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I wonder how the #Blessed #VirginMary felt when #Jesus brushed her off that one time saying "Who are my mother and brothers? People who obey me are my mother and brothers!" I mean, if they walked all the way from #Nazareth to Gadara or Gerasa or wherever he was preaching at that time, it had to have been important. #Luke 8:19-21 #bible #christ #christian #gospel #thoughts

I wonder how the #Blessed #VirginMary felt when #Jesus brushed her off that one time saying "Who are my mother and brothers? People who obey me are my mother and brothers!" I mean, if they walked all the way from #Nazareth to Gadara or Gerasa or wherever he was preaching at that time, it had to have been important. #Luke 8:19-21 #bible #christ #christian #gospel #thoughts

I wonder how the #Blessed #VirginMary felt when #Jesus brushed her off that one time saying "Who are my mother and brothers? People who obey me are my mother and brothers!" I mean, if they walked all the way from #Nazareth to Gadara or Gerasa or wherever he was preaching at that time, it had to have been important. #Luke 8:19-21 #bible #christ #christian #gospel #thoughts

I wonder how the #Blessed #VirginMary felt when #Jesus brushed her off that one time saying "Who are my mother and brothers? People who obey me are my mother and brothers!" I mean, if they walked all the way from #Nazareth to Gadara or Gerasa or wherever he was preaching at that time, it had to have been important. #Luke 8:19-21 #bible #christ #christian #gospel #thoughts

I wonder how the #Blessed #VirginMary felt when #Jesus brushed her off that one time saying "Who are my mother and brothers? People who obey me are my mother and brothers!" I mean, if they walked all the way from #Nazareth to Gadara or Gerasa or wherever he was preaching at that time, it had to have been important. #Luke 8:19-21 #bible #christ #christian #gospel #thoughts

https://www.europesays.com/iran/108915/ Israeli soldiers jailed for desecration of Virgin Mary statue in Lebanon #ChristianLeaders #debel #Hezbollah #Iran #IranianBackedHezbollah #Israel #IsraeliForces #IsraeliPoliticians #LebaneseOfficials #Lebanon #LieutenantColonelAriellaMazor #MilitaryPrison #VirginMary #War

https://www.europesays.com/iran/108541/ IDF sentences soldier who held cigarette to Virgin Mary statue to army prison #Christians #IDF #Israel #Lebanon #prison #soldiers #VirginMary

https://www.europesays.com/news/26393/ Pope in Pompeii: May God calm fratricidal hatred and enlighten world leaders #Headlines #Italy #mass #News #PastoralVisit #peace #PopeLeoXIV #TopStories #VirginMary

#IDF Soldier CAUGHT #Desecrating Statue Of The #VirginMary #tyt #yt

https://youtu.be/lrqKfRa3Rhs

Quote of the day, 8 May: St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

“Virgo fidelis”: that is, Faithful Virgin, “who kept all these things in her heart.” [Lk. 2:19] She remained so little, so recollected in God’s presence, in the seclusion of the temple, that she drew down upon herself the delight of the Holy Trinity: “Because He has looked upon the lowliness of His servant, henceforth all generations shall call me blessed!” [Lk. 1:48]

The Father, bending down to this beautiful creature, who was so unaware of her own beauty, willed that she be the Mother in time of Him whose Father He is in eternity.

Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity

Heaven in Faith, 39

Elizabeth of the Trinity, S 2014, I Have Found God, The Complete Works of Elizabeth of the Trinity Volume 1: Major spiritual writings, translated from the French by Kane, A, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (detail), Pierre Mignard (French, 1612–1695), oil on canvas, 1635. Image credit: Private collection / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Quote of the day, 4 May: St. John of the Cross

The Virgin, weighed
with the Word of God,
comes down the road:
if only you’ll shelter her.

Saint John of the Cross

Poetry, 13, “Christmas Refrain”

Original Spanish text:

Del Verbo divino
la Virgen preñada
viene de camino:
¡si le dais posada!

John of the Cross, St 1991, The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, rev. edn, Kavanaugh, K & Rodriguez, O (trans.), ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: AI-generated artwork in the style of Gari Melchers, created using Midjourney.

Something Easter-ly for Easter Sunday.

