In commemoration of the 700th Anniversary of his death, we are happy to present this new, ground-breaking book on the Mariology of Blessed John Duns Scotus, providing a well referenced, concise presentation of his Mariology in clear English.

Fr. Rosini has, perhaps for the first time, provided a complete, well-balanced exposition of Scotus on Our Lady, with all the many inter-connections between the mystery of Mary and the whole of theology, illustrating plainly how the subtle resolution of the most complex of theological questions was not something achieved prior to any consideration of Mary, but exactly to the contrary: by meditating ?in the spirit of prayer and devotion? (St. Francis of Assisi) on the Blessed and Immaculate Virgin in the mystery of Christ and the Church (Lumen Gentium, ch. 8, title).

PROD ID: AIB-MBD030, 313 pp., perfect bound.
$18.00

Go to Marymediatrix.com for more information and to order copies.

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MaryCast Specials #213 ( 05min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle recommends some spiritual gifts for Christmas: Meet Your Mother, Time to Meet the Angels and the DVD Peace Through a Woman available at http://www.motherofallpeoples.com/

To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: mary@motherofallpeoples.com

Ave Maria!

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Ave Maria!  I greatly enjoyed this little article about Charles Dickens and Catholicism, and an apparent encounter he had with the Blessed Virgin Mary.  I expect you will, too.

One night in 1844, a year after he published A Christmas Carol, while vacationing in Italy, Dickens woke to see an apparition at the foot of his bed?

A woman dressed in blue. He wrote to his friend describing her as looking like “the Madonna might in a picture by Raphael.”

The spirit was silent but stared at him with an otherworldly love in her eyes.

Dickens later wrote to his biographer and friend John Forster (April 2, 1812 – Feb. 2, 1876), the following description of that fateful evening in the author’s own words:

Let me tell you of a curious dream I had, last Monday night; and of the fragments of reality I can collect; which helped to make it up… In an indistinct place, which was quite sublime in its indistinctness, I was visited by a Spirit.

I could not make out the face, nor do I recollect that I desired to do so. It wore a blue drapery, as the Madonna might in a picture by Raphael; and bore no resemblance to any one I have known except in stature… It was so full of compassion and sorrow for me… that it cut me to the heart; and I said, sobbing, ‘Oh! give me some token that you have really visited me!

…’‘Answer me one… question!’ I said, in an agony of entreaty lest it should leave me. ‘What is the True religion?’ As it paused a moment without replying, I said – Good God in such an agony of haste, lest it should go away! – ’You think, as I do, that the Form of religion does not so greatly matter, if we try to do good?’

‘Or,’ I said, observing that it still hesitated, and was moved with the greatest compassion for me, ‘perhaps the Roman Catholic is the best? perhaps it makes one think of God oftener, and believe in Him more steadily?’

‘For you,’ said the Spirit, full of such heavenly tenderness for me, that I felt as if my heart would break; ‘for you it is the best!’

Then I awoke, with the tears running down my face, and myself in exactly the condition of the dream. It was just dawn.

Source: When Charles Dickens Met the Blessed Virgin Mary

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On the feast of St Peter Damian, Doctor of the Church we wish to give a note of remembrance for Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner who passed away May 8, 2018 and give an update on the work being done on his academic legacy.

New Books:

The Theologian of Auschwitz: St. Maximilian M. Kolbe on the Immaculate Conception in the Life of the Church

Written by Fr. Peter published recently posthumously on the Marian teachings of St. Maximillian Kolbe who died in Auschwitz in place of another prisoner that he did not even know.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1943901139

The Spirit and the Church: Peter Damian Fehlner’s Franciscan Development of Vatican II on the Themes of the Holy Spirit, Mary, and the Church—Festschrift

Edited by J. Isaac Goff, Christiaan W. Kappes, and Edward J. Ondrako and celebrates the life and legacy of Fr. Peter and his teachings in the Franciscan theological and philosophical fields of ecclesiology, pneumatology, Mariology, and anthropology.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1532651406

Future Books:

The first of eight volumes on the Collected Essays of Fr. Peter will be submitted to the publisher shortly followed the remaining seven in the next couple of years all assembled by J. Isaac Goff and a team of excellent scholars. We will keep you posted.

Past Books: 

Books the Fr. Peter has written or edited can be found at our Academy of the Immaculate Bookstore at https://academyoftheimmaculate.com/collections/fr-peter-damian-fehlners-books

Also this book has an article by Fr. Peter:

The Newman-Scotus Reader: Contexts and Commonalities (Canonization Issue)

Videos on Youtube (Playlists):

Homilies: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLejh_e0-LN4y1N-VctQhPXMHMVnV-ksnj

Conferences: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hY5b1lvaYI&list=PLejh_e0-LN4xFfQDYED7Grdv8nvQ_8k1B

Fatima: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJcqks7hwOE&list=PLejh_e0-LN4wWd7m8XvGoRb3VKfMr6E5r

Symposium in Notre Dame:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdW5jHNt4pk&list=PLejh_e0-LN4ytaHEE0cXKmAP-zIchBHi4

The Golden Thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B2hmKxBv7E&list=PLejh_e0-LN4yt8M6JTBpqdcEhOjmT41X8

Thank you so much Fr. Peter for all you have done, but especially for being a part of our lives. Pray for us.

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Fr Ignatius gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Aug 01, 2020, the memorial of St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori on how he was the Zealous Doctor who explained and proclaimed the glories of Jesus and Mary, the anchors of our faith.

Ave Maria!

Mass: St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori – Mem
Readings:  – http://usccb.org/bible/readings/080120.cfm
1st: rom 8:1-4
Resp: psa 119:9-14 0
Gsp: mat 5:13-19

More on the Readings: http://dev.airmaria.com/r?m=1120

Also on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/90378558559/videos/2711925082421848
and YouTube: https://youtu.be/fE1BDJZTeto

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Fr Josemaria gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Sep 01, 2020, on how reading classic spiritual books is so important to become great saints like Mother Theresa and John Paul II. Father explains how to combine spiritual reading with prayer and how to decide which books to read. He particularly highlights “True Devotion to Mary” by St. Louis de Montfort which was instrumental to St. John Paul II’s spiritual life.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Tuesday in the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time – Wkdy
Readings:  – http://usccb.org/bible/readings/090120.cfm
1st: 1co 2:10-16
Resp: psa 145:8-9, 10-11, 12-13, 13-14 0
Gsp: luk 4:31-37

More on the Readings: http://dev.airmaria.com/r?m=931

Also on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/90378558559/videos/352382795894483
and YouTube:  https://youtu.be/jD6ycbYsmw8

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