Mother Mary Archives - Indian Catholic Matters

Part II: Churches of Nativity of Mother Mary in India

September 6, 2024 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

Jacqueline Kelly – The Feast of the Nativity of Mother Mary is popularly referred to in Kerala as “Puthari Perunnal”. Puthari means new harvest and

Part I: Churches in India Dedicated to Mother Mary

September 5, 2024 Team ICM Features

By Jacqueline Kelly – No woman has been painted, sculptured, drawn, written about like THIS WOMAN. To no woman have more monuments been built than

Assumption of the Queen of Heaven

August 14, 2024 Team ICM Features

Jacqueline Kelly – On August 15, we celebrate in India, two significant and related events. They are the Assumption of our Blessed Mother Mary and

Part II: Mary’s Bouquet of Mystical Flowers

May 24, 2024 Team ICM Features

By Jacqueline Kelly – The Feast of Mary Help of Christians is celebrated on May 24. Continuing from yesterday Mary’s Bouquet of Mystical Flowers, here

Part I: Mary’s Bouquet of Mystical Flowers

May 23, 2024 Team ICM Features

By Jacqueline Kelly – Life, death and decay are parts of the cycle of nature, and this includes trees and flowers too. May is the

Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church

May 19, 2024 Team ICM Features

By Leon Bent – On Saturday, March 3, 2018, the Vatican announced Pope Francis’ decision that the Church celebrate the Blessed Virgin Mary in her

Holy Saturday: Reflecting With Mary, Mother of Humanity and Our Mother

March 29, 2024 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Sr. Teresa Joseph, FMA – The words of His Eminence Oswald Cardinal Gracias during the homily on Palm Sunday 5th April 2020: “Let us

Part I: Mother of God and Sister in Faith: A Vatican II Interpretation of Mary

February 29, 2024 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Arockia Dhas Rayappan, Concordia University, Canada The prologue of the Gospel of Luke affirms that Saint Luke the Evangelist himself was dependent upon the

The Gift of a Complete Christian

February 20, 2024 Team ICM Family

By Tom Thomas – “I stand before you today with a heavy heart, I did not want to deliver this homily,” our Parish Priest began,

Pope Francis and his Obsession for the Blessed Virgin Mary

January 21, 2024 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Lavoisier Fernandes. Since his election in 2013 and till date, Pope Francis has made 44 apostolic trips abroad and has spent 191 days travelling

On The Night of 8th September

September 8, 2023 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

Sr Molly Fernandes sfn – My visit to a religious article store, left me speechless when I saw a rare statue of Maria Bambina laid

Mother Mary: August Queen of Heaven

August 14, 2023 Team ICM Features

Jacqueline Kelly – For hundreds of years, Catholics observed the two chief feasts of Mary, her Immaculate Conception [December 8] and her Assumption [August 15].