Our Sorrowful Mother: Meditations on Mary’s Seven Dolors

by Dennis Billy, C.Ss.R.

This book is a series of imaginative meditations on what Catholic devotional literature refers to as “The Seven Dolors of Mary,” seven moments in Our Blessed Mother’s life that brought her great pain and suffering. These meditations are reflections on passages from Scripture that put Mary in close contact with the sufferings of Our Lord and, in doing so, seek to place the reader in the same place with them. This work of devotion seeks to deepen the reader’s Catholic identity by pointing to Mary, the Mother of Our Lord, and showing us that she is also Our Mother, someone who weeps and mourns over our own pain and suffering, be it physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, or social.

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TESTIMONIALS

“For anyone looking to begin or to deepen their devotion to Our Blessed Mother through an understanding of her sorrows and of her ultimate joy.” – Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP

“In the six decades that have passed since Second Vatican Council, the Church has fallen into somewhat of a malaise regarding Marian devotion. Fr. Dennis Billy’s meditations on Our Sorrowful Mother serve as a tempered synthesis of the writings of the great Marian saints, of St. Bernard, St. Alphonso Liguori and St. Louis de Montfort, thus helping to re-introduce and reawaken the Church to the contemplation of the magnitude and intensity of Mary’s love for her only Son. This is a solid re-introduction to the meditations on the Mother of God and her sacrificial love that is desperately needed in today’s society.” – Dr. Joseph. P. Michael, author of Apologia Pro Sancta Maria: Mater Pulchrae DilectionisMaria, Mater Ecclesiae

“Father Billy has engaged mind and heart at an incredibly deep level in an attempt to ‘touch’ the heart of Mary, and here he shares with us the fruit of his labor.” – Shane Kapler, author of Marrying the Rosary to the Divine Mercy Chaplet and The Biblical Roots of Marian Consecration

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Fr. Dennis J. Billy, C.Ss.R., is Professor Emeritus of the history of moral theology and Christian spirituality at the Alphonsian Academy of the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome and currently serves as The Robert F. Leavitt Distinguished Service Chair in Theology at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore. An American Redemptorist of the Baltimore Province, Fr. Billy has advanced degrees from Harvard University, the Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum), and the Graduate Theological Foundation. The author of numerous books and articles on a variety of religious topics, he is also active in his order’s retreat apostolate and in the ministry of spiritual direction.

 

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