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Marian devotion and the Church’s preferential option for the poor come together in the feast of the Visitation, celebrated May 31. The feast marks the.
Five Things we learn about Mary in the Bible
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by Amy Ekeh
In this Marian month of May, let’s spend a few minutes reflecting on some of the things we know about Mary from reading the Bible. As it turns out, we don’t know a lot! Although all four Gospels mention Jesus’ mother, when we gather all of the information we have, we are left wishing we knew more about this special woman. However, the material we have is enough to paint a portrait of a woman who is unquestionably strong, deeply faithful, and beautifully human.
1. Mary was courageous.
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Pro-life and L.G.B.T. advocates often find themselves at odds, both within the church and the wider society. Pro-life advocates look at high abortion rates and the devaluation of preborn life and decry the ways in which the sexual revolution gave rise to what St. John Paul II called the “culture of death.” L.G.B.T. advocates see a pro-life movement that is skeptical of the liberal sexual norms that allowed them to come out of the closet and are repelled by people they imagine would force them back into it. With some notable exceptions, the most well-known pro-life advocates have opposed L.G.B.T. rights, and the most well-known L.G.B.T. advocates have opposed the protection of preborn life.
by Fr. Dr. Claude J. Perera, omi
Our common knowledge about Jesus belonging to the rural peasantry in Galilee has been challenged by recent archaeological discoveries done in an ancient town, Sepphoris by name. At the very outset, we got to clarify the term ‘Peasant.’ The Cambridge English Dictionary has two definitions to the word ‘Peasant.’
1. “a person who owns or rents a small piece of land and grows crops, keeps animals etc. on it, especially one who has a low income, very little education, and a low social position. This is usually used of someone who lived in the past or of someone in a poor country”: