Mary, Mother of God

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And behold, two men were conversing with him, Moses and Elijah, who appeared in glory... <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav8d.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> </ul> </div> </li> <li id="nav-fashion"> <a class="main_link" href="#">Mary as Mother</a>  <div class="gray_tab"></div>  <div class="submenu subone"> <ul style="height:482px;"> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/theo" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "theo", "", 408, Kali.theoHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Mother of God (TheotoKos)</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">From antiquity, Mary has been called "Theotokos", or "God-Bearer". The word in Greek is "Theotokos". The term was used as part of the popular piety of the early first millennium church. <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav1a.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/dotf" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "dotf", "", 408, Kali.dotfHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Daughter of the Father</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">Mary is "full of grace," because it is precisely in her that the Incarnation of the Word, the hypostatic union of the Son of God with human nature, is accomplished and fulfilled. <br> <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav1b.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/motr" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "motr", "", 408, Kali.motrHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Mother of the Redeemer</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">Mary was there at the Incarnation, Birth, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of God Incarnate. She was there throughout the often called "hidden years" in Nazareth. In the life of the Redeemer... <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav1c.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/sots" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "sots", "", 408, Kali.sotsHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Spouse of the Spirit</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">Throughout God's relationship with Israel He promises to espouse His people to himself (See, e.g. Hosea 2:19). This language of spousal love, of nuptiality, is also present in this overshadowing... <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav1d.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/otchurch" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "otchurch", "", 408, Kali.otchurchHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Mother of the Church</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">Since the Virgin Mary's role in the mystery of Christ and the Spirit has been treated, it is fitting now to consider her place in the mystery of the Church. She is acknowledged as... <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav1e.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/motdc" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "motdc", "", 408, Kali.motdcHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Mother of the Domestic Church</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">Mary is the mother of every domestic church, of every Christian family. She fully understands the naturally supernatural realities of family life because she lived them. <br> <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav1f.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> <li class="no_border subone_a">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/omother" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "omother", "", 408, Kali.omotherHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Our Mother</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">I found that every one of the great influences in my Christian life from that communion of saints to which we are all joined was profoundly "Marian". Francis of Assissi, Bernard of Clairvaux... <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav1g.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> </ul> </div> </li>  <li id="nav-blah"> <a class="main_link" href="#">Mary as Model</a>  <div class="gray_tab"></div>  <div class="submenu subtwo"> <ul style="height:482px;"> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/script" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "script", "", 408, Kali.scriptHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Mary in the Scriptures</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">Christian Scripture calls the "more excellent way", the way of Love. Mary understands this Way and walked on it with extraordinary humility. Follow her in journey through the Scriptures. <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav2a.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a> </li> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/maryt" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "maryt", "", 408, Kali.marytHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Mary in the Tradition</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">To understand Mary in the Tradition of the Church we have to understand what is meant by the word "Tradition" - and why it matters. In his second letter to the Thessalonians the Apostle Paul... <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav2b.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/maryc" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "maryc", "", 408, Kali.marycHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Mary and the Councils</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">A Bishop named Nestorius objected to the title of Theotokos, Mother of God or God Bearer for Mary. The Council of Ephesus met in 431AD and affirmed Mary was the "Mother of God"... <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav2c.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/maryly" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "maryly", "", 408, Kali.marylyHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Mary in the Liturgical Year</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">The Second Vatican Council did not offer one particular document on Mary, the Mother of God. Rather, the Council fathers incorporated the meaning and mission of Mary, as well as her... <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav2d.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/maryew" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "maryew", "", 408, Kali.maryewHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Mary East and West</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">Devotion to - and love for – Mary, the Mother of God, is a foundational part of the Christian Church both East and West. The Eastern Christian emphasis, both doctrinally and devotionally, is... <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav2e.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/maryef" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "maryef", "", 408, Kali.maryefHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Mary and the Early Fathers</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">Among the multiple and profound references to Mary, the Mother of God, found in the writings of the early Church Fathers is one of my favorites in the Cappadocian, Gregory of Nyssa... <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav2f.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> <li class="no_border subone_a">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/marys" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "marys", "", 408, Kali.marysHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Mary and the Saints</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">Among the titles given to Mary is "Queen of all the Saints". In one of his reflections on this woman whom he loved with such devotion, Blessed john Paul II proclaimed "This woman of faith... <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav2g.