Liturgical Preludes Virgin Mary The encounter with the beautiful

The encounter with the beautiful can become the wound of the arrow that strikes the heart

and how death ultimately is to be met

“We must learn to see the Church in our Lady

revised and rehearsed with every refinement of taste and skill

Liturgical Preludes Virgin Mary The encounter with the beautifulBy Luis M. Martnez The liturgical year and the individual sanctification of each Catholic are intimately connected. As Archbishop Luis M. Martnez writes, The liturgical year is a mystical reproduction of the life of Jesus and a type of the interior life of souls. This is not some lofty ideal or poetic fancy; it is a summary of the power and purpose of the sacred liturgy as the school of the spiritual life; the glorification of Christ; and the prelude