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Thy Birth, O Virgin Mother of God
Thy birth, O Virgin Mother of God, heralded joy to all the world. For from thou hast risen the Sun of justice, Christ our God. Destroying...


The Predestination of the Virgin Mother and Her Immaculate Conception
The following is an excerpt of an outstanding theological treatment of the Immaculate Conception by the renowned mariologist, Fr. Peter...


Newman - The Belief of Catholics
Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman has often referred to as the greatest Catholic thinker of the nineteenth century. The following is a...


Newman - The Sanctity of Mary
Mary holds, as the Fathers teach us, that office in our restoration which Eve held in our fall. Now, in the first place, what were Eve’s...


Tertullian - Mary the Virgin Earth
First of all, we need to show the reason why the Son of God had to be born of a Virgin. The initiator of a new birth had to be born in a...


A Woman Clothed With the Sun
St. Lawrence of Brindisi has written about the Most Holy Mother of God as profoundly as any of the great doctors and saints of the...


A Great Sign Appeared In Heaven
All of his life St. Lawrence’s preaching exhibited a penetrating use of Scripture, a point which comes to light notably in his sermons on...


The True Nobility of the Mother of God
St. Lawrence was a man of prodigious activity. He constantly obeyed the call of his Capuchin superiors for service to his own order, to...


Mary, the Treasury of Heaven and the Recourse of Sinners
It is clear enough now that the sermons of St. Lawrence of Brindisi on the Marian vision of St. John are intensely Biblical. St. Lawrence...


Hail Holy Queen
In continuing his series of sermons on St. John’s vision of the woman clothed with the sun, St. Lawrence comes in the fifth of his seven...


Saint John Eudes - The Marvelous Sanctity of Saints Joachim and Anne
It is an indubitable maxim, in which all theologians concur with the Angelic Doctor, that God gives us His graces in a manner conformable...


Mary’s Travail in the Passion of Christ
In the final two sermons of St. Lawrence’s exposition of St. John’s apocalyptic vision of the Virgin Mary, he turns his attention to her...


Saint Louis de Montfort - Our Lady and the End Times
It was through Mary that the salvation of the world was begun, and it is through Mary that it must be consummated. Mary hardly appeared...


Virginity During the Birth
It is of divine faith for Catholics to hold that our Lady not only conceived the divine Word as man “without seed, by the Holy Spirit”...


Mary’s Virginity During the Birth of Jesus: The Catholic Church’s Perennial Tradition
Unfortunately, there has been some recent confusion about the dogmatic teaching of Mary’s Virginity during the birth of Jesus, one of the...


Mary’s Role in the New Evangelization
The following presentation by Dr. Mark Miravalle entitled, “Mary’s Role in the New Evangelization” was recently given in Rome on October...


The Mother of God in the Orthodox Church
The following article by Fr. Vladimir Zelinsky is an excerpt from the Marian anthology, Mariology: A Guide for Priests, Deacons,...


Mary and the Liturgical Year
The following article is an excerpt from the recently published Marian anthology, Mariology: A Guide for Priests, Deacons, Seminarians,...


Consecration and Transubstantiation into the Immaculate
The following is excerpted from Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner’s St. Maximilian M. Kolbe, Martyr of Charity: Pneumatologist, His Theology of...


Saint John Eudes - God’s Love for Mary’s Childhood
The only Son of God was not content to become man for our salvation, but He willed to come into this world not like Adam, in the fullness...
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