Mary
The Feast of the Annunciation
Today is bigger than Christmas. Today, the Feast of the Annunciation, celebrates the instant God became incarnate, nine months before His birthday on Christmas. A movement has blossomed within the pro-life community to also recognize this day as “The Day of the Unborn Child.” Just as God became human at the annunciation, so each of…
Read MoreMary’s Helping Hands is joining the pro-life force
Sometimes the most beautiful blessings are born at inconvenient times. Mary’s Helping Hands is one of those blessings. Lauren Burke and Carissa Wright (above), co-founders of Mary’s Helping Hands, are both mothers right in the thick of things. Crying babies. Short nights. Older kids’ activities. Laundry and more laundry. It can be exhausting. Any average…
Read MoreThe most important words ever spoken in human history
Any honest conversation on abortion includes two important issues, both of which have something to do with the Catholic celebration of the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, which occurs New Year’s Day. More than one life is at stake Regarding abortion, our national dialogue has to acknowledge that more than one human life is…
Read MoreThe Missionary Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe comes to the IFL Banquet!
By Tom Quiner The mysterious tilma The day was December 9th, 1531. It was the Feast of the Immaculate Conception in the Spanish Empire. A peasant by the name of Juan Diego was walking and encountered the vision of a teenage girl bathed in light. She asked the peasant to have a church built on…
Read MoreThe most beautiful woman in human history is still hated
No woman has been hated more than the most beautiful woman in the world. Who is this woman of extraordinary beauty? Her name is Mary, the Mother of Jesus, the Christ. Artists, like Carlo Maratti, have painted her more than any other woman in history. Isn’t his “La Virgen en contemplación” (above) lovely? Modern man…
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