Ad Maoirem De Gloriam

ACT OF CONSECRATION TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY   We have recourse to your protection, O holy Mother of God, “As we recite the words of this antiphon with which the Church of Christ has prayed for centuries, we find ourselves today before you, our Mother, in this Year of Faith. We, who make up the “Body of Christ” present in our land, recite the words of this present Act of Consecration and Entrustment, in which we gather, first of all, the hopes and anxieties of our Filipino people, at this moment of our history.  Mother of our people, we who rejoice in the name, “Pueblo amante de Maria”, bayang sumisinta kay Maria – you know all our sufferings and our hopes, you who have a mother’s awareness of all the struggles between good and evil, between light and darkness, which afflict the world today. Mother of our people, accept the cry which we, deeply moved by the Holy Spirit, address directly to your heart.  Embrace with the love of the Mother and Handmaid of th...

September 10, 2012. (Romereports.com) Benedict XVI received the participants of the International Marian Congress. For one week, this group of Mariologists reflected on the evolution of theology on the Virgin Mary after Vatican II. The Pope asked them to help give more strength to the Christian faith. BENEDICT XVI “As you know, on October 11, to remember that extraordinary event, we will solemnly begin the Year of Faith, that I wanted to orient with the Motu Proprio 'Porta Fidei,' which presents Mary as a model of faith, I invoke your special protection and advocacy on the path of the Church entrusted in her, blessed because she believed, this time of grace.” During the audience, the Pope recalled his own participation in the Second Vatican Council. He described how it was decided that the figure of the Virgin Mary would be studied in one of the main documents. While greeting the pope, some of the participants gave gifts to him, such as this image of the Virgin Mary and th...

Mariology Society of America President Reflects on Rosary and Our Lady's Comeback By Ann Schneible ROME, SEPT. 6, 2012 (Zenit.org).- "Through this Year of Faith, in the new evangelization of the Church, Mary is the mother who is also the leader of evangelization" -- these are the words of Father James Phalan, president of the Mariology Society of America, and a participant in this year's conference "Mariology since Vatican II," hosted by the Pontifical Antonianum University and currently under way in Rome. The 23rd International Marian Mariological congress, which was organized by the International Pontifical Marian Academy, runs all this week, exploring the theme of Marian devotion and theological methodology in the years following the Second Vatican Council. In addition to his position as president of the Mariology Society of America, Father Phalan is a member of the Congregation of the Holy Cross where he serves as director of Family Rosary In...

  The first motivation to pray the Rosary that I would like to look at in depth are the Gospels. Many of the Rosary's prayers and Mysteries are rooted in the written Gospels. This will inspire us to pray the Holy Rosary in proportion to the level of belief we have in the Holy Gospels. Strictly speaking, it is not a matter of evidence but one of faith that allows us to fully believe in the events and words recorded in the Gospels. Even still, there is much in the way of evidence for us to examine so that our faith does not have to work so hard. First we can compare how well the modern texts of the Gospels match up with those used in ancient times. We don't have the original copies of the Gospels. But there are literally thousands of cataloged manuscripts and fragments of manuscripts of the New Testament. By examining the ancient Greek New Testament manuscripts we can conclude that the modern text of the New Testament goes back to at least 200 A.D. Since there a...

 taken from PrayOften.net The Rosary is a Marian Devotion. This will motivate us to pray the Rosary in proportion to the degree that we are motivated to honor Mary. So, in this chapter we are going to talk about devotion to Mary with the aim of generating within ourselves a great desire for this devotion, thereby motivating us to pray the Rosary. In the previous lesson, we concluded that the same Gospels that we read today were also reverenced by the early Christians. In a similar spirit, Blessed John Henry Newman (1801 - 1890) set about the task of showing that the beliefs and devotions that we have today regarding Mary are the very same as those practiced by the early Christians. In one of his manuscripts, Blessed John Newman quotes 12 different early Christian writers and shows that from the very beginning Mary was recognized as a type of "second Eve." Let's consider what that implies.  Adam, who was charged by God with the naming of all things, c...

Hail, holy Lady, Most holy Qu een, Mary, Mother of God, ... Ever Virgin; Chosen by the most holy Father in Heaven, Consecrated by him, With his most holy beloved Son And the Holy Spirit, the comforter. On you descended and in you still remains All the fullness of grace And every good. Hail, his Palace. Hail, his Tabernacle. Hail, his Robe. Hail, his Handmaid. Hail, his Mother. And hail, all holy virtues, Who, by the grace And inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Are poured into the hearts of the faithful So that, faithless no longer, They may be made faithful servants of God through you.

  The first motivation to pray the Rosary that I would like to look at in depth are the Gospels. Many of the Rosary's prayers and Mysteries are rooted in the written Gospels. This will inspire us to pray the Holy Rosary in proportion to the level of belief we have in the Holy Gospels. Strictly speaking, it is not a matter of evidence but one of faith that allows us to fully believe in the events and words recorded in the Gospels. Even still, there is much in the way of evidence for us to examine so that our faith does not have to work so hard. First we can compare how well the modern texts of the Gospels match up with those used in ancient times. We don't have the original copies of the Gospels. But there are literally thousands of cataloged manuscripts and fragments of manuscripts of the New Testament. By examining the ancient Greek New Testament manuscripts we can conclude that the modern text of the New Testament goes back to at least 200 A.D. Since the...