In our call to prayer, we are given the powerful and provocative image of Mary of Nazareth, God-Bearer, First Disciple, and Mother of the Church. No one followed the Lord’s life of prayer better than ...

The Visitation is one of the most significant events in our Catholic faith tradition. Mary, newly pregnant with our Lord, traveled 70-some miles of rough territory to help her elderly cousin, ...

“Mary remained with Elizabeth about three months and then returned to her home” (Lk 1:56). Most women in the Gospels are silent. They are so silent that the fact that we get any prayer at all from the ...