Catholics are invited to contemplate the seven sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary in a special way on ... Yoder covered pro-life issues, the U.S. Catholic bishops, public policy, and Congress ...

Known as the Seven Dolors of Mary, these sorrows are: That’s a lot for one ... She has written several books on Marian devotion and Catholic spirituality. As life coach, she is passionate ...

In the Catholic tradition ... the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The seven sorrows are a series of events that the Virgin Mary experienced and can be seen visually represented with ...

The Holy See granted them a feast of the Seven Dolors. Centuries later, in 1814, the Holy See placed the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows on the Roman calendar. In The Glories of Mary, St ...

It is good to think about the seven sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who freely accepted her ... Hannah Brockhaus is Catholic News Agency’s senior Vatican correspondent.

I first learned about the Seven Sorrows devotion through my obsession with art depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary. While I was used to the joyful image of the Mother and Child, I was mesmerized by its ...

On the Friday before Holy Week, Pope Francis asked people to keep a long tradition of Catholic piety by ... to spend time considering the "seven sorrows" of Mary: Simeon's prophecy that a sword ...

Listen ROME — On the Friday before Holy Week, Pope Francis asked people to keep a long tradition of Catholic piety ... time considering the “seven sorrows” of Mary: Simeon’s prophecy ...