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The Blessed Virgin Mary, Μήτηρ Θεοῦ ( Mētēr Theou, "Mother of God"), is poetically called Πλατυτέρα τῶν οὐρανῶν ( Platytéra tōn Ouranōn, "More spacious than the heavens") because she bore in her womb the Creator of the universe. The Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God is a feast day of the Blessed ...
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A famous treatment in Western art, Titian's Assumption, 1516–1518. Also called. The Assumption. Falling Asleep of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Observed by. Roman Catholic Church (see calendar) Eastern Orthodox Church (see calendar) Oriental Orthodox Churches.
The Feast of the Immaculate Conception celebrates the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 8 December, nine months before the feast of the Nativity of Mary on 8 September. It is one of the most important Marian feasts in the liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church . By pontifical decree, it is the patronal feast day of ...
The most prominent Marian feast days in the General Roman Calendar are: [ 11] January 1: Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. May 31 (in some locations July 2): The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Monday after Pentecost: The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church.
According to a complementary norm issued by the USCCB, "Whenever January 1, the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, or August 15, the solemnity of the Assumption, or November 1, the solemnity of All Saints, falls on a Saturday or on a Monday, the precept to attend Mass is abrogated." [40]
Immaculate Heart of Mary. The Immaculate Heart of Mary (Latin: Cor Immaculatum Mariae) is a Catholic devotion which refers to the view of the interior life of Mary, her joys and sorrows, her virtues and hidden perfections, and, above all, her virginal love for God the Father, her maternal love for her son Jesus Christ, and her motherly and compassionate love for all mankind. [1]
Anne, the mother of Mary, first appears in the 2nd-century apocryphal Gospel of James.The author of the gospel borrowed from Greek tales of the childhood of heroes. For Jesus' grandmother the author drew on the more benign biblical story of Hannah—hence Anna—who conceived Samuel in her old age, thus reprising the miraculous birth of the Jesus with a merely remarkable one for his mother. [14]
In the liturgical calendar of the Roman Rite, a solemnity is a feast day of the highest rank celebrating a mystery of faith such as the Trinity, an event in the life of Jesus, his mother Mary, his earthly father Joseph, or another important saint. The observance begins with the vigil on the evening before the actual date of the feast.