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Mary in the News: Feb. 17, 2020
By Michael Duricy
Read recent items about Mary in both Catholic and secular news. Also, see International Marian Research Institute as well as Marian Library news and updates.
Marian Library and International Marian Research Institute Features
Updates
Nominations are now being accepted through February 21, 2020 for the 2020 Miriyam Award at the University of Dayton (U.D.). This award recognizes the efforts of people on campus to change the atmosphere and the potential for women's achievements at U.D. One may nominate an individual or a group of U.D. faculty, staff, or students The nomination form is found on the website of the Center for Social Concern at U.D.
Mary in Media: Books, Films, Music, etc.
The startup Hail Ecumenical Mary, Mother of All Christians! Facebook Group Page, which seeks to continue and expand the ESBVM USA focus on her Ecumenical role, is now up and running. There are seven members now and three more would constitute a minyan. Please consider joining (and also consider inviting like-minded Facebook friends to join). Hopefully, with your participation and Our Lady's blessing, we will move forward--prayerfully--to advance the cause of Christian unity in the love of God.
Marian Events
Title: Mary in Miniature
Topic: Book of Hours in the Marian Library's Collection
Dates: January 27, 2020 - July 17, 2020
Time: 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday
Location: University of Dayton, Marian Library Gallery, seventh floor of Roesch Library
Free and open to the public
Books of Hours--devotional books centered on a series of prayers to the Virgin Mary--were the bestselling book in Europe for over 300 years, from 1250-1550. This exhibit highlights Books of Hours in the Marian Library's collection--their art, their text and their unique (and sometimes unusual) features. Books of Hours, also called horae, not only contain artistic masterpieces in miniature but also provide a window into the religious and social lives and customs of their medieval readers....
Mary in the Catholic Press
"My Life Is a Miracle": Sister Bernadette Moriau's Experience, Healed at Lourdes (Zenit), February 12, 2019
Sister Bernadette Moriau was cured at Lourdes: hers is the 70th officially recognized cure. Before and after her healing, she always worked with the sick. Here is the account of her experience, as a Franciscan Oblate of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Nantes, of her meeting of Saint Francis, Pope Francis, and Our Lady of Lourdes.
This interview was given to Radio Esperance for the "Roman Studio" program on February 6, 2019. Hugues de Warren transcribed it for Zenit. We publish it with the kind permission of Radio Esperance.
Sister Bernadette Moriau talks about her healing in her book "My Life Is a Miracle: Never Despair," JC Lattes Editions, with Jean-Marie Guenois and Monsignor Jacques Benoit-Gonnin.
Here is Zenit's translation of the interview.
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Radio Esperance: Sister Bernadette, the Diocese of Beauvais carried out the investigation on the miracle, but this miracle happened in a mold. You are a Franciscan. How did Saint Francis call you?
Sister Bernadette: First of all, I am from a worker's family and I entered the Congregation of the Franciscan Oblate Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus 60 years ago. [I chose] a Franciscan Congregation because my parents were already of the Franciscan Third Order so, at a very young age, I was bathed in this spirituality, which suited me very well, and I arrived at Bresles in this small fraternity with three Sisters in 2006. A fraternity where, in the manner of Francis, one tries to live as brothers, to have our door open to receive all people, to receive the joys, to receive the sufferings, to receive the distresses. In a life of prayer, of course, in fraternity in the Church, the office of the present time, the time of prayer, the time of personal reading, the time of praise and our insertion in the life of the Church, of the parish be it through Secours Catholique for some, be it for me in the company of the gravely ill, in the accompaniment of families in mourning and the friendship that can be born with families....
Mary in the Secular Press
The Marian Library/International Marian Research Institute Receives 2020 Best of Dayton Award (Dayton Award Program) February 3, 2020
The Marian Library/International Marian Research Institute has been selected for the 2020 Best of Dayton Award in the Libraries category by the Dayton Award Program.
Each year, the Dayton Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies help make the Dayton area a great place to live, work and play.
Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2020 Dayton Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Dayton Award Program and data provided by third parties....