View allAll Photos Tagged BlessedVirgin
"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.
How to describe El Roccio
El Rocío, the most significant town in the vicinity of the Parque Nacional de Doñana, surprises first-timers. Its streets, unpaved and covered in sand, are lined with colourfully decked-out single-storey houses with sweeping verandahs, left empty half the time. But this is no ghost town: these are the well-tended properties of 115 hermandades (brotherhoods), whose pilgrims converge on the town every Pentecost (Whitsunday) weekend for the Romería del Rocío, Spain’s largest religious festival. And at most weekends, the hermandades arrive in a flurry of festive fun for other ceremonies.
Beyond its uniquely exotic ambience, El Rocío impresses with its striking setting in front of luminous Doñana marismas (wetlands), where herds of deer drink at dawn and, at certain times of year, pink flocks of flamingos gather in massive numbers.
First and foremost El Roccio is a place of Catholic religious pilgrimage as only the Spaniards can do, a nation that turns religion into a party. Secondly traditional Andalucian dress and love of horses and horse drawn carriages bring it all back to bygone days . Thirdly the Spanish Devotion to The Blessed Virgin Mary is particularly strong and very public, not at all subtle.
All of these combine to make a place that is unique and somewhat special and not at all like the cowboy town that some refer to El Roccio as, more a genuine place of traditional religious pilgrimage.
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.
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]
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]
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.
"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.
"O Maria sine labe concepta ora pro nobis" (O Marie sans pêchés, priez pour nous qui te sollicitons) dans la chapelle Sainte-Marie de l'église Saint-Michel (1788, agrandie au XIXème siècle) de Gignac-la-Nerthe [13180]
"If you want to be with Maria always, think about your heart, her heart."
~Anna from Italy
A Trappist monk at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, Georgia, USA, prays next to the Nativity scene after midnight mass, Christmas 2010.
Detail from medieval Norfolk glass. St Mary Magdalene, Warham. The saint on the right would appear to be Our Lady at the Annunciation, as the Holy Spirit is also shown descending upon her.
un des autels de l'église Saint-Martin (Monument Historique, église romane du XIIème siècle, reconstruite au XIXème après l'effondrement de 1818) de Saint-Rémy de Provence [13210]
"With Mary, every end becomes a new beginning, every obstacle turns into a wonderful blessing."
~Marina from Croatia
Pieta from the church of San Genarro, in Little Italy, New York City, 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.
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]
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 is for me the greatest teacher to follow the path to holiness. I see in her the perfection of God into mankind; she was the closest creature to her Son. I like to follow her guidance about how to reach holiness through the 5 stones, which are: prayer through the rosary, reading of the Bible, monthly confession, fasting and attending Holy Mass as often as possible."
~Pierre-Louis from Benin
Statue of the Immaculate Conception in a cemetery on the outskirts of Ottawa, Canada
8 June 2007
The Holy Family perched on a building. Virgin Mary statue placement used to be cause for a tax break.
In Antwerp
The Hermitage of El Rocío is home to the Virgin of El Rocío a), a small, much-venerated carved wood statue, and is the destination of an annual procession/pilgrimage on the second day of the Pentecost, known as the Romería de El Rocío, connected to the veneration of the Virgin of El Rocío In recent years the Romería has brought together roughly a million pilgrims each year. A lot of pilgrims arrive by horse or horse drawn wagon.
Although there has been a hermitage on this site for centuries, the present hermitage building was designed by architects Antonio Delgado y Roig and Alberto Balbontín de Orta, designed in 1961 and built in stages over the next two decades. The first Hermitage of El Rocío was a simple Mudéjar building constructed some time after Alfonso's 1270 command, and built no later than 1300
How to describe El Roccio
El Rocío, the most significant town in the vicinity of the Parque Nacional de Doñana, surprises first-timers. Its streets, unpaved and covered in sand, are lined with colourfully decked-out single-storey houses with sweeping verandahs, left empty half the time. But this is no ghost town: these are the well-tended properties of 115 hermandades (brotherhoods), whose pilgrims converge on the town every Pentecost (Whitsunday) weekend for the Romería del Rocío, Spain’s largest religious festival. And at most weekends, the hermandades arrive in a flurry of festive fun for other ceremonies.
Beyond its uniquely exotic ambience, El Rocío impresses with its striking setting in front of luminous Doñana marismas (wetlands), where herds of deer drink at dawn and, at certain times of year, pink flocks of flamingos gather in massive numbers.
First and foremost El Roccio is a place of Catholic religious pilgrimage as only the Spaniards can do, a nation that turns religion into a party. Secondly traditional Andalucian dress and love of horses and horse drawn carriages bring it all back to bygone days . Thirdly the Spanish Devotion to The Blessed Virgin Mary is particularly strong and very public, not at all subtle.
All of these combine to make a place that is unique and somewhat special and not at all like the cowboy town that some refer to El Roccio as, more a genuine place of traditional religious pilgrimage.
"Mary to me is everything in my life. I don’t know how to really separate her from any part of my life. Whatever thing that I am today in the Church or the society is thanks to the intercession of a wonderful mother. She is a caring mother, a patient mother, persevering, tolerant. I mean I don't know how to describe her virtues but she inspires me a lot. Each day when I get up in the morning, the first name I call is 'Mary'. Because I know when I say 'Mary', she says 'Jesus', she passes on the honour to the Son. If I look at what God has done in my life, I see myself unworthy, but I know that it is thanks to the intercession of that great woman called Mary, the Virgin of Nazareth. I love her, she is my everything, and I wish the world could know who she is, then all the sufferings and pains of the world would be over, if we all surrendered everything to her intercession. Because the bond that exists between her and her Son is comparable to nothing."
~Roseline from Cameroon
Our Lady of Czestochowa in the parish of Our Lady of the Mountains in Jasper, Georgia, USA.