Pope says Mary teaches primacy of humility over power, success
Mary’s humble life and example are a testament to the triumph of service and love over power and success, Pope Francis said.
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by bcadmin | Aug 15, 2022 | Angelus, Catholic News Service, Feast of the Assumption, News, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
Mary’s humble life and example are a testament to the triumph of service and love over power and success, Pope Francis said.
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Benedict XVI: On this feast day, we thank the Lord for the gift of the Mother, and pray to Mary to help us find the right path every day.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 14, 2021 | Catholic Church, Commentary, Feast of the Assumption, News, Spirituality | 0 |
In Mary, we see the first fruits of the Lord’s victory over sin and death. In her assumption, we see a perfected model and shining example of the saving fruits won by Jesus’ resurrection from the dead.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 17, 2020 | Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Feast of the Assumption, lead, News, Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega | 0 |
As Nicaragua celebrated the “small” version of its famous Marian festival La Gritería on Saturday, the hierarchy of the Catholic Church and the government of President Daniel Ortega clashed over the global pandemic: The bishops acknowledge it, the president doesn’t.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 16, 2020 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Feast of the Assumption, Greece, Greek Orthodox, News, Orthodox Church, second | 0 |
For nearly 200 years, Greek Orthodox faithful have flocked to the Aegean island of Tinos for the August 15 feast day of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, the most revered religious holiday in the Orthodox calendar after Easter.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 16, 2020 | Catholic Church, Commentary, Feast of the Assumption, lead, News, On Spirituality, Spirituality, Virgin Mary | 0 |
As the consequences of the pandemic play themselves out and an emotional culture of fear and anxiety takes the stage, people are looking for hope. For this very reason, the Lord Jesus gave us his mother as a gift.
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Brain G. Svoboda on a painting that provides a luminous vision of the Blessed Virgin and offers a small foretaste of Heaven on Earth.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 15, 2020 | Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Church in Europe, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Feast of the Assumption, lead, Lourdes, Marian devotion, News | 0 |
In his biggest public appearance since the coronavirus outbreak earlier this year, on Saturday the Vatican Secretary of State, Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin, was scheduled to preside over Mass for the solemnity of the Assumption at the Marian shrine in Lourdes, France.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 4, 2020 | Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, Feast of the Assumption, Latin America, lead, Mary, Medjugorje, News, News Analysis, Our Lady of Aparecida, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Our Lady of Lujan, Pope Francis | 0 |
Pope Francis has a classically Latin American passion for the Madonna and for popular devotions to her that express the souls of so many cultures on his home continent.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 4, 2020 | Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, Feast of the Assumption, Latin America, lead, Mary, Medjugorje, News, News Analysis, Our Lady of Aparecida, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Our Lady of Lujan, Pope Francis | 0 |
Pope Francis has a classically Latin American passion for the Madonna and for popular devotions to her that express the souls of so many cultures on his home continent.
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