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The Mariological Society of America's 52nd Annual Program

May 30-June 2, 2001
University of Dayton
Dayton, Ohio

WEDNESDAY, May 30, 2001

4:00 p.m.

Board of Trustees Meeting

7:30 p.m.

Mary of Nazareth: From Icon to Woman"--Premiere Showing
(Holy Cross Family Ministries, Family Theater Production)

Panel Discussion
Moderators: Fr. Sam Maranto, C.Ss.R. and Fr. John Phalen, C.S.C.

THURSDAY, May 31, 2001

7:15 a.m.

Eucharist

9:00 a.m.

Opening Registration

9:15 a.m.

    Biblical Perspectives on Marian Mediation
        Fr. Francois Rossier, S.M.
        Moderator:    Fr. Thomas A. Thompson, S.M.

10:15 a.m.

    Conceiving the Word:
    Patristic and Early Medieval Sources for Franciscan Discussion of Mary's Active Motherhood
        Mr. James Bell
        Moderator:    Fr. James McCurry, O.F.M. Conv.

2:00 p.m.

    Forming Her Only-begotten Sons by Adoption: The Marian Spirituality of Bl. Guerric of Igny (+1157)
        Deyanira Flores, S.T.D.
        Moderator:    Bro. John Samaha, S.M.

3:15 p.m.

    Theotokos as Mediatrix in Eastern Church Hymns
        Virginia Kimball
        Moderator:    Sr. Jean Frisk

FRIDAY, June 1, 2001

9:15 a.m.

    The Marian Spirituality of the Medieval Religious Orders
        Fr. Eamon R. Carroll, O.Carm. - The Carmelites
        Fr. Conrad Borntrager, O.S.M. - The Servites
        Fr. James McCurry, O.F.M. Conv. - The Franciscans
        Fr. Denis Vincent Wiseman, O.P. - The Dominicans
                Moderator:    Fr. Sam Maranto, C.Ss.R.

1:30 p.m.

    Patristic Intuitions of Mary's Role as Mediatrix and Advocate: The Invocation of the Faithful for Her Help
        Fr. Luigi Gambero, S.M.
        Moderator:    Fr. Louis Bonacci, S.J.

3:00 p.m.

Business Meeting – Elections

3:30 p.m.

Reports on Dissertations - Works in Progress

5:00 p.m.

    Eucharist
    Reception    Banquet (reservations necessary)
    Dinner

SATURDAY, June 2, 2001

7:15 a.m.

Eucharist

9:00 a.m.

    How Can Spirituality Be Marian?
    Fr. Johannes G. Roten, S.M.
    Moderator:    Fr. Myles Murphy

10:30 a.m.

    Survey of Recent Mariology
        Fr. Eamon R. Carroll, O.Carm.
        Moderator: Fr. Louis Bonacci, S.J.

Attendance is open to all. You need not be a member to register. For more information, contact the MSA Secretariat at (937) 229-4294 (If no answer, leave message on Voice Mail).

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Personal thoughts and reflections about Mary from our readers

We've added a section to our Research and Publications section showing selected personal comments from our readers about the Virgin Mary. Click here to see comments received within the past month. From this page, feel free to submit your own personal thoughts on Mary.

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Current Exhibit: The Scheufelen Collection

A closing event of U.D.'s Sesquicentennial Celebration will be an exhibit of religious art prints on loan from the collection of Ulrich Scheufelen, chairman of the European Art Paper Association. The exhibit is entitled From Barlach to Baselitz: Religious Print Art of the 20th Century. 75 pieces of signed print art from some of the world's most noted 20th-century artists will be on display Feb. 22-April 30 at the Roesch and Marian Library galleries and the Law School [all on the University of Dayton campus]. More information on the exhibit may be found under 'Current Exhibit' in the Gallery section of the Mary Page.

The exhibit and lecture series is sponsored by the Roesch and Marian Libraries and by Mr. and Mrs. Burnell and Karen Roberts. During March and April, a series of lectures will be presented on the following topics in relation to the works on exhibit:

April 19 Balance of an Exhibit: Panel on Art and Christianity in 20th Century Expressionism with Dr. Roger J. Crum, M. Dominique Vasseur, Dr. Eugene B. Cantelupe, Rev. Joseph W. Goetz, Dr. Judith Huacuja-Pearson and Rev. Johann G. Roten.

Special events will be offered at the Marian Library Exhibit Gallery to enable viewing and meditating on Grieshaber's Stations of the Cross and Pechstein's Our Father.

Open Every Day:
Monday thru Wednesday and Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, 8:30 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, noon to 6 p.m.
Tours available Saturdays at 2:30 p.m. or by special arrangement (937) 229-4214

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Marian Events

This section which lists all of the current Marian Events by geographical position.

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Mary in the Secular Press

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.

Commentary on Mary in various news articles from March 23 through April 2, 2001.

