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11/10/08 The Mary Page News items give insight into our interest areas, our outreach, and the many ways people honor Our Lady. We welcome your input and your comments. |
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Mary in Books, Films and Music
Helping Boys Become Men: Interview with Meg Meeker
Boys who never feel they have been accepted and affirmed by a male
authority figure may spend the rest of their lives proving to themselves and
others that they are worthy of approval, says author and teen-health expert, Dr. Meg Meeker.
Meeker, who has practiced pediatric and adolescent medicine, as
well as teen counseling, is the author of Boys Should Be Boys: Seven Secrets to
Raising Healthy Sons, from Regnery Publishing. She also wrote Strong Fathers,
Strong Daughters: Ten Secrets Every Father Should Know. In this interview with ZENIT, Meeker talks about the important roles of mother, fathers, play and faith in raising healthy sons. Q: What made you write this book and for whom is it written?
Meeker: After the release of Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, I
was overwhelmed by many men's response to the positive nature of the book. In
short, many wrote and said, "Thank you for saying something positive about us."
I realized that there was a strong anti-male sentiment in America, but I didn't realize the depth and breadth of it.
I also realized that if men felt such negativity directed toward
them, that this very negativity must have trickled down into the lives of
younger men and boys. I wanted to find out. So, I began research on boys, and, lo
and behold, I realized some alarming things that are happening to them.
For instance, I found that a lower percentage of boys graduate from
high school and college than girls. They are also seven times more likely to be
diagnosed with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder than girls and are much
more frequently labeled as learning disabled, or troubled, than girls--particularly in the early elementary school years.
I wrote this book to parents, educators, grandparents and anyone
who loves boys, in order to sound the alarm that we need to be paying closer
attention to how our boys are being influenced, spoken to, educated and raised.
We have too long championed girls' successes in academics and athletics, and
boys have been neglected. In fact, they have become casualties of the war, if
you will, to further the cause of girls and women and have been losing out for a good twenty years now.
... For details on the book, click into
regnery.com/books/boysshouldbeboys.html. Radio Maria from the Marian Library
Francesca Franchina, MS. Ed., a long-time member of the Marianist Family, will be doing a series of Marian broadcasts through
the local stations for Radio Maria WHJM
(FM 88.7) in Anna, Ohio and WULM (AM 1600) in Springfield, Ohio. Called "Francesca and Friends: Why Mary?," the program airs every Wednesday from 11:30
AM-12:30 PM EST focusing on what is going on in the world about Mary, how to speak with others about Mary, and Mary in Scripture.
On Wednesday, November 12, 2008, Francesca Franchina speaks with Father Ed Wade, CC of Houston, Texas, Tanya Stager of the
Archdiocese of Cincinnati, and Beth Lang-Sletten and Carolyn MacKenzie, of Dayton, continuing the
dialogue initiated last week on Radio Maria's THY KINGDOM COME
with Father Wade and Maryknoll priest, Father Joe Healey of Nairobi, Kenya
focusing on the mission and spread of Small Christian Communities in the USA and
throughout the world, focusing on the recent World Synod of Bishops, the recent
emphasis by Pope Benedict XVI on Bible Study and the upcoming Archdiocese of
Cincinnati Conference on Small Christian Community Formation, at Incarnation
Parish Family Center, Far Hills Avenue on Saturday November 15, 2008. For
registration information, email
tstager@catholiccincinnati.org or call 513-421-3131.
The broadcast may also be heard on-line at radiomaria.us [Click
on the BVMary photo ... Scroll down to RADIO MARIA USA (English) ... Click on
the windows icon or whichever media program you have on your PC.]. The
web site also provides access to some previous broadcasts. We'll keep you
informed about future programs. An encore of each show is broadcast Monday
night from 8:30-9:30 pm EST one week after the original.
Her series, Through the Tummy to the Heart, airs every Tuesday
except the first Tuesday from 5:00-5:45 PM on RADIO MARIA WHJM and also
online. The series encores Saturdays from 3:00-3:45 pm. Tune in 88.7 FM (WHJM)
in the northern Archdiocese of Cincinnati and on line at
www.radiomaria.us from
anywhere in the world. Send email to Francesca with questions, comments,
suggestions at
fran@866333mary.com. Send email while the programs are going on if you
cannot get through or if you are listening outside of the USA. CALL IN TOLL
FREE; PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAM (during the live show); 1-866-333-6279.
On Tuesday, November 11, 2008, Francesca Franchina salutes our United States of America Veterans
and our current military troops
around the world. Francesca also will discuss the meaning and intercessory
prayer events for All Souls Day, The Souls in Purgatory, and Intercessory
Prayers of the Faithful. Fran shares the recipe of Saint Martin Bones,
traditional Sicilian cookies baked and eaten for the Feast of All Souls Day.
