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Alumni Update
On Saturday, January 17, 2009, it was made public that Benedict XVI appointed as
consultors of the Pontifical Council for Culture: Father Sebastian Maria Michael
S.V.D., director of the Andheri Institute of Indian Culture in Mumbai, India;
Dominique Jean-Marie Lambert, professor at the University of Notre Dame de la
Paix in Namur, Belgium; Jean-Dominique Durand, philosopher-economist and
professor of history at the State University and president of the "Fourviere"
Foundation of Lyon, France; Roberto Jose Mendez Martinez, founder and co-ordinator
of the Aula de Poesia of the Dulce Maria Loynaz Cultural Center in Havana,
Cuba; Rita Maria Isabell Naumann of the Marian Sisters of Sch önstatt,
professor at the Catholic Institute and dean of studies at the Good Shepherd
Seminary in Sydney, Australia;
Giovanna Parravicini, cultural counsellor of
the pontifical representation to the Russian Federation, and Maria Lousie Kanse
Tah in Mvbida, lawyer and founder member of the Justice and Peace commission of the archdiocese of Douala, Cameroon.
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Mary in Books, Films and Music
Life of Christ on the BBC
During Holy Week of 2008, The Passion aired in four parts on the BBC.
James Nesbitt played Jesus, and Penelope Wilton played Mary. For more
information click into the
Press Release from the BBC, and
an article
from the Guardian. Dr. Nastia Korbon provided me with the first
link, and Dr. Catherine O'Brien provided the second, for which I am grateful.
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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, January 28, 2009, Francesca Franchina speaks with her colleagues in ACT (Association of Christian Therapists)
actheals.org about ACT's mission of being Eucharistically-centered, 'Healing with the
heart of Jesus,' and the importance of ACT in this time of great need in the world. ACT Council Members and leaders from various
parts of the country will focus on their experience in ACT, what it has done for them personally and
professionally, and what their expertise is in their professions. ACT hosts an
annual International Conference and regional conferences and retreats. ACT has
members in the USA, Europe, Africa, India, South America and The Philippines.
ACT unites doctors, nurses, therapists, counselors, priests, ministers, and
chaplains and those in allied health fields to grow professionally, pray
together and pray with patients and clients. CALL IN TOLL FREE; PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAM (during the live show); 1-866-333-6279.
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, January 27, 2009, Francesca Franchina discusses The Communion of Saints, The Mystical Body of Christ, and Intercessory
Prayer. The Scriptural basis for praying for our loved ones
who have passed on, praying with the Saints in Heaven and the poor souls in
purgatory will be discussed. Francesca shares good things to pray and think
about as well as accomplish in our lives including good foods to eat from her
traditional Italian kitchen. This week she shares recipes for pizza sandwiches
and Sicilian-style green beans with tomatoes, eggs and provolone.
New Program: Living With Mary Today!
Live: Thursdays and Fridays 2:30-3:00 PM
EST: From the Pontifical International Marian Research Institute (IMRI) at the
University of Dayton Marian Library, internationally-known Mariologists
Fathers Johann Roten, Francois Rossier, Thomas Thompson, and Bertrand Buby of
the Society of Mary (Marianists), and other IMRI faculty; Schoenstatt
Sisters Jean Frisk and Danielle Peters, Michael Duricy and Brother Erik
Otiende will discuss Marian themes such as The Blessed Mother and
Ecumenism; Mary and The Family; Mary and Suffering, Marian Teachings and
Writings of Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI; Mary and Scripture from The
Founder of the Marianists, Blessed Wm. Joseph Chaminade; Mary and Vatican II,
Marian Apparitions and others. The Marian Library at the University of Dayton houses the largest
collection of Marian books and artifacts in the world and IMRI is the site of
post-graduate studies in Mariology for the Doctorate, STL and STD. Find out more
by visiting
marypage.org. The University of Dayton; The Marian Library and IMRI are collaborators with
the International Satellite Radio Maria Network and Radio Maria Ohio.
This week's programs:
Father Tom Thompson, SM, Thursday, January 29, 2:30 PM on the Presentation of The Lord
Father Francois Rossier, SM, Friday, January 30, 2:30 PM on Mary and Ecumenism
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From the Marian Treasure Chest
Encouragement offered by Chaminade to Chevaux (by Brother John Samaha, S.M.)
These are excerpts from a letter written by Blessed William Joseph Chaminade in Bordeaux to Father John Chevaux at Saint Remy
dated February 7, 1834.
It seems that your arms fall helpless when you see the young men who surround you
and who have the same mission as you, full of good will but lacking in
experience. Where did you learn the twelve apostles and the seventy-two
disciples drew upon their experience before working at the great undertaking
that had been assigned to them? They had good will, that is true, and that is
all they had. The disciples of our Lord had no more aptitude than the
apostles. They knew, as the apostles knew, their insufficiency only too well;
but also like them, they had entire confidence in Him for the mission He had given.
Oh, how much we have degenerated! Where then is
our faith, our faith in Jesus Christ? I have no intention here, my dear son, of
humiliating you or your collaborators, but to awaken you from the kind of stupor
into which you have fallen and to recall to you what you all are by your
entrance into the Society of Mary. You are real missionaries.
The education of youth, whatever form it may take, is certainly not the end you must
have proposed to yourselves in consecrating yourselves entirely to God under the
protection of the august Mary. Teaching is but a means we use to fulfill our
mission, to introduce everywhere, so to say, the spirit of faith and of religion and to multiply Christians.
You are all missionaries. Fulfill your mission! Real missionaries must in no way
count on themselves alone, on their talents or their industry. Rather they must
put all their confidence in the grace of their mission and also in the
protection of the Blessed Virgin, who is working at this undertaking for which she was elevated to the Divine Motherhood.
