Lent 2026
Aleteia needs your help to share the Good News.
For our mission to continue, we need it to become yours.
Christians have called upon Mary as "Star of the Sea" for many centuries, seeing in her a "star" that guides Christians to her Son, Jesus.
Here is a hymn, Ave Maris Stella, attributed to various saints, that may have originally been composed in the 9th century.
