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– Handout of Lesson 2 of Solid Foundations Course: “Our Lady in Spiritual Life” (videos of Lesson 2: First Part, Second Part)

  1. Mary Helps us Know Jesus
  2. Our Place in God, our Place in Mary Mary, the New Jerusalem
  3. The Weak vs. The Strong Mediation of Mary
  4. Mary and Us, Summary
  5. Mary in Our Spiritual Life (This interview gives a well-rounded treatment of the subject.)
  6. The First Believer: Mary as the Channel of Grace and Faith in Luke’s Gospel
  7. Luke’s Final Pentecost Mary in St. Luke’s Gospel
  8. St. John Gospel’s Structure
  9. Transfiguration, the Assumption and Cana
  10. How Mary is Necessary for our Faith
  11. “All the Predestinate are hidden in Mary’s Womb”
  12. Our Place is in Mary’s Heart
  13. Important Theological Clarifications for the Spiritual Life
  14. Conversation on Mary’s Faith and Ours
  15. “Whatever He Tells You, do it”
  16. Mary, the Prophecy Mary of the Eighth Day
  1. Apostolic Constitution Ineffabilis Deus on the Immaculate Conception, Pius IX
  2. The Immaculate Conception in the Light of Christ our Saviour
  3. The Sign of the Times: Understanding Modernity from a Catholic Perspective (The Birth of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception)
  4. The Practical use of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception
  5. New Reflections on the Mystery of Lourdes
  6. In Her Light: The Immaculate Heart and the Reception of the Word
  7. The Practical Use of the Dogma of the Assumption
  8. Mary’s Role in The Resurrection
  9. The Resurrection, a Nuptial Mystery
  10. Where did Jesus Go? The Ascension of the Lord. (This is particularly complex and generally best avoided.)
  11. After Union With Jesus, Where Do We Go?
  12. Celebrating Our Lady of Mount Carmel    Watch the Video also
  13. Holy Mary, Mother of God
  1. Mary’s Offering by Maartje Skare.
  2. Why and How Mary in the Prayer of the Heart?
  3. How Can We Enter into The Sacred Heart? (About Mary)
  4. Two Ways to Say the Rosary
  5. Holding your Rosary during the Prayer of the Heart
  6. Mary’s Humility in St. Teresa of Avila, A Secret to Trigger God’s Grace
  7. Mary’s Fiery Prayer
  8. Mary’s Powerful Prayer (The Meaning of the O Antiphons in Advent)
  9. A Mysterious Warfare (A deep form of apostolate/evangelisation)
  10. The Nativity of Our Lady in Liturgy
  11. The one who Contains What Heavens Can’t Contain
  12. Mary and Wisdom in the Old Testament
  13. Mary and Lectio: see the book “Lectio Divina at the School of Mary”, Part III., available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk .
  14. “After Three Days They Found Him in the Temple”
  15. The Profound Mystery of Divine Friendship
  16. “This Is Not a Lie, It Is a Mystery”: A Marian Reading of Jacob and Esau by Maartje Skare
  17. Marian Centrality in the Ecclesial and Priestly Vision of Jean-Jacques Olier: A Forgotten Axis of Clerical Formation       More developed here.
  18. When God “loses his senses” (On Mary’s influence on God)
  19. Mary, God’s World and Delight
  20. Mary and The Words of the Apostles
  21. Virginity of Body and Soul: Mary as the Model of Spiritual Union

