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April 14, 2000

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Features Easter Resources Pope John Paul II and Marian News Marianists & Apparitions Call for Artists Sorrowful Mother Shrine We Recommend Stations of the Cross Grotto of Our Lady of Guadalupe Biber's Rosary Sonatas Under the Gun The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Catholicism Mary in the Secular Press Calendar of Marian Events Prayer Corner Requests

Items Re-visited Lenten Resources Akathist Hymn Archive: News 1995-96 Archive: News 1997 Archive: News 1998 This week's themes: The Person of Mary William  Joseph Chaminade Vignette-22 / Cameo-22

Features

Easter Resources

Over the years, Mary Page has gathered resources which include the Blessed Virgin Mary in the celebration of the Easter Season. You are welcome to check our resources below. Please note our Lenten resources under the Items Re-visited section.

• The Paschal Triduum and Easter Season with Mary
  Mary was intimately united with her divine Son, Jesus Christ, during his suffering and death. These reflections are based on Scripture and the liturgies in honor of Mary during the Lenten season. Find them at The Paschal Triduum an Easter Season with Mary

• Mary Page Meditation: Mary's Resurrection Experience
  This meditation contemplates Mary, the Incarnation, and the Resurrection.
  See: Mary's Resurrection Experience

• Easter Poetry
  The pictures which accompany the Mary Page collection of Easter poetry each commemorate the Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary. Find them at: Easter Poetry

• Marian Prayers of Consecration for the Easter Season
  See: Prayers

• Marian Antiphon for the Easter Season
  The Regina Coeli is one of the four seasonal antiphons of the Blessed Virgin Mary prescribed to be sung or recited in the Easter Season. See: Regina Coeli

• Music for the Easter Season
  See: Music

• Mary and Jesus Christ: First/Fully Redeemed of Her Son
  The Church sees projected, and anticipated in her most noble member, the saving grace of Easter. See a study on post-Vatican II magisterial documents on this theme at: Magisterial Documents

• Masses in Honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary
  -- The Blessed Virgin Mary and the Resurrection of the Lord
  -- Holy Mary, Fountain of Light and Life
  -- Our Lady of the Cenacle
  -- The Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Apostles
  See description at: Masses

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  Pope John Paul II and Marian News

• "In the history of individuals and peoples it is Mary who discloses God's pedagogy to our communities and to the whole Church. She makes us responsive to faith, trust, and humble acceptance," the Pope told seminarians at the Pontifical Roman Major Seminary in Rome on its patronal feast day of Our Lady of Trust, March 4. During his address, reported by L'Osservatore Romano on March 22, he urged the young men to "Love Mary, our heavenly Mother," so that their example would "help many young people overcome the thousand fears of life and to open themselves to trust and commitment." He continued:

  "... let us continue to entrust our future commitments to Mary. May Our Lady of Trust guiide the seminary and accompany the Living One, who vanquishes fear and givies peace (cf. Jn 20, 19). May she help you to imitate the Good Samaritan, who pours oil and wine over the wounds of those who live iin Rome or who come to Rome from every part of the world (cf. Lk 10: 29-36). May Mary teach gladness of spirit to every young man who crosses the threshold of the seminary." (p. 5)

• The Pope consecrated the families of the Holy Land and the families of the world, to Mary, the Theotokos, the great Mother of God, during his homily at the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth on March 25, according to the L'Osservatore Romano's March 29 edition, which printed the complete text.

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  Marianists & Apparitions

  An editorial in the Winter 2000 edition of Mission, a publication of the Marianist's Cincinnati Province, features two professors (among others) of the International Marian Research Institute: Fr. Johann Roten, SM, Director, and Fr. Bertrand Buby, SM. Editor, Fr. Joseph Lackner, SM, has woven the teachings of the Church and the commentaries of the authors into excellent resources material on apparitions. If you are interested in obtaining Mission, please contact the editor at lackner@flyernet.udayton.edu.

  

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  Call for Artists – Art Rageous 2000

  Art Rageous, now in its 12th year, is a festival within a festival celebrating the arts with a gallery, hands-on workshops, on-grounds demonstrations, and seminars focusing on practical and spiritual issues that concern the Christian artist in today's world. The exhibit is part of Cornerstone Festival which takes place in Chicago from July 5-9, 2000. Deadline for entries is May 15, 2000.

