“When Mary has struck her roots in a soul, she produces there marvels of grace, which she alone can produce, because she alone is the fruitful Virgin who never has had, and never will have, her equal in purity and in fruitfulness.”
― Louis De Montfort, True Devotion to Mary
With Advent as the ideal time to reflect on Mary and her place in our lives, Phoebe and Rachel discuss some of their favourite Marian devotions, the paintings and images that accompany these images, and how these devotions can lead us to a fuller understanding of Christ and our Catholic faith.
Music: Ashton Manor by Kevin MacLeod
Hosts: Rachel Sherlock, Phoebe Watson
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Works mentioned: [Marian Devotions discussed in bold]
'The Virgin' by William Wordsworth
The World's First Love by St Louis De Montfort
Margery Kempe's meditations : the context of medieval devotional literatures, liturgy and iconography (St Bernard of Clairveaux quote)
Theotokos
Cyril of Alexandria Second Letter to Nestorius
Star of the Sea
St Bonaventure
The Secret Of The Rosary by St Louis De Montfort
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
St Thomas Aquinas
St Bernard of Clairveaux
From Forty Dreams of St. John Bosco, compiled and edited by Fr. J. Bacchiarello, S.D.B
Mary Star of the Sea, by Bernadette Carstensen (painting)
Stella Maris, by Lawrence Klimecki (painting)
Stella Maris, Our Lady Star of the Sea by Josiah, HeartofIESVS (painting)
Our Lady, Help of Christians
Song of Solomon 6:10
Hortus Conclusus
Song of Solomon 4:12
Annunciation, by Fra Angelico (painting)
The Annuciation, by Arthur Hacker (painting)
Madonna im Rosenhag, by Stefan Lochner (painting)
Frankfurter Paradiesgärtleins (painting)
The Virgin in the Hortus conclusus:Healing the Body and Healing the Soul by Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa
Flower Theology by John S. Stokes, Jr.
"The Adventure of the Naval Treaty" The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
St Jerome
Our Lady of Sorrows
Ven Francis Nguyễn Văn Thuận
"Why Our Lady of Sorrows" by Fr Steve Grunow, Word on Fire
"Our Lady of Sorrows, Pray for the Church" by Rev. Karl Clemens, C.SS.R. Remnant Newspaper
“The Virgin with Angels” and "Pieta" by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (painting)
"Mother of Sorrows" by Robert Hugh Benson
Our Lady of Guadalupe
What We're Enjoying at the Moment
Phoebe: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Rachel: Why Hollywood Matters by Barbara Nicolosi, video
