ST. VINCENT’S HIGH SCHOOL OF SAN REMEGIO, INC.
Poblacion, San Remigio, Antique
WEEK 7
SUBJECT: Christian Living Education
GRADE LEVEL: 7
LEARNING COMPETENCY/IES:
Doctrine: Believe that the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Mother of God.
Moral: Emulate Virtues of Mary.
Worship: Participate actively in the celebration of the Feasts of Mary.
I. INTRODUCTION
The Church honors and celebrates Mary, our Blessed Mother, as a woman of great
faith all year long. Each celebration tells us something special about Mary and helps us to
remember that she put God first in her life and always lived with love.
II. INTERACTION
Lesson 7. Feasts of Mary
DATE
FEAST
January 1 Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God (HDO)
January 8 Our Lady of Prompt Succor
February 2 Presentation of the Lord
February 11 Our Lady of Lourdes
March 25 Annunciation
May 13 Our Lady of Fatima
May 31 Visitation
June 27 Our Mother of Perpetual Help
July 16 Our Lady of Mount Carmel
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August 15
Assumption (HDO)
August 22 Queenship of Mary
September 8 Birth of Mary
September 12 The Most Holy Name of Mary
September 15 Our Lady of Sorrows
October 7 Our Lady of the Rosary
November 21 Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
December 8 Immaculate Conception (HDO)
December 12 Our Lady of Guadalupe
N.B.
(HDO) – Holy day of Obligation
 The Month of Mary is May.
 The Month of the Rosary is October.
 The Feast of the Immaculate Heart is the Saturday following the Second Sunday after
Pentecost.
 The First Saturday of each Month is also dedicated to Marian Devotions.
All about the Feasts of Mary
January 1 Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
(HDO)
On this holy feast day, we take a moment as we start our new year to honor our
Blessed Mother, who in her “yes” to God brought our Savior into the world to redeem us.
January 8 Our Lady of Prompt Succor
Patroness of New Orleans or anyone needing the Blessed Mother’s immediate
assistance. Use of the title goes back almost three centuries. And when invoked by it, Mary
has interceded in decisive ways.
February 2 Presentation of the Lord
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Ancient feast of the Presentation of Our Lord, which is of Oriental origin, was known
in the West as the feast of the Purification of Our Lady, and closed the Christmas Cycle, forty
days after the Lord's birth. This feast has for long been associated with many popular
devotional exercises.
February 11 Our Lady of Lourdes
On Feb. 11, the Catholic Church celebrates the liturgical memorial of Our Lady of
Lourdes, recalling a series of 18 appearances that the Blessed Virgin Mary made to a 14-yearold French peasant girl, Saint Bernadette Soubirous.
March 25 Annunciation
Annunciation, also called Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin
Mary or Annunciation of the Lord, in Christianity, the announcement by the
angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive a son by the power of the Holy
Spirit to be called Jesus (Luke 1:26–38). The angel’s pronouncement is met with Mary’s
willing consent (“Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your
word”), and thus precipitates the Incarnation of Christ and his redemption of the world.
May 13 Our Lady of Fatima
May 13 is the anniversary of the apparition of Our Lady to three shepherd children in
the small village of Fatima in Portugal in 1917. She appeared six times to Lucia, 9, and her
cousins Francisco, 8, and his sister Jacinta, 6, between May 13, 1917 and October 13, 1917.
May 31 Visitation
Visitation, the visit, described in the Gospel According to Luke (1:39–56), made by
the Virgin Mary, pregnant with the infant Jesus, to her cousin Elizabeth. At the sound of
Mary’s greeting, the pregnant Elizabeth felt the infant St. John the Baptist leap in her womb,
which, according to later doctrine, signified that he had become sanctified and cleansed
of original sin. Mary then said the Magnificat (q.v.). The Feast of the Visitation of the
Blessed Virgin Mary is celebrated in the Roman Catholic Church on May 31 (or, until 1969,
on July 2).
