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Extreme Labor Exploitation of Children in Dangerous Industry for Catholic Processions in Guatemala

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Religious rituals do not pleas God. In fact, these religious ceremonies go completely against what the gospel says in Heb 6:1, where it says that in order to bring fruit unto God, the children of God are called to leave behind the principles of Christ (Jewish practices) such as baptisms, laying of hands, abstaining from [...]

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The Virgin Mary, Monotheism and Sacrifice

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Product DescriptionThe Virgin Mary plays a major-although often paradoxical-role in the incarnation and crucifixion and in the ecclesiastical structure of Christianity. This role is shaped by sacrifice as understood in terms of the religious patrimony of ancient Israel and as refigured in the new Christian and Islamic paradigms arising from it. Here the offering up [...]

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The Crucified Rabbi: Judaism and the Origins of Catholic Christianity

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Product DescriptionHow does Jesus fulfill over three hundred Old Testament Prophecies? (each listed inside this book) Is Catholicism inherently Anti-Semitic? Do the Hebrew Scriptures accurately predict Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah? How does Jewish thinking presuppose devotion to Mary? Is the Catholic Church a fulfillment of historic Israel? How do Jewish water rituals relate [...]

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Virgin Goddess: Studies in the Pagan and Christian Roots of Mariology

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Product DescriptionThe contemporary search for the feminine face of God is requiring a re-examination of the relationship of Christianity to the pagan world in which it came to birth. Stephen Benko approaches this study as both an historian and a Christian believer. Inquiring into extra-biblical sources of Marian piety, belief and doctrine, he proposes 'that [...]

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Victorians and the Virgin Mary: Religion and Gender in England 1830-1885

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Product DescriptionThis interdisciplinary study of competing representations of the Virgin Mary examines how anxieties about religious and gender identities intersected to create public controversies that, while ostensibly about theology and liturgy, were also attempts to define the role and nature of women. Drawing on a variety of sources, this book seeks to revise our understanding of [...]

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God's Final Effort

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Product DescriptionThe author discusses Marian Apparitions with emphasis on devotion to the Two Hearts of Jesus and Mary, and how they refer to the times we are living in on the dawn of this new millennium. Written as a result of a recent meeting with Sister Lucia of Fatima. God's Final Effort Tags: Marian Apparitions, [...]

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The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580

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Product DescriptionThis book offers a fundamental challenge to much that has been written about the pre-Reformation church. Eamon Duffy recreates 15th-century English laypeople's experience of religion, revealing the richness and complexity of the Catholicism by which men and women structured their experience of the world and their hopes within and beyond it. He then tells [...]

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To Calvary With Mary

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Product DescriptionAnthea Dove imagines the thoughts and worries that went through the mind of Mary, during the Passion. She also imagines the conversations that might have taken place between Mary and the other players in this drama, interrmingled with scripture passages. Laid out in the traditional manner of The Stations of the Cross. To Calvary [...]

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Reforming Mary: Changing Images of the Virgin Mary in Lutheran Sermons of the Sixteenth Century

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Product DescriptionCatholics and Protestants have, since the earliest days of the Reformation, held markedly different views about the Virgin Mary. In Reforming Mary Beth Kreitzer examines the development of Lutheran views on this subject as expressed in 16th-century Lutheran published sermons, starting with the earliest of Luther's own Reformation sermons.She shows that from the beginning [...]

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Mary Magdalene and Many Others: Women Who Followed Jesus

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Product DescriptionItalian philosopher and researcher Carla Ricci addresses an overlooked but significant presence in the Gospels--that of the women who followed Jesus. Citing Luke 8:1-3, Ricci describes a group of women who unswervingly followed Jesus from Galilee to Jerusalem, through his passion and death, to become messengers of the resurrection. Mary Magdalene and Many Others: [...]

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Silent Soul: The Miracles and Mysteries of Audrey Santo

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Product DescriptionThree days a week, visitors from around the world enter the chapel of a small home in Worcester, Massachusetts. They have come to witness the Communion host that suddenly manifested a dark stain of blood during a Mass in this very room. Most of all, they have come to be near Audrey, the teenage [...]

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Marian Apparitions

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Product DescriptionThis groundbreaking book looks at the major approved Marian apparitions of the last five centuries and relates them to important historical moments: the Reformation, the French and Russian Revolutions, the rise of Nazism. These Marian apparitions, and particularly Fatima, are not historically unimportant events, but rather follow a preordained plan: they have a crucial [...]

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Report: Homily Outlining Prelude to Lent for San Francisco Roman Catholics by Archbishop George H. Niederauer by Peter Menkin

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Report: Homily outlining prelude to Lent for San Francisco Roman Catholics by Archbishop George H. Niederauerby Peter Menkin In a neat Homily given as a prelude to Lent on the World Day of Prayer for the Sick at St. Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco, a theme of “…we need each other…” was knit, offering a statement [...]

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Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them

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Product Description Between Heaven and Earth explores the relationships men, women, and children have formed with the Virgin Mary and the saints in twentieth-century American Catholic history, and reflects, more broadly, on how people live in the company of sacred figures and how these relationships shape the ties between people on earth. In this boldly [...]

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The Love of Mary

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Product DescriptionA treasury of magnificent truths and inspiring stories about the Blessed Virgin Mary and her great love for us. Shows that we have a powerful friend and gracious Mother in Heaven. Describes her beauty; power and immense graces and her eagerness to share these riches of grace with us; her children. A book about [...]

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First Comes Love: Finding Your Family in the Church and the Trinity

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Product DescriptionScott Hahn has the rare ability to explain the essential teachings of Catholicism in a totally accessible manner. Rather than burdening the reader with difficult or arcane references and arguments, he writes of familiar feelings and situations and allows the theology to unfold naturally. In First Comes Love, Hahn turns his attention to the [...]

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Glories of Mary

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Product DescriptionThe Glories of Mary, widely regarded as Saint Alphonsus Liguori's finest masterpiece, has for two and a half centuries stood as one of the Catholic Church's greatest expressions of devotion to the Blessed Virgin. Written as a defense of Our Lady at a time when Jansenistic writers were ridiculing Marian devotion, this classic work [...]

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Empowered With Mary: Affirming Full Personhood in the New Millenium

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Product DescriptionMary is the archetype of the one who says "Yes" to God, who assents to having God direct her life. Thus, each of us is to be in some sense like Mary—we, too, are to have Christ within us, leading and directing us. Yet, what does Mary have to say to us as women [...]

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Book of Mary

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Product DescriptionThis beautiful collection of prayers affirms that "as we honor the Mother, we also truly know the Son and give him love, glory, and obedience." Book of Mary Tags: Prayers, book, collection, Love, Mary, Product

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The Annunciation to Mary: A Story of Faith, Luke 1:26-38

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Product DescriptionLaVerdiere's book presents an in-depth examination of the Annunciation to Mary in Salvation History. Just as an ardent follower of art, in order to appreciate fully all aspects of a painting, 'enters' into a painting and views it from within, LaVerdiere, the scripture scholar, enters into Luke's story of the Annunciation to Mary. Realizing [...]

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