Alumni Update Gloria Falcao Dodd, a graduate of IMRI, recently had the following paper
published by the
Academy of the Immaculate, "A Pre-Vatican II Theology of Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces" in Mary at the Foot of the Cross VII: Coredemptrix, therefore Mediatrix of All Graces--Acts of the
Seventh International Symposium on Marian Coredemption.
From the Marian Treasure Chest
Praying to Mary, Our Christian Heritage (by Brother John M. Samaha, S.M.)
Praying to and with Mary is part of our Christian heritage. We praise her and pray to her in the Liturgy, the official prayer
of the Church, and in private devotion.
Mary is "the glory of [the heavenly] Jerusalem, ... the surpassing joy of [the new]
Israel, ... the splendid boast of our [Christian] people." (Judith 15:9) Pope Paul VI explained the theological basis for Marian prayer in his apostolic exhortation on devotion to Mary. The Church's norm of faith requires that her norm of prayer should everywhere
blossom forth with regard to the Mother of Christ. Such devotion to the Blessed
Virgin is firmly rooted in the revealed Word and has solid dogmatic foundations.
It is based on the singular dignity of Mary, Mother of the Son of God, and therefore beloved Daughter of the Father and Temple of the
Holy Spirit--Mary, who because of this extraordinary grace, is far greater than any other creature on earth or in heaven.
(Marialis Cultus, 1974, n. 56)
Last Chance To See Current
Exhibit!
The Seasons of Our Lady
The Marian Library gallery will show works of Linda Schäpper of Orlando, Florida
from September 15, 2008 through November 15, 2008. Click to view a
summary or
virtual exhibit.
Visit also our year-long Crèche exhibit featuring
paper nativities
of Bill and Annie Baker and works of
Malaika Favorite.
The Marian Library Gallery is located on the seventh floor of Roesch Library.
Free and open to the public, hours are Mon-Fri, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm or by appointment. Call 937-229-4214.
Additional Web Addresses for The Mary Page
In order to make our web site more accessible, The Mary Page may now be
reached at the following URLs: lapagedemarie.org; lapaginademaria.org; marypage.org; themarypage.org;
marypage.udayton.edu; campus.udayton.edu/mary; and themarypage.net. The original address on the University of Dayton site,
www.udayton.edu/mary, remains active as well.
Web Collaborators
Two important Catholic websites have added The Mary Page to their list of Media Partners.
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items from The Mary Page in their section on Catholic News.
Catholic.net includes a Mary
Channel on their navbar with articles from The Mary Page. Please visit these sites in
return. We expect continued collaboration with them in the future.
Radio Maria broadcasts
from Milan Italy, heard in forty-nine countries; WHJM
broadcasts out of Louisiana across USA [including FM 88.7, an affiliate station
in Anna, Ohio (north of Dayton) and AM 1600, an affiliate in Springfield, Ohio, which air regular Marian talks from UD's Marian Library every Wednesday at 11:30 am EST.]
International Marian Research Institute Course Schedule
We have updated our
Directory of
Twentieth-century Apparitions.
Pius XII Saw "Miracle of the Sun" According to his own testimony, the Pope who declared the dogma of the Assumption saw the "miracle of the sun" four times.
This information is confirmed by a handwritten, unpublished note from Pope Pius XII, which is part of the "Pius XII: The Man and
the Pontificate" display. The display opened in the Vatican to the public today and will run through Jan. 6.
A commissioner of the display and a Vatican reporter for the
Italian daily Il Giornale, Andrea Tornielli, explained to ZENIT that the note
was found in the Pacelli family archives. It describes the "miracle of the sun,"
an episode that until today had only been affirmed by the indirect testimony of
Cardinal Federico Tedeschini (1873-1959), who recounted in a homily that the Holy Father had seen the miracle.
Pius XII wrote, "I have seen the 'miracle of the sun,' this is the pure truth."
The miracle of the sun is most known as the episode that occurred
in Fatima, Portugal, on Oct. 13, 1917. According to the Fatima visionaries, Mary
had said there would be a miracle that day so that people would come to believe.
Thousands had gathered at the site of the visions, and the sun "danced,"
reportedly drying instantaneously the rain-soaked land and spectators.
Confirming the dogma
Pius XII's note says that he saw the miracle in the year he was to
proclaim the dogma of the Assumption, 1950, while he walked in the Vatican Gardens.
He said he saw the phenomenon various times, considering it a confirmation of his plan to declare the dogma.
