The Apostleship of the Sea, a Catholic charity helping seafarers worldwide, will now be known as Stella Maris. In a letter to the organization’s chaplains and volunteers released by the Holy See press office Monday, international director Fr. Bruno Ciceri said the change was necessary because the charity had different names in different countries, causing Read more
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Mary – from a drop in the ocean to the Star of the sea
Monday, October 2nd, 2017St. Jerome translated Mary’s Hebrew name Miryam, which means drop of the sea, into the Latin Stilla Maris. Either due to a peasant dialect or a transcription error, Stilla became Stella. So Mary went from a drop in the ocean to the star of the sea. This speaks highly to God’s power in exalting the Read more
Sea Sunday, 10 July
Friday, July 8th, 2016
Never underestimate the value of a small gesture. That was the comment of a UK port chaplain after he responded to an unusual, but not surprising, request from a visiting ship’s captain. The captain had told the priest: “What my crew would really like is to walk on green grass. All they get to walk Read more
Sea Sunday, 13 July 2014
Friday, July 11th, 2014
The message for Sea Sunday from the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples reads as follows: This world of the sea, with the continuous migration of people today, must take into account the complex effects of globalization and, unfortunately, must come to grips with situations of injustice, especially when the Read more