(My) photos from the last home of Virgin Mary, in the hills by a river, near Ephesus,

More photos of Türkiye in my Flickr album @ https://flic.kr/s/aHskkvgytY

#Türkiye #photography #VirginMary #Easter #Turkey #Fenfotos

Pope Leo prays with the sick at Vatican Gardens’ Lourdes Grotto https://www.allforgardening.com/1602798/pope-leo-prays-with-the-sick-at-vatican-gardens-lourdes-grotto/ #garden #gardening #Lourdes #PopeLeoXIV #Prayer #TheSick #vatican #VirginMary

Quote of the day, 30 December: François de Sainte-Marie, OCD

If Christ and the Virgin unite souls closely to themselves, it is in order to continue their earthly mission until the end of time. Since they can no longer accomplish it by themselves, from on high they make use of Christians as “super-added humanity,” who complete in their own flesh what still remains to be fulfilled in the redemption of the world.

Jesus continues to be born, to grow, and to die in the course of history, according to the very rhythm of the liturgical year, which takes up and gives voice to all the aspirations, the sufferings, the joys, and all the love of his own. And the Virgin, beside her Son, continues her watch of love through the souls who are devoted to her.

While heaven and earth wear out like a garment, the attitudes she bears in her heart toward Christ do not grow old. They endure across the generations, retaining all their freshness. “May the soul of Mary be in each of us, to glorify the Lord within us; may the spirit of Mary be in each of us, to rejoice in God,” Saint Ambrose said long ago.

This presence of the Virgin within the soul has its demands. We come to resonate with her interior attitudes and to perceive her most delicate promptings only insofar as we have made ourselves wholly available to God and have let go of ourselves in the evangelical sense. For it is not a matter of adopting a role while clinging to our own self: we are called instead to be transformed in Christ by Love.

A true Marian devotion, therefore, has nothing sentimental or fictitious about it. It is terribly stripped down, as the Virgin herself was. It is not enough for us to speak; we must act. Above all, we must allow ourselves to be acted upon. The perfect abandonment by which the Virgin lived is what she asks of the souls she loves.

She often seems to say to us, as Christ said to Peter: “What I am doing you cannot understand now” (Jn 13:7). For she asks of us not so much understanding as a quiet assent. Perhaps even to impress upon us more deeply the truth that we are “unprofitable servants,” she may appear to draw us to herself and then leave us according to her will.

It is therefore through abandonment that we come to share in the deepest attitudes of our Mother, the “handmaid of the Lord,” who, by giving herself entirely to Love, received Love in its fullness and became among human beings its inexhaustible source.

François de Sainte-Marie, O.C.D.

Visage de la Vierge (Face of the Virgin)

Note: Father François de Sainte-Marie was a prolific French Discalced Carmelite author and editor of the mid-20th century. He is best known for his tireless efforts to publish the critical edition of the autobiographical manuscripts of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux in 1957, which we commonly refer to as Story of a Soul.

de Sainte-Marie, F 1948, Visage de la Vierge, translated from the French by Carmelite Quotes, Librairie du Carmel, Paris.

Translation from the French text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.

Featured image: Detail from the Virgin of the Annunciation, a sculpture carved from limestone in Paris ca. 1300-1310. Traces of paint can still be seen on the sculpture. The sculpture’s modest dimensions (16 11/16 × 11 5/8 × 7 3/8 in., 34 lb.) permit the delicate features of the sculpture to be clearly seen. Image credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art (Public domain).

#abandonment #FrançoisDeSainteMarie #incarnation #MarianDevotion #redemption #VirginMary

St. Anne

According to Christian tradition, St. Anne was the mom of the Virgin Mary, wife of St. Joachim, & was Jesus’ maternal grandma.

Her name isn’t in the Bible’s canonical Gospels. In writing, Anne’s name, & Joachim’s come from New Testament apocrypha. The Gospel of Thomas (written circa 150 AD) seems to be the earliest that mentions them. She’s mentioned in the Quran, but not by name.

The Immaculate Conception was eventually made dogma by the Catholic Church following an increased devotion to Anne in the 12th century. In Eastern Christianity dedications start as early as 6th century.

In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, Anne & Joachim are attributed to the title Ancestor of God. Both the Nativity of Mary & the Presentation of Mary are celebrated as 2 of the 12 Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church.

The Dormition of Anne is also a minor feast in Eastern Christianity. In Lutheranism, it’s believed that Martin Luther chose to enter religious life as an Augustinian friar after invoking St. Anne was jeopardized by lightning.