Texts on Our Lady

  1. The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God in the Mystery of Christ and the Church (Vatican II Council, Lumen Gentium)
  2. Paul VI: “We proclaim the Most Blessed Mary Mother of the Church”
  3. “Redemptoris Mater”, Encyclical Letter of St. John Paul II on On the Blessed Virgin Mary in the life of the Pilgrim Church.
  4. On The Most Holy Rosary of St. John Paul II
  5. Mary and the Parable of the Sower : Mary The Good Soil (Pope Francis,…)
  6. Introducing the Carmelite Mystics (See “Mary and the Carmelite Mystics”) (Christopher O’Donnell O Carm.)
  7. Michael of St. Augustine (1621–1684) and Maria Petyt (1623–1677) (From Steven Payne OCD, The Carmelite Tradition)
  8. On Our Lady’s Consent in the Annunciation (St. Bernard)
  9. The Interior Life of Mary According To Monsieur Olier
  10. Mary and the Formation of the Priest
  11. Mary, Ark of the Covenant, by Scott Hahn
  12. John Paul II on Grignon de Montfort
  13. St. Grignon de Montfort: “The Secret of Mary”(English/French)   In Pdf, Important Book
  14. St. Louis Marie Grignon de Montfort “True Devotion to Mary”.  In Pdf Important Book
  15. The Holy Spirit, Grace, and Our Lady in The Secret of Mary
  16. See the book “Mary in the Catechesis of St. John Paul II”
  17. The Blessed Virgin Mary in the Life and Ministry of the Priest
  18. Biblical Theology and Marian Studies, by Scott Hahn
  19. “Life of Union With Mary”, Fr Emile Neubert
  20. The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin (M. Valtorta)
  21. Maria Petyt (1623-1677) (in French)
  22. Mary and the Church, Pope Benedict, 8th December 2005
  23. Our Lady ‘Remedy’ for the Contemporary Challenges, Card Ratzinger/Pope Benedict
  24. “The Relationship Between Mary and the Holy Spirit in the Work of René Laurentin (1917-2017): A biographical Approach”, by Catherine Jones
  25. Prayer to Saint Mary to Obtain the Love of Christ and of Herself
  26. Msgr Arthur Calkins
  27. Mary in the Mystery of Christ and of the Church, in the Light of the Theology of the Saints – Fr. François-Marie Léthel OCD.

– See Articles on Mary in Advent and Christmas Here

– Playlist of Videos on Our Lady (click here)

Screenshot 2020-05-03 at 03.30.29The goal of this short work is to present the final version of St. Luke’s theological account of Pentecost. Throughout the different amendments of his texts, St. Luke had different approaches to the event of Pentecost. The versions of Luke and Acts we have today in the New Testament are his final amended versions. In them we have a revolutionized way of understanding how Pentecost is applied and lived by each and every reader of his work. What is most surprising is that one event overshadows the rest, both in Acts and throughout Luke’s entire Gospel, most importantly in Chapter 1, and at its very heart – the Visitation of Mary to her kinswoman Elisabeth. Indeed this event illustrates that we are all called to be like Elisabeth and receive the Visit of Our Lady, bearing Our Lord, and to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Amazon.co.uk Amazon.com

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There is no denying the fact that it is necessary to understand the correct place of Mary in our prayer life, and furthermore we need to accept Mary’s prayer in us, so when we pray, we pray perfectly, using the Fire of Mary’s Prayer. In this book, the deliberate intention is to go through the different elements of prayer, and combine them with each other at each stage, so that they culminate in our accepting and receiving Mary’s own perfect worship, learning how to make it ours. Buy it on Amazon.co.uk and on Amazon.com

The interior life of Mary, in Monsieur Olier’s letters

One of the greatest French Catholic mystics of the 17th Century contemplates the deep and spiritual relationship that exists between Jesus and Mary. For Olier this is the mystery of mysteries – up to now so little known, loved and respected. For the first time extracts from his letters – an incomparable treasure – are translated into English; a message with great influence for our own spiritual life and world today. (kindle Amazon UK – Amazon  US)

“It would be easier to separate light from the sun than Mary from Jesus.” (Grignon de Montfort.)

Mary in the Catechesis of John Paul II

This book contains the seventy Wednesday Catecheses of Pope St. John Paul II on Our Lady: from September 1995 to November 1997. They are part of his great Catechesis on the Creed. This Catechesis is of utmost interest since it comes after his Encyclical Letter on Our Lady (1987), “Redemptoris Mater” and after the publication of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992). These seventy Catecheses constitute a complete Treatise on Our Lady from the most authoritative voice. Solid, accessible, informative, and a good foundation. The book has six additional Catecheses on Our Lady and the Holy Spirit. ( Amazon US – Amazon UK)