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> </ul> </div> </li>  <li id="nav-blah2"> <a class="main_link" href="#">Mary as Disciple</a>  <div class="gray_tab"></div>  <div class="submenu subthree"> <ul style="height:240px;"> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/disc" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "disc", "", 408, Kali.discHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Mary as Disciple</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">We were made to give ourselves away to the Lord and, in Him, for others. Mary's choice, her response to the invitation of a God, is a singularly extraordinary event in all of human history. <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav3a.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/handmaid" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "handmaid", "", 408, Kali.handmaidHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Handmaiden of the Lord</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">"I am the handmaiden (servant) of the Lord; let it be to me according to your Word." (Luke 1:38) When Mary spoke those few words, human history was forever changed.<br> <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav3b.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/moh" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "moh", "", 408, Kali.mohHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Model of Holiness</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">From antiquity the early Christians reflected on a "mystery" of the faith- how the Incarnation of Jesus Christ came about through the free cooperation of this little Virgin of Nazareth... <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav3c.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> <li class="no_border subone_a">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/firstd" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "firstd", "", 408, Kali.firstdHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">First Disciple</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">She was the first evangelizer and the first disciple of her Son Jesus. She gave the first Gospel testimony to her cousin, Elizabeth, without words, as the Redeemer in her womb drew the child in her womb... <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav3d.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> </ul> </div> </li>  <li id="nav-blah3"> <a class="main_link" href="#">Way of Mary</a>  <div class="gray_tab"></div>  <div class="submenu subfour"> <ul style="height:482px;"> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/mess" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "mess", "", 408, Kali.messHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">The Message of Mary</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">And Mary said, "Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word." And the angel departed from her. (The Gospel of Luke 2:34-37) <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav4a.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/mean" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "mean", "", 408, Kali.meanHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">The Meaning of Mary</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">"Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be [done] to me according to your word." "At the announcement that she would give birth to "the Son of the Most High" without...<br> <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav4b.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/pray" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "pray", "", 408, Kali.prayHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">The Prayer of Mary</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">Mary's Prayer teaches us to stay afloat in the ocean of life, with all of its undertows. Mary's way is to become an ark within, where the same God who became incarnate within her... <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav4c.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/song" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "song", "", 408, Kali.songHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">The Song of Mary</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">"When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, "Most blessed are you... <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav4d.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> <li class="no_border subone_a">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/title" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "title", "", 408, Kali.titleHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">The Titles of Mary</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">From the earliest theological reflections in Christian history we find the defense of the most important of the titles of Mary, "Theotokos" in Greek. It is translated God-bearer... <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav4e.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> </ul> </div> </li>  <li id="nav-blah4"> <a class="main_link" href="#">Mission of Mary</a>  <div class="gray_tab"></div>  <div class="submenu subfive"> <ul style="height:482px;"> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/maryeu" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "maryeu", "", 408, Kali.maryeuHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Mary and the Eucharist</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">In a beautiful apostolic exhortation entitled the Sacrament of Love, issued in 1997, Pope Benedict XVI wrote these words under a section entitled The Eucharist and the Virgin Mary... <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav5a.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/maryne" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "maryne", "", 408, Kali.maryneHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Mary & the New Evangelization</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">Throughout his pontificate, Blessed John Paul II called for this "New Evangelization." Pope Benedict XVI made this a central pillar of his pontificate. He erected a Pontifical Council... <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav5b.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/twom" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "twom", "", 408, Kali.twomHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">The Path of Mary</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">Before they were called Christians (Acts 11:26), at Antioch, they were referred to as "the Way". A Rabbi named Saul spoke of persecuting "the way" (Acts 22:4) before he was profoundly converted... <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav5c.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/moment" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "moment", "", 408, Kali.momentHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">The Marian Moment</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">Over the last two decades a recovery of the significance of the life and witness of Mary has occurred among many Christians, even those who descend from the communities of... <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav5d.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/mission" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "mission", "", 408, Kali.missionHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Mary's Mission</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">"Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother... When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, Woman, behold, your son."<br> <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav5e.