Last Chance for Fatima Statues
A Portugal-based businessman who has donated 1250 statues of Our Lady of Fatima to parishes and institutions around the world is inviting parishes and schools to apply for one of the last 50 statues...
Category: Our Lady
Knock: A Place Where Our Lady Was Silent
Unlike most other Marian apparitions, that in Knock was silent. Having visited Knock as part of the Southern Cross pilgrimage to Ireland in August, GÜNTHER SIMMERMACHERreflects on the shrine. There have been reported...
National Rosary Rallies Next Month
The “South Africa Needs Our Lady” campaign is again calling for “public square Rosary rallies” throughout the country next month. This entails groups of people — friends and family or whole parishes — praying...
India’s Great Shrine to Our Lady of Vailankanni
A major shrine of Marian devotion is dedicated to Our Lady of Vailankanni in Southern India which draws huge throngs, even of non-Christian pilgrims. WALTER MIDDLETON writes about the shrine and recalls a personal miracle.
Knysna Rosary Group Prays for Priests
The St Boniface Rosary group of Knysna has marked its 30th anniversary with a Mass celebrated by Fr Christian Odionye SAC
The Rosary: A Weapon to Win All Battles
Catholic leaders throughout many centuries have encouraged the praying of the Rosary. Prof MICHAEL OGUNU looks at the virtues of praying the rosary
This is the Woman My Mary Is
Serialong Lebasa, Vereeniging – “Who is Mary to you?”, Fr Emmanuel Dim SMA of Vereeniging asked at a Mass this month. A handful of us gave different answers. I did not raise my hand,...
Ok, What’s a Scapular?
Fr Boniface D’Souza OCD – Originally it was a practical garment. A scapular was a type of work apron, consisting of large pieces of cloth front and back, joined over the shoulders with strips...
How to Prepare for Fatima’s 100 Years
As the Church prepares for the 100th anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima, Prof Michael Ogunu suggests ways in which the local Church can celebrate the centenary. In 1916 an angel appeared to three...
First and Only US Marian Shrine
Nearly 160 years ago, on Oct. 9, 1859, Mary appeared to a young Belgian immigrant living in Kewaunee County. Today, it is the only approved Marian apparition site in the United States. The US bishops...
Our Lady of Guadalupe isn’t just a Mexican Tradition
The feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe has been a religious and cultural hallmark for Mexican Catholics for centuries, but the custom received little attention from Western Catholics before the last few decades. With...
Prayers to Mary, Patroness of SA
From Ornella Pasqua, Pretoria Are we as Church in South Africa praying enough for our country, its people and its future? And who better to inundate with prayers from South Africa than South Africa’s...
