Meditations on Mary

Meditations on MaryMost Catholics who know anything at all about Saint John Henry Newman are familiar with his journey from Anglicanism to Rome. What may surprise them is the key role that devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary played in that conversion. Apart from the Papacy, devotion to Mary is perhaps the greatest stumbling block for the majority of Protestants. Yet, Newman had already developed a devotion to Mary and a defense of some Catholic doctrines on the subject

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Based on the Gospel parable of the Prodigal Son

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provide the wisdom — old and new — to unveil how our loneliness may be aggravated by our sins and shortcomings

Part II explains the principles of right moral action

Thérèse of Lisieux (1873-1897)

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even while teaching traditional doctrine in appealing and unique prose