In the 4th century, & in the 15th century, a belief arose that Mary was conceived of Anne without original sin. The Immaculate Conception is often confused with the Annunciation of the Incarnation (Mary’s virgin birth of Jesus). The 13th century Speculum Maius includes information regarding the life of St. Anne.

In the Eastern church, the veneration of Anne herself may go back as far as circa 550, when Justinian built a church in Constantinople in her honor. The earliest pictorial sign of her veneration in the West in an 8th century fresco in the church of Santa Maria Antique, Rome.

The Feast of the Conception of the Virgin Mary had reached southern Italy by the 9th century. In the Latin Church, St. Anne wasn’t venerated. Except, perhaps, in the south of France, before the 13th century. A shrine at Douai (in northern France) was 1 of the early centers of devotion to St. Anne in the West.

The Anna Selbdritt was a type of iconography showing 3 generations of the “Holy Family,” St. Anne, the Virgin Mary, & Jesus (grandma, mom, son). This style of iconography emphasized the humanity of Jesus. It drew on the earlier conventions of the Seat of Wisdom. (The Seat of Wisdom is/are icons/sculptures that shows the Virgin Mary is seated on a throne with Jesus, as a kid, on her lap.) This was popular in northern Germany in the 1500s.

Two well-known shrines to St. Anne is that of Ste-Anne-d’Auray in Brittany (France) & that of Ste.-Anne-de-Beaupre near the city of Quebec. The number of pilgrims to the Basilica of Ste.-Anne-de-Beaupre is the greatest of St. Anne’s Feast Day (July 26), & the Sunday before the Nativity of the Virgin Mary (September 8). In 1892, Pope Leo XIII sent a relic of St. Anne to the church.

By the middle of the 7th century, a distinct feast day, the Conception of St. Anne (Maternity of Holy Anne) celebrating Mary by St. Anne, was observed at the Monastery of St. Sabas.

It’s now known in the Greek Orthodox Church as the feast of “The Conception by St. Anne of the Most Holy Theotokos.” It’s celebrated on December 9th. In the Catholic Church, the Feast of Saints Anne & Joachim is celebrated on July 26. The alleged relics of St. Anne was brought from the Holy Land to Constantinople in 710 & was kept there in the church of St. Sophia as late as 1333.

During the 12th & 13th centuries, returning crusaders & pilgrims from the East brought St. Anne’s relics to some churches, including most famously those at Apt, in Provence, Ghent, & Chartres. St. Anne’s relics have been preserved & venerated in the many cathedrals & monasteries dedicated to her name.

For example, in Austria, Canada, Germany, Italy, & Greece in the semi-autonomous Mount Athos, & the city of Katerini. Duren has been the main place of pilgrimage for Anne since 1506, when Pope Julius II decreed that her relics should be kept there, after they were stolen from the church of St. Stephen in Mainz.

The Church of St. Anne in Beit Guvrin National Park was built by the Byzantines & the crusaders in the 12th century. This is known in Arabic as Khirbet Sandahanna, the mound of Maresha being called Tell Sandahanna.

St. Anne is the patroness of unmarried women, housewives, women in labor or who want to be pregnant, grandmothers, moms, & educators. She’s also a patroness of horseback riders, cabinet-makers, & miners.

As the mom of Mary, this devotion to St. Anne as the patron of miners arises from the medieval comparison between Mary & Jesus & the precious metals: gold & silver. Anne’s womb was considered the source from which these precious metals were mined.

St. Anne is the patron saint of Brittany (France); Cuenca (Ecuador); Chinandega (Nicaragua); the Mi’kmaq people of Canada; Castelbuono (Sicily); Quebec (Canada); Santa Ana (California); Norwich (Connecticut); Detroit (Michigan); Adjunta (Puerto Rico); Santa Ana & Jucuaran (El Salvador); Berlin (New Hampshire); Santa Ana Pueblo, Seama, & Taos (New Mexico); Chiclana de la Frontera, Marsaskala, Tuadela, Atarfe & Fasnia (Spain); Town of Sta Ana Province of Pampanga, Molo, Iloilo City, Balasan; Iloilo, Hagnoy, Santa Ana, Taguig City, St. Anne Shrine, Malicboy, Pagbilao, Quezon, & Malinao, Albay (Philippines); Santana (Brazil); St. Anne (Illinois); Sainte Anne Island; Baie Sainte Anne & Praslin Island (Seychelles); Bukit Mertajam & Port Klang (Malaysia); Kl’ucove (Slovakia) & South Vietnam.

