February 11, 2009
Today is the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, one of my favorite feast days and my favorite Marian apparition. 151 years ago, in 1858, Mary first appeared to Bernadette Soubirous, a sickly and uneducated young girl from a poor family. Mary would subsequently return to Bernadette in the grotto at Lourdes seventeen more times, [...]
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April 6, 2008
In May we celebrate the Month of Mary, Mother of God. "Blessed art thou amongst all women!" The Panagia Icon of the Mother of God "When we call Mary “our mother,” we grasp instinctively the essential meaning of the title, since it evokes memories of a human experience that is universal and runs deep. But [...]
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