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"I want to say thank you to Mother Mary and I want to say one Hail Mary for what I've said now: Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of hour death. Amen."
~Ezinne Maria, age 5, from Nigeria
Holy cards on display in an antiques shop, central Prague, Czech Republic.
"Mary is the epitome of compassion and love, and she’s always looking out for everyone. And I'm new to having a family and I pray to her to look after my family." ~Patrick from London, England Statue of Our Lady from Carmel of St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
"Mary for me is Jesus’ shepherd. She brings together broken hearts, hearts that were brought up without a father and brings them and shepherds them towards her son, Jesus."
~Oliver from London, England
Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, Norfolk, England.
l'immense statue (11 mètres de haut) de la Mère à l'Enfant couverte d'or (posée en 1870), œuvre du sculpteur Eugène-Louis Lequesne, réalisée par l'orfèvre parisien Charles Christofle, au sommet du beffroi de la Basilique Notre Dame de la Garde (construite de 1863 à 1893) à Marseille [13006]
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"Santísima Virgen"
"Santa madona"
"Santa Maria"
"Medalla religiosa"
"medalla de bautizo"
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Eucharistic celebration by Msgr. Jerry Bitoon with Rev. Fr. Larry Ramos. Also, recognition of the donor of the image of the patron saint of the Parish and blessings of the different images of the Virgin Mary of the parishioners.
Marian Exhibit in celebration of the 90th Anniversary of the Apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima [1917-2007]
Parish of Our Lady of Fatima
Philamlife Village, Pamplona Dos, Las Piñas City
September 29 - October 07, 2007
Eucharistic celebration by Msgr. Jerry Bitoon with Rev. Fr. Larry Ramos. Also, recognition of the donor of the image of the patron saint of the Parish and blessings of the different images of the Virgin Mary of the parishioners.
"It was amazing that we were all gathered there because our Holy Father was departing and we loved him, but we all in that moment of sadness appealed to our Mother as well. We all were so different - we had different backgrounds, we had different languages - but we shared a Holy Father and we shared a Blessed Mother and, in praying to her, I’ve never felt so close to the Church, I've never felt so powerfully the gift of brotherhood and sisterhood within the Church by virtue of our Baptism. We're united in the Church, we're united by having a father, both in heaven and at the Vatican, but we're also united by our mother, and in her love and her 'yes' that gives us the opportunity to be courageous and to say yes to our daily crosses and our daily sacrifices. It's been very hard saying goodbye to Pope Benedict XVI, but I look to Mary to give me the strength to get through it, but more than the strength to get through it, the strength to grow through it, and to grow towards Christ and closer to my brothers and sisters in Christ."
~Joseph from the USA
Lourdes grotto at the Shrine of St. Jude, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
During my visit to Limerick I used a number of different lenses. In this instance I used a Sony A7RM2 body with a Zeiss Batis 25mm Lens which I really like.
St Mary's Cathedral, Limerick, also known as Limerick Cathedral, is a cathedral of the Church of Ireland in Limerick, Ireland which is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is in the ecclesiastical province of Dublin. Previously the cathedral of the Diocese of Limerick, it is now one of three cathedrals in the United Dioceses of Limerick and Killaloe.
Today the cathedral is still used for its original purpose as a place of worship and prayer for the people of Limerick. It is open to the public every day from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm. Following the retirement of the Very Rev'd Maurice Sir on June 24, 2012, Bishop Trevor Williams announced the appointment of the Rev'd Sandra Ann Pragnell as Dean of Limerick and Rector of Limerick City Parish. She is the first female dean of the cathedral and rector of the Limerick parish. The cathedral grounds holds a United Nations Memorial Plaque with the names of all the Irish men who died while serving in the United Nations Peacekeepers.
la "Bonne Mère" de Notre Dame de la Garde à Marseille. Cette mère à l'enfant de 11 mètres de haut, couverte d'or, est l'oeuvre du sculpteur Eugène-Louis Lequesne (réalisée par l'orfèvre Christofle en 1870) [13006]
"When I was young, I remember my mother taught me to pray the rosary and as we grew up, we used every day to recite the rosary and in that way we developed a great love to our Mother Mary and we have witnessed the great help she has given us, from our childhood up to now. So I am really feeling a great love of Mary and, as a priest, we know that Mother Mary is in a special way, as the mother of Christ, is also the Mother of priests, because as priests we are called to live the mysteries of Christ."
~Fr. Vincent from Tanzania
Image of the Madonna from Sacred Heart parish church, Hartwell, Georgia, USA.
"Mary is a union with God because she was the first who was hearing and understanding His will, through the Holy Spirit; and it was she who brings Jesus and it was she who is the first person who is near God and near Jesus, so when we pray it is her who is the closest."
