Our Lady of Lourdes: The 18 Apparitions, Bernadette, and the Mariological Meaning
On February 11, 1858, in the grotto of Massabielle, beside the Gave River, in Lourdes, a fourteen-year-old girl named Bernadette Soubirous…
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Sibylline Oracles and Mary: Pagan Prophecy in the Service of the Christian Faith
The Sibylline Oracles are a collection of Jewish-Christian prophetic texts that circulated in the first centuries of the Christian era under…
Hegesippus and Mary: the historical witness against second-century Gnosticism
Hegesippus is a second-century Christian theologian whose fragments have come down to us through Eusebius of Caesarea. In the seventh episode…
Saint Justin Martyr and Mary: The Eve-Mary Parallel in Second-Century Apologetics
Saint Justin Martyr is the first to explicitly formulate the Eve-Mary parallel in Christian literature. In the sixth episode of the Mariology…
Aristides of Athens and Mary: the Hebrew Virgin in the earliest Christian apologetics
Aristides of Athens is the oldest Christian apologist of whom we have a substantial written record. In the fifth episode of the Mariology…
Ignatius of Antioch and Mary: the first Father of the Church and the nascent Marian doctrine
Ignatius of Antioch is one of the first Fathers of the Church and one of the first Christian witnesses to mention Mary within the mystery of…
Mary in the Apostles’ Creed: Christ, faith, and the presence of the Virgin
The Apostles’ Creed is the oldest profession of faith of the Christian Church, and in it Mary occupies a place that is not accidental. In the…
The Presentation of the Lord: History, Mariology and Liturgical Tradition
The Presentation of the Lord is celebrated on February 2 and is one of the oldest feasts in the Christian liturgical calendar. In the second…
The Mariology podcast: the science, the method, and the three central arguments
The Mariology podcast was born as a service to the Portuguese-speaking Church, responding to a clearly identified need: the absence of…
The Five Blockages That Hold Life Back: Psychology, Spirituality, and Divine Mercy
“Ego veni ut vitam habeant et abundantius habeant” (Jn 10:10) I. The Five Blockages: The Question and the Action of the Adversary Human…
Qui diligit me, sermónem meum servábit: Mary and the indwelling word
Mary keeps the Word of Christ in full singularity. Explore the relationship between love, divine indwelling, and the Marian fiat as the living…
Si mundus vos odit: Mary and Witness in Persecution
Mary witnessed the hatred of the world at the foot of the cross. Discover how her example illumines the persecuted Christian in the light of Jn…
Manete in dilectione mea: Mary and Abiding in the Love of Christ
Mary abides fully in the love of Christ, the living model of Manete in dilectione mea. Deepen this contemplative abiding in Marian theology.
Mary Mediatrix: the mediation subordinate to the one mediation of Christ
Mary Mediatrix carries out a role that is subordinate to the one mediation of Christ. In-depth Marian theology in the light of Scripture and…
Ego sum vitis vera: Mary and the Branch That Bears Fruit
Mary as the fruitful branch on the true vine. Explore the Mariological theology of the Johannine discourse and its deep contemplative resonance.