1455) also invited the church to venerate Mary as her Mother. On November 21, 1964, during the celebration of Mass at the conclusion of the third session of the Second Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI (d ...

In the niche that is part of the altarpiece above the altar, an image of the Virgin Mary can be seen although without a doubt ...

Levine adds, “She can be the grieving mother, the young virgin, the goddess figure ... and after a while things calm down.” At St. Mary’s church in Zaytun, a neighborhood in Old Cairo ...

But the Virgin Mary received faith and joy when ... might be born in the Church. In body, indeed, she is the mother of that very head." St. Augustine of Hippo, "Holy Virginity," c.

By turning our hearts to Mary, we experience a whole new horizon of prayer. By her gentle guidance, Mary shows us new depths ...

154 In fact, Christ's birth "did not diminish his mother's virginal integrity but sanctified it." 155 And so the liturgy of the Church celebrates Mary as Aeiparthenos , the "Ever-virgin".

through which and in which our filial prayer unites us in the Church with the Mother of Jesus.” No human being loved and served the Lord Jesus as much or as devotedly as the Blessed Virgin Mary.

A huge golden statue of the Virgin Mary that has for more ... la Garde (Our Lady of the Watch), a church completed in 1864 on ...

"From manger scenes to postage stamps, from Christmas cards to Advent hymns, the image of the Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ makes its universal appearance during the Advent season ...

Parishioners of St. Patrick Catholic Church held a procession with songs ... who were gathered in prayer with the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God. Let us join the people of Mexico, and we wish ...

The duo traveled a total of 1,653 miles to get to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish in Pasadena, where the ...

AKITA--Just as suddenly as it started, a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary ... Catholic church here without an explanation. From the outset, none of them could account for the sacred mother ...