  For more information call (773) 989-2087
  or e-mail: jcameron@jpusa.chi.il.us.

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  Sorrowful Mother Shrine

  Celebrating one hundred and fifty years.

  

  The Missionaries of the Precious Blood have served as founders and caretakers of the Sorrowful Mother Shrine at Bellevue, Ohio. The founder of the Sorrowful Mother shrine, Fr. Francis de Sales Brunner came to the United States, he and his seven priests and seven seminarians or brothers came from Europe to minister to the German Catholic farmers already settled in northcentral and northwest Ohio. In a woodland west of the their first mission house at Peru, Ohio, Fr. Brunner established a shrine similar to a shrine named, "Maria Steig" in the Black Forest.

  To learn more about the shrine, or to obtain this booklet, please contact:

  Missionaries of the Precious Blood
  Provincial Office
  431 E. Second St.
  Dayton, OH 45402-1764
  E-mail: CPPSCinci@aol.com
  Tel: 937-228-9263
  Fax: 937-228-6878

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  We Recommend Stations of the Cross

  Christworld E-spirituality Image of Christ & Meditation offers much for thought during these final days of the Lenten season. Try them at: CHRISTWORLD

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  Grotto of Our Lady of Guadalupe

  

  Trinity Heights is the #1 tourist attraction in Sioux City, Iowa. This is how the Sioux City Journal characterized the unique place of pilgrimage in Iowa. In 1999 the shrine received over 80,000 visitors from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and pilgrims from 31 other countries.

  To celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary on October 7, 2000, the shrine hopes to complete a new grotto in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Early in 1999, Bishop DiNardo dedicated his Sioux City Diocese to Our Lady of Guadalupe. The image to our left is a sketch of the planned grotto.

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  Biber's Rosary Sonatas

  The University of Dayton Music Department offers Biber's Rosary Sonatas: The Joyful Mysteries and other Marian Music. The music from the late 17th and early 18th century was recorded live on November 3, 1999.

  For more information contact:

  Eric J. Suttman
  PO Box 72
  Dayton, OH 45409-0072 E-mail: ejsuttman@aol.com

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  Under the Gun

  

  A recent article in the Knights of Columbus April 2000 magazine, Columbia, concentrated on the religious persecution around the world. The caption of the moving image to our left states:

  East Timorese women tend to a damaged statue of the Virgin Mary in the gutted compound of Bishop Carlos Belo last fall. Anti-independence militia men damaged the statue in retaliation for the Church's support of the independence movement in East Timor. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

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  Book: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Catholicism

  

  If you are looking for a lighthearted approach to Marian teachings – which are nevertheless solid – try the book featured here. Doctrine is covered in a simple, basic form, and tucked here and there are explanations of customs and practices. Remember, the book is not meant to be a catechism, but a popular, readable access to a first encounter with Catholicisim. A favorite feature of this editor: S'ter says

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  Mary in the Secular Press

  Commentary on Mary in various news articles from March 30 through April 9, 2000.

  The director and editors of Mary Page under the auspices of the International Marian Research Institute do not necessarily endorse or agree with the events and ideas expressed in this feature. Our sole purpose is to report on items about Mary gleaned from a myriad of papers representing the secular press.

  • The Pope will visit Fatima, Portugal in May to beatify two of the three shepherd children to whom the Virgin Mary appeared there. Attending the celebration will be Maria Emilia Santos, a lay member of a Franciscan order, who in 1989 was suddenly able to walk again after more than two decades of paralysis, the Ottawa Citizen reported on April 2. Her recovery was decreed a miracle after tests in Rome by a Vatican-appointed medical commission and the church believes it occurred with the divine intercession of Francisco and Jacinta Marto, who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary six times in 1917. One million pilgrims are expected to join the Pope when he leads a ceremony for the beatification of the siblings, who died soon after their vision. Beatification is the final step before sainthood for the two.

