10:00 a.m. U.S. Pacific time.
Don’t forget, [...]

Our Lady of Fatima Movie

The following information appeared on the EWTN “Wings” Newsletter regarding upcoming programming, so I would like to share it with you today:
APPARITIONS AT FATIMA 
This gripping drama about the Fatima apparitions and the lives of the three young visionaries who Our Lady used to call the world to repentance, has been praised for its historical accuracy [...]

Some Marian Resources

The following are some links to excellent Marian audio/video material.  I will be using this material in posts little by little as we proceed, but in the meantime, you may wish to go ahead and get acquainted with it at your own speed. 

“Marycast” Video Series, hosted by Dr. Mark Miravalle, through Air Maria

“Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, Advocate” Video Series, hosted [...]