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The Rosary...What's the Point?
Do you avoid praying some of the "old devotions" because they are too repetetive or boring? Maybe you are missing a tool that could really assist in your spiritual walk?

Every Mother’s Son: Confessions of a Marian Prodigal
Some Catholics are ashamed of their mother. They have forsaken their rich heritage of Marian devotions for many reasons. Have you?

Behold Your Mother
The glories of heaven are revealed to children. But what does it take to be childlike rather than childish?

Mary´s Glorious Assumption
No matter our situation, we can take comfort in the fact that "Our Lady" has preceded us into heaven.

Discover The Real Sister Lucia
The Intimate Life of Sr. Lucia reveals the wit, lively personality, and incredible memory of the remaining Fatima visionary.

The Annunciation
Dear Blessed Mother, pray with me, enlighten me. You are the model for every vocation. You sought God’s will in your life. You were able to perceive it clearly. Although it was the greatest, most demanding vocation, you accepted it with simplicity ...

Saturday Devotions in Honor of Our Lady
This liturgical attribution of Saturday to Mary was largely the work of Alcuin (735-804), the Benedictine monk who was "Minister of Education" as the court of Charlemagne and who contributed in a decisive manner to the Carolingian liturgical reform.

Birth of Mary
Daily Meditation

Medieval Devotion to Mary Among the Carmelites
For the origins of Carmelite devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, we must return to the heights of Carmel.

The Blessed Virgin Mary and Women
As the masterpiece of the new creation, Mary is a model for women of all states of life and time.

Visions of Mary
The Virgin Mary, our Blessed Mother - she graces the halls of the world’s greatest museums and the walls of some of the world’s poorest homes. Her image has been captured by artists and given homage by pilgrims.

What is the black scapular (Our Lady of Dolors)?
Q: What is the black scapular (Our Lady of Dolors)? Question and answer from the Marian Library

A Eucharistic Life at the School of Mary
The relationship between the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Eucharist is a very close one...

Principles Regarding a Comprehensive View of Mary
A humble woman called by God to assume a unique role. 

Mariaphobic Response Syndrome
I don’t worship Mary!

The Jewishness of Mary
“To be ignorant of the Scripture is not to know Christ,” said St. Jerome.[2] Could we develop this statement further and conclude: To be ignorant of the Scripture is not to know Mary, the Mother of Christ?

Our Lady of Sorrows
The Catholic Church celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows on September 15, the day after the feast of the Holy Cross to show the close connection between Jesus' Passion and Mary's Sorrows.

Mary Is Queen of Heaven, Not Pope
Mariaphobia is the irrational fear of Mary.

October: Month of the Holy Rosary
The month of October each year is dedicated to the Most Holy Rosary.

Who are Mary's parents?
Weekly update from The Marian Library/ International Marian Research Institute

Naturally Queen
Mary's queenship is no construct or figment of someone's imagination. The proof is obvious, right there in plain sight!

A Thought for Christmas
"And this will be a sign for you: you will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger." (Luke 2,12)

Wife and Mother en-fleshed with God
"Meditations on the Nativity of Our Lord"


Feast of the Annunciation
Mary lives in faith whose very essence is expansive, literally bodily expansive, a seeking faith that finds much without ever concluding its perusal. With God a final vision is never possible.

The Blessed Mary's Land
Excerpted from Christus: A Mystery by Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

Why Crown Mary?
The crowning of Mary's head with a crown as iconographical motif can be traced back to the middle of the 12th century.

Mary, Queen of Apostles
Mary's pre-eminent role with regard to the apostles.

Mary and the Holy Spirit
In this letter, dated May 13, 1975, to Cardinal Suenens, president of the International Mariological Congress in Rome, Pope Paul VI emphasized the need to couple devotion to the Virgin Mary with devotion to the Holy Spirit in these critical times. Italian


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