For over 40 years, six people from Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, have claimed to see and speak with the Virgin Mary. For almost as long, hordes of pilgrims have traveled to visit ...
The “authenticity” and mental stability of the seer are prime, and anyone suspected of trying to gain fame or riches from contact with the Virgin Mary is ignored or condemned. Medjugorje is ...
The Vatican said some of the Virgin Mary's words of love allegedly bestowed at Medjugorje, "are best understood in the ...
There is rejoicing that the Vatican has recognised the spiritual fruits of the alleged apparitions of Mary in a small town in ...
But the Virgin Mary received faith and joy when the angel Gabriel announced to her the glad tidings that the Spirit of the Lord would come upon her and the power of the Most High would overshadow ...
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis has approved a Catholic spiritual devotion centred in Medjugorje, a town in Bosnia that has been steeped in controversy over whether the Virgin Mary appears to ...
So this is a fitting time to consider Our Lady as “Queen of All Saints” (because that is what she is and we hope to be) and ...
A BBC documentary suggesting that the Virgin Mary was raped by a Roman soldier has provoked a deluge of complaints and been censured by the Vatican. More than 500 viewers called to protest about ...
The Feast of the Dormition of Our Most Holy Lady, the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary is celebrated on August 15 each year. The Feast commemorates the repose (dormition and in the Greek kimisis) or ...
Abolishing death, He granted us eternal life. The Feast of the Nativity of Our Most Holy Lady, the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary is celebrated on September 8 each year. The Feast commemorates the ...
155 And so the liturgy of the Church celebrates Mary as Aeiparthenos , the "Ever-virgin". 156 500 Against this doctrine the objection is sometimes raised that the Bible mentions brothers and ...
Her joys and memories are of her three pilgrimages to Medjugorje. Martha is survived ... 11:00 a.m., at Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church, 2361 E. 78th Ave., ...