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a> </li> <li class="no_border subone_a">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/mpp" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "mpp", "", 408, Kali.mppHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Marian Prayer and Piety</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">Marian prayer and piety developed very early in the history of the undivided Christian Church of the first millennium. It has been kept alive in a myriad of piety practices in the both the Catholic... <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav5f.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> </ul> </div> </li>  <li id="nav-blah5"> <a class="main_link" href="#">Message of Mary</a>  <div class="gray_tab"></div>  <div class="submenu subsix"> <ul style="height:240px;"> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/say" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "say", "", 408, Kali.sayHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">What Does She Say?</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">The message of Mary is the message of the Gospel, to repent and believe the Good news. The message of Mary is conversion to Her Son by saying "yes" to God's invitation. That is the path to true... <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav6a.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/books" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "books", "", 408, Kali.booksHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Books about Mary</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">When you want to remove all the veneer and inaccuracies you may have accumulated regarding the Blessed Virgin Mary and desire to build a solid foundation for understanding her profound role... <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav6b.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/mpd" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "mpd", "", 408, Kali.mpdHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Marian Prayer and Devotion</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">The Catechism of the Catholic Church instructs the faithful on just how Mary prayed. Mary still prays. She has a special role in the plan of salvation and is a model for all Christians... <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav6c.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> <li class="no_border subone_a">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/mc" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "mc", "", 408, Kali.mcHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Marian Consecration</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">To consecrate means to dedicate. It is used in reference to worship and means to be set aside or set apart for God. It is also a word which speaks to the very core of the Christian... <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav6d.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a></li> </ul> </div> </li>  <li id="nav-blah6"> <a class="main_link" href="#">Appearances of Mary</a>  <div class="gray_tab"></div>  <div class="submenu subseven"> <ul style="height:482px;"> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/appear" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "appear", "", 408, Kali.appearHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Apparitions and Appearances</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">The term "appearance" has been used with Marian apparitions and visions of Jesus Christ. The Church will confirm an apparition as worthy of belief, but belief is never required by divine faith. <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav7a.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a> </li> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/eval" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "eval", "", 408, Kali.evalHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Evaluating Apparitions</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">A Roman Catholic approved Marian apparition is one that has been examined by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and has been granted approval by the local Bishop or the Holy See. <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav7b.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a> </li> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/approved" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "approved", "a=1", 408, Kali.approvedHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Traditionally Approved</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">A Roman Catholic approved Marian apparition is one that has been examined by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith either based on the criteria listed above and...<br><span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav7c.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a> </li> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/approved" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "approved", "a=2", 408, Kali.approvedHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Vatican Approved</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">The Apostolic See (the Vatican) can also intervene at the request of the local bishop himself, at the request of a group of the faithful, or on its own initiative. <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav7d.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a> </li> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/approved" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "approved", "a=3", 408, Kali.approvedHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Bishop Approved</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">The diocesan bishop can initiate a process on his own initiative or at the request of the faithful to investigate the facts of an alleged apparition. <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav7e.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a> </li> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/approved" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "approved", "a=4", 408, Kali.approvedHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Coptic Approved</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">Some apparitions taking place within the Coptic Orthodox Church have been approved by Coptic authorities. For an apparition to be approved, the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church... <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav7f.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a> </li> <li class="subone_a" style="margin-right:1px;">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/approved" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "approved", "a=5", 408, Kali.approvedHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Approval of Faith Expression</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">There are hundreds of other reported apparitions around the world without major references or church investigations and they can not be included in this section, due to... <span style="color:#C60;"><u>Learn more ></u></span></div> <div style="height:110px;"><img src="/web/20130113055720im_/http://www.catholic.org/mary/images/nav7g.jpg" width="230" height="110"></div> </a> </li> <li class="no_border subone_a">  <a href="/web/20130113055720/http://www.catholic.org/mary/unapproved" onclick="Kali.getContent("content", "unapproved", "", 408, Kali.unapprovedHandler); return false;"> <div style="padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-align:left; padding-left:8px; letter-spacing:0;">Unapproved Apparitions</div> <div style="text-align:left; font-size:10px; padding:0 8px; margin-bottom:11px; line-height:13px; height:80px; overflow:hidden;">The Catholic Church has been very cautious to approve purported miraclous events. 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