Brendan Steven
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How Did You Discover Mary?
My love for Mary began with a seed of gratitude. Because of her faith, we have faith. We have people throughout history and today all around us who model that faith.
Our Lady of Listening
Listening is love because it calls us out of our ego-drama. Listening flows our consciousness outwards towards others. Mary is the icon of this perfect other-centredness.
Mary's Holy Family
Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are the perfect little community which has so much to teach us about how to grow in holiness as we are, on the words of Saint John of the Cross "fashioned and tried" by others.
Lady of Victory
The success of Mary at the Battle of Lepanto is so much more than a military conquest. It is the victory of people who through Mary's example had chosen the ways of Jesus, who wanted to continue on that journey.
Embracing The Mystery of Life, Like Mary
When Mary said yes to the vocation of becoming Jesus' mother, she taught us a valuable lesson. She taught us what it means to embrace the mysteriousness of life.
"Do Whatever He Tells You"
Devotion to Mary wraps inevitably and inserprably into devotion to Jesus. To ask for Mary's intercession in our lives is, in the end, to go to Jesus - hand in hand with Mary - for his help and guidance.
Becoming a Father
The Church offers us a perfect model for fatherhood. That model is Saint Joseph, the foster father of Jesus. He’s the perfect counterpart to Mary, the model of motherhood. The fruitful creativity of Joseph’s fatherhood is a major theme in Pope Francis’ apostolic letter, Patris Corde.
A Working Father
St. Joseph teaches us God’s idea of work. Joseph shows us a model of work that is sacred, ordered towards God, affirming the dignity of every person. A work whose end is our families and communities—and building God’s Kingdom on earth.
A Father Without Work
But despite the Holy Family’s modest means, Joseph was a great father. His selflessness and service to his family are testified to by the love of his son and his wife. “Love God and love thy neighbour as thyself,” Christ told us. By these measures, St. Joseph—the just man—led a rich life indeed.
Ordinary Man, Ordinary People
It is ordinary people, going unnoticed, who are the heroes of the pandemic. And they suffer for their heroism. We see the inequality of human dignity in who can stay at home, and who must go into work. Who is called an “essential worker” and who is not. Who must risk more than others in a moment of profound danger.
Protector of the Poor
Joseph challenges us to embrace a way of life that accepts God’s request of us that we take care of people in trouble—especially when it comes to caring for our neighbours and others we meet along the journey.
Devotion to St. Joseph
This is Joseph’s time. For hundreds of years, devotion to Joseph has grown slowly and steadily. And devotion to this saint—“the most exalted human person after Mary,” as another saint described him—has produced hundreds of saints more.