Blessed Virgin Mary

by Elizabeth Lev Michelangelo’s first masterpiece, the Pietà, was concocted out of the most unlikely ingredients: a rookie sculptor known for pagan subjects, a worldly pope whose name was synonymous with corruption, and subject matter not…

by Gina Loehr Elizabeth filled with the holy Spirit” (Luke 1:41). So Luke tells us in his Gospel account of the Visitation. As her cousin Mary greets her, the elderly woman, who is nonetheless great with child, speaks through the power of…

is his mystical channel, his aqueduct, through which he causes his mercies to flow gently and abundantly. — St. Louis de Montfort

You can take the boy out of the neighborhood, but you can’t take the neighborhood out of the boy. After high school, I followed in the footsteps of my brother Tommy and entered the Navy, and my first assignment was on a destroyer headed to…

Only after the last judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children. — St. John Vianney

By her words and her silence, the Virgin Mary stands before us as a model for our pilgrim way. — St. John Paul II

She is the flower of the field from whom bloomed the precious lily of the valley. Through her birth the nature inherited from our first parents is changed. — St. Augustine

Your name, O Mary, is a precious ointment, which breathes forth the odor of divine grace. Let this ointment of salvation enter the inmost recesses of our souls. — St. Ambrose

Assuredly she who played the part of the Creator’s servant and Mother is in all strictness and truth in reality God’s Mother and Lady and Queen over all created things. — St. John of Damascus

Mary lived on the Word of God, she was imbued with the Word of God. And the fact that she was immersed in the Word of God and was totally familiar with the Word also endowed her later with the inner enlightenment of wisdom. — Pope Benedict…