The parish church of Vatican City is Sant’ Anna dei Palafrenieri. There’s a shrine dedicated to St. Anne in the Woods in Bristol, United Kingdom.

Anne is also revered in Islam, recognized as a highly spiritual woman & as the mom of Mary. She’s not named in the Quran. She’s called “the wife of Imran.” The Quran describes her remaining childless until old age. One day, Anne saw a bird feeding its young while sitting in the shade of a tree, which awakened her desire to have kids of her own.

She prayed for a kid & eventually conceived. Imran, her husband, died before the kid was born. Anne expected the unborn kid to be a boy, so she vowed to dedicate “him” to isolation & service in the Second Temple.

Anne had a daughter (Mary) instead. Anne named her: Mary. Anne’s words upon delivering Mary reflect as a great mystic, realizing that while she’d had wanted a son, this daughter was God’s gift to her.

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JOE ROGAN: ARE COMPUTERS VIRGIN MARY?

#joerogan #politics #virginmary #christmas #cʜʀɪsᴛᴍᴀs2025

#KYSupremeCourt: Denial of #ZoningPermit to #Church Did Not Violate RLUIPA

In Missionaries of Saint John the Baptist, Inc. v. Frederic, (KY Sup. Ct., Dec. 18,2025), the #KentuckySupremeCourt held that #RLUIPA was not violated by denying a conditional use permit to a #church that wished to build a grotto to honor the #VirginMary’s appearance at a grotto in #Lourdes, #France.

https://religionclause.blogspot.com/2025/12/ky-supreme-court-denial-of-zoning.html

J15 de l'avent 2025

#marie #vierge #viergemarie #mary #virginmary #avent #cadeau #noel #sens #histoire #sapin #perenoel #chretien #plaisir #amour #partage #famille #jesus #present #livre #book #christmas #gift #christian #plaisir #offrir

https://youtube.com/shorts/JBnQVc2a9ME?feature=share

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

✧ The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne ✧

The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne is an oil-on-panel painting by Leonardo da Vinci, painted around 1501 to 1519. It depicts Saint Anne, her daughter the Virgin Mary, and the infant Jesus. Christ is shown grappling with a sacrificial lamb on the edge of ...

#SaintAnne #VirginMary #BurlingtonHouseCartoon #KingLouis #NationalGallery #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virgin_and_Child_with_Saint_Anne_(Leonardo)

This is just outside of my closest town.
I have no words.

#halloween #VirginMary #pumpkin #AltText

I finished Stephen Harrigan -- The Sorrowful Mysteries earlier today.

I'd been wanting to read about Fatima for some time and just happened to stumble upon this .

As well being an informative history of the the origins of the Fatima cult and its reverberations down to the end of the twentieth century, it's also an engrossing memoir of growing up Catholic in Texas before Vatican II and the author's growing away from this faith.

https://www.stephenharrigan.com/sorrowful-mysteries

#TheSorrowfulMysteries #StephenHarrigan #Catholicism #RomanCatholic #Fatima #VirginOfFatima #Memoir #Books #Portugal #History #Christianity #Mary #VirginMary #Mariology #PopularReligion #Texas

Image: The three shepherd children who had visions of the Virgin Mary in Fatima (L-R: Lucia, Francisco, Jacinta) -- AFP

Quote of the day, 7 October: Anders Arborelius, ocd

The responsiveness of Mary is meant for all of us. The Church, the spotless, immaculate Bride of Christ, is always responding to her Bridegroom. In the Church, and thanks to the example and the prayer of Mary, we, too, can learn to be more responsive to Jesus. In the Church, we share all spiritual riches in common among ourselves, so we can use Mary’s responsive heart when we pray.

That’s just what we do when we pray the Rosary. We look upon Jesus with the eyes of Mary, we love Him with her heart, and we listen to Him with her ears. Prayer becomes so much easier when we try to pray in the company of Mary. Jesus becomes so much more alive when she is at our side.