~Jana from Slovakia
Medieval triptych, from The Cloisters, New York City.
le retable en bois polychrome (XVIème siècle) et la statue de la vierge en marbre de Carrare, de la chapelle Notre Dame de Caderot (reconstruite au XVIIIème siècle), à Berre l'Étang [13130]
Eucharistic celebration by Msgr. Jerry Bitoon with Rev. Fr. Larry Ramos. Also, recognition of the donor of the image of the patron saint of the Parish and blessings of the different images of the Virgin Mary of the parishioners.
"Our Lady means to me my mother, my second mother, because she's really kind, she's humble and she brought Christ into the world for us which is really good because he saved all of us. So for me she's this humble person who just gave herself completely to God; she accepted to carry the saviour of our world for 9 months, which isn't easy. And I love her for that. And I love the fact we can pray to her. We can tell 'Can you please go tell Jesus that I need him. Can you please show me the qualities of a woman. Can you show me how to be a woman in this kind of environment, not being trendy or anything, just be humble and just be yourself really.' And I love that about her, I can relate to her."
~Dominique from Cameroon
Prayer candles lit before Our Lady of Lourdes in the church of Notre-Dame, Leicester Square, London, UK.
Inside the Church of the Dormition are many mosaics depicting holy events. It is located on Mount Zion, the highest point in Jerusalem, and is near the Hagia Maria Sion Abbey (or the Abbey of the Dormition), a Benedictine monastery.
In this mosaic, Jesus holds an open book which bears the inscription "I am the light of the world", from John 8:12. The Greek letters that flank the Virgin and Child mean "Mary, mother of God.
The Latin words below them are from Isaiah 7:12: "Ecce, virgo concipiet et pariet filium, et vocabitur nomen eius Emmanuel.", which translates to: "Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Emmanuel."
Those two smaller niches in the lower portion of the photo depict the Annunciation, with an angel, on the left and an inscription: "Hail, full of grace" and Mary, on the right, "I am the Lord's servant."
The land on which the Church of the Dormition stands was given in 1898 by the Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid II to Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, who presented it to the Catholic Church. Construction was completed in 1910.
Like the Crusader church that preceded it, the basilica is built on two levels with the high altar and monastic choir on the upper of these, and the crypt with a Marian shrine on the lower.
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"I can't live without being close to Mary, to protect me. She's like my mother, so anything I need, I go and ask her."
~Maria-Antonia from Portugal
Our Lady of Guadalupe in Sacred Heart Basilica, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Eucharistic celebration by Msgr. Jerry Bitoon with Rev. Fr. Larry Ramos. Also, recognition of the donor of the image of the patron saint of the Parish and blessings of the different images of the Virgin Mary of the parishioners.
Eucharistic celebration by Msgr. Jerry Bitoon with Rev. Fr. Larry Ramos. Also, recognition of the donor of the image of the patron saint of the Parish and blessings of the different images of the Virgin Mary of the parishioners.
"Our Lady means to me something very beautiful. A beautiful person, beautiful to look at, beautiful personality, somebody who is very loving and accepting, and who's also protective and will help, help us in any way whatever. When I was a novice, my novice mistress used to say to me 'If you need reminding, go to your guardian angel, but remember he'll only remind you once.' And I used to think 'No, I'm going to Our Lady because she's a mother and she'll keep on reminding you.'"
~Sister Patricia of the Heart of Mary OCD from Liverpool, England
Interior of an Anglo-Catholic parish in Coventry, Warwickshire, UK.
l'ex-voto de la Vierge (pour avoir épargné le village durant la guerre 39-45 ; Jean Boet - architecte et Antoine Servian - sculpteur), à Rognes [13840]
"Now I'm trying my best to ask for Our Lady for her help and any time I do ask for her help, especially when I'm not feeling the best, I've never experienced where she hasn't actually come to me and helped me. And it's probably just because of her humility that I find it so easy to go to her and usually I go to her when I'm looking at things about myself that I find difficult to accept ..and every time she helps me not to ignore it but to look at it and she helps me to move on to the next step, which is to give my heart to Jesus."
~Breda from Ireland
Statue of Our Lady of Fatima in the nursery school of Holy Spirit Catholic Church, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Anglican Shrine church, Little Walsingham, Norfolk
One of the more obscure and exotic backwaters of the Church of England is the Anglican shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, set in remote north Norfolk. It was created in 1931 by the Anglican Vicar of Walsingham, Alfred Hope Patten, at a time when the Anglo-catholic enthusiasm of the church of England was in full flood. Today, the tide has receded, and the Anglo-catholic movement is somewhat beleagured. Now, most of the hundreds of visitors to the village are either tourists or Catholics - the Catholic National Shrine of Our lady is a mile or so off. But still this intriguing building remains, serving a diminishing but devout band of pilgrims.
