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Mary in the News: Feb. 1, 2021
By Michael Duricy
Marian Library and International Marian Research Institute Features
Updates
True Devotion to Mary Virtual Study Group
Thursdays, 7:30-8:30 p.m., Feb. 4-Mar. 25, 2021 with socializing 7:15-7:30 and 8:30-8:45 p.m. Online group sponsored by the Legion of Mary, Saint Albert the Great Parish, Kettering, OH. Bring your own coffee or tea for a discussion on the following books: True Devotion to Mary by St. Louis Marie de Montfort, and Preparation for Total Consecration to Jesus Christ through Mary, by Father Hugh Gillespie, available online. Free online text and podcasts also available for True Devotion. Please register by January 31, 2021 with Gloria Dodd by phone at 937-229-1431 or by email at gdodd1@udayton.edu.
Mary in Media: Books, Films, Music, etc.
Newest Issue of the Radio Maria USA Newsletter Now Available
The February 2021 Newsletter of Radio Maria USA is available to view free online [requires Adobe Acrobat Reader].
Marian Events
Title: Worldwide Consecration to Saint Joseph
Theme: Year of Saint Joseph
Date: February 15 - March 19, 2021
We invite you to join the largest worldwide consecration to St. Joseph beginning on February 15 and to be completed March 19--the Solemnity of St. Joseph! Please visit and share this link with everyone! Thank you!
Mary in the Catholic Press
Pope Francis: Mariology helps foster dialogue and fraternity among cultures [vaticannews.va] December 4, 2019
Pope Francis sent a message to the XXIV public session of the Pontifical Academies where the annual Award was presented to Dr. Carme López Calderón and to the Reverend Ionuț-Cătălin Blidar for their commitment to theological research.
As an introduction to his message, Pope Francis described the Pontifical Academies as places where knowledge becomes service, because--he noted--without knowledge that comes from collaboration and leads to cooperation there is no genuine and integral human development.
An Academy, he said, is a model of synodality and a force for evangelization….
Mary in the Secular Press
Miraculous healing at Knock Shrine confirmed by Irish bishops (Catholic News Agency), September 5, 2019
The Catholic Church in Ireland has for the first time recognized a miracle attached to the Knock Shrine, where a woman was cured of multiple sclerosis thirty years ago.
Marion Carroll had been bedridden for years until she was healed in 1989 during a blessing with a monstrance at the shrine.
"I recognize that Marion was healed from her long-standing illness while on pilgrimage in this sacred place," Bishop Francis Duffy of Ardagh and Clonmacnois said in his homily during a Sept. 1 Mass at the shrine, located in Knock, about twenty miles north of Tuam....