Marian Vocab

When the Angel Gabriel approached Mary and said, "Hail! favored one!" and shares the good news that she was chosen to conceive the Son of the Most High.

• Theotokos

• Immaculate Conception

• Assumption

• Annunciation

The event of the Blessed Mother being taken into Heaven, sinless body and soul, as the first fruits of all humanity.

• Laud

• Assumption

• Rosary

• Marian

The event of Mary being conceived in the womb of St. Anne, without the stain of original sin, based on the merits of her yet to be born Son, Jesus Christ.

• Immaculate Conception

• Assumption

• Annunciation

• Intercession

To praise highly or exalt publicly, recognizing that one is set apart and distinct.

• intercession

• novena

• laud

• Marian

In relation to or having to with Mary, the Blessed Mother of God and Our Lady

• Intercession

• Marian

• Novena

• Immaculate Conception

A prayer prayed over nine days for a specific intention; origins lie in the Apostles waiting on the coming of the Holy Spirit after Jesus ascended into Heaven

• Novena

• Intercession

• Rosary

• Marian

The stain that exists in each human soul beginning at the moment of conception due to the disobedience of Adam and Eve.

• Novena

• Original Sin

• Theotokos

• Laud

The prayerful practice of using beads in a formulated process while meditating on the life of Jesus and can be coupled with petition intentions.

• Novena

• Marian

• Rosary

• Assumption

Prayerful entreaty in favor of another person, living or dead.

• Marian

• Laud

• Annunciation

• Intercession

The title of Mary representing her crucial role in God's plan for salvation by becoming the "God bearer" for the world.

• Immaculate Conception

• Marian

• Rosary

• Theotokos