Jose Gomez, the new auxiliary bishop of the Denver archdiocese, was installed March 25, for Denver Catholics marking the end of a 400-year wait for a Hispanic bishop, the Denver Post said on March 26. In his short sermon, given in Spanish and English, the new bishop quoted Pope John Paul II: "Let us go forward accompanied by the Blessed Virgin." After blessing the faithful, Bishop Gomez and Archbishop Charles Chaput took a bouquet of red roses from the altar and placed it n front of a banner of the Virgin Mary, where they knelt and prayed.

In Santa Ana, CA, Latino parishioners expecting to hear "Juan Diego" or "Guadalupe" announced as the name of their planned new church learned that Our Lady of Lourdes parish will become Our Lady of La Vang. The Vietnamese name is foreign both in sound and meaning to the congregation, which is 99 percent Latino, the Orange County Register reported on April 2. Vietnamese Catholics from throughout the area are expected to start attending the new church, to be completed by 2003. The church’s pastor, Father Bill Barman, is trying to create connections between Vietnamese and Latinos before the church opens. Orange County is home to 40,000 Vietnamese Catholics and twelve parishes hold Sunday Mass in Vietnamese. Mary is said to have appeared to persecuted Catholics in the La Vang forest in Vietnam in 1798.

‘Young Catholics attending a Bath church are prayed over by its members who consider inappropriate the Catholic practice of honoring the unique position in human redemption of the Blessed Virgin Mary," begins an item in the Letters section of the Bath Chronicle on March 23. The letter says that Mary has long been honored in England as Our Lady and by "umpteen parish churches dedicated to St. Mary," two of which are in Bath, that the coming Sunday is Ladyday, feast of the Annunciation, and that at St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church a short vigil service of prayers and psalms honoring the Blessed Virgin Mary will be followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. The writer concludes by saying the faith of many teenagers and young adults is under attack from peers and secular and materialistic western values, their faith needs to be positively nourished and a complete loss of faith can result from undermining part of their faith base.

Alban A. Maguire, 86, who was president of Holy Name College in Washington from 1964 to 1969 and contributed to theological debates about the role of the Virgin Mary in the years following the Second Vatican Council, died March 21 of complications from a fall at a Franciscan friary in Ringwood, NJ, the Washington Post said on March 28. Father Maguire preached integrating the various views about Mary and warned against any splintering in the theologically volatile period following Vatican II.

A statue of the Virgin Mary was returned to the front lawn of a eucharistic minister five days after it was stolen, the Boston Globe said on April 2. Police found it leaning against a tree several miles from the home of Pauline Lalonde, a chaplain at the Landmark Medical Center.

The London Independent said on March 24 that the week’s winner in a photo contest was Sue Roche, who took the picture on holiday in Italy. "I saw a statue of the Virgin Mary in the meter box on the side of a house in a tiny village called Punta Licosa. The electricity was lighting her halo so my husband christened it, "The Power and the Glory," she said.
Was Jesus dark-skinned? Was he actually born in a cave? Jesus: The Complete Story, a new documentary TV series co-produced by the British Broadcasting Corp., considers these questions in its attempt at a purely scientific investigation into the Messiah of Christendom, the Toronto Star wrote on March 28. The three-part series will likely be shown in Canada at Christmas time.

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News from Around the World

International Concert of Christian Music "The World sings Mary"

Monday 30 April 2001 at 8:30 PM at the Astra Theater (Teatro Astra) in Schio (province of Vicenza)

The Associazion of San Massimiliano Maria Kolbe of the radio broadcaster RADIO KOLBE of Schio is presenting the second annual International Festival of Christian Music "The World Sings Mary". It will be a musical gala which will give value to the expression of Marian music. Based on the success of last year's event which was attended by a thousand spectators (sold out theater) and the interest of many mass-media people who didn't want to miss the event. Local and national TV and newspaper headlines documented the concert. Furthermore, the concert was broadcast completely by satellite Telepace of Rome, K-Tv Austria, The event, again sponsored by the town of Schio will take place on Monday 30 April 2001 at 8:30 PM at the Astra Theater of Schio.

There will be four international singer/songwriters, as well as six Italian artists sharing the stage. Along with their music, they will be sharing their faith testimonials as an expression of their artistic maturity, enriched through conversations that changed their lives. Franco Fasano, who sang at San Remo and has composed and arranged music for many famous Italian singers, has also confirmed his participation in the concert as one of the guests of light music. Fasano also works with Mediaset and with the Antonian of Bologna "Zecchino d'Oro". He will present some of his hit songs as well as his new album, recently broadcast on the radio by Sr. Myriam Castelli, host of the radio program "Cristianità" ("Christianity") on the Rai International network.

The concert will be broadcast live via satellite and internet by Radio Kolbe, Radio Telepace, Radio Sacra Famiglia and Radio Mater.

From Zenith News, Vatican City, March 25

The Holy Father began his address during the midday Angelus on March 25 by referring to the "significant" relation between "today’s liturgy of Laetare Sunday and the Feast of the Annunciation." He explained that "the solemnity of the Annunciation refers us to the source of the spiritual joy, which is the Incarnation of the Son of God." Reflecting on his pilgrimage to the Holy Land the Pontiff recalled the "intense moments of the celebration" over which he presided a year ago in the Basilica of the Annunciation at Nazareth."From the contemplation of this mystery all believers can draw renewed spiritual energy to ceaselessly proclaim and witness to Christ, our only salvation, and to faithfully serve the Gospel of life that he entrusts to us," he said.

