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Mary in the News: Oct. 26, 2020
By Michael Duricy
Marian Library and International Marian Research Institute Features
Updates
Friends of the Creche Annual Meeting
This year's event, to be held on November 1, 2020, will be free and virtual.
Mary in Media: Books, Films, Music, etc.
Virtual Mary course
Chris Padgett a graduate of IMRI, will offer a six-week virtual retreat, Loving Jesus through Mary, starting in mid-December.
Chris created this six part 'course' on Mary for average lay people to participate in; and so far it has been received well. It is a light mix of basic Marian teaching with an emphasis on Biblical, Ecclesial, and Devotional Marian teachings. The format is that he speaks for about an hour followed by question and answer time. In addition, his students all receive a book he wrote when signing up.
He is two weeks into the current session, but is open to people joining that course now. For details, contact his wife, Linda, by email at lindapadgett@mac.com.
The couple will also offer a virtual marriage retreat on November 4, 2020 and December 2, 2020.
Marian Events
Title: First virtual Rosary Thursday
Theme: Sanctification of Priests
Date: October 29, 2020 [6 p.m. Rome time/Noon Eastern time]
Location: online via Zoom
Like many millions of people across the globe you may already be praying the Rosary on Thursdays. Worldpriest is now naming each Thursday as Rosary Thursday and invites you to offer your Rosary on that day for the sanctification of priests, which is also the Worldpriest Annual Global Rosary Relay prayer intention.
On the last Thursday of each month the Worldpriest Global Apostolate is planning a virtual 'Rosary Thursday'.
In 2002, Pope John Paul II invited Catholics to pray the Mysteries of Light on Thursdays. These mysteries focus on the public life of Jesus, the Light of the world. Included are: Jesus' Baptism; the Wedding Feast of Cana; His revealing of God's Kingdom; His Transfiguration; and the Institution of the Eucharist....
Mary in the Catholic Press
Pope Stresses Role of Woman in Church (Zenit) October 26, 2020
Pope Francis 0n October 24, 2020, received in audience, in the Paul VI Hall, the docents and students of the Pontifical Theological Faculty Marianum in Rome, on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the Faculty's foundation.
In his talk, he stressed the motherhood of Mary and the importance of woman in the Church.
Mary in the Secular Press
Postal Service to release new Christmas stamp of the Madonna and Child (Aleteia) October 15, 2020
A new Christmas stamp featuring the Madonna and Child is set to be released by the U.S. Postal Service October 20, 2020.
Every two years the USPS issues a new Christmas stamp showing the Blessed Mother and baby Jesus.
This year the image selected is of an eighteenth-century Peruvian painting of Our Lady of Guapulo. The painting of a wood carving hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York....