The Blessed Virgin Mary

The Blessed Virgin Mary

What has been written of our Blessed Mother Mary fills libraries. She has a huge number of titles, patronages, solemnities, feasts, and prayers venerating her. I could not begin to say enough about the Mother of God and Queen of Heaven. I chose to highlight the 1st of January as one of the many solemnities and feasts. The Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God being the first celebration of our calendar year and a holy day of obligation to all Catholics seemed to be appropriate.

Keeping this entry on an important relic that's part of Fr. Dunne's collection I'll highlight and reference a few resources to consider. I certainly cannot list all of the Blessed Mary's titles it's always surprising and inspirational reviewing them periodically. Just as inspiring is reviewing the list of patronages of the Blessed Virgin Mary. I'll finish with a list of feasts and solemnities we celebrate in the Catholic church.absolute

Feast Days of Mary

*Holy day of obligation

Relics of Mary

When Mary's days on earth were done, she was assumed into heaven body and soul. How can we have relics of our blessed Mother Mary? Unlike many of the relics under the care of Fr. Dunne in Immaculate Conception Parish, this particular relic is ex velo meaning from the veil. There are many different types and classes of relics, learn more about latin phrases that are typically part of the documentation associated with particular relics in the collection.

Relic certificate of authenticity

Credits:
 Discriptions of saints lives and biographies have been excerpted, summarized, or compiled from Franciscan Media, CatholicSaints.Info, Catholic Online, and Wikipedia.

The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.

— Archbishop Fulton Sheen

The Rosary is THE WEAPON.

— St. Padre Pio

The rosary is the scourge of the devil

— Pope Adrian VI

The Rosary is a school for learning true Christian perfection.

— Pope John XXIII

The rosary is a treasure of graces.

— Pope Paul V

Among all the devotions approved by the Church none has been favored by so many miracles as the devotion of the most Holy Rosary.

— Pope Pius IX

If there were one million families praying the Rosary every day, the entire world would be saved.

— Pope St. Pius X

If our age in its pride laughs at and rejects Our Lady’s Rosary, a countless legion of the most saintly men of every age and of every condition have not only held it most dear and have most piously recited it but have also used it at all times as a most powerful weapon to overcome the devil, to preserve the purity of their lives, to acquire virtue more zealously, in a word, to promote peace among men.

— Pope Pius XI

There is no surer means of calling down God’s blessing upon the family than the daily recitation of the Rosary.

— Pope Pius XII

The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.

— St. Francis de Sales

The rosary is the most powerful weapon to touch the Heart of Jesus, Our redeemer, who loves His Mother.

— St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort