Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack Diamonds and fireflies If they couldn’t lean against Black. . . .

Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen her bosom as dwelling-place.

…Mary, fresh with feminist appropriations, has the potential to undergird women’s reformations.

End means end. Complete and total destruction. She wants to kill everyone and everything. She wants to bring down every building, burn every forest, empty every ocean of life. She wants to turn the earth...

Fortunately the essence of this revelation did not escape Mary despite the angel’s obscure speech, and, much surprised, she asked him, So Jesus is my son and the son of the Lord, Woman, what are...

All love tends to become like that which it loves. God loved man; therefore He became man. For nine months her own body was the natural Eucharist, in which God shared communion with human life,...

One thing that became clear to me is that images of a divine mother are surprisingly important in the psychological wholeness of women, especially in the process of women taking up residence in their own...

‎There is nothing sweeter than finding the right person to love and cherish and to share your hopes and dreams with.

Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there’s no one left to tell those stories? To hear them? Who will ever know that I existed? What if we are...

Do you not see the Madonna always beside the tabernacle?

Never refuse any who ask you for help; if your pockets are empty, give them hope. Your every action must be born of kindness, your every word spoken with love. Live as God would have...

The telescope destroyed the firmament, did away with the heaven of the New Testament, rendered the ascension of our Lord and the assumption of his Mother infinitely absurd, crumbled to chaos the gates and palaces...

Parents have to instill the right principles in their children, but then it’s up to the children to live up to those principles.

I will always need you,’ I whisper. ‘All of this time I’ve waited for you. And you were never coming for me. Why did you let me wait for you?’ (p. 257).

Ash? Get bent and die.

Do everything with the greatest possible calm and serenity and out of the greatest, purest and holiest love of Jesus and Mary.

..love lays bare your soul.

The sense of the joy in anything is the sense of Christ.

It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women, the feminine element stands at the heart of the Christian religion.

As for those who state that it is thanks to a woman, the lady Eve, that man was expelled from paradise, my answer to them would be that man has gained far more through Mary...

‎I cannot alter the past, but the future is very much in my hands.

One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born. The innkeeper was not hostile; he was not opposed to them, but his...

When also I am told that a woman, called the Virgin Mary, said, or gave out, that she was with child without any cohabitation with a man, and that her betrothed husband, Joseph, said that...

The only people who soul can truly magnify the Lord are…people who acknowledge their lowly estate and are overwhelmed by the condescension of the magnificent God.

Every relationship must have a starting point so that past errors may remain in the past.

Rosa Mystica’The rose is a mystery’–where is it found?Is it anything true? Does it grow upon the ground?It was made of earth’s mould, but it went from men’s eyes,And its place is a secret and...

The story of the angel announcing what the church calls the immaculate conception, is not so much as mentioned in the books ascribed to Mark, and John; and is differently related in Matthew and Luke....

climbing down of God” is: Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary! Here is a human being, the Virgin Mary, and as he comes from God, Jesus comes also from this human being. Born of the Virgin...

‎Does anyone truly understand females? …Their behavior is opposite of everything in the natural order and flies in the face of logic.

But the work which most richly embroidered the gospel narratives and was destined to exert a tremendous influence on later Mariology was the Protoevangelium of James. Written for Mary’s glorification, this described her divinely ordered...

Poor Mary. They married her to Jesus, and Jesus is an asexual circumcised revolutionary. What future is there to be had in that scenario?

We must live with our hearts in our hands – like Mary.We must hold the blood-red heart and no be disappointedwhen others look away.

‎With adulthood comes responsibility.

Hi Lady, Hi Woman.., all that Naomi had, all that Mary had, all that Esther had, all that Elizabeth had, YOU ALSO HAVE… Go, make your dreams come true!

Mary knew God loved her. From the moment Gabriel appeared to her, Mary has a distinct sense that God’s presence was with her and His hand upon her. She didn’t understand everything that was happening,...

Have you strayed from the path leading to heaven? Then call on Mary, for her name means “Star of the Sea, the North Star which guides the ships of our souls during the voyage of...

Do not descend, but rise above so ill-mannered a person.

When you are happy for other people’s dreams, your dreams start jumping up with joy. Elizabeth was happy with Mary and her dream baby was jumping in her womb crazily for joy!

The rising influence of lay piety is particularly marked upon the Mariological controversies of the late medieval period. Two rival positions developed: the maculist position, which held that Mary was subject to original sin, in...

And,” added Mikey. “she’s my sister.”The others looked at him for a moment, and broke out laughing.”Yeah, yeah,” Squirrel scoffed, “and the McGill is my cousin.”Now Allie burst out laughing, which made Mikey more annoyed.”If...

‎Determination, effort, and practice are rewarded with success.

Her (Mary’s) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world.

She [the Virgin Mary] was normal. She had already had other children. The Bible tells us that Jesus had two brothers. Virginity, as it relates to Jesus, is based on a different thing: Mary initiated...

Don’t you recognize me, Mary? It’s your good friend Allie the Outcast – although it looks like you’re the one who’s the out-cast now.” Then Allie realized something with far too much glee. “Now that...