Our Lady of Lourdes: A Healing Pilgrimage
On February 11, 1858, in the small town of Lourdes in southern France, a sickly and impoverished fourteen-year-old girl named Bernadette Soubirous experienced the first of eighteen Marian apparitions at […]
Category Archives: Mary
Our Lady of Guadalupe—Santuario de los Perseguidos
It is that time of the year again when one of the most visible signs of the faith of Mexicans, Latin Americans, and U.S.-Latinx communities becomes visible through the wondrous […]
Waiting in Silence: The Coming of Christ-in-Us
Advent aims to unsettle us, to make us wait at a particularly uncomfortable crossroads. Our readings, songs, and liturgies take us from our comfortable lives and situate us again where we […]
Your Mother’s Name Is Mercy: The Jubilee Year of Mercy, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
When Pope Francis called for this extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy in April, he announced that it would begin today, on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, for two reasons. […]
The Assumption: A Call to Walk with God
Growing up in a parish dedicated to St. Mary of the Assumption, with so many stained glass windows, statues, songs and prayers dedicated to events in the life of the […]
A Mary in Whose Footsteps I’d Like to Follow
The year I started kindergarten, my parish school began to undertake the installation of a statue of Mary outside our classroom. Much of that first year of school, my tiny […]
The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Common Misconceptions about the Immaculate Conception
If you were to stop your average Roman Catholic on the street today and ask them to explain the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary today, […]
“Gather Around A Promise”: Hospitality, the Feast of the Visitation, and the College Theology Society
Today we celebrate the Feast of the Visitation. In the story of the Visitation, we encounter Mary and Elizabeth providing bodily hospitality to their sons, extending loving hospitality to one […]
A Theology of Annunciation–or, on asking questions of God
There’s this: Zechariah said to the angel, “How will I know that this is so? For I am an old man, and my wife is getting on in years.” The […]
Two New Songs for Christmas (Eve)!
Inspired by our own Amanda Osheim’s earlier post on “All I Want for Christmas is an Advent Playlist,” I’d like to offer two Christmas songs to add to your repertoire. […]
