Nellie Edward/ PaintedFaith Dear Blessed Mother, I owe you a long overdue apology. Recently, in adoration, while contemplating the suffering and death of Jesus, I glanced upon an image of you. I thought of you watching the torture and death of your Son. I realized that it was thoughtless of me to never have told you…
Twelve years ago, a brief article in the Marian Helper magazine caught my attention. “My mother never gave up on me,” I read. “Even though I dropped out of high school, she never gave up on me, and now I’m becoming a priest.” That simple little story spoke volumes. I was on the lookout for…
Mary was assumed into heaven, body and soul. Yeah right, some non-Catholic Christians say. I once even heard a Catholic with Protestant leanings say, “Mary was just a person, no different than the rest of us.” Oh PLEEZE people! Mary’s assumption only makes sense. If God took Elijah up into heaven in a whirlwind, why…
I learned to pray the rosary in 1989 while in my early thirties. I vowed to say it daily. But a few weeks after the birth of a new baby, I decided to skip it in favor of getting to sleep. That’s when a Divine message let me know, it’s worth staying…
“Hey Patti, I’m getting serious about praying for my family. I’m going to do a 40-day fast and daily rosary, do you want to join me?” My friend Shellie Rusch asked me this recently. She has six kids and we have a spiritual sisterhood in many ways. As a wife and mother of ten, I…
When we’ve messed up, we should run to our mother. Scripture makes it clear. At the wedding at Cana, either the wine list or the guest list was miscalculated. Someone messed up. Mary told Jesus about it, and he saved the day by turning water into wine. But why would the Savior of the World…
Mary, Untier of Knots In honor of the month of May, here are two beautiful devotions to Mary. I’d love to hear the results if you participate in either of these. Pope Francis’s Devotion The first one, “Mary Undoer of Knots” also known as “Our Lady Untier of Knots,” I came…
I am a recovering feminist. Getting married in the Eighties was my first step when I changed my mind about keeping my own name. I went with logic. A long hyphenated name would be nothing but trouble over the long haul. And what does the second generation do if two people with…
You are a dummy if you do not friend the Blessed Mother, the best thing this side of God. Mary is the very best friend we could ever have. Yet, there are some out there who don’t even bother accepting her friendship. In general, Protestants don’t include her in their social circles but there are also…
At times, it seems that Moslems and Christians have no common ground. Yet, there is one who can bring us together–Mary, our Blessed Mother. Mary is greatly loved by both Muslims and Catholics. There are differences in our devotions to her, but Bishop Fulton Sheen once stated that he believed it would be through Mary that…
“You Catholics have that Mary thing,” a non-Catholic recently commented to a friend of mine. Yes, we sure do and it’s one of the best things going. Our Blessed Mother has real pull with our Savior–something we can all use. A good word put in by her proved quite effective at the wedding at Cana…