The response to grace, which we seek to express in our prayer, is demonstrated to us by Our Lady in the mystery of her Annunciation…. The image of the young Mary at the Annunciation reveals so much: God’s will to become one of us through the Incarnation and Mary as the icon of human receptivity and responsiveness to God’s grace, or, put simply, Mary as the icon of prayer. She can help us to become prayer — because prayer is not something that we do, it’s something that we are and become.

Cardinal Anders Arborelius, O.C.D.

Chapter 10, To be responsive like Mary

Arborelius OCD, A. 2020, Carmelite Spirituality: The Way of Carmelite Prayer and Contemplation, EWTN Publishing, Irondale, Alabama.

Featured image: In 2016, bishops from the Holy Land Coordination celebrated Holy Mass with Jordanian clergy and the local community in the majority-Christian town of Fuheis. Many of the faithful have adorned this statue of the Virgin with rosaries. Photo credit: © Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk via Flickr (Some rights reserved).

#CardinalAndersArborelius #contemplation #inspiration #Rosary #VirginMary

Virgin Mary. #virginmary

Today's poem:

The Mother Of God
- by WB Yeats

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/784864152723357696/the-mother-of-god?source=share

#VirginMary #motherhood #WBYeats #yes #transformation #encounter

Today's poem:

The Mother Of God
- by WB Yeats

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/784864152723357696/the-mother-of-god?source=share

#VirginMary #motherhood #WBYeats #yes #transformation #encounter

Today's poem:

The Mother Of God
- by WB Yeats

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/784864152723357696/the-mother-of-god?source=share

#VirginMary #motherhood #WBYeats #yes #transformation #encounter

Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit

We unworthy ones will never be silent, O Theotokos, telling of Your miracles, for if You had not come before us praying, who would have delivered us from so many troubles? Who would have kept us free until now? We will not depart from You, O Lady, for You always save Your servants from all dangers.

Both now and ever and unto the ages of ages

Amen

#OrthodoxChristian #Prayer #VirginMary #MotherOfGod #Theotokos

"Out past the sambar herds, out to the outcast birds in the rust of open wagons. Lo! The Blessed Virgin's likeness."

#design #art #mono #mary #virginmary #grainy #grunge #dark #atmospheric #gloomy #horror #gothic #goth

True art. #virginmary #Photography #Art #MastoArt

St. Joseph Novena 2025, Day 8: Pleasing to God

SCRIPTURE READING
Wisdom 4:10–11

There were some who pleased God and were loved by him,
and while living among sinners were taken up.
They were caught up so that evil might not change their understanding
or guile deceive their souls.

READING
RP6 9r

You are not dreaming. The sublime mysteries Mary has just revealed to you are the simple truth: if you knew how to grasp them, far from unjustly amassing perishable riches, you would esteem poverty as the greatest of treasures. You would seek only what would make your soul pleasing to God.

NOVENA PRAYER

Remember, O most pure spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
my great protector, Saint Joseph,
that no one ever had recourse to your protection,
or implored your aid without obtaining relief.
Confiding therefore in your goodness, I come before you.
Do not turn down my petitions, foster father of the Redeemer,
but graciously receive them.

(Mention your prayer requests)

Our Father… Hail Mary… Glory Be…

V./ Pray for us, holy Father St. Joseph
R./ That we may become worthy of the promises of Christ.

Father,
you entrusted our Savior and his holy Mother
to the care of St. Joseph.
By the help of his prayers
may your Church continue to serve its Lord, Jesus Christ,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
God for ever and ever.
Amen.

All scripture references in this novena are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America as accessed from the Bible Gateway website.

of Lisieux, T 2008, The Plays of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux: “Pious Recreations”, translated from the French by Conroy S and Dwyer D J, ICS Publications, Washington, DC.

Don’t become discouraged and give up prayer, says St. John of the Cross. We offer varying novenas to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, as well as novenas to St. Joseph, St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin, St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, and St. Edith Stein.

Let us unite in prayer

#inspiration #mysteries #novena #PiousRecreation #poverty #prayer #StJoseph #StThereseOfLisieux #treasures #VirginMary

St. Joseph Novena 2025, Day 8: Pleasing to God

SCRIPTURE READING
Wisdom 4:10–11

There were some who pleased God and were loved by him,
and while living among sinners were taken up.
They were caught up so that evil might not change their understanding
or guile deceive their souls.