The heart of the church is the Holy House, devised by Hope Pattern from the Legend of Richeldis, whose dream of the Holy House in Nazareth had led to the building of the great Abbey of Walsingham in the 12th century. The Abbey was destroyed by the British Crown at the Reformation, and the ruins survive just to the south of the shrine.
The building has been greatly extended several times since, creating a delightfully labyrinthine church on two levels. Beside the church are the shrine gardens, a pleasant place to wander.
"The Blessed Virgin Mary so very much prays with us when we're most in need, when we don't quite have the right words to say or don't know how to pray."
~Sister Felicity Marie from the USA
The altar of Christ the King Cathedral, Atlanta, Georgia, with advent candles alight.
Eucharistic celebration by Msgr. Jerry Bitoon with Rev. Fr. Larry Ramos. Also, recognition of the donor of the image of the patron saint of the Parish and blessings of the different images of the Virgin Mary of the parishioners.
"I really feel Mary has in every single step of the way taken my hand and led me to her son, even times when I haven't realised it. And I look back and realise how much Mary really has been there with me."
~Christina from Glasgow, Scotland
Statue of Our Lady in St. Mary's RC Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland.
"In Mary's affirmation of God's call, she shows various virtues, among which are humility, trust, faith … Her last words that are recorded in the New Testament 'Do what ever he says' recall us all to be present to the will of God moment by moment in our every day lives."
~Gabriel from Hungary
Banner of Our Lady carried in the Georgiritt pilgrimage procession in Traunstein, Bavaria, Germany.
"Our Lady is mother for me. I love the image of her standing at the foot of the Cross and for me she stands with me, she cares for me, she supports me and prays for me."
~Fr. Michael McGoldrick OCD from Ireland
Crucifixion depicted on the rood screen of a medieval parish church in Coventry, Warwickshire, England.
au centre des stalles, le retable en bois polychrome (XVIème siècle) et la statue de la vierge en marbre de Carrare, de la chapelle Notre Dame de Caderot (reconstruite au XVIIIème siècle), à Berre l'Étang [13130]
"Mama Mary for me is the eternal mother. She teaches us to be first of all a child, then a mother. For me, being a mother, I learned so much from her, because I don't have that relationship with my mum, so she became my role model and she's the one that taught me so much how to become a mother. When I speak about Mama Mary , I always have this big emotion because I learnt so much from her and I was able to become a mother for my mother because of her."
~Elvira from the Phillipines
Mosaic of Our Lady of Prompt Succor, New Orleans, USA.
les ex-voto autour d'une réplique de la bonne mère, au pied de la Basilique Notre Dame de la Garde à Marseille [13006]
During my visit to Limerick I used a number of different lenses. In this instance I used a Sony A7RM2 body with a Zeiss Batis 25mm Lens which I really like.
St Mary's Cathedral, Limerick, also known as Limerick Cathedral, is a cathedral of the Church of Ireland in Limerick, Ireland which is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is in the ecclesiastical province of Dublin. Previously the cathedral of the Diocese of Limerick, it is now one of three cathedrals in the United Dioceses of Limerick and Killaloe.
Today the cathedral is still used for its original purpose as a place of worship and prayer for the people of Limerick. It is open to the public every day from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm. Following the retirement of the Very Rev'd Maurice Sir on June 24, 2012, Bishop Trevor Williams announced the appointment of the Rev'd Sandra Ann Pragnell as Dean of Limerick and Rector of Limerick City Parish. She is the first female dean of the cathedral and rector of the Limerick parish. The cathedral grounds holds a United Nations Memorial Plaque with the names of all the Irish men who died while serving in the United Nations Peacekeepers.
Eucharistic celebration by Msgr. Jerry Bitoon with Rev. Fr. Larry Ramos. Also, recognition of the donor of the image of the patron saint of the Parish and blessings of the different images of the Virgin Mary of the parishioners.
le retable en bois polychrome (XVIème siècle) et la statue de la vierge en marbre de Carrare, de la chapelle Notre Dame de Caderot (reconstruite au XVIIIème siècle), à Berre l'Étang [13130]
"Mary is like my mother. I grew up having great faith in Mary, especially during tough times when I lost my mum. It felt like they were just together in heaven. And especially Our Mother of Perpetual Help, she has been there and she has helped me take my baby steps, just like any mother would do to their daughter. She has never failed me, thank God to have her there, and she is a continuous inspiration for purity and yes, thank God for Mary."
~Fay from the Phillipines
Our Lady of Perpetual Help, in the Martyrs' Shrine, Midland, Ontario, Canada.