  • Amidst preparations for the Fatima visit the Catholic Church responded to reports that four gold ingots, believed to be Nazi gold, were held in a secret account in the name of the shrine. The London Sunday Telegraph reported on April 9 that officials have denied knowledge of where the ingots came from, saying they were among a consignment of gold placed in the shrine's account by the bank as part of a loan repayment. The pope will beautify Francisco Marto and his sister Jacinta, at the shrine on May 13.

  • In Toronto, members of the Greek Orthodox community mourned the loss of their spiritual center, the Cathedral of the Enunciation of the Virgin Mary, which burned on April 3, Canadian TV reported. Damage to the brick church, built in 1911, was unofficially estimated at $1 million, the Toronto Sun said on April 4. A fresco of the Virgin Mary and an icon of the martyr St. Paraskevi survived, but other artifacts were damaged or destroyed.

  • The feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary was commemorated with a special service in Gloucester Cathedral this year by members of Mothers' Union, the Gloucester Citizen reported on April 1. Following the service, the women blew "bubbles of hope." They decided to do this in "hope in our faith, hope for the values of Christian family life," the diocesan prayer and spirituality unit co-ordinator said.

  • Vandals continued to desecrate religious objects in New York, toppling headstones at a Jewish cemetery on Staten Island and knocking down statues of the Virgin Mary at Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal school and Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament church in Queens, the New York Post said on April 4.

  • New York and the Brooklyn Museum of Art reached a settlement in the dispute over the exhibit featuring a dung-decorated painting of the Virgin Mary, the Arizona Republic reported on April 2. The agreement, approved by U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon, calls for the dropping of lawsuits over the exhibit and for the renovation of the museum by the city over the next two years, at a cost of $5.8 million.

  • Cuban-American exiles hoping to keep six-year-old Elian Gonzalez in Miami saw proof of the child's link to God in reports that the Virgin Mary had appeared recently in Miami's Little Havana, the Albany NY Times Union reported on April 9. To them he is "Moses," the "miracle child," whose saga will sound the death knell for Fidel Castro's regime. Most reports of the sightings are vague, and most Cuban-Americans have discounted all but the ones in the inner tube, the bank and the home, the Times Union said. It reported that. Elian told his relatives the Virgin Mary comforted him while he clung to a small inner tube off the coast of Florida before his rescue on Thanksgiving Day. Supporters saw an image of the Virgin Mary, which appeared briefly on a bank window near his home, as a sign of hope, the Palm Beach Post said on March 30. "They were saying that it was a sign of God that he should stay," the Cuban-born bank manager said. The Virgin Mary's image appeared in Elian's room on the same day, his cousin Georgina Cid said.

  

  Items Revisited

  Lenten Resources

  See again our Mary Page list of Lenten resources at Highlights

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  Akathist Hymn

  On the fifth Saturday of Lent our Byzantine Catholic Church has a special service in honor of the most Pure Virgin Mary. This service, which is celebrated only in the Easter Church, is called Akathistos, a Greek word meaning not sitting. Hence, the name Akathistos Saturday. See our artiicle under: Akathist Hymn. For a text see our link under Marian Prayers

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  The Person of Mary

  Mary Page continues to present a series of themes about the Blessed Mother culled from magisterial documents since Vatican II. The new theme will cover various aspects of Mary's personhood. An example below is derived from the document, Mary in Intellectual and Spiritual Formation:

  Post-conciliar Mariology has given renewed attention to anthropology. ... In the convergence of the data of faith and the data of the anthropological sciences, when these turn their attention to Mary of Nazareth, one understands more clearly that the Virgin is both the highest historical realization of the Gospel (cf. III Conferencia General del Episcopado Latino-Americano (Puebla 1979), La evangelización en el presente y en el futuro de America Latina (Bogota 1979), 282), and the woman who, through her self-control, her sense of responsibility, her openness to others and to the spirit of service, her strength and her love, is the most completely realized on the human level. 15

  The Person of Mary

  

  Prayer Corner Requests

  You are invited to help us pray for our prayer corner intentions.

  Prayer Corner

  The intentions of the Holy Father for April 2000:

  • General Intentions:That, through Christians' generous welcome, refugees and immigrants may experience God the Father's goodness
    
  • Mission Intentions:That the peoples of Africa, torn by discord and wars, may find in the Gospel the strength to repress any urge to revenge and violence and to open their hearts to mercy and reconciliation.

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