All must be well-penetrated with the importance of the salvation of souls redeemed
by the price of the blood of Jesus Christ. The principal end which all must
propose to themselves, in all their efforts, but particularly in their spiritual
exercises, must be the salvation of the pupils, the amendment of their failings
and their progress in virtue. The work is common to all, and each one is
jointly responsible, in a certain measure, for the entire thing.
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New Exhibit!
Fairest of All
The Marian Library gallery will show thirty works of Jan Oliver from January 30, 2009
through March 27, 2009.
For more information, click into the
article from UD's Campus
News Digest
or click here for
virtual exhibit.
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.
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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.
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Web Collaborators
Two important Catholic websites have added The Mary Page to their list of Media Partners.
CatholicWeb.com highlights
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.]
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International Marian Research Institute Course Schedule
IMRI courses for the Spring 2009 semester will conclude on February 16.
The course schedule is now available.
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We have updated
Korean-language
News through 1/26/2009. We have also posted recent news about
Gianna Talone-Sullivan.
Also, given the feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul on January 25, we
encourage you to read
Mary and Paul.
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Cardinal Bertone's Homily at Close of Family
Meeting
"Love Your Children and Make Them Feel That They Are Loved"
Source: Zenit (Mexico City), January 20, 2009
Here is a translation of the homily given Sunday by Cardinal
Tarcisio Bertone, Benedict XVI's secretary of state and papal legate to the Sixth
World Meeting of Families, at the close of that event. The Wednesday-Sunday meeting was held last week in Mexico City.
... All the members of the family are implied because all should
participate in the development of human and Christian values. But we cannot
forget the particular responsibility that corresponds to the parents. Their
attitude regarding their children should be similar to that manifested by Mary
and Joseph when, according to the narration we have heard in the Gospel, they
found Jesus in the temple after having lost him.
Mary and Joseph look for him with unspeakable concern. "Son, why
have you done this to us? Your father and I have been looking for you with great
anxiety" (Luke 2:48). They love their son passionately, with all of their being.
So then, dear fathers and mothers, love your children and make them
feel that they are loved and appreciated, respected and understood. Feeling
loved gives rise to gratitude and trust in others, in themselves and in the love
of the Heavenly Father; and it is a call to respond to love with love.
Mary and Joseph live in intimacy with Jesus; but his person and his
behavior are a mystery also for them. "And he said to them, 'Why were you
looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?' But they
did not understand what he said to them" (Luke 2:49-50). Mary and Joseph intuit
that Jesus does not belong to them; that he lives for his true Father who is God
and places himself totally at the service of the mysterious divine project.
Despite not understanding, they accompany him with respectful love and serve him with every solicitude. ...
May the Most Holy Virgin, Our Lady of Guadalupe, obtain this grace
for Christian families, so that all the families of the world also benefit from it.
Oh Mary, Mother of beautiful Love, Mother of hope, Help of Christians, gather
these humble supplications and give to all the families of the world that which
they need to grow in sanctity, to be salt of the earth and light of the world,
to be sanctuaries of life and love, of welcome and forgiveness, of human and Christian values. Amen.
Benedict XVI Made an 'Austrian'
Source: Zenit (Vatican City), January 21, 2009
Benedict XVI was made an honorary citizen today of the site of one of Europe's most important Marian shrines.
The honorary citizenship is for Mariazell in Austria. The ceremony took place adjacent to Paul VI Hall, when the Pope had
finished the general audience.
Mariazell is the home of the Basilica of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary,
which houses a statue of Our Lady believed to be miraculous. For centuries, the
town has been one of Europe's principal pilgrimage sites. Today, some 1 million pilgrims visit it annually.
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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.
Czech creche has social, political overtones
Source: Campus report (University of Dayton), December 5, 2008
Wise men and shepherds are a familiar sight around Nativity scenes, but government spies?
That's what the chimney sweeps portray in a 130-piece Czechoslovakian crèche,
the centerpiece of the Marian Library’s annual exhibition of Nativity scenes
from around the world, said Father Johann Roten, S.M., director of The Marian Library/International Marian Research Institute.
"The government forbade people from having these scenes in their homes,"
Roten said. "So because chimney sweeps could get into everyone's homes to clean
chimneys, the sweeps were recruited to look inside the homes for hidden scenes.
Including the sweeps in the scene was really a political-religious statement about the government."
The scene, made in the 1850s, depicts the Holy Family among eighty villagers and fifty structures.
The library has added holiday hours for the exhibit, which is free and open to the public. The gallery is open 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
weekdays; through Dec. 21. It also will be open 1 to 6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
Other crèches from the library are on display through Jan. 4 at the Dayton Art Institute, 456 Belmonte Park N., Dayton, and in the
Gallery St. John at Mount Saint John, 4400 Shakertown Road, Beavercreek. Selections also are on display in museums in New Haven, Conn.,
and Akron, Ohio.
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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!
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Marian Commemoration Days
To celebrate the month of February 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
February.
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Pilgrimage to Philadelphia,
Washington, D.C., and Saint Joseph's Valley
Title: Our Lady of America Pilgrimage
Date: October 6-13, 2009
Locations: Shrines of the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception,
Saints John Neumann, Katherine Drexel, and Elizabeth Seton, as well as the
Lourdes Grotto, Franciscan Monastery, and the John Paul II Cultural Center.
Join Dan Lynch on a pilgrimage to respond to the reported requests of Our
Lady of America for pilgrimage to the Basilica and to pray for our country's
purity, peace and protection.
For more information call 888-834-6261.
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