Learn the connection between Our Lady and the Burning Bush.

On this feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, we hear the contribution of the young Handel.

Pray the Novena to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel (July 7 to 15) to prepare for her feast on July 16th. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, pray for us.

Fr. Scott Haynes Feast of Our Lady of Montserrat April 27 There are moments in life when words fail us. When suffering presses too deeply, when confusion clouds the mind, when even prayer seems distant or difficult. In such moments, the Church places on our lips not a long formula, but a single word—ancient, universal, and full of power: Mother. This is how the Christian heart learns to pray when it can no longer rely on its own strength. It is the cry of the child who does n

Fr. Scott Haynes When a family prepares for the Enthronement of the Sacred Heart, a beautiful question sometimes arises: should the Immaculate Heart of Mary also be honored in the home? The question is not merely decorative, as though one were simply choosing which holy images should hang in the living room. It touches the very structure of Catholic devotion, the biblical vision of the Kingdom of David, and the place given by God Himself to the Mother of the King. The answer

Join in the Novena of Our Lady of Perpetual Help to ask her intercession.

Fr. Scott Haynes A Meditation on Mary's Queenship May 31 Long ago, in the kingdom of Israel, the king sat upon his throne. He wore the crown. He held the royal power. His word carried authority throughout the land. Yet beside him there was often another throne. It did not belong to the king’s wife. It belonged to his mother. In the kingdom of David and Solomon, the mother of the king had a special place of honor. She was the Queen Mother. She stood close to the king, not as h

On this final day of the month of May, the Church fittingly crowns her Marian devotion by celebrating the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Fr. Scott Haynes On the fiftieth day after the Resurrection of Christ, the promise of the Holy Ghost descended upon the Church in a scene unparalleled in majesty and power. While Sacred Scripture recounts this moment in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 2:1-4), Venerable Mary of Agreda, a 17th-century Franciscan nun, was graced with detailed private revelations recorded in her monumental mystical work, The Mystical City of God. Her account not only magnifies the awe and wonder o

Join in the novena in honor of Mary and her Queenship.

Father Pavlicek made a pilgrimage to the Marian shrine of Mariazell Basilica and Mary inspired him to start a Rosary Crusade.

We honor Our Lady for her apparitions at Fatima, Portugal, and heed the message to repent and believe in the Gospel.

Fr. Scott Haynes This prayer, written be St. Bartolo Longo, approved and indulgenced by Pope Leo XIII, is to be prayed on May 8, and on the first Sunday of October. It may be prayed also at the conclusion of the 54 Day Rosary Novena. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. I. O august Queen of victories, Virgin who reignest in paradise, whose mighty name causes Heaven to rejoice and hell to tremble, O glorious Queen of the most holy Rosary, we

Fr. Scott Haynes On May 8, the Church honors Our Lady of Pompeii, also known as Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii. It is a feast born in a place of ashes, ruins, poverty, and spiritual renewal. Ancient Pompeii is famous for death, for the buried city, for the sudden silence left by Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. Yet near those ruins there rose another Pompeii, a Christian Pompeii, where the Rosary became a sign of resurrection. The feast is closely tied to St. Bartolo Longo, the

Rev. Scott A. Haynes The Mother Through Whom Christ Gives His Gifts Among the most beautiful teachings in Catholic tradition is the conviction that the Blessed Virgin Mary exercises a maternal mediation for the people of God. The Church has long invoked her under titles such as Advocate, Helper, Auxiliatrix, and Mediatrix. These titles do not place Mary alongside Jesus Christ as though she were equal to Him. Rather, they reveal the astonishing generosity of Christ, who wills

Honor your mother by enrolling her in the novena for Mother's Day. May Our Blessed Mother intercede for our mothers, living and deceased.

As we contemplate the Annunciation, may we marvel at the mystery of God becoming man for our salvation.

In studying the liturgical art for the important feasts of the Church year, one of the most impressive is the Icon of the Annunciation.

Beginning on March 25, the feast of the Annunciation, we pray a novena to ask Mary's intercession.

Ave Regina by Stopford is a moving motet for Lent.