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"I think God chose the right person to be Jesus' mother."
~Cosima, age 9, from England
Mural of the Annunciation above the door to La Iglesia de Nuestra Senora Reina de los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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San Gottardo in Corte or San Gottardo a Palazzo is a Catholic church in Milan, northern Italy. It was built by Azzone Visconti in 1330, and finished in 1336, as indicated by an inscription on the walls. It was originally dedicated to the Blessed Virgin but Azzone, who had gout, later changed the dedication to St. Gotthard of Hildesheim, patron of those with gout. The design was by Francesco Pecorari of Cremona. The octagonal bell tower has the first example of public clock (before sundials were used). The interior was restored in the Neoclassicist era by Giocondo Albertolli. Of the original church, part of the Giottesque Crucifixion, a canvas with St. Charles Borromeo by Giovan Battista Crespi and the tomb of Azzone Visconti remain.
Additional information on the Chiesa di San Gottardo in Corte may be obtained at Wikipedia.
"For me the rosary works in an incredible way. I'm not talking about some physical miracles but it gets written in my heart, in my soul, when I say the rosary."
~Fr. Juraj from Slovakia
Side chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Perpetual Help in St. Patrick's parish, Edinburgh, Scotland.
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.
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 have a particular devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe .. the story of Guadalupe is a story of hope and it's always something I like to remember when I have worries or concerns; it's also a particularly beautful image of Our Lady."
~Mary from Sydney, Australia
Chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe in St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City, USA.
"If men KNEW what ETERNITY is, they would do EVERYTHING to CHANGE their LIVES."
— Message from Our Lady of Fatima to Blessed Jacinta Marto, 1920
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1. Front view of Tabernacle, 2. Reindeer Seamus 12'03, 3. Colored windows, 4. Always take time to pray., 5. Seamus Dines, 6. Yellow Cattleya Orchid, 7. To see as the giraffe sees!, 8. Baptismal Font Reflection,
9. Back view of Tabernacle, 10. Cherub, 11. Suspended!, 12. Autumn: Fading Light, 13. Our Mother, 14. Stained glass depiction of St. Therese of Lisieux, 15. Katherine and me, 16. He is always listening.,
17. Ready for Rain, 18. Come closer!
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
"Mary to me is compassion and love. She is a support in times of trouble and distress, she is a loving and all-loving spirit and presence in my life. She is someone to whom I confess my sins and share my weaknesses in the knowledge that she is not judgmental but compassionate and loving and supportive."
~Mark from London, UK
Prayer candles lit around Our Lady in a parish church in Florida, 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.
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.
"There's a lot that the Virgin Mary has done for me - she has given me loving parents and good sisters and siblings. She's like a mother to me, a first mother. She takes my family so well I think I should keep on giving her praises."
~Dabelu, age 10, from Nigeria
Statue of Our Lady of Lourdes in the Church of Our Lady of Snows, Prague, Czech Republic.
Alfred Tory
‘Blessed Virgin’, 1904
Rectory, St Marie’s RC Cathedral
stone
Location:
Rectory, St Marie’s RC Cathedral, Norfolk Street, S1.
Description:
The figure of the Virgin stands in a niche with an ornate canopy, similar to that enclosing the Cairns statue on High Street [133] by Alfred Tory’s father, Frank Tory senior. It is less than lifesize and stands at first floor level.
Commission:
St Marie’s Cathderal
Comment:
Alfred Tory (1881-?) was only in his early twenties when he made this piece. Four small contemporary heads (possibly portraits) decorate the window at the eastern end of the rectory. J.B.Himsworth's manuscript identifies one of these as the work of Alfred Tory.
References:
J.B.Himsworth: typed manuscript on The City of Sheffield Artcrafts Guild, c. 1954. Sheffield Hallam University library.
public-art.shu.ac.uk/sheffield/tor169.html
Detail: St Marie’s Cathedral Presbytery. Virgin Mary by Frank Tory.
"She's always a mother. She nurtures us in her womb, almost, and we are given birth to at the right time, spiritually. I just am so grateful for her mercy, because she never said 'You can't come' or 'I haven't time' or 'You really haven't behaved properly'. It's not like that at all. And we have that longing, we have that longing for God, and we have a hole and it needs filling, and God is the only one that can fill that, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. And we are blessed that we have the Mother that they gave to us, and she is, she is everything and she does lead us to Jesus. She's like our little guide. Thank you Mary, thank you Mother. Ave Maria!"
~Patricia Mary from England/Australia
Statue of Our Lady in Our Lady of Victory Catholic school, Tyrone, Georgia, USA.
"I think that Mary is a bit in a way like my Mum because I pray to her at night when I'm scared, like if there's a thunderstorm, or if I'm scared about something that's going to happen in the future or in the past that has happened. And I pray to her when I'm feeling happy as well when I'm glad about something or I'm grateful."
~Gwen, age 10, from England
Statue of Our Lady of Fatima in the Jesuit Church of the Immaculate Conception, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
"Our Lady is very special to me. I think it can be summed up in the words of Our Lady of Guadalupe when she said to Juan Diego, who had a very sick uncle. She said 'What do you fear? What troubles you? Why are you anxious, why do you fear illness? Am I not here who is your mother?' And that really sums up for me that Our Lady is all of our mothers. She is a very loving mother to all of us - she is forgiving, she is all enveloping. When I think of Our Lady all I can think of is peace and love, and just this wonderful woman who is bringing us to Christ, because that is essentially what she does."