READING
RP6 9r

You are not dreaming. The sublime mysteries Mary has just revealed to you are the simple truth: if you knew how to grasp them, far from unjustly amassing perishable riches, you would esteem poverty as the greatest of treasures. You would seek only what would make your soul pleasing to God.

NOVENA PRAYER

Remember, O most pure spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
my great protector, Saint Joseph,
that no one ever had recourse to your protection,
or implored your aid without obtaining relief.
Confiding therefore in your goodness, I come before you.
Do not turn down my petitions, foster father of the Redeemer,
but graciously receive them.

(Mention your prayer requests)

Our Father… Hail Mary… Glory Be…

V./ Pray for us, holy Father St. Joseph
R./ That we may become worthy of the promises of Christ.

Father,
you entrusted our Savior and his holy Mother
to the care of St. Joseph.
By the help of his prayers
may your Church continue to serve its Lord, Jesus Christ,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
God for ever and ever.
Amen.

All scripture references in this novena are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America as accessed from the Bible Gateway website.

of Lisieux, T 2008, The Plays of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux: “Pious Recreations”, translated from the French by Conroy S and Dwyer D J, ICS Publications, Washington, DC.

Don’t become discouraged and give up prayer, says St. John of the Cross. We offer varying novenas to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, as well as novenas to St. Joseph, St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin, St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, and St. Edith Stein.

Let us unite in prayer

#inspiration #mysteries #novena #PiousRecreation #poverty #prayer #StJoseph #StThereseOfLisieux #treasures #VirginMary

St. Joseph Novena 2025, Day 5: He knows

SCRIPTURE READING
Psalm 37:18–19

The Lord knows the days of the blameless,
    and their heritage will abide forever;
they are not put to shame in evil times,
    in the days of famine they have abundance.

READING
RP 6 2r

Mary, wake up, for the life of Jesus is in danger.

Yes, in his sweet sleep, the King of Heaven seems to ignore the message of one of his angels… However, He knows everything… O Mary! why doesn’t Jesus speak to you Himself? Why am I in charge of transmitting the orders of Heaven to the Mother of my God?… 

Herod is determined to put the Child to death. We must leave within the hour; tomorrow may be too late…

NOVENA PRAYER

Remember, O most pure spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
my great protector, Saint Joseph,
that no one ever had recourse to your protection,
or implored your aid without obtaining relief.
Confiding therefore in your goodness, I come before you.
Do not turn down my petitions, foster father of the Redeemer,
but graciously receive them.

(Mention your prayer requests)

Our Father… Hail Mary… Glory Be…

V./ Pray for us, holy Father St. Joseph
R./ That we may become worthy of the promises of Christ.

Father,
you entrusted our Savior and his holy Mother
to the care of St. Joseph.
By the help of his prayers
may your Church continue to serve its Lord, Jesus Christ,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
God for ever and ever.
Amen.

All scripture references in this novena are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America as accessed from the Bible Gateway website.

of Lisieux, T 2008, The Plays of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux: “Pious Recreations”, translated from the French by Conroy S and Dwyer D J, ICS Publications, Washington, DC.

Don’t become discouraged and give up prayer, says St. John of the Cross. We offer varying novenas to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, as well as novenas to St. Joseph, St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin, St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, and St. Edith Stein.

Let us unite in prayer

#Herod #InfantJesus #inspiration #novena #PiousRecreation #prayer #refugees #StJoseph #StThereseOfLisieux #VirginMary

✒️ Ottoman Calligraphic Composition, 1871 "Her Lord accepted her (Mary) with gracious favor." (Quran, 3;37) #Art #Calligraphy #VirginMary

Quote of the day, 11 February: St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

To Lourdes, in the Pyrenees

Beneath my trembling fingers, O lyre, vibrate—
let us sing a new hymn together
to greet this beautiful land
and express what it awakens in me.
Hail, beautiful nature!
Hail, immortal mountains!
Hail, you who lift the soul toward Heaven,
O solitary and blessed grotto,
where I love to contemplate Mary,
where all is pure, calm, and silent.
O Lourdes, land of miracles,
a foretaste of the Eternal Home,
are you not a little piece of Heaven
in the midst of this shadowed valley?
I wish I could stay here forever.
Alas, we must part,
and for how many years?
You whom I love, dear Pyrenees…
Who knows? One day, among you,
perhaps she will bring me back,
the Madonna of Massabielle.
How sweet that happiness would be!
I would return, poor and alone,
having nothing left on this earth
but the Heart and the Cross of Jesus.
Oh! What more could one desire?
Is this not the highest treasure
that Jesus gives to those He loves?
For to those privileged in His Heart,
He shares His suffering.

