Note: This is a work-in-progress. 🙂
This is our rough outline for a Marian study we’re doing in May, covering art, geography, religion, history and the liturgical year. It’s a combination of ideas culled from the Blessed Mother Notebook Project message thread at the 4Real Forums, and a collection of magazine articles and religious calendars that I’ve been collecting the past several years. Yena (11, entering 7th grade) will be doing a main notebook based on the choices and references I’ve listed below — we’ll start out with a goal of 20 pages and expand as needed/desired. Nino and I will be doing a little one for him with mostly holy cards, stickers, and short prayers to memorize. I’m putting a little booklet for my bedside table, with my favorite images and Marian prayers.
Will update/fix links below as I’m able.
1) Mary the Mother of God – January 1 – Solemnity
– Icons of the Mother of God
– for teens and up: Pope Paul VI’s Encyclical Marialis Cultus
– Mary, Mother of God according to the Church fathers
– Beautiful homily from Pope Benedict XVI on January 1, 2012
2) Litany of Loreto – incorporate pictures from Loreto trip 2009
– Calligraphy Work
3) Our Lady of Lourdes, February 11 – incorporate pics from Lourdes trip 2008
Image 1
Image 2
Image 3
Re-watch The Song of Bernadette
Additional reading, if you like: The Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel
4) Our Lady of Fatima – incorporate pictures from Portugal trip 2013
Fatima from Mary Pages
Miracle of the Sun image
For calligraphy work: the Fatima prayer
O My Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of Hell and lead all souls to Heaven, especially those who are in most need of Thy mercy.
5) Our Lady of Guadalupe – December 12 –
– narration of story of Juan Diego
– illustration of tilma, roses,
6) Annunciation of the Lord – March 25 – Solemnity
The Annunciation, Eugene Amaury-Duval (see calendar)
7) Immaculate Heart of Mary – April – Memorial, Movable
8) Our Lady Help of Christians – May 24 – Solemnity, Australia
10) Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary – August 15 – Solemnity
11) Queenship of Mary – August 22, Memorial
12) Mama Mary’s Birthday – September 8 – Feast
13) Our Lady of Sorrows – September 15 – Memorial
14) Our Lady of the Rosary – October 7, Memorial
15) The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary – November 21 – Memorial
16) Immaculate Conception, December 8 – Solemnity
17) Make a mosaic of a Marian image
18) Scherenschnitte of a Marian image
19) Compile a list of the Marian title for Patroness of all the Countries – can do this on world map — or list of basilicas/Cathedrals around the world dedicated to Mary
– can explore architecture, stained glass,
20)
JPII’s prayer:
“Virgin Mother of God, let me be all yours!
Yours in life, yours in death, yours in affliction, fear and misery.
Yours on the Cross and in bitter grief, yours for time and eternity.
Virgin Mother of my GOd, let me be all yours! Amen”
-Pope John Paul II
(taken from A Year With God)
22)
Polish Madonna
Polish Madonna Prints and Notecards
Black Madonnas
23) Mary, Star of the Sea – Our Lady, Stella Maris
24) Our Lady of the Olives:
http://campus.udayton.edu/mary/questions/yq2/yq256.html
http://campus.udayton.edu/mary/questions/yq/yq127.html
25) Paper dolls of Our Lady of Lourdes and Our Lady of Grace
http://www.fcpeace.com/friends/pages/03%20-%20Mary%20DressUp%201.htm
Our Lady of Fatima, Our Lady of Guadalupe
http://www.fcpeace.com/friends/pages/04%20-%20Mary%20DressUp%202.htm
http://www.fcpeace.com/friends/pages/04%20-%20Mary%27s%20Life%201.htm
26) Mary’s Life
http://www.fcpeace.com/friends/pages/04%20-%20Mary%27s%20Life%201.htm
27) Marian Holy Cards — Mom do a google search — so many beautiful ones!!
some:
http://img1.etsystatic.com/011/1/5510809/il_fullxfull.446937509_nzp8.jpg
http://img1.etsystatic.com/016/0/5510809/il_570xN.446949023_gyt1.jpg
28) Madonna of the Streets:
http://campus.udayton.edu/mary/questions/yq/yq15.html
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AFyHB1maWxE/Th4WveV2ApI/AAAAAAAAAVg/2xhin3WuGtI/s1600/Blessed-Virgin-Mary-Madonna-of-the-streets.jpg
29) Madonna of the Book by Botticelli
30) Marian Art from Bouguereau
31) Dormi, Jesu by Coleridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virgin’s_Cradle_Hymn
32) Madonna and Child, Murillo
33) L’Innocence, Bouguereau
35) Madonna and Child, Antoine Auguste Ernest Herbert
36) Madonna with Child and Two Angels, Fra Filippo Lippi
37) Virgin and Child, Giambettino Cignaroli
38) Holy Family, Carlo Maratta
39) Holy Family, Agnolo Bronzino
40) Virgin and Child, Bernard Van Orley
41) Madonna with Christ Child Blessing, Giovanni Bellini
42) Madonna in Adoration of the Sleeping Child, Giovanni Bellini
43) The Immaculate Conception of Aranjuez, Murillo
44) Rest on the Flight to Egypt, Simone Cantarini
45) Presentation in the Temple, Giovanni Bellini
46) Lamentation over the Dead Christ, Botticelli
47) The Visitation, Vittore Carpaccio
48) Virgin and Child, Francesco da Santacroce
49) Nativity with Saints James the Greater, Eustace, Nicholas, and Mark
50) The Virgin of the Rosary, Murillo
51) Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist, Niccolo Soggi
52) Virgin of the Grapes, Mignard
53) Madonna and Child with the young St. John the Baptist, Sandro Botticelli
54) The Virgin of Lorette, Raphael
55) Madonna with Child, Bartolomeo Montagna
56) Holy Family, Raphael
57) The Nativity, Noel-Nicolas Coypel
58) Rest on the Flight into Egypt, Caravaggio
59) Annunciation, Rodriguez Hernandez
60) Madonna of the Rose Bower, Stephan Lochner
61) Little Garden of Paradise, Oberrheinischer Meister
62) Song of the Angels, Bouguereau
63) Nativity/With Lamb (unknown)
64) Madonna and Child, Jusepe de Ribera
65) The Virgin at Prayer by Quentin Massys
66) Virgin of Sorrows by Sassoferrato
67) Madonna and Child by Marianne Stokes
68) Luke 2:5-7, 41-48
69) Song of Songs 6:10, Revelation 12:1
70) Mary’s “Biography” using guide from Anne Neuberger
References and Additional Resources:
Meditations on the Litany of Loreto, for the Month of May
Virtual Tour of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Titles of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Web Gallery of Art
Marian Feasts in the General Roman Calendar
Our Lady’s Litany: Readings and Reflections
MaryLinks Calendar
Marian Feasts
Forum Discussion on Christian symbols
Stories about Marian shrines, excerpts from Shrines to Our Lady
Shrines to Our Lady Around the World
Dan Paulos
Hail Holy Queen: Reflections on a Well-Known Prayer by John Collins, SJ
Life of the Virgin Mary papercuttings
Dan Paulos at Trinity Stores
Ikon Gallery
Marian Icons
Blessed Virgin Mary Stickers
Marian Stickers
Lovely Lady Dressed in Blue
Legends of the Madonna, The Carpenter’s Shop
Mary’s Book
Nicolo Barabino’s Madonnas
Holy Cards
Marian Holy Cards
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