Everything Jesus has - He has given to His Church. That includes His Mother. She is also the Mother of His Mystical Body, His Church and we are members of that family which He has formed called the Church.
In the undivided Church, East and West, for the first 1,000 years, devotion to and love of Mary was a shining light of the profound prayers, reflections and writings of the Christian Church. When one probes the lives of Augustine of Hippo, Bernard of Clairveaux, Therese of Liseux, the late Theresa of Calcutta and so many others within the western Christian tradition. In the East it was even more pronounced as is evident in their Liturgy. Why?
Inscribed Byzantine Greek Stone Dedicated To Mary Discovered in Israel
An ancient, inscribed Byzantine Greek stone has been discovered in Israel’s Negev desert with a rare Greek dedication to Maria, the Mother of God. The Byzantine Greek stone was found in Israel’s Nitzana National Park, located close to the Egyptian border. The Nitzana area is an important archaeological resource detailing the transitionary period from the Byzantine to the early Islamic period. It was on a hill topped by the towering remains of the ancient Nabatean city of Nitzana, that flourished during the Roman period, that archaeologists discovered the ancient Greek tombstone and the inscription reading, “Blessed Maria, who lived an immaculate life.”
Mary s lessons in motherhood
A true mother would do anything and everything, anywhere and all the time, for the sake of her child
Updated: January 01, 2021 03:47 AM GMT
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If you are the mother of someone who is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent, what distinctive characteristics could you possibly possess? To be omnipotent is to have unlimited power, to be able to do anything, all-powerful. To be omniscient is to know everything, all-wise, all-seeing. To be omnipresent is to be present everywhere at the same time.
In the Philippines, it is not uncommon, especially among poor families, for parents to have achieved less academically or economically than their children. The usual goal of parents who have not been blessed with the opportunity to study is to send their children to school at all odds so that they will do better than their parents. When this happens, we see the center of the power structure in a family revolving around the child who provides instead of the p