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Parish Mary Garden Web Sites

   

With the greater numbers of persons coming on-line with computers,
Internet e-mail and websites are being used increasingly for local
as well as remote communications.

Availing herself of this new mode of communication, Mary's Gardens
Associate, Paula Mucha, has put up the first Parish Mary Garden
Website - "St. Cecelia'a Grotto" - at:

    (NOTE 1999 - Paula moved from parish, and parish website
     page discontinued.  This notice kept as historical record.)

to inform members of St. Cecelia's Parish in Ashland, MA - and
Mary Gardeners universally - of the inspiration, history,
development, devotion, caring and activities of the parish grotto
Mary Garden and other gardens of the parish.

Through the website, parishioners with computers learn of planned
events and developments, and of happenings in the Grotto Mary Garden
in a manner supplementing the customary parish bulletin boards,
Sunday Announcements, telephone messages and meetings, and with
color photos.

Sections of the St. Cecelia's Grotto website, accessible through
headings "buttons" on the web page, include:

             Memorials
             Inspiration
             Grotto Pictures
             The Arbor
             Current Month News
             Past Newsletters
             Grotto 2000
             St. Francis Garden
             Mary Gardens
             The Chaplet
    

To be added is a section: "Flowers" - those specific Flowers of
Our Lady in or planned for the Grotto Mary Garden, with photos and
descriptions setting forth their symbolism from medieval devotion,
and in some cases the old legends through which this symbolism was
communicated from generation to generation in the oral traditions
before the days of literacy, printing and schools.

At another parish, a planned Parish Mary Garden website is also to
include instructional information for use in Mary Studies in the
parish school - with photographs and descriptions of medieval
Flowers of Our Lady from the Mary Garden symbolizing the Gospel
story, the Rosary Mysteries, and Mary's virtues, priveleges and
endowed prerogatives. In addition to accessing information from the
Internet from all over the world, teachers and students will thus
also be able to access traditional information from their own
parish Mary Garden, as well as information for instruction in plant
life and its care, for planting miniature classroom dish and
windowsill Mary Gardens, and for starting spring seedlings early in
sunny windowsill seed starting trays for transplanting to the
parish Mary Garden when the danger of frost is past.

It is envisaged that reports of special comments, happenings and
joys will be posted to Parish Mary Garden web sites, which will be
of edification to Mary Gardeners everywhere.



Copyright, Mary's Gardens, 1999