June 27 Our Mother of Perpetual Help
The image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help is an icon, painted on wood, and seems to
have originated around the thirteenth century. Traditionally, the image is also known as “Our
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Lady of Perpetual Succour.” The icon (about 54 x 41.5 centimeters) depicts our Blessed
Mother Mary, under the title “Mother of God,” holding the Child Jesus. The Archangels
Michael and Gabriel, hovering in the upper corners, hold the instruments of the Passion– St.
Michael (in the left corner) holds the spear, the wine-soaked sponge, and the crown of thorns,
and St. Gabriel (in the right corner) holds the cross and the nails. The intent of the artist was
to portray the Child Jesus contemplating the vision of His future Passion. The anguish He
feels is shown by the loss of one of His sandals. Nevertheless, the icon also conveys the
triumph of Christ over sin and death, symbolized by the golden background (a sign of the
glory of the resurrection) and the manner in which the angels hold the instruments, i.e. like
trophies gathered up from Calvary on Easter morning.
July 16 Our Lady of Mount Carmel
The feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, celebrated on July 16, was first instituted in
the late 14th century in commemoration of the approval of the rule of the Carmelite Order a
hundred years earlier. According to legend, a religious community was established even
before the time of Christ on Mount Carmel. This is the mountain overlooking the
Mediterranean Sea on which the prophet Elijah successfully challenged the priests of Baal
and won the people to the true God. The feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel entered the
Calendar of the universal Church in the early 18th century.
August 15 Assumption (HDO)
Catholics and many other Christians celebrate the feast of the Assumption of the
Blessed Virgin Mary. This significant feast day recalls the spiritual and physical departure of
the mother of Jesus Christ from the earth, when both her soul and her body were taken into
the presence of God.
August 22 Queenship of Mary
"The purpose of the Feast is that all may recognize more clearly and venerate more
devoutly the merciful and motherly sovereignty of her who bore God in her womb" (Ven.
Pius XII, Ad. Coeli Reginam).
On the day of her Assumption, Mary our Mother was solemnly crowned by Christ and
received by the whole court of Heaven as Queen.
What Christ has done in Heaven and the Church has done on our behalf we should
now do individually, that is, we should recognize Mary's Queenship, enthrone her in our
homes, consecrate ourselves to her and, by this means, establish in our lives the reign of
Mary Immaculate Queen of the Universe.
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September 8 Birth of Mary
The Catholic Church celebrates on this day the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary on its
traditional fixed date of September 8, nine months after the December 8 celebration of her
Immaculate Conception as the child of Saints Joachim and Anne.
September 12 The Most Holy Name of Mary
September 12 marks the Optional Memorial of the Most Holy Name of the Blessed
Virgin Mary, a few days following the Memorial of her Nativity. This feast is the counterpart
of the Optional Memorial of the Most Holy Name of Jesus. Honoring the Holy Name of
Mary as a feast was originally established around 1513, with variations on the date through
the centuries. It was removed during the reform of the General Roman Calendar in 1969 but
restored by St. John Paul II as an optional memorial in 2002.
There are two simple points of this feast to draw home today: the honoring of the
name of Mary, and also understanding the importance of a name through our baptism.
September 15 Our Lady of Sorrows
Devotion to the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady has its roots in Sacred Scripture and in
Christian piety, which always associates the Blessed Mother with her suffering Son. This
feast was introduced by the Servites in order to intensify devotion to Our Lady's Sorrows.
o The 7 sorrows of Mary:
1. First Sorrow: The Prophecy of Simeon
“And you yourself a sword will pierce” (Lk 2:35).
2. Second Sorrow: The Flight into Egypt
“The angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, ‘Rise, take the child
and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. Herod is going to search
for the child to destroy him’” (Mt 2:13).