~Tom from the UK
Statue of Our Lady from 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.
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.
"Our Lady is the hope of mankind, she's the joy of mankind; the sweetest, loveliest woman who's lived. She's a presence and grace for all of us. She shows us how we can be fully human, she reveals Christ. She's the way to salvation, she's a friend who's always with us; she gives us strength. She's grace, blessing, and hope for our troubled world, a way through our own problems; she shows us the sanctity of life who's sweetness, kindness, love personified and we have an obligation to devote ourselves to her and her Immaculate Heart."
~Kieran from Ireland
Pieta in Arundel Cathedral, Arundel, West Sussex, England.
"There’s a wonderful sense of Mary being a pilgrim and a traveller with you, in that she was just like you and me but without sin, and she had to take all those leaps of faith. In fact she was the first believer, as John Paul II said, she believed in Jesus before anybody else did. So I would say she helps my faith and helps me through her prayers believe in Jesus."
~Robert from Yorkshire, England
Stained glass of the Immaculate Conception in Blessed Sacrament Cathedral, Sacramento, California, USA.
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]
"What Saint Mary means to me - mainly the protector of health and my family, as I've experienced every time I pray."
~Tomas from the Czech Republic
Mosaic from the Church of Our Lady of Snows in Prague, Czech Republic.
"I just love Our Lady to bits and she’s my friend really as well. And I’d just be totally lost without her. I just know many times that I've been in kind of situations that have not been good and it's always been Our Lady that has helped me back out and given me that dignity and that purpose and that worth in life. And I just praise God for Our Lady because she is the Mother of the Church and I just praise her for that."
~Mary from Manchester, UK
Statue of Our Lady in cemetery chapel of St. Bernard's Abbey, Cullman, Alabama, USA.
"My relationship with Jesus started through Mary. One day when I was really upset and sad and honestly I was feeling really depressed and I asked Saint Mary to take my heart and to give me her heart so I would feel happy. And suddenly, when I was praying, out of nowhere I felt this peace and this happiness in my heart that I can never, never, never describe. And since that day I decided to start a close relationship with Jesus because of Saint Mary."
~Joelle from Lebanon
Detail of Stations of the Cross, from Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont Royal in Montreal, Canada.
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.
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.
23 June 2009
A statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The words on the pedestal are in Gaelic. My ignorance of the language means I can't quite make out the letters, other than the date on it, which is 1954.
We took a bus ride around the Ring of Kerry. This was a place that we stopped.
"Marie, très sainte mère et sainte reine du ciel et de la terre, ma très sainte mère et ma très sainte reine, je vous adore, j'ai confiance en vous et je vous remercie énormément pour toutes les choses que vous faites pour moi, pour être dans ma vie et dans la vie de ma famille."
"Mary, very holy Mother and very holy Queen of Heaven and Earth, my very holy Mother and my very holy Queen, I adore you, I place my trust in you, and I thank you deeply for all the things you've done for me, for being in my life and in the life of my family."
~Marianne from Togo
Stations of the Cross from l'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont Royal, Montreal, Canada.
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.
la Vierge noire ou Notre-Dame de la Confession, en noyer (fin XIIème ou début XIVème), dans la crypte de l'abbaye St-Victor à Marseille [13007]
Honor Your Mother
Thousands of local Catholics gathered for the first ever diocesan-sponsored celebration honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe. The community converged on downtown Phoenix Dec. 10, 2006, for a procession, Mass with Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, eucharistic adoration, live music and prayer.
Photo by Robert DeFrancesco, www.catholicsun.org
"My understanding of Mary has really grown; of her being not just a mother who's there to support me but a mother who's there to encourage me and lead me. And I've been really growing in the knowledge of her as that first disciple. She's just so awesome because she leads us, she leads the way to her son."
~Angela from England
Image of Our Lady from Holy Trinity Church (Anglican), Coventry, Warwickshire, England.
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]
"Maria is for me an ideal, perfect woman. She is not only the mother of Jesus Christ, but she is the mother of all people of the world. I know that some say that everything is not well in the world, I know that she loves me and that she loves everyone in the world. I think she is for a woman a leader and I think she should be leader for all women in all the world. John Paul II said, "Totus Tuus Maria, Totus Tuus" and I think it should be our slogan in our life - Totus Tuus Maria."
~Wanda from Poland
Stained glass of the Nativity in the Cathedral-Basilica of the Assumption in Covington, Kentucky, USA.
"I think Mary is really inspirational to me because she was chosen by God to receive Jesus, which in itself is really, really good. And Mary to me is a really kind person and she is my hero and she leads the way, and when I need help I pray to her, and she is a really good person."
~Sannida, age 12, from India
Gardens of the Carmel of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, USA.
"Mother Mary, she's done a lot for me, she means a lot to me and my family. With the four kids I've had, I called upon her when I was in labour and she interceded immediately. If I'm in difficult moments, I call upon her, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, she comes immediately and intercedes. So she's been a great intercessor .. I feel people should endeavour to honour her - whatever you call her, she will be able to listen to you."
~Beatrice from Nigeria
Small icon of Our Lady from Prague, Czech Repbulic.