The Jesuit father Antoine Kerhuel introduces us to meditation, with the readings of the Solemnity of Saint Mary, Mother of God. First reading: Num 6, 22-27 Psalm: Ps 66 (67), 2-3, 5, 6.8 Second reading: Ga 4, 4-7 Gospel: Lk 2, 16-21 In this 1er January 2023, we celebrate Mary, Mother of God. We also … Read more
Mother of the Church, Queen of Heaven, Queen of Purgatory… The Virgin Mary has many titles including that of Queen of Angels. But how is this possible when by her human nature, she is inferior to them? Do you know that Aleteia lives only thanks to the generosity of its readers? I GIVE Aleteia really … Read more
“Today’s solemnity does not celebrate an abstract idea, but a mystery and a historical fact: Jesus Christ, divine person, born of the Virgin Mary who is his true Mother”. In his meditation on the texts of the liturgy for this Sunday, January 1, 2023, solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, Msgr. Francesco … Read more
– Mary belongs totally to God – To be part of a divine family – Loyalty in what is big and in what is small AN ANCIENT tradition says that the Virgin’s parents, Saint Joachim and Saint Anne, took her to the temple in Jerusalem. She stayed there for some time in the company of … Read more
And you thought Hunter Biden’s drug addicts took him on out-of-body experiments! The newest member of Joe Biden’s extended family thinks she went to heaven in 1999 when she ‘drowned’ while kayaking – and said God’s pearly gates were so amazing she “did not want to return to earth”. President Joe Biden’s granddaughter – Hunter’s … Read more
Born in Toledo, around 607, of Gothic parents, he was first a monk then Abbot of the Abbey of Saint-Cosme-et-Saint-Damien d’Agali, near Toledo. He then became Archbishop of Toledo in 657. He died in 667. He wrote a Defense of the perpetual virginity of Mary. This writing ends with a long prayer of which here … Read more
Dilemma: How to continue to eat cheese, when we are convert to veganism ? It is to this difficult question that Mary Carmen Jähnke confronted herself, who, despite being a native of Venezuela, is nonetheless steeped in culture French. “France adopted me. I couldn’t live in cheese country without eating it! she shouts happily. So … Read more
On the occasion of the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, celebrated on September 15, discover the rosary dedicated to the seven greatest sufferings endured by the Virgin Mary. She is called the “Mother of Sorrows”. The life of the Virgin Mary was a “painful journey” from the moment Simeon said to her in the … Read more
Sunday July 17, four texts will be read.First reading Book of Genesis (Gn 18, 1-10a).Psalm 14.Second reading Letter of Saint Paul to the Colossians (Col 1, 24-28).The Gospel according to Saint Luke (Lk 10, 38-42). Luke 10, 38-42 “At that time Jesus entered a village. A woman named Marthe received him. She had a sister … Read more
“Mother of the Church” since the IXe century Where to find the premises of this assertion? Saint Augustine and Saint Leo the Great, two fathers of the Church, glimpse its outlines. The first says that Mary is “the mother of the members of Christ “. ” The whole community of the faithful was begotten with … Read more