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3 days ago · As the Catholic Church calls to mind the poverty-stricken during Poverty Awareness Month, it is fitting to tell the story of the incomprehensible — but very true — events that unfolded when Our Lady visited a poor girl named Mariette Beco on a moonless winter night in 1933.
5 days ago · Martha, her brother Lazarus, and her sister Mary shared a home in Bethany, a few miles from Jerusalem. Martha appears to have been the organizer of the siblings’ home, a person with a very strong sense of responsibility. On one occasion when Jesus visited, Martha’s sister Mary stopped doing any work in order to spend time with him.
4 days ago · “The knot of Eve’s disobedience was untied by Mary’s obedience: what the virgin Eve bound through her disbelief, Mary loosened by her faith.” Comparing her with Eve, they call Mary “the Mother of the living” and frequently claim: “Death through Eve, life through Mary.”
3 days ago · In a powerful Easter sermon, the Dominican St. Vincent Ferrer said that many theologians determined that after his Resurrection Jesus appeared first to Mary his mother. “The first apparition he gave was to the Blessed Virgin Mary, although the gospel does not tell us about this.”
3 days ago · Mary and Martha, with their brother Lazarus, were especially devoted disciples of our Lord; their story up to the time of the Resurrection can be found in Luke 10 and John 11-12. Mary and Martha were among the Myrrh-bearing women.
5 days ago · Mary remaining a virgin during the birth of Jesus simply means that her physical integrity and purity remained intact: Mary did not suffer harm to her body when giving birth. As put by the Church Fathers, the miraculous virgin birth was like light passing through glass.
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3 days ago · Mary resided in "her own house" in Nazareth in Galilee, possibly with her parents, and during her betrothal—the first stage of a Jewish marriage. Jewish girls were considered marriageable at the age of twelve years and six months, though the actual age of the bride varied with circumstances.
