The Church celebrates May 31 as the feast of the Visitation of Mary! After the Annunciation account in the Gospel of Luke, the evangelist tells us Mary goes in haste to visit her cousin Elizabeth, who the angel shared was also with child (Luke 1:39–56). After Mary’s...
Having a Protestant friend visit Mass may seem like a big deal, or not, depending on you and your friend. But I know, as a Protestant, there was a lot that confused me during Mass, and I often didn’t feel super comfortable. The following things all would have been...
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I treat May in a similar fashion as I do Lent. Not as a time of penance, but as a time to take on something more in terms of my prayer life. Since May is the month of Mary, I try to deepen my Marian devotion in some way. Do...
May is celebrated as the month dedicated to Mary. Many parishes will ask their children to participate in a May Crowning, in which one student will be selected to place a crown of flowers atop the Blessed Virgin’s head, crowning her the Queen of the May. Besides knowing that...
College seminary can be a weird place. It often feels like a mix between a frat house, a doomsday bunker, and Catholic Hogwarts. The characters you’ll meet seem like they’re straight out of a 90s sitcom with personalities so extreme that you’ll be amazed that people like...
