Recently, I brought my mother along for a visit to the Jesuit community where I lived for about four years. At least two Jesuits told me the same thing about how my quiet unassuming mother reminded ...

A number of the medieval Flowers of Our Lady have been associated with the feasts or seasons of the liturgical year for which they are in bloom, and for which their characteristic forms or colors have ...

The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is one of the holidays that seems to get lost in all of the Thanksgiving and Christmas preparations every year. But, despite it not being as flashy of other ...

By means of our passing through the waters of baptism, we arise, as the light of the world, radiating the glory of the triune ...

I am a Roman Catholic, was born and raised in the Philippines and grew up having a statue of Most Holy Mother Mary in our home. Most Filipinos call her “Mama Mary.” We were taught from an early age to ...

On Marian feast days, we wear blue. I can’t stop myself from thinking this little phrase whenever I dress for one of the many feasts in the Catholic Church that are attributed to Mary. Blue is the ...