Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy's first memoir is coming out next fall, a book inspired by the death of her mother. Roy, ...

There is, of course, a biblical basis for that: Jesus was explicit about entrusting us to her care: “Behold your Mother!” “Behold your son!” (John 19:26-27). The Church has always understood that ...

Today we rejoice as the family of God, the Church. We are many peoples and we have one mother, who is the mother of God, the ...

"Holy Mary / Mother of God / Pray for us sinners / now / and at the hour of our death / Amen." The gap between "now" and "the hour of our death" lessens with each minute, with each recitation of the ...

“A mother’s love,” Rubin says ... rebooted itself and killed the cancer—that was all done through God.” Mary has many faces. In Haiti she’s Ezili Dantò—the Black Madonna.

"In union with the whole Church we honor Mary, the ever-virgin mother of Jesus Christ our Lord and God." 5 "Make us worthy to share eternal life with Mary, the virgin Mother of God." 6 "Enable us to ...

(State your intention) O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes, glorious in your assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God ...

Fourth, Mary is Queen of Heaven for several reasons: She is the Mother of God, who bore Jesus Christ, conceived by the Holy Spirit. Her role in human salvation is unique and irreplaceable.

The Blessed Virgin Mary holds her first and most important role as the Mother of God. In her womb was conceived Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, the second person of the Blessed Trinity ...

[Luke 1:43; NAB] Elizabeth refers to Mary as "the mother of my Lord." Elsewhere in Luke 1, the title "Lord" refers to God, e.g. "an angel of the Lord" [Luke 1:11]. It should be noted that the name ...