And so, beloved mountains,
O blessed and silent grotto,
beautiful land that lifts the soul toward Heaven,
I must now say to you:
A Dieu.

Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity

Poetry 59, To Lourdes, in the Pyrenees
22 July 1898

Translation from the French text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.

Featured image: The Basilica of the Immaculate Conception was the first church built at Lourdes. Its construction was intended to serve as the chapel requested by the Blessed Virgin through her messages to Saint Bernadette Soubirous. Situated above a crypt, it overlooks the grotto of Massabielle cave and its rocky cliff upon which the basilica’s foundations are built. The construction of the church continued from 1862 to 1871 according to the plans of architect Hippolyte Durand. The basilica’s solemn consecration took place on 2 July 1876. Image credit: Lawrence Lew, OP / Flickr (Some rights reserved)

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I made a sequel. It's not as good. I wanted to have #Muhammad here but that was against content policy, then I tried requesting a #faceless Muhammad like in classic Islamic art but that was still against policy, so I subbed him out with his daughter #Fatima. Other than her the figures I requested were #Moses, the #VirginMary, #Confucius, #Buddha, and #Ganesh. I can't identify who these extra people are supposed to be. Joshua? Rama? Isaiah?

Quote of the day, 5 January: Jessica Powers

There is a star above this street for me.

Hither I came of old,

bearing my myrrh and frankincense and gold.
Hunger and loneliness and poverty

I brought for their delight

once in my youth upon a snowy night.
I did not follow to the inmost place

where the Child lay asleep.

It was too splendid; the light dripped too deep.
I saw the tears upon the Virgin’s face.

I gave my gifts to her,

and the night ended in a golden blur.

Sister Miriam of the Holy Spirit, o.c.d. (Jessica Powers)

Michigan Boulevard, Chicago (1932)

Powers, J 1999, The Selected Poetry of Jessica Powers, Siegfried, R & Morneau, RF (eds.), ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: Adoration of the Magi is an oil on canvas painting by Spanish master Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682). Executed ca. 1655–1660, this monumental painting—nearly two meters or over six feet in height—is a treasure in the Toledo Museum of Art collection in Toledo, Ohio. Image credit: Toledo Museum of Art / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

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« The Virgin » by Joseph Stella

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Mosaic at the Southwestern of the Hagia Sofia Grand Mosque . The Virgin Mary is center with Constantine (right) and Justinian (left) the Great Shot on a Iphone 14+ #hagiasofia #travel #christian #virginmary #photography #mosque #grandmosque #iphone #justinian #iphonephotography #Constantine #Istanbul #turkey #religion

Mosaic at the Southwestern of the Hagia Sofia Grand Mosque . The Virgin Mary is center with Constantine (right) and Justinian (left) the Great Shot on a Iphone 14+ #hagiasofia #travel #christian #virginmary #photography #mosque #grandmosque #iphone #justinian #iphonephotography #Constantine #Istanbul #turkey #religion

Mosaic at the Southwestern of the Hagia Sofia Grand Mosque . The Virgin Mary is center with Constantine (right) and Justinian (left) the Great Shot on a Iphone 14+ #hagiasofia #travel #christian #virginmary #photography #mosque #grandmosque #iphone #justinian #iphonephotography #Constantine #Istanbul #turkey #religion

Mosaic at the Southwestern of the Hagia Sofia Grand Mosque . The Virgin Mary is center with Constantine (right) and Justinian (left) the Great Shot on a Iphone 14+ #hagiasofia #travel #christian #virginmary #photography #mosque #grandmosque #iphone #justinian #iphonephotography #Constantine #Istanbul #turkey #religion

Mosaic at the Southwestern of the Hagia Sofia Grand Mosque . The Virgin Mary is center with Constantine (right) and Justinian (left) the Great Shot on a Iphone 14+ #hagiasofia #travel #christian #virginmary #photography #mosque #grandmosque #iphone #justinian #iphonephotography #Constantine #Istanbul #turkey #religion

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Praying Virgin
Eygalières, Old Village
Provence, France

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Holy mother Mary
IA génération.
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Quote of the day, 5 December: Père Jacques

We have also seen God’s remarkable preparation of the Virgin Mary for her role as Mother of the Word made flesh. God exempted her from original sin and its consequences.

