Mary the Great
Who was she really? Can we even agree on what to call her? Is she Mary Magdalene or Mary Magdalen;…
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Who was she really? Can we even agree on what to call her? Is she Mary Magdalene or Mary Magdalen;…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 22, 2022 | Between the Sundays, conversion, Feast, Featured, Love, Mary Magdalene, Mercy, New Life, News, Prayer Life & Liturgy, Resurrection, tears, Transformation, witness, wounds | 0 |
Today we celebrate the feast of St. Mary Magdalene. Several years ago, Pope Francis elevated Mary’s celebration from a memorial to a feast day. Mary has been called the “Apostle to the Apostles,” because she preaches the Resurrection to them, which the…
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 3, 2022 | Faith at Home, Mary Magdalene, News, Resurrection | 0 |
We don’t talk enough about resurrection.
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Women religious have an essential role in the process of creating a more synodal church and in preparations for the Synod of Bishops, not just through their prayers and participation, but also by listening to people not usually part of such church activities, Pope Francis said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 22, 2021 | Featured, Mary Magdalene, News, Saints, spiritual motherhood | 0 |
St. Mary Magdalene The Church — More than Hierarchy Growing up Catholic in the 1980s and 1990s, I had my fair share of well-meaning individuals who asked me, “Oh, since you love your faith, are you hoping that women can become priests someday?” The root of a lot of these problems is a misunderstanding of […]
by bcadmin | Apr 4, 2021 | death, Easter, Featured, first fruits, Gospel, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, life, Mary Magdalene, New Life, News, Resurrection, resurrection of the body, Saints, Scripture, St. John the Evangelist, St. Paul, St. Peter, surrender | 0 |
“For through the law I died to the law, that I might live for God, I have been crucified with Christ; yet I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me; insofar as I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who has loved me and given hims…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 1, 2021 | Catholic Hotdish, Gospel of Mark, Jesus asks to see Peter, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, News, Peter, Resurrection, Salome | 0 |
There is a unique detail that stands out in Mark’s gospel account of the Resurrection. Peter receives special mention. There was a young man clothed in a white robe sitting inside the tomb.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 21, 2020 | Adoration, Books, Eucharist, Mary Magdalene, News, The Dispatch | 0 |
St. Mary Magdalene has long been a figure surrounded by controversy, curiosity, and a bit of confusion. In recent years, Dan Brown’s bestselling The Da Vinci Code, portrayed her—against all evidence and logic—as the goddess-like […]
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Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen! What more fitting conclusion to a week of drama wrought by sin could there be than the triumph of Life over death! There is so much about Easter to help us live our lives in our day. Surely we can…
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Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen! What more fitting conclusion to a week of drama wrought by sin could there be than the triumph of Life over death! There is so much about Easter to help us live our lives in our day. Surely we can…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 12, 2020 | 2020, Brad Miner, By Hook and by Crook, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Easter morning, Emily Rowles, garden, Hannah Russo, Holy Sepulchre, Mary Magdalene, News, Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing, Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, “He is risen indeed!” | 0 |
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen: As Christ rose, not because He is man but because He is God, the Church overcomes human tribulations because she is Divine.
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I would like to recall a scene of almost two decades past. I was in my first year of doctoral work and was studying, at home on a bright Sunday afternoon. I found myself reflecting […]
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