The Mother of God

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Franciscan Her«! Ai Press

Today, when materialisn; 'i dominant keynote of the spoken and written word, ii is refreshing to find a book about the reality of angels. Father Valentine Long O.F.M., author of
THE ANGELS IN RELIGION AND ART
treats these superior creatures with reverent familiarity, and offers proof of their existence. He draws us into a more meaningful friendship with them. In fact, he relates many incidents of h;> n interest to illustrate the close association betwee-. angels and men, and forcefully explains the Churc;! belief in these heavenly beings. He tries to establish a reverent familiarity between men and angels by the human interest touch. This book reveals the promi' vPt role angels played in the history of mankind. F, ' ler Long is a buoyant author who writes with ease and clarity on a subject that will deepen one's faith.
IMew Large Volume
PASTORAL OF U.S. BISHOPS ON MARY
(Summer of 1973) AND 24 OUTSTANDING ARTICLES SELECTED FROM THE TEN PREVIOUS... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Franciscan Her«! Ai Press

Today, when materialisn; 'i dominant keynote of the spoken and written word, ii is refreshing to find a book about the reality of angels. Father Valentine Long O.F.M., author of
THE ANGELS IN RELIGION AND ART
treats these superior creatures with reverent familiarity, and offers proof of their existence. He draws us into a more meaningful friendship with them. In fact, he relates many incidents of h;> n interest to illustrate the close association betwee-. angels and men, and forcefully explains the Churc;! belief in these heavenly beings. He tries to establish a reverent familiarity between men and angels by the human interest touch. This book reveals the promi' vPt role angels played in the history of mankind. F, ' ler Long is a buoyant author who writes with ease and clarity on a subject that will deepen one's faith.
IMew Large Volume
PASTORAL OF U.S. BISHOPS ON MARY
(Summer of 1973) AND 24 OUTSTANDING ARTICLES SELECTED FROM THE TEN PREVIOUS VOLUMES, some of them now out of print.
PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED with 125 pictures, many in color, in 168 oversize pages {8V2 by 11), 92 of which are on enamel stock - the equivalent of a 600-page book of ordinary size. Cover picture in color by Virginia Broderick, and end papers having a Marian Map of North America. A ten-dollar masterpiece of printing and publication.
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Human imperfection is mnate to the liuman condition. Yet, we still instinctively crave that unflawed nobility of person found in our first parents. Desperately, we grasp at shadows, the celebrity, the charismatic, always ending up with just a taste, a little short. The author notes that "there remains a crying need for a superior to these, a paragon of absolute perfection," a lasting ideal and guide.
"The demand has been better supplied than is commonly realized. The crying need, thanks be to heaven, did not go unheeded. It found its answer at Nazareth, all of two thousand years ago, when the grandparents of Jesus Christ were granted a child. The sensitive who despair humanity have not been cheated in their demand. They only think they have. They may find the perfect fulfillment of it, if they but knew, in a creature of their kind whom the angels serve, the glorious Mother of God.
"But Mary is not an unfounded ideal. She is a rich reality ; f^^S^iSKg^who took
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LO heaven witli her a sensitive ; standing of our vicissitudes, havii ^ experienced them; a mother bequeathed from the cross to the children of i, en, whose concern for them never runs mt of tenderness, even though they be so many. She is, moreover, the queen of the angels whose glorified body ser es notice to the faithful on earth tl at beatitude awaits their own bodies, et death do what it will.
"She is the creature closest to the Trinity, nobler than the angel, the fairest of women, the superior of every man but the Son she bore, the Queen of Creation whose glory by comparison would pale to a feeble glow the splendor of the sun and reduce to a paltry inferiority the magnificence of the universe. It is the truth. Let it nourish our hope. Let it feed our pride. She who is all this, is one of ours." I

VALENTINE LONG O.F.M. has received the degrees of B.A., M.A., and Litt. D. He has taught at Siena College, Loudonville, N.Y., and at St. Bonaventure, N.Y., in both the university and Christ the King Seminary. Over the years, he has lectured extensively, done a radio program, contributed to an educational series on TV, written scores of pamphlets and magazine articles, and published a variety of books including NOT ON BREAD ALONE, THEY HAVE SEEN HIS STAR, MAGNIFICENT MAN, FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATERS, WHATEVER COMES TO MIND, BERNADETTE AND HER LADY OF GLORY, and THE ANGELS IN RELIGION AND ART. In all his works. Father Long's sustained purpose is to reveal to a harassed generation the essential dignity of man.
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