She is pure creature; God is pure deity, totally independent. For the Virgin Mary, her virginity lies in being a pure creature of God, namely, a creature living in that total dependence on the will of God.

Indeed, when we examine the Virgin Mary’s life, when we gather the conclusions of the Fathers of the Church who dwelt on this Marian mystery, and when we study the works of theologians, we find that she was absolutely obedient to the will of God, even to the least indications of that will.

Servant of God Jacques de Jésus

Conference 6, Virginity in God and in Mary
Wednesday Evening, 8 September 1943

Jacques, P 2005, Listen to the silence: A retreat with Père Jacques, translated from the French and edited by Murphy F, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured Image: This detail from The Annunciation by the Italian artist Orazio Lomi Gentileschi (1563–1639) is an oil on canvas painting executed in 1623 for Charles Emmanuel I, the Duke of Savoy. It is one of the masterpieces found in the collections of the Musei Reali di Torino. Image credit: Adobe Stock (stock photo)

#ImmaculateConception #MotherOfChrist #obedience #PèreJacquesDeJésus #ServantOfGod #VirginMary #virginity #willOfGod

« L'Elezione Della Vergine » by Francesco Botticini

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May we always live joyfully. God is infinite joy.

Saint Teresa of the Andes
Letter 101, 14 May 1919

Saint Teresa of the Andes, born as Juana Enriqueta Josefina de los Sagrados Corazones Fernández Solar, was affectionately known as Juanita. She was born in Santiago, Chile, on 13 July 1900. Growing up in a devout Christian family, she was the favorite among her siblings and cherished by her grandfather, Eulogio Solar, who was often seen with his rosary.

From a young age, Juanita attended Holy Mass almost daily and longed for Communion, which she received for the first time on 11 September 1910. Her spiritual life was profoundly influenced by her intense devotion to the Virgin Mary.

Juanita was educated at the Sacred Heart School from 1907 to 1918. Despite her deep affection for her family, she embraced the trial of boarding school as preparation for her vocation. On 7 May 1919, she entered the Discalced Carmelites of Los Andes and took the name Teresa of Jesus. She was clothed in the Carmelite habit on 14 October of the same year.

Inspired by God, Juanita knew she would die young, a reality she accepted with joy and serenity. She saw this as a continuation of her mission to make God known and loved. After much suffering from typhus, she made her religious profession in articulo mortis on 7 April 1920, and passed away on 12 April 1920, at the age of 19.

St. John Paul II, in his homily at her beatification, highlighted her “simple and accessible holiness, centered on the essentials of the Gospel: to love, suffer, pray, and serve.” He emphasized her deep familiarity with Christ and the Virgin Mary, noting, “Her love for Christ, by whom she felt fascinated, led her to consecrate herself to Him forever, and to participate in the mystery of His passion and resurrection.”

For Teresa, “God is infinite joy.” This joy permeated her short life and left a lasting legacy of love and devotion.

The beatification ceremony took place on 3 April 1987, in Santiago, Chile, and her canonization was celebrated on 21 March 1993, at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican.

Prayer:

God of mercy, joy of the saints,
you set the young heart of Saint Teresa ablaze
with the fire of virginal love for Christ and for His Church;
and even in suffering made her a cheerful witness to charity.
Through her intercession,
fill us with the delights of your Spirit,
so that we may proclaim by word and deed
the joyful message of your love to the world.

We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.

Spanish readers will find a wealth of information on the website santateresadelosandes.cl

Griffin, M D & Teresa of the Andes, S 2023, The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus of the Andes, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: Image credit for the photo of St. Teresa of the Andes goes to the Discalced Carmelites.

https://carmelitequotes.blog/2024/07/12/andes-ep09/

#biography #CarmelOfLosAndes #feastday #homily #love #Podcast #pray #serve #StJohnPaulII #StTeresaOfTheAndes #suffer #VirginMary

« L'Elezione Della Vergine » by Francesco Botticini

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#whiteonwhite #virginmary around #gembloux
#uglybelgianstatues by (ig and fb) charles.lemaire.photographe and uglybelgianstatues
Not all of them are really ugly... but !
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