After encouraging the work of "the movements committed against abortion," the Holy Father in his general audience address on March 25 expressed his closeness to expectant mothers who are having a difficult pregnancy and assured them that their child is an invitation to life and hope. He explained that his appeal was being made on March 25, the day in which the Church usually celebrates the moment when the angel announced to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive Jesus.

From L’Osservatore Romano March 14 & 21

Noting that from the beginning of his Pontificate he has sought to foster a fruitful and creative dialogue between faith and culture, the Holy Father said, in a letter to Cardinal Edmund Szoka, he is grateful that the new John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington D.C. was planned as a means of introducing its visitors to Catholic cultural life and as a place of study and reflection on themes related to the religious and humanitarian mission of the Church. The Pope entrusted to the loving protection of Mary Immaculate, patroness of the United States, its programmes and activities. The letter was written February 8 to Cardinal Szoka, President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, who was preparing to attend the solemn inauguration of the Center.

In his address to H. E. Alberto Montagne Vidal, the new Ambassador of Peru, the Pope said that the rich cultural and moral heritage of the Inca civilization, blended with Western culture from the time when the Gospel arrived, has made the Peruvians a profoundly religious people of whom Christianity is a distinctive feature. "I ask the Lord, through the intercession of Our Lady of Evangelization and all the Peruvian saints, to assist you in the fulfillment of your duties and to bless your distinguished family, your staff and all the leaders and citizens of the noble Peruvian nation, whom I always remember with deep affection and esteem," the Pope said.

In his "Ad limina" address March 3 to the Panamanian Bishops, the Pope asked the Virgin Mary to accompany them in their pastoral ministry and to protect her beloved Panamanian sons and daughters.

On February 9 the Holy Father received members of the National League of Humanists from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina. He urged the League’s members "to be generously involved in promoting the welfare of Bosnia and Hercegovina’s people" and entrusted their intentions "to the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who knows the sufferings, joys and hopes of these people."

In his address to the Friars Minor Conventual on February 17, the Pope asked the Virgin Mary, "Holy Lady, Mot Holy Queen, Mother of God" to protect them and help them carry out the resolutions of the General chapter.

The Pope entrusted the newly elected Patriarch of Antioch for Syrians, His Beatitude Ignace Pierre VIII, to the Virgin Mary, the Theotokos, in his letter of February 20 granting the Patriarch the ecclesiastical communion he had requested.

Mary as the eschatological icon of the Church was the subject of the Holy Father’s catechesis at the General Audience on March 14. The Blessed Virgin, the Pope said, is "the icon of redeemed humanity, the sign of the Church which lives in faith and love, anticipating the fullness of the heavenly Jerusalem."

Cardinal Edward Clancy, Archbishop of Sydney, Australia, and the Holy Father’s Special Envoy for the February 11 celebration of the Ninth World Day of the Sick at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney, said in his homily that Mary has always been recognized as the friend and patroness of the sick and the suffering in whom, especially, she sees the clear image of her divine son. "It is entirely appropriate, therefore that the World Day of the Sick should always be celebrated in association with a Marian shrine. Hence our Mass this afternoon in this beautiful Mother Church of Australia dedicated to Our Lady Help of Christians....we on this feast of Our Lady of Lourdes entrust all sick people, together with their carers, to her maternal heart," the Cardinal said.
On March 11, Pope John Paul II celebrated a solemn Mass in St. Peter’s Square and beatified 233 priests, religious and lay people who were victims of religious persecution during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930's. In his homily the Pope expressed his hope that through the intercession of the new blesseds there would be an end to terrorism and violence in Spain. He implored May, Queen of Martyrs to grant those present the same strength with which the martyrs confessed their faith. "In calling upon her as our Mother, I implore the gifts of peace, happiness and steadfast hope for everyone present here today and for your families," he said.

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New Resources

We've added the answer to a new question submitted by a reader.

Can you provide some information regarding the term 'betrothal' as used in Lk 1:27?

Also, we've posted New Marian Poetry in our Resources section.

Another fresh aspect of the Mary Page is new Meditations for the fifth week of Lent.

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Documents, Pronouncements (Magisterial, doctrinal)

This section contains full-text official documents from the Catholic Church on matters related to the Virgin Mary and other points of Catholic Doctrine. This week's selection is "Mary Leads Us To The Eucharist", a message from John Paul II on 8/15/1996, but related to the Eucharistic theme of Holy Thursday.

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Marian Themes in Magisterial Documents

This section contains an index to Marian references within various official documents from the Catholic Church. This week's topic is Calvary, an event commemorated on Good Friday.

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News Archive

This section contains excerpts from past editions of the Mary Page news.

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Prayer Corner Requests

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