ne of the striking questions one will raise is the "WHY" of this website. "Why another Marian internet site?", more precisely.

Before any possible answer to such query, one should ask first a more fundamental question: Why communicate? Why there is boom in mass media communications? Such fundamental questions even escape advertisers for a want of attention on the substance of communication and focus, instead on the glittering accidents. The quest for the meaning of communications has been obliterated in media planners so much so that internet publications are just mere collage of colors, lights, shades, sounds. The proximate purpose of communicating ideas had been substituted with the communication of feelings. That is why, the senses are fed to the starvation of the human spirit.

The very first authentic communicators are the Apostles of Christ. They preached the truth so that the truth will set people free. Communications for early Christianity, then,  is intrinsically conjoined with the Truth. And that Truth is the Word who became Flesh-- Christ.

Here is the very root of all communications: The Word became Flesh and dwelt among us. The mystery of the Incarnation is God's divine way of making public what is in the deepest recesses of His divine Mind. As words are signs of concepts, so the Incarnate Word, is the revelation of Divine Love. Christmas must be the patronal feast of all advertisers and publishers.

It is in this light, that a Marian website is just a new way of expressing what had happened in the mystery of Incarnation-- it is a publication of God's Love. The making public of what is hidden for all eternity is the raison d'etre of all mass communications. Indeed in order to express ideas, one must pick his pen, his paper, his color, his images. As for the website, what is a necessary are "html codes" that transmits messages of love. They serve as instruments of revelation. This human dimension of communication was summarized in Mary, the first 'evangelizer' since it is through her that the Word became Flesh. It is her absolute docility to the will of God that made possible the most perfect expression of Divine Ideas in Jesus. As a pen which permits itself to be used to express the ideas of a writer, so Mary permitted herself to be the servant of the Lord in the grandiose work of media apostolate-- salvation through Christ. 

Thus, a Marian website is justifiable in so far as we need to let Mary's love and devotion to Christ be known in order to see in her the model of Christian living. It is in understanding the mysteries of Mary that we know better the love of Christ. The artist's talents are revealed by His works just like the ink of a writer manifests his wisdom. So the more we let Mary known, loved and imitated by souls, the more we will preach the presence of God in our lives. Such presence of God is obscured by existence of crimes, of infidelities, of human miseries that humanity agonizes in the absence of tangible signs of hope, of faith and of love in the world. That is why, The Virgin in the Book of Isaiah accentuates Mary's role of revealing God's presence among us, the Emmanuel.

It is with this conviction that the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate in the United States bring to your desktops this humble website known as "Immaculate Mediatrix Online." It is a very conviction that is rooted in the decreed plan of God: His only begotten Son "must" come and be born of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is a conviction that the world will be brought to Jesus through her. Hence the site's motto: "Bringing the Immaculate to the World".

We hope, that this humble internet site, would fulfill the same role of being a sign of God's presence in our midst today even in the world...of the cyberspace.

The Webmaster
Immaculate Mediatrix On-line
"Bringing the Immaculate to the World"