Tag: Blessed Virgin Mary
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Might We Also Be Mothers Of God?
“If by God’s Holy Ghost thou art beguiled,There will be born in thee the Eternal Child. If it’s like Mary, virginal and pure,Then God will impregnate your soul for sure. God make me pregnant, and his Spirit shadow me,That God may rise up in my soul and shatter me. What good does Gabriel’s “Ave, Mary” Read more
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What Is The Songline Of Your Life? – A Sermon On Luke 1:46-55
Are you familiar with songlines? Songlines are a part of the aboriginal life. The aborigines tell a creation story in which creation ancestors wandered the continent singing out the name of everything that crossed their path – birds, animals, plants, rocks, caves, desert brush, waterholes – thereby singing the world and all creation into existence.… Read more
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Parting the Veil of Impossibility
Luke 1:43. “Mary said to the angel, ‘How can this be, since I am a virgin?’” In the innermost courts of the temple in Jerusalem, a veil separated humanity from the Holy of Holies, where the Spirit of God rested upon the Ark of the Covenant. An ancient, non-biblical story says that the Virgin Mary Read more
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The Promise of Interruption – A Sermon on the Annunciation, Luke 1:26-38
We call today (March 25) the Feast of the Annunciation (Luke 1:26-38) but I wonder if it might be more accurate to call it the Feast of Interruption. Here’s what I mean by that. We don’t know what Mary was doing when the Angel Gabriel showed up. Holy scripture doesn’t tell us. I’m willing to Read more
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On the Feast of the Annunciation, Speaking the Creator into the World
“In the days of creation of the world, when God was uttering his living and mighty “Let there be,” the word of the Creator brought creatures into the world. But on that day, unprecedented in the history of the world, when Mary uttered her brief and obedient, “So be it,” I hardly dare say what Read more
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A Life that Fits – A Sermon on Luke 2:22-40 for the Feast of the Presentation
I recently heard a man say, “I feel as if I have dropped into my own life and it fits.” It made me smile. It was such a great description. I think we all want to be able to say that. He went on, however, to say that it wasn’t about his family, his work, Read more
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Our Lady of Guadalupe
Originally posted on Interrupting the Silence: Today, December 12, is the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. On this day in 1531 she appeared to an Indian peasant, Juan Diego, on Mount Tepeyac outside of Mexico City. The meeting of the Virgin and Juan is described in a text entitled Nican Mopohua. She identified herself… Read more
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Magnifying Mary; It Is Truly Meet.
Today, August 15, is the Feast of St. Mary. As the one who on earth stood in the most intimate relationship with the incarnate Son of God, she, of all the human race, must have the place of highest honor in the eternal life of God. (Holy Women, Holy Men) “It is truly right to Read more
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Waiting for Mary’s Answer
This year the Fourth Sunday of Advent focuses on Gabriel’s annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The following is from St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153): You have heard, O Virgin, that you will conceive and bear a son; you have heard that it will not be by man but by the Holy Spirit. The angel Read more
Interrupting the Silence 