Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Today is the feast of the Exultation (or Triumph) of the Holy Cross and tomorrow is the memorial  of Our Lady of Sorrows….how beautiful the two should be celebrated together on the Church calendar!
Christ Jesus, who, though He was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be [...]

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Happy Birthday Blessed Mother!

The Birthday of Our Queen (September
All hail, O new world! Come and see Here in a cradle lies our Queen,
Mother of God, one day to be,
O come and see this heavenly scene.
A beauteous, fragrant rose-bud,
Immaculate! God’s own flower,
His masterpiece of royal blood
Who came to earth this midnight hour!
Thousands of angels stand [...]

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The Queenship of Mary in the Mary Garden

I am a little late for the Feast of the Queenship of Mary….computer woes…but we are adding the following to our Marian Notebooks:
I bow before you, Virgin of virgins,resting-place of the divine Bridegroom, temple of eternal Wisdom, sanctuary of the Holy Spirit, palace of the Blessed Trinity, Mother full of love and tenderness, fountain [...]

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Playing in Mary’s Garden

The plans were laid, the seed catalogues were dog eared and marked…my Em’s were brewing…the grass seed was ordered, bookmarked gardening books littered my nighstand, and the help was lined up…After a few years of waiting, I was finally getting my garden!!…My garden would be a prayer…it would pray. I would fall asleep at night [...]

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St Louis de Montfort on the Flowering of the Virtues of Mary

From St. Louis de Montfort in True Devotion to Mary: The Blessed Virgin’s mediation of
our spiritual flowering:
"God the Holy Spirit wishes to fashion his chosen ones in and through Mary. He tells her, "My well-beloved,  my spouse, let all your virtues take root in my chosen
  ones that they may grow from strength to [...]

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Symbols of the Most Holy Trinity

"Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,
     As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
     World without End.  Amen."

"In undertaking our acts and works we bless ourselves, making the
Sign of the Cross, "In the name of the Father and of the Son [...]

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Mary’s Communion With God The Holy Spirit

When Mary entered into intimate union and communion with
overshadowing, indwelling, espousing God, the Holy Spirit at the
Annunciation, the Holy Spirit, as St. Louis de Montfort says,
became her Spirit.  In Annunciation paintings the traditional
flower symbol of the descending Holy Spirit is the dove-like
columbine (Aquilegia),
found with white lilies of Mary’s immaculate
purity.
At Pentecost, in her continuing [...]

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A Catechism Scavenger Hunt!

I love being a "sneaky mom"!  I just tested the kid’s knowledge of the Catechism without a formal test…we had a Scavenger Hunt today!!
The overall theme was all to honor Our Lady in the garden and give God praise!  We started and ended our hunt with the statue of Our Lady of Grace in our [...]

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Flowers Embellished by Mary

It always amazes me the depth of meaning to be found in tending Mary’s garden.  I never would have guessed that the roots of the garden could plant flowers in  our spiritual lives as ~virtue~, but with MARY it certainly can!! Here is an excerpt I stumbled upon today…..

In the Madonna House Apostolate of Combermere, [...]

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God Knits His Seamless Garment

Our Lady of Walsingham
    "Wooden statue of the Mother of God with the Infant Christ at Walsingham. The statue, dating from the 19th century, was crowned with papal crowns in 1954, the year of the proclamation of the dogma of the Assumption. Shown here carried in procession traditionally led by the Arhcbishop of Westminster, [...]

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