Category Archives: Blessed Virgin Mary

To Be a Woman Like Mary

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Be Open to God

Posted by Sara Hofflander – co-founder of beopentoGod.com As a young woman just beginning marriage and family life, it has been a great grace for me to look to Mary during this Advent and Christmas season.  Living as a woman … Continue reading →

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Finding True Hope and Joy in Christ

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Be Open to God

Posted by Fr. Thomas Fitzpatrick, Rector of St. Joseph Cathedral These last days before Christmas were absolute torture growing up. The expectation, coupled with the struggle to stay on Santa’s good list while trying to tame our excitement meant each minute passed … Continue reading →

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Immaculate Mary

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Be Open to God

Posted by Monsignor Charles M. Mangan + J.M.J. The Universal Church exults constantly, but especially every December 8th, in the truth of Our Blessed Mother’s Immaculate Conception. God shielded Mary from Original Sin. She did not inherit, as we did, … Continue reading →

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Immaculate Conception

Posted on December 8, 2012 by Be Open to God

“O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.”  These words don the Miraculous Medal.  They are also repeated frequently at Lourdes, a place of pilgrimage where Mary appeared to a young peasant girl and reminded … Continue reading →

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The Luminous Mysteries

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Be Open to God

Posted by Monsignor Charles M. Mangan + J.M.J. Today—October 16, 2012—is the tenth anniversary of the Luminous Mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary. Blessed John Paul II bequeathed an incredible gift to the Church. Here is something that I wrote ten years … Continue reading →

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Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Be Open to God

Posted by Monsignor Charles M. Mangan +J.M.J. October 7th is the day on which the Church especially honors the Blessed Virgin Mary under her glorious title, “Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary.” Father Luigi Gambero, an Italian Marianist priest who … Continue reading →

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Saint Pio

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Be Open to God

Posted by Monsignor Charles M. Mangan + J.M.J.  Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (1887-1968), known as Padre Pio, was to the middle part of the twentieth century what Blessed Mary Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997), known as Mother Teresa, was to the … Continue reading →

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At the Cross Her Station Keeping

Posted on September 15, 2012 by Be Open to God

 Posted by Monsignor Charles M. Mangan + J.M.J.  “Near the cross stood His Mother . . . .”   Mary, the faithful Virgin, was close to her beloved Son Jesus Christ on Calvary. She accompanied Him to His painful death and participated in … Continue reading →

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Prayer for Purification

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Be Open to God

From a talk by Fr. Jeff Norfolk: Three Hail Mary’s Protection of Mind, Heart and Body Purification of Thoughts, Words and Actions One of the first to practice this and to recommend it was St Anthony of Padua (1195–1231). His … Continue reading →

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Blessed Mary, Victorious Queen

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Be Open to God

Posted by Monsignor Charles M. Mangan + J.M.J.  The mystery undergirding the Fifth Glorious Mystery in Our Blessed Mother’s Most Holy Rosary, the “Coronation of Mary as Queen of Heaven and Earth,” is commemorated liturgically each August 22nd, the Memorial of the … Continue reading →

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