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Advent has always been a season of anticipation, but this year it feels a little more personal. The Church’s liturgy invites us into the darkness that precedes the dawn, and for many of us, darkness is exactly where our deepest questions come alive.
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In the case of Mary, who brings all our prayers to God and is a stronger intercessor than all the other saints and angels combined, there is actually a Latin phrase to keep in mind: De Maria numquam satis. Literally translated, it means “Of Mary, [there is] never enough.”
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Behold the Wonder draws on the traditions of lectio divina, the slow, reflective reading of Scripture, and visio divina, a prayerful engagement with sacred art, to lead you through Advent with Mary.
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On Tuesday, the Vatican released an important doctrinal note about Marian titles that has generated commentary across Catholic media outlets and boisterous conversation on X, Substack, and the like. Mater Populi Fidelis (Mother of the Faithful People) clarifies that Mary’s role in salvation does not need enhancement through titles that might suggest she shares in Christ’s work of redemption—specifically “Co-Redemptrix” and “Mediatrix.”
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by Rietta Parker, Contributing Writer
A crumbling marriage. A priest who agrees to pray as he contemplates the ribbon that bound the couple as one on their wedding day. Mary’s love for her children.
This is the story of how the devotion to Our Lady as Mary, Undoer of Knots, originated in the 1600s. In Augsburg, Germany, a married couple, Wolfgang Langenmantel and Sophia Rentz, were contemplating divorce when Wolfgang went to Father Jakob Rem for spiritual counsel. Father Rem took the couple’s wedding ribbon and prayed with them to Our Lady to smooth out the knots of their marriage. A month later, the couple was able to fully reconcile and lived a long life together.
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by Franci Revel Eckensberger
Mary’s life was one long yes to God–and a resounding yes, at that. Today, August 15, we honor that lifelong fiat with the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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“Jesus honored her before all ages and will honor her for all ages. No one comes to Him, nor even near Him, no one is saved or sanctified, if he too will not honor her. This is the lot of Angels and of men.” – St. Maximilian Kolbe There isn’t a day when I don’t seek […]
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