Resources

On the Web

• Praying the Rosary and The Hail Mary for children
• Joseph, the husband of Mary - his story and his example
• The Council at Ephesus - repudiation of Nestorius
• Lumen Gentium - Vatican II (Chapter VIII, Our Lady
• about Bethlehem
• interactive Israel tourism guide for Jerusalem andNazareth
• The Mary Page at University of Dayton - comprehensive resources for material on- and off-line on the topic of Mary
• Constantinople Home Page - Byzantine antiquities of Istanbul
• A few of the religious orders dedicated to Mary:
  • Oblates of Mary Immaculate
  • Marists
  • Sisters of Notre Dame
  • Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist
  • Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
  • Sisters of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary
• Metropolitan Anthony, sermon on the Mother of God
• for fun, download a 3-D model of Chartres (free viewer also available)

Bibliography

Includes links, where available

At Worship with Mary, Christopher O'Donnell, Wilmington, Delaware, 1988

Behold Your Mother:Woman of Faith, National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington 1973

Catechism of the Catholic Faith, New York, 1995

Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture, Victor Turner and Edith Turner, New York, 1978

Mary, A History of Doctrine and Devotion, Hilda Graef, Westminster, Maryland, 1965

Roman Calendar, Text and Commentary, U.S. Catholic Conference, Washington, 1976

The Mother of the Redeemer, Pope John Paul II, Washington 1987

Theotokos, A Theological Encyclopedia of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Michael O'Carroll, C.S.Sp., Wilmington,Delaware, 1982