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Tag Archive 'Mary'

Guadalupe

Posted in main on Dec 12th, 2008

Today is the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe – Patroness of the Americas… And our little bilingual Parish will celebrate in style. The church is decorated with with rosies and the very anglo, fair Mary that usually positions herself near the front of the church has been replaced by Our Lady of Guadalupe. The [...]

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Immaculate Conception

Posted in main on Dec 11th, 2008

[Note:It's easy to remember my niece's birthday as she shares it with the Feast of the Immaculate Conception...] This a season of Mary as well as of the coming of Jesus. It’s rather like we need to see what came before to get to the gift of the baby Jesus. And so, I’ve been considering [...]

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Mary, again

Posted in main on Aug 22nd, 2008

I’ve long had difficulty with traditional Marian traditions/prayers/worship. Probably partly stems from my Calvinist introduction to Christianity. But, I think it may go deeper than that. I believe it involves the traditional image of Mary who honor is that she was submissive — and the idea that we often get that she was submissive to [...]

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