[Magdalen] Mary and finding things helpful or not

[Molly Wolf]

The Star of the Sea (Stella Maris) appears on the Acadian flag in New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia.

The RCC in Bedford Basin, part of the Halifax metropolitan area, is called Our Lady of Perpetual Help.  It overlooks the multiple train tracks leading into Halifax and, for that reason, has been nicknamed Our Lady of Scheduled Departures.

Molly

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Jan 31, 2016, at 7:01 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Interesting to note the BVM antiphon in the Monastic Diurnal Revised
> (Community of St. Mary, 1989) for Advent I to Candlemas:
> 
> Alma Redemptoris Mater
> 
> Gracious Mother of our Redeemer,
> for ever abiding Queen of heaven and star of ocean,
> O pray for your children, who though falling, strive to rise again.
> You, Maiden, have borne your holy Creator,
> to the wonder of all nature;
>>> Ever Virgin, after as before you received that Ave from the mouth of Gabriel;<<
> Intercede for us sinners.
> 
> Which made me want to check the Order of the Holy Cross and Order of
> St. Helena breviaries, and the Order of Julian of Norwich:
> 
> OHC has the same as above, basically.
> OSH doesn't have the BVM antiphons.
> OJN has the same as CSM and OHC.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA