Mary

Summary and Notes

Overview of Church Teaching

• The Blessed Virgin Mary: Her Privileges and Relation to Christ and His Church

Individual Doctrines Explained

• The Immaculate Conception
• Cooperation in the Redemption
  • Teaching of the Popes and Vatican II
• Mediatrix of All Graces
  • Teaching of the Popes and Vatican II
• The Assumption
• Queen of Heaven and Earth

Español

• María en la Biblia, en la Iglesia, y en Nuestras Vidas
• María, Madre de Dios

Apologetics

• Mother of God
• Mary, Ever Virgin
• The Immaculate Conception and the Assumption
  • History of the Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception
  • History of the Doctrine of the Assumption
  • More on the Assumption
• Praying to Mary and the Saints
• Saint Worship?
• More on Devotion to Mary and the Saints

Devotion

• Fr. Most: Mary, Our Mother
• Fr. Most: Mary's Role in Each Mass
• St. Anthony Francis of Lucera: Meditations on the Immaculate Conception
• Mary in the Rosary
• How to Say the Rosary
  • Prayers of the Rosary
• Other Prayers to Our Lady
• Marian Devotions and Apparitions
• Private Revelations and the Discernment of Spirits

Excerpts from Church Documents

• Pius IX's Ineffabilis Deus (Defining the Immaculate Conception)
• Pius XII's Munificentissimus Deus (Defining the Assumption)
• Leo XIII's Iucunda semper expectatione (On the Rosary)
• Mary, Help of Christians, in Leo XIII's Adiutricem (On the Rosary)
• Mary, our Mother, in Pius X's Ad diem illum laetissimum (On the Immaculate Conception)
• Pius XII's Ad caeli Reginam (On Proclaiming the Queenship of Mary)
• Mary and the Church, in Vatican II's Constitution on the Church Lumen gentium