3. Third Sorrow: Search for the Child in Jerusalem
“After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers,
listening to them and asking them questions. When his parents saw him, they were
astonished, and his mother said to him, ‘Son, why have you done this to us? Your
father and I have been looking for you with great anxiety’” (Lk 2:46, 48).
4. Fourth Sorrow: Mary Meets Jesus on His Way to the Cross
“And carrying the cross himself . . .” (Jn 19:17). “A large crowd of people followed
Jesus, including many women who mourned and lamented him” (Lk 23:27).
5. Fifth Sorrow: Standing at the Foot of the Cross
Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife
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of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there
whom he loved, he said to his mother, ‘Woman, behold, your son.’ Then he said to the
disciple, ‘Behold, your mother.’ And from that hour the disciple took her into his
home” (Jn 19:25–27).
6. Sixth Sorrow: The Crucifixion and Descent from the Cross
After this, Joseph of Arimathea, secretly a disciple of Jesus for fear of the Jews, asked
Pilate if he could remove the body of Jesus. And Pilate permitted it. So he came and
took his body” (Jn 19:38).
7. Seventh Sorrow: Assisting at the Burial of Christ
“The women who had come from Galilee with him followed behind, and when they
had seen the tomb and the way in which his body was laid in it, they returned and
prepared spices and perfumed oils” (Lk 23:55–56).
October 7 Our Lady of the Rosary
On October 7, the Roman Catholic Church celebrates the yearly feast of Our Lady of
the Rosary. Known for several centuries by the alternate title of “Our Lady of Victory,” the
feast day takes place in honor of a 16th century naval victory which secured Europe against
Turkish invasion. Pope St. Pius V attributed the victory to the intercession of the Blessed
Virgin Mary, who was invoked on the day of the battle through a campaign to pray the
Rosary throughout Europe.
November 21 Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, celebrated annually on
November 21st, commemorates the presentation of the Blessed Virgin as a child by her
parents in the Temple in Jerusalem. Before Mary's birth, her parents received a heavenly
message that they would bear a child. In thanksgiving for the God's gift of Mary's birth, they
brought her to the Temple to consecrate their only daughter to The Lord.
December 8 Immaculate Conception (HDO)
The Immaculate Conception means that Mary, whose conception was brought about
the normal way, was conceived without original sin or its stain—that’s what “immaculate”
means: without stain. The essence of original sin consists in the deprivation of sanctifying
grace, and its stain is a corrupt nature. Mary was preserved from these defects by God’s
grace; from the first instant of her existence she was in the state of sanctifying grace and was
free from the corrupt nature original sin brings.
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December 12 Our Lady of Guadalupe
Our Lady of Guadalupe, Spanish Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, also called the
Virgin of Guadalupe, in Roman Catholicism, the Virgin Mary in her appearance before St.
Juan Diego in a vision in 1531. The name also refers to the Marian apparition itself. Our
Lady of Guadalupe holds a special place in the religious life of Mexico and is one of the most
popular religious devotions. Her image has played an important role as a national symbol of
Mexico.
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III. INTEGRATION:
Name: _________________________________________
Barangay: ____________________
ACTIVITY/IES:
1. Is our devotion to Mary important? Explain.
ASSESSMENT
Direction: MATCHING TYPE. Match column A with column B. Write your answers on
the space provided.
A.
B.
______1. When was the Blessed Virgin
Mary born?
a. December 8
______2. The father of Mary.
______3. Immaculate Conception
______4. Solemnity of Mary Mother of
God
______5. The mother of Mary
______6. Patroness of New Orleans
______7. Most Holy Name of the Blessed
Virgin Mary
______8. Introduced the Feast of Our
Lady of Sorrows
b. October
c. Servites
d. May
e. January 1
f. December 12
g. Our Lady of Prompt Succor
h. September 12
i. St. Anne
j. September 8
k. St. Joachim
______9. The cousin of the Blessed Virgin
Mary
l. Dominicans
______10. Month of the Holy Rosary
m. Elizabeth
n. Joseph
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