4 Mary Garden Articles from the
    Catholic Press - Spring, 2002


  National Catholic Register                 April 7, 2002

    She Blooms Where She's Planted          Caroline Schermerhorn
                                        


  Saint Cloud Visitor (companion articles)    May 9, 2002                             

    Cultivating the Spirit                  Irene Voth
                                       
    Mary Gardens Are One Way to Express         "                
      Devotion to Blessed Mother                  


  Trenton Monitor                              May 16, 2002

    Mary's Garden is a Place of             Lois M. Rogers
      Meditation and Celebration
 

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These four articles have a richness and diversity which evidence
the maturing of the restoration of the Flowers of Our Lady and
Mary Gardens to contemporary religious and gardening culture.

Caroline Schermerhorn's "She Blooms Where She's Planted"
insightfully sets forth the quickening of Marian meditation and
prayer by the Flowers of Our Lady, when seen according to their
beautiful medieval symbolism of Mary's life and mysteries.

Irene Voth's cover and center-fold article, "Cultivating the
Spirit" presents the general religious stewardship and meaning of
gardening, as seen by two religious sisters, a pastor and a
lifetime professional lay gardener.

Irene's accompanying "Mary Gardens Are One Way to Express Devotion
to Blessed Mother" describes the more specific mirroring of
persons, events and truths of Scripture and Tradition through the
symbolism of the Flowers of Our Lady of medieval popular rural
tradition.

Lois M. Rogers' "Mary's Garden is a Place of Meditation and
Celebration" describes how the Mary Gardens of Sacred Heart
Parish, Riverton, and St. Mary's Parish, New Monmouth, in the
Trenton Archdiocese, have been incorporated in parish spiritual
life and celebration.