Looking for Mary, Or, The Blessed Mother and MeLooking for Mary, Or, The Blessed Mother and Me
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Current format, Book, 2000, , No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsIn an irreverent but inspiring spiritual memoir, the author describes how, at the age of forty--feeling guilty over her neglect of her grown son and uncertain of her own path in life--she became devoted to the Virgin Mary.
In an irreverent but inspiring spiritual memoir, the author of Riding in Cars with Boys describes how, at the age of forty--feeling guilty over her neglect of a grown son and uncertain of her own path in life--she became devoted to the Virgin Mary, transforming a hobby collecting statues of the Virgin Mary became a transforming journey into the light.
When Beverly Donofrio enters her fortieth year, she begins a love affair with the Virgin Mary. Suffering over a grown son she's neglected and unsure of where her life is really headed, she feels she's entered her own version of Dante's dark wood. So she begins to meditate - and to collect Virgin Marys at yard sales. Beverly is hardly a devout Catholic: she starts out thinking of her Mary collection as nothing more than kitsch. But by effectively making a shrine of her home, she has invited the Virgin Mary in. Knowing a good opportunity when she sees one, the Virgin Mary sneaks into Beverly's heart.
Following the idea that if she could just act as if she believed, then belief might follow, Beverly the "lapsed Catholic" begins reciting Hail Marys, reading the Bible, and traveling to Mary sightings around the United States. And she embarks on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Medjugorje - with forty-nine rabid Catholics in tow. There, she prays more rosaries in one week than she had in her entire childhood. She also learns that Mary comes into your life only when pride steps out of it, and receives a bonus: hope.
In an irreverent but inspiring spiritual memoir, the author of Riding in Cars with Boys describes how, at the age of forty--feeling guilty over her neglect of a grown son and uncertain of her own path in life--she became devoted to the Virgin Mary, transforming a hobby collecting statues of the Virgin Mary became a transforming journey into the light.
When Beverly Donofrio enters her fortieth year, she begins a love affair with the Virgin Mary. Suffering over a grown son she's neglected and unsure of where her life is really headed, she feels she's entered her own version of Dante's dark wood. So she begins to meditate - and to collect Virgin Marys at yard sales. Beverly is hardly a devout Catholic: she starts out thinking of her Mary collection as nothing more than kitsch. But by effectively making a shrine of her home, she has invited the Virgin Mary in. Knowing a good opportunity when she sees one, the Virgin Mary sneaks into Beverly's heart.
Following the idea that if she could just act as if she believed, then belief might follow, Beverly the "lapsed Catholic" begins reciting Hail Marys, reading the Bible, and traveling to Mary sightings around the United States. And she embarks on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Medjugorje - with forty-nine rabid Catholics in tow. There, she prays more rosaries in one week than she had in her entire childhood. She also learns that Mary comes into your life only when pride steps out of it, and receives a bonus: hope.
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- New York : Viking Compass, 2000.
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