Course Description
This is an 8-week course on Mariology Beginnings. In this course, we go deep into the Four Marian Dogmas which are
- her Immaculate Conception
- her Divine Motherhood
- her Perpetual Virginity and
- her Assumption into heaven.
We’ll also learn about the Saints and how they practiced various forms of Marian devotion including
- De Montfort’s Total Consecration
- Maximilian Kolbe’s “Marian Vow”, and
- St. Dominic’s reception of the Rosary among others.
To finish off the course, we’ll have a final module dedicated especially to doing Marian Apologetics.
Module 1: The Need for Devotion to Our Lady
VIDEO
FORUM QUESTION
What role (if any) has Mary played in your faith journey up to this point?
Module 2: Mary's Divine Motherhood
VIDEO
FORUM QUESTION
In the video I said something rather evocative when I said that Mary’s motherly relationship supersedes our connections with our biological parents because it is eternal. How does that sit with you on a personal and theological level?
Module 3: The Immaculate Conception
VIDEO
FORUM QUESTION
A stranger comes up to you in front of your house and sees you wearing a medal of Our Lady. He points toward the medal and says, “I used to be Catholic. I left because of her.” Then he gets a bit overwhelmed in his thoughts and says, “Why do Catholics think she’s a goddess? Isn’t it true that you think she is perfect, just like Jesus? How is that NOT blasphemy?
How would you respond?
Module 4: Mary's Perpetual Virginity
VIDEO
FORUM QUESTION
Why was it important that Mary be a virgin before and after giving birth to Jesus?
Module 5: The Assumption of Mary
VIDEO
FORUM QUESTION
Did Mary die?
Module 6: The Saints and Marian Devotion
VIDEO
FORUM QUESTION
How do YOU practice Marian devotion?
Scroll down to the bottom of this course page and click on the “Forum” button to enter your response.
Module 7: Mary and True Womanhood
VIDEO
FORUM QUESTION
In what ways does the world attack the sanctity womanhood? In what ways does it attack manhood? How does Mary elevate both womanhood and manhood to a higher holiness?
Module 8: How to Do Marian Apologetics
VIDEO
FORUM QUESTIONS
Do you know enough about Mary to defend her honor in the world? Do you know Mary enough to grow in love of her every day of your life?
My Beloved Mother Mary, the Ever Virgin,
I need you to be with me now to guide me and aid me, to express my inner feelings regarding your significance in my life.
Mary, has been my mother,sister, auntie,young grandmother and a faithful friend in my life.She encouraged me through the Holy Spirit’s prompt to pray the Holy Rosary.I am enjoying a long travel because I can say my Rosay many, many times. I have been doing this for more than 2 decades. Lately I have been praying the four Mysteries a day. I started doing this as my promise to our Mother. Lately, I was prompted by the Holy Spirit to dwell more about our Mother through knowing more about her through Mariology. She is everything to me, especially giving us our Savior JESUS her Beloved SON. I am 75 years old and it is no too late to feel you.Thank you for this chance, my Mother.