Tag: Mary

On principle, there is no profession that women cannot carry out, for in the words of Edith Stein, “no woman is solely a ‘woman,’...

Part 2 of Mark's series on Models of the Church Read the introduction here. The first model of the Church is the Marian model. Mary is,...

Throughout the month of May the Catholic Church has been celebrating Our Lady and Mother Mary. From the Pope's Rosary Marathon to the feast...

St. Mary's Cathedral has been chosen as one of 30 Marian Shrines for Pope Francis' May Rosary Marathon. Here's how to join in from...

Suburban art takes on a new meaning with school mural Move over oil paint and canvas … this stunning portrait of Mary was created with...

Pope Francis speaks of the Catholic attitude towards Mary, prays for NSW flood victims.

Like a magnet the Christmas Babe draws a young woman and older man, heavenly angels, foreign kings and local shepherds – in other words, everyone.

In the charter of her Magnificat, Mary’s Assumption is the triumph of the first among those millions who suffer and yet believe

Pope Francis formally adds three ways to call upon Mary Among the many titles under which Catholics invoke Mary, Pope Francis has asked them to...

This does not give us an anaesthetic from our pain or a type of cocky remoteness from tribulations of the world- but it does unite us in hopeful solidarity while “in exile” with the Christ-focussed and grace-filled strength and love of the faithful Mother of the Covenant, Mary of Nazareth.

“Full of grace” it is Mary who models for us the sanctified Christian and the sanctified Church, created and called to holiness and fruitfulness in Christ. Mary emerges as the mother of that body of which she is also spiritually a daughter.

We pray she’ll make us more like her, beautiful and colourful artworks, worldly and other-worldly, different yet like her in our openness to God, our active service of others, our pondering of what’s good, our fidelity to the end.