The papal note says that at 4 p.m. on Oct. 30, 1950, during his
"habitual walk in the Vatican Gardens, reading and studying," having arrived to
the statue of Our Lady of Lourdes, "toward the top of the hill [...] I was
awestruck by a phenomenon that before now I had never seen."
"The sun, which was still quite high, looked like a pale, opaque
sphere, entirely surrounded by a luminous circle," he recounted. And one could
look at the sun, "without the slightest bother. There was a very light little cloud in front of it."
The Holy Father's note goes on to describe "the opaque sphere" that
"moved outward slightly, either spinning, or moving from left to right and vice
versa. But within the sphere, you could see marked movements with total clarity and without interruption."
Pius XII said he saw the same phenomenon "the 31st of October and
Nov. 1, the day of the definition of the dogma of the Assumption, and then again Nov. 8, and after that, no more."
The Pope acknowledged that on other days at about the same hour, he
tried to see if the phenomenon would be repeated, "but in vain--I couldn't fix
my gaze [on the sun] for even an instant; my eyes would be dazzled."
Pius XII spoke about the incident with a few cardinals and close
collaborators, such that Sister Pascalina Lehnert, the nun in charge of the
papal apartments, declared that "Pius XII was very convinced of the reality of
the extraordinary phenomenon, which he had seen on four occasions."
Son of Our Lady Tornielli told ZENIT that there was always a close link between the life of Eugenio Pacelli and the mystery of the Virgin Mary.
"Since childhood," he said, "Eugenio Pacelli was devoted [to Our Lady] and was registered in the Congregation of the
Assumption, which had a chapel close to the Church of Jesus. A devotion that seemed prophetic, since he
would be precisely the one to declare the dogma of the Assumption in 1950."
The future Pope celebrated his first Mass on April 3, 1899, at the
altar of the icon of Mary "Salus Populi Romani" in the Basilica of St. Mary
Major. "And then," Tornielli continued, "Eugenio Pacelli received episcopal
ordination from Pope Benedict XV in the Sistine Chapel on May 13, 1917, the day of the first apparition of the Virgin of Fatima."
As Pope, in 1940, he approved the Fatima apparitions, and in 1942, consecrated the entire world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
As well, Pius XII often spoke with Sister Lucia, the visionary of Fatima, and
he asked her to transcribe the messages she received from the Virgin. He thus
became the first Pope to know the "third secret of Fatima," which Pope John Paul II would later make public.
The director and editors of The 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.
Vandal Breaks Into Church
A vandal broke into the compound of a thirty-year-old Catholic church in Jalan Kuala Krai here on Tuesday night and
damaged a grotto containing the statue of the Virgin Mary.
The grotto is located at the side of the Our Lady of Fatima main church building.
Convent superior, Sister Caroline Gan, said one of the nuns, Sister Mary Ng, who lived in a nearby convent had heard sounds
of shattering glass outside the building around 11:30 pm and went out to check.
She saw a man, believed to be in his twenties, climbing over the main gate and running away. On checking, she saw the glass
of the grotto had been smashed. The base of the one-meter statue was broken and it had nearly toppled over. Gan said this was the first such incident at the church. A police team was at the church to investigate the incident following a police report.
You are invited to help us pray for our Prayer Corner intentions. Please take a look! This site has been updated and enhanced and now allows users to directly submit prayer requests or to volunteer as a prayer partner for these intentions! Please note that we recently celebrated a milestone, with over one-thousand individuals now signed up on our Prayer Circle!
Marian Commemoration Days To celebrate the month of November with Mary: The Mary Page offers a variety of resources inviting study, reflection and meditation. We also list important Marian dates for each month of the year. Please see Marian Commemoration Days for the month of November. Marianist Environmental Education Center (MEEC) Presents Title: Images of Mary: Contemporary Best Sellers Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008, 7-9 pm Location: Si Lounge, Sieben Hall, Mount Saint John, Dayton, Ohio What images of Mary found in contemporary North American Novels and the Wisdom books of Scripture can inspire us to live for justice, peace and the integrity of creation? Come and explore with members of the Marianist Family, MEEC community, and biblical and Marian scholar, Father Francois Rossier, SM. Featured excerpts include Mary of Nazareth: A Novel by Marek Halter (2008), The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (2002), and Our Lady of the Lost and Found by Diane Schoemperlen (2001). The evening will include presentation, prayer, personal reflection, group sharing, and refreshments. Free will offerings accepted. RSVP by November 11 by emailing meec@udayton.edu or calling 937-429-3582. For map, directions, and more information on this and other events click into meec.udayton.edu. The Mary Page web site is updated frequently. Please stop in again and see What's New.
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