Some argue that the Blessed Virgin Mary sinned here by either being anxious, or rebuking Jesus, or both ... teknon (v. 48; ‘child,’ NIV ‘Son’). Luke 15:31, which Thayer sees as a parallel ...

On Christmas Eve in 1517, a saint experienced a mystical vision in which the Blessed Virgin Mary placed the Christ ... “especially to see in the child Jesus, God who becomes part of our humanity ...

"Though still a virgin she carried a child in her womb, and the handmaid and work of his wisdom became the Mother of God." St. Ephraim of Syria, "Songs of Praise," c. 351 A.D. "There is One ...

The inner mystery of God is the mystery of a family, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Our prayer life is shaped by this central mystery of our faith, as we pray to the Father, in the Son, and by the ...

Indeed, that maternal bond between the Virgin Mary and the baby Jesus has resonated so deeply across the centuries that depicting the blessed intimacy ... of the mother-child connection that ...

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Mary's perpetual virginity (the belief that she had no children after Jesus and remained a virgin ... a fully biblical appreciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and her role in the history of ...

Then, the person who does the introduction at the liturgy will tell you that today is the Solemnity of The Blessed ... of the Virgin Mary,” this translation emphasizes Jesus’ incarnation ...

the Blessed Virgin Mary placed the Christ Child in his arms of St. Cajetan during his first Mass in the Chapel of the Nativity. A marble sculpture depicting St. Cajetan holding the Infant Jesus ...