The Church celebrates Mary’s birthday on September 8th. This feast day is exactly nine months after the Solemnity of the ...

But the Virgin Mary received faith and joy when the angel Gabriel announced to her the glad tidings that the Spirit of the Lord would come upon her and the power of the Most High would overshadow ...

Surely, from now on all generations will call me blessed ... although she claims only to have her own angel. “He too believes in the Virgin Mary,” she said. Badr often asks Mary to intercede ...

Over the centuries, the Blessed Mother has been graced with a plethora of different titles, such as Our Lady of the Rosary, ...

Carmel, Fruitful Vine, Splendor of Heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God, Immaculate Virgin, assist me in my necessity. Oh Star of the Son, help me and show me herein you are my Mother. Oh, Holy ...

The Chaplet of the Ten Evangelical Virtues of the Blessed Virgin Mary This prayer has been passed on by tradition ... On the nine beads say a special prayer in honor of the nine choirs of Angels. End ...

Again Pius XII turned to his predecessor Pius IX, who had written that the Blessed Virgin Mary was “made Queen of heaven and earth by the Lord, exalted above all choirs of angels and saints ...

Only three birthdays are celebrated on the Church’s liturgical calendar, the Nativity of Our Lord (December 25), the Nativity ...

The Venerable Bede (673-735), Benedictine monk, historian, and scholar, wrote of the white lily as the emblem of the Blessed Virgin ... given symbolic names referring to God, the Virgin Mary, the ...

Both St. Peter’s Church, 3655 Oberlin Ave. in Lorain, and Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church, 418 W. 15th St. in Lorain, have been around for over a century. Still, Nativity of the ...

That is what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses, as Pope Pius IX proclaimed in 1854: "The most Blessed Virgin Mary ... is the Angel Gabriel's greeting to Mary: "Hail, full of grace ...

On Sunday, for the mass, the Procession of the Blessed Mother and the Flight of the Angels, the weather featured ... a painting featuring the Catholic Virgin Mary which washed ashore more than ...