Our Lady – Peter Darcy

Mary Untier of Knots, Our Recourse in Temptation

By Peter Darcy|2020-03-07T12:49:45+00:00March 7th, 2020|

Temptations from the devil are instruments in God’s hands to strengthen the spiritual dimension of the human person, namely, the human mind and will. The sacred humanity of Jesus Christ had to submit to temptation because He chose to experience everything human. Our Lady was united to Him spiritually during His temptations and stands by [...]

Our Lady’s Victory over Anxiety

By Peter Darcy|2020-02-02T19:40:09+00:00February 2nd, 2020|

The parents of Jesus must have felt some apprehension when they brought the Christ Child to present Him to the Lord in the Temple (a feast day we celebrate on February 2nd). Would He be accepted or rejected? Yet, in that moment of clarity and grace, the parents of the Messiah were released from anxiety [...]

Safeguarding Human Dignity through Mary

By Peter Darcy|2020-01-23T19:43:28+00:00January 23rd, 2020|

The world does not share our belief in human dignity; it might proclaim it at times, but their actions speak otherwise. For Catholics, the essential value of the human person is intrinsic. It is not bestowed by decrees of governments or the changeable customs of societies but by God, in whose image and likeness we [...]

A Guide for Our Advent Journey

By Peter Darcy|2019-12-01T19:55:48+00:00December 1st, 2019|

Advent symbolizes the waiting and anticipation of a pregnancy, and Our Lady appears as a key figure in the season. There is a good reason for that: she prepares us for Christ’s birth by helping us to let go of inner obstacles to grace and ties that bind us. She teaches patience and attentiveness to [...]

Our Lady’s Love for Souls in Purgatory

By Peter Darcy|2019-11-02T20:01:36+00:00November 2nd, 2019|

If there is anyone who is interested in releasing souls from Purgatory, it is the Blessed Virgin Mary. When her Son went to “preach to the souls in prison” (1 Peter 3:19) immediately after His Death, Mary waited for Him, not in despair but in hope of the Resurrection. She continues to help souls who [...]

How the Rosary Saved Christendom

By Peter Darcy|2019-10-07T00:12:49+00:00October 7th, 2019|

Our Lady defended Christendom when a whole civilization humbled itself before God using the simple prayer of the Rosary.

Queen of the Archangels

By Peter Darcy|2019-09-29T00:26:27+00:00September 29th, 2019|

September concludes with the feast of those glorious spiritual beings that Christian Tradition acknowledges as the princes of the angelic world: the Archangels. The three named Archangels of Scripture are Michael, Raphael, and Gabriel, and each of those mighty servants of God are under command of a superior spiritual force: their captain, the Mother of [...]

The Assumption Releases Us from Worldliness

By Peter Darcy|2019-08-15T10:29:16+00:00August 15th, 2019|

The Mother of Jesus, after assisting the Apostles at the birth of the Church, was released from her mortal life at the Assumption and given a greater ability to help her children from Heaven. Mary’s Assumption provides the spiritual force to undo the many degrading knots of worldliness and helps us become more spiritual people [...]

Undoing the Knot of Clerical Scandals

By Peter Darcy|2019-07-01T01:54:44+00:00July 1st, 2019|

The Catholic priesthood is undoubtedly experiencing a profound crisis at this moment. The vast majority of good priests are tainted by the scandals, but Our Lady, Mother of Priests, does not give up hope for them, even though the world and some Catholics do. She can free the clergy of the weight of scandal and [...]

The Church’s First Novena

By Peter Darcy|2019-06-01T10:42:29+00:00June 1st, 2019|

Ascension Thursday begins what we may call the Church’s first novena. It is the nine-day period between Ascension Thursday and Pentecost Sunday in which the disciples were locked in the Upper Room, united in prayer with Our Lady, and obedient to the Lord’s wishes: “to wait for ‘the promise of the Father’” (Acts 1:4). This [...]