{"product_id":"book-blessed-virgin-vol2-cluny","title":"The Book of the Blessed Virgin Volume 2: Mother of Mercy","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ePAperback, 266 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFew men had as much an influence upon the leading lights of twentieth-century Catholicism as did F. J. Sheed. Helmsman of Sheed \u0026amp; Ward, “the most influential Catholic publishers in the English-speaking world,” Sheed was friend or publisher (or often both) to G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, Ronald Knox and Caryll Houselander, Evelyn Waugh and Christopher Dawson, and many others. Having this singular grace of familiarity with Catholic letters, in 1950 Sheed asked of himself: “Each of [our] books told some part of what is to be known about Our Lady extraordinarily well; if no one of them covered everything, among them they covered a great deal. How much did they cover?” The answer to that question:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mary Book\u003c\/i\u003e—represented after more than seventy years (in two volumes) as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Blessed Virgin\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd Jesus, seeing his mother there, and the disciple, too, whom he loved, standing by, said to his mother: Woman, this is thy son. Then he said to the disciple: This is\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethy mother. And from that hour the disciple took her into his own keeping.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e(John 19:26–27)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis volume presents the last part of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mary Book\u003c\/i\u003e, “All Generations Call Her Blessed,” more than three dozen reflections on the role of the Mother of God who is also merciