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On Valentines Day 2022 the above set of eight image-less boxes -- each linked to its individual list of archived resources
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was unveiled on this Ecumenical Mary & Jesus Rosary site -- and constituted step forward in construction of a resources center for this Ecumenical Rosary endeavor.
Clicking an underlined box title will access its respective category listing of archived digital
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material collected since the launching of the Facebook group page Hail Ecumenical Mary, Mother of All Christians! in February, 2020.
Circa the World Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, January, 2021, our Facebook Hail Ecumenical Mary, Mother of All Christians! group initiated discussion about launching an Ecumenical Mary & Jesus Rosary prayers and scriptual meditation-mysteriess arrangement.
The premise of our FB group initiating the Ecumenical Mary & Jesus Rosary is this: Countless other Christians, in their love of Jesus, also recognize from scripture that His Blessed Mother’s dedication and devotion to Him and His mission warrants their prayerful attention.
They would welcome rendering that spiritual appreciation in an ecumenical setting, if they could do so without violating their sincere conscientious objection to intercessory prayer, a stricture with which they have been inculcated from childhood.
This Ecumenical Mary & Jesus Rosary, a mix of Roman (Latin) and Byzantine rite prayers and meditation-mysteries, tackles the issue of intercessory pray and offers two ways of building a beaded bridge of prayer to honor Mary, worship Jesus, and help advance Christian unity.
It does so while protectively respecting the consciences of all participants.
Presently, for purposes of testing the HTML retrieval coding, the listings include only their initial entries from the large collection of digital materials stored. The listings will expand rapidly and continually after this initial phase.
The first entries listed here relate to stories and articles in the top row of four archives access boxes. What follows are descriptions of these first entries (in italics) which can accessed by clicking their respective underlined linked archives category box titles (in bold face):
- Mary: Model of Humility, a videoed church sermon by Lutheran Pastor Dennis Di Mauro, accessible as the initial entry on Viewing Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ category list.
- The Rosary as a Spiritual Sword, a videoed talk at a Franciscan university by Dominican Fr. Don Calloway, MIC, accessible as the initial entry on the History of the Rosary in History category list.
- Some Light on the Luminous Mysteries, our title for an excerpt from "Meet Saint Gorg [George] Preca, the Maltese Apostle of the Word, through Mary," a presentation by Jean Pierre Fava on the Aleteia website. The excerpt is accessible as the initial entry on the History of Rosaries category list.
- To Stand at the Cross with You," a poem by Edith Stein (philosopher, Jewish convert, Carmelite nun Sr. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Auschwitz martyr, canonized saint), admin commentary, is accessible as the initial entry on the Mary & Rosary
prayers, hymns, poems, art, books category list.
Reading left to right, bottom row, the initial entries (in italics) are accessible via their linked category list titles (in bold face):
- Outreach to John Henry Newman & Paul Wattson followers, an admin post outlining the ecumenical and Rosary connections of the two Anglican priest converts, whose lives had international impacts, is accessible as the initial entry on the John Henry Newman & Paul Wattson category list.
- A note with Jasper, Alabama and British Virgin Island churches images and website links, telling of the Jasper congregation's aid to the BVI church in wake of hurricanes, is accessible as the initial entry on the Saint Mary Churches & Other Institutions category list.
- A webmaster intro and an excerpt from The History of Holy Rosary Institute by Southern University history professor Don J. Hernandez, Ph. D, are accessible as the initial entry on the Rosary Named Churches & Other
Institutions category list.
- Vatican II document, Lumin Gentium, Chapter VIII,, full text, is accessible as the initial entry on the Ecumenical Mariology, Mary Ecumenism category list.
During this year's (2022) Christian Unity Prayer Week, our endeavor took a major big step forward with the unveiling of Ecumenical Mary & Jesus Rosary's own "online" website. Not to engage in an Abbott and Costello comedy routine, but that's its actual Internet travel connection name's suffix: ONLINE
It functions like such familiar suffix names as COM or ORG or EDU or GOV or NET, etc. which, at least originally, helped identify the nature of the site: e.g. COM for commercial, ORG for non-profit, EDU for educational, NET for Internet or Network, etc.
This ONLINE site is planned to be one of a pair to devoted to the Ecumenical Mary & Jesus Rosary. The other would be an ORG suffix site. We chose ONLINE as the suffix for this first of the pair of linked websites for our Rosary. The ORG site is to emerge later after this initial one is firmly established.
The ONLINE website would evolve into more a resource and archive center for all things related to ecumenical Rosaries, Mary and Jesus prayer, other such devotions and related theology. The ORG site is envisioned emerging more focused on the outreach, organizing and operational aspects and activities related to the intra-faith Rosary.
Thomas C. McCarthy,
Webmaster/Admin,Hail Ecumenical Mary, Mother of All Christians! Facebook group.
email: HailEcumenicalMary@aol.com
Click image below for the Facebook group that initiated
and sponsors the Ecumenical Mary & Jesus Rosary.
[Note, that when our Rosary's title travels online, the hyphens between its constituent words are necessary because proper names in a long URL (web connecting address) are all part of, in effect, "one word." Most human eyes (except perhaps a typesetter's and PC guru's) don't easily distinguish and unscramble long, case insensitive proper names when their letters come all jammed together. Note an ampersand (&) also is a no-no in URLs, so we use "and" there but everywhere else, we use & in the title.]
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