Our Lady of Mercy (Ransom)

In my reference book, Dictionary of Mary, it states that the feast of Our Lady of Mercy (also known as Our Lady of Ransom), was linked to a devotion spread by the Order of Mercedarians. The Mercedarians were a congregation of men founded in 1218 by St. Peter Nolasco. Along with caring for the sick [...]

Divine Mercy Sunday: Mary, Mother of Mercy

  “As Mother of Mercy, Mary reminds us that if God is Being, Truth and Wisdom, He is also Goodness and Love, and that His infinite Mercy, which is the radiation of His Goodness, flows from His love…” [From:  The Mother of the Saviour and Our Interior Life:  Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, pg. 224]

Her Own

Excerpt from:  Hail Holy Queen!, by St. Alphonsus Liguori, pgs. 44-45: Mary is the Mother of sinners who wish to repent, and as a mother she cannot do otherwise than compassionate them; nay more, she seems to feel the miseries of her poor children as if they were her own.  When the Canaanitish woman begged [...]