Regina MartyrumJul 27, 20216 min readThe one thing we learn from history......is that we learn nothing from history. Ave Maria! That quote comes from the philosopher Friedrich Hegel (who, by the way, is not to be...
Regina MartyrumJul 10, 20214 min readRediscovering our Catholic heritage (part 2)Ave Maria! So today we explored another little piece of the Catholic heritage of South East England. My mother remembered being taken as...
Regina MartyrumJul 4, 20212 min readRediscovering our Catholic heritage (part 1)A few weeks back my mum shared with me a treasure that she’d picked up many years ago in a charity shop and that had been tucked away in...
Regina MartyrumMay 30, 20212 min readVigil of the Feast of the Queenship of Our LadyAve Maria! Reflection. From a homily given by Pope Benedict XVI on the Solemnity of the Assumption 2005 Mary is taken up body and soul...
Regina MartyrumMay 29, 20211 min readPreparation for the feast of the Queenship of Our Lady, Day SixAve Maria! Reflection. This is from a poem by G.K. Chesterton on the Assumption and Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Chesterton was...
Regina MartyrumMay 28, 20211 min readPreparation for the feast of the Queenship of Our Lady: Day FiveAve Maria! Reflection. From 'The Mary Book' published by Sheed and Ward Our Lady, in the order of nature, is lower in the scale of being...
Regina MartyrumMay 27, 20212 min readPreparation for the feast of the Queenship of Our Lady: Day FourAve Maria! Reflection. Let us soar up, on the wings of faith, to that immortal country where “God himself is the infinite reward” of the...
Regina MartyrumMay 26, 20213 min readPreparation for the feast of the Queenship of Our Lady: Day ThreeAve Maria! Reflection. Excerpts from 'Mirror of the Blessed Virgin' by St. Bonaventure OFM The Lord is with thee, O Lady most dear to the...
Regina MartyrumMay 25, 20213 min readPreparation for the feast of the Queenship of Our Lady: Day TwoAve Maria! Reflection. Excerpts from 'Ad caeli Reginam' by Ven. Pius XII From the earliest ages of the Catholic Church the Christian...
Regina MartyrumMay 24, 20212 min readPreparation for the feast of the Queenship of Our Lady: Day OneAve Maria! Following the traditional calendar (which my order does for the breviary) the 31st May is the feast of the Queenship of the...
Regina MartyrumMay 24, 20215 min readMary's Month of May: Day Twenty FourThe Charity of the Blessed Virgin As the love of God is the sign of life, so in Mary the Spouse of the Holy Ghost we find it in...
Regina MartyrumMay 23, 20215 min readMary's Month of May: Day Twenty ThreeThe Hope of Mary The virtue of hope is kindred to faith and springs from it. There can be no hope without faith, and faith can hardly...
Regina MartyrumMay 22, 20216 min readMary's Month of May: Day Twenty-TwoThe Faith of Mary We have considered the life of the Blessed Virgin and the successive stages by which she ascended to God. We are now...
Regina MartyrumMay 20, 20216 min readMary's Month of May: Day TwentyThis meditation is taken from the book "Ark of the Covenant" by Fr. Thomas Preston, published in New York in 1860. The 'resolution' at...
Regina MartyrumMay 19, 20216 min readMary's Month of May: Day NineteenThis meditation is taken from the book "Ark of the Covenant" by Fr. Thomas Preston, published in New York in 1860. The 'resolution' at...
Regina MartyrumMay 18, 20216 min readMary's Month of May: Day EighteenThis meditation is taken from the book "Ark of the Covenant" by Fr. Thomas Preston, published in New York in 1860. The 'resolution' at...
Regina MartyrumMay 17, 20216 min readMary's Month of May: Day SeventeenThis meditation is taken from the book "Ark of the Covenant" by Fr. Thomas Preston, published in New York in 1860. The 'resolution' at...
Regina MartyrumMay 16, 20215 min readMary's Month of May: Day SixteenThis meditation is taken from the book "Ark of the Covenant" by Fr. Thomas Preston, published in New York in 1860. The 'resolution' at...
Regina MartyrumMay 15, 20215 min readMary's Month of May: Day FifteenThis meditation is taken from the book "Ark of the Covenant" by Fr. Thomas Preston, published in New York in 1860. The 'resolution' at...
Regina MartyrumMay 14, 20216 min readMary's Month of May: Day FourteenThis meditation is taken from the book "Ark of the Covenant" by Fr. Thomas Preston, published in New York in 1860. The 'resolution' at...
