Mariology

Father Hardon’s writings on Mariology explore the role of the Blessed Virgin Mary in salvation history and Catholic spirituality. These articles examine Marian doctrine, devotion, apparitions, motherhood, and Mary’s unique relationship with Christ and the Church.

Our Lady and the Resurrection

by Father John Hardon, S.J. Our Lady, the First Witness It is not only a pious opinion that the Risen Savior first appeared to His Mother Mary on Easter Sunday. No less than six Doctors of the Church, including SS. Ambrose, Anselm and Albert the Great held that Our Lady was the first witness of […]

The Assumption of Our Lady

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin means that after Her life on earth, Mary was taken body and soul into Heaven. Unlike other saints, therefore, Our Lady is in Heaven not only with Her soul but also with Her glorified body. Pope Pius XII defined this doctrine as a […]

The Handmaid of Humanity: Mary, Woman of Salvation History

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. SponsorVol. 26 – #3, October t980, pp. t 8-2 t Pope John Paul’s devotion to the Blessed Virgin is so deep and pronounced that it is not surprising that she finds a place of honor in almost everything he says and writes. In Poland, at the shrine of Our […]

The Blessed Virgin in the History of Christianity

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. Christianity would be meaningless without the Blessed Virgin. Her quiet presence opened Christian history at the Incarnation and will continue to pervade the Church’s history until the end of time. Our purpose in this meditation is to glance over the past two thousand years to answer one question: What […]

Pope Pius XII and Our Lady

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. Review for ReligiousVol. 11, September 1952, pp. 249-256 On the Feast of the Immaculate Conception in 1939, Pope Pius XII left Vatican City to return to the Church of St. Mary Major, where he celebrated his first Mass on Easter Sunday, forty years before. The allocution which he gave […]

Mary and the Crisis of Faith in the Modern World

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. Our present Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, so stresses devotion to Our Lady that some people think it is excessive piety. But today’s world desperately needs to believe that Mary is the Mother of the Incarnate God and the Mother of the spiritual life. As the Mother of […]

Mary, Model of Faith for Priests

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. There is no doubt that the Blessed Virgin promises to become a providential means of assisting the Church in the future even as she had so mightily helped the Church in critical times in the past. After all, she is and had most solemnly been declared by the Vatican […]

The Blessed Virginand The Holy Eucharist

by Father John A Hardon, S.J. There is no secret about how the Blessed Virgin is related to the Holy Eucharist. It is very simple: except for the Blessed Virgin, we would not have the Holy Eucharist. The key to this relationship is the humanity of Jesus Christ. God as God, was present in the […]

The Blessed Virgin and the Eucharist

by Father John A Hardon, S.J. In every case when believers proclaimed their faith in Jesus Christ, they were speaking to a man who had a human body, human eyes and lips and ears. They were adoring a man indeed but a man who they believed was also God. As man they knew Him to […]

Blessed Virgin and the Eucharist

by Father John A Hardon, S.J. ANNOUNCER: Astronomers tell us there are 400 billion stars in our galaxy and there are 100 billion other galaxies. How enormous is the universe, how mind-boggling, and it will all pass away. In comparison, how microscopically insignificant we are, yet we’re far more important. We are destined to live […]

Book Review – Mary and the Eucharist

by Father Richard Foley, S.J. Book review by Father John A. Hardon, S.J. I heartily recommend Mary and the Eucharist by Father Richard Foley, S.J. What I especially admire about this beautiful volume on the Blessed Sacrament is the author’s emphasis on our Lady. He brings out what is so desperately needed today, to believe […]

Devotion of the Blessed Virgin Today

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. There is no subject in Catholic devotion more extensive than the Blessed Virgin Mary. This is only to be expected, since the Mother of God is so basic to a correct understanding of her Divine Son. With the break in Catholic unity which took place in the sixteenth century, […]

1 2 3 4