Laetare Sunday is after the mid-point of Lent, when Holy Mother Church reminds us Easter is soon coming.

The Litany's titles set before us Mary's exalted privileges, her holiness of life, her amiability and the power of her heavenly intercession

Pope Pius VII wrote seven prayers to honor Our Lady of Sorrows in 1815 and to obtain the seven graces Mary promises.

Learn the miraculous story of the Virgin Mother's apparitions to St. Catherine Labouré, and of the Miraculous Medal we have receiv.

The Song of Bernadette tells the miraculous story of the Virgin Mary's appearances to St. Bernadette at Lourdes.

The old man in the Temple, Simeon, holds the infant Lord in his arms. He embraces the Christ Child in his arms.

The Ensemble, Voces 8, gives a stirring performance of the Gustav Holst setting of the Canticle of Simeon.

Simeon was priest in the Jerusalem Temple who had been promised by the Holy Spirit that he would not die until he had seen the Messiah.

The celebration of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, reminds and challenges us to value our family life, hidden from the world.

The Scripture teaches us that the three Wise Men discover Jesus "together with His Mother” (Mt. 2:11).

Mozart's Magnificat (K 339) was written for use in the Salzburg Cathedral. This was Mozart's final choral work composed for the cathedral.

The hymn Alma Redemptoris Mater based on the writings of Saints Fulgentius, Epiphanius, and Irenaeus of Lyon.

Mary’s fullness of grace prepared the New Covenant Daughter of Zion for something the Old Covenant people of God could never have fathom.

Probably Franciscan in origin, the Carol, Angelus ad Virginem, was brought to Britain by French friars in the 13th century.

"Tota pulchra es" is one of the five antiphons for the psalms of Second Vespers for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.

Mary is the most beautiful flower that ever was seen in the spiritual world. In the garden of heaven, Mary is the mystical and hidden rose.

Two classes of people were able to discern the importance of Christ’s birth—the humble and the wise.

Originally trained as a medical doctor, Busto taught himself music, but discovered choral music later. His music stirs the soul.

Noel Edison directs the Choir of St John's, Elora, singing Healey Willan's Marian Motet, I Beheld her Beautiful as a Dove, HWC 312.

Written shortly before the Russian revolution, this excerpt from the "Vespers" of Rachmaninoff is a sublime prayer to the Virgin Mary.