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9 DE NOVIEMBRE - DEDICACIÓN BASÍLICA DE LETRÁN. NTRA. SRA. DE LA ALMUDENA

5 DE AGOSTO - DEDICACIÓN DE LA BASÍLICA DE STA. MARÍA LA MAYOR. VIRGEN DE LAS NIEVES, VIRGEN BLANCA

August 5: Dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major
Fifth century
Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White

A venerable basilica preserves its ancient aura

A house is more than a building. When it personifies the family within, it is a home. Or at least it should be. That an office building contains businesses; a house—a family; a barracks—soldiers; and a hotel—guests, is merely to cite particular instances of the architectural credo that “form follows function.” Buildings look like what they do. When they don’t, everyone suffers from the incongruities. A modern sports stadium doesn’t look like a gothic cathedral, because the two architectural forms have two different functions: to entertain or to worship God. Today’s feast commemorates a building, not a person. It is a memorial to the “baptism,” or dedication, of one of the oldest churches in Rome dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The Basilica of St. Mary Major (meaning the “greater” or “larger” church of St. Mary) was first built in the 350s, in the decades after the legalization of Christianity in 313, when the Church could finally build big. After the Council of Ephesus’ dogmatic definitions on Mary as the God-bearer in 431, the Basilica was restored and rededicated.

Of the four major basilicas in Rome, St. Mary Major most retains the atmosphere, the “feel,” of antiquity. The sites of the Basilicas of St. Peter and St. John Lateran are ancient, but the present baroque structures date from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. And the ancient, Paleo-Christian Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls burned almost entirely to the ground in 1823. The present structure is an impressive replica, but relatively modern. The fourth-century core of St. Mary Major is, however, intact. It has been embellished, added to, and redecorated over the centuries. Nevertheless, it is to Christian Rome what the Pantheon is to pagan Rome—a complete, entire, and unscathed survivor from a built environment which has otherwise disappeared.

For Catholics, every church is a Domus Dei, a house of God. Whether it is full of one thousand souls, or silent and empty, it is a house of God. A church does not just keep one warm when it is cold, or dry when it is wet. A church does not become such only on Sunday. A church is more than a shelter, just like a home is more than a house. A good church is theology in stone. It reflects the truths it teaches in its very shape, in its steps, in its arches, windows, doors, lighting, marble, statues, mosaics, floors, and altars. Every Catholic church should be able to pass the “deaf test.” That is, when a hearing-impaired person enters a church, he or she should be able to easily understand what that church is teaching without hearing a single word from the pulpit or one verse sung from the choir. A religion’s hierarchy of truths should be expressed, in a confident and certain manner, by the structure where that religion’s faithful gather to worship God. One should understand with the eyes. It is not for the Catholic to “shiver in the barn of the Reformation,” as one theologian wrote, and to guess what the building is trying to say.

If God himself were to pull open the immense doors of St. Mary Major, one imagines He would walk down the central nave, look to his His right and to His left, smile, and slowly nod His head in pleasure and agreement. There, in an ornate chapel to the right, is Pope Saint Pius V. “How well he guided the rudder of my ship on earth.” There, under the altar, are the bones of Saint Jerome. “Oh cantankerous Jerome, you gave my Church the definitive text of my Word.” There, below the high altar, is a relic of the manger of Christ. “And there it all started. Resting in that wood, My Son brought the Old Testament to an end.” And on and on and on: saints, popes, the Virgin, the tabernacle, the confessionals, the Stations of the Cross. God the Father would not be a stranger in St. Mary Major. He would feel at home, surrounded by the things, signs, pictures, and emblems of the family life of the Universal Church.

Rome is a small planet of art and beauty. The density of artistic treasures in St. Mary Major, and so many other Roman churches, exercises a gravitational pull drawing all those enamored with God and His beauty toward the sacred core of the eternal city.

Holy Trinity, our worship of You is a matter of justice more than charity. We owe You reverence in the same way a child owes honor to his parents. Our love is inflamed by the sacred beauty of churches where You, Mary, and the saints are honored with such effusions of human genius.

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Con l’Editto di Milano, gli imperatori Costantino e Licinio hanno reso liberi i cittadini dell’impero di professare ogni religione. Ad Aquileia, il vescovo Teodoro vuole dimenticare le persecuzioni costruendo subito basiliche ed edifici episcopali cristiani. La città si riempie di storie e parabole narrate soprattutto con l’arte del mosaico. Ma riuscirà Aquileia, a resistere alle insistenti pressioni dei barbari?

It’s time to add another stamp to your spiritual passport! Join Jason Nunez as he guides you on a spiritual pilgrimage to the Cathedral Basilica of San Juan de los Lagos, located in Jalisco, Mexico. This Cathedral-Basilica ranks second in the number of visitors in the country, only after the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in Mexico City. More than 7 million pilgrims a year visit the Cathedral Basilica of San Juan de los Lagos.

During this episode, you will hear:

• How the Cathedral Basilica of San Juan de los Lagos came to be
• About the First Miracle of Our Lady of San Juan de Los Lagos
• Simple ways we can walk in hope

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“The Church’s devotion to the Blessed Virgin is intrinsic to Christian worship.” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 971)

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9 DE NOVIEMBRE - DEDICACIÓN DE LA BASÍLICA DE SAN JUAN DE LETRÁN. NUESTRA SEÑORA DE LA ALMUDENA

5 DE AGOSTO - DEDICACIÓN DE LA BASÍLICA DE SANTA MARÍA LA MAYOR. NUESTRA SEÑORA DE LAS NIEVES

9 DE NOVIEMBRE - DEDICACIÓN DE LA BASÍLICA DE LETRÁN. NUESTRA SEÑORA DE LA ALMUDENA

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Constant Procession tells of key apparitions of the Virgin Mary since she passed on from the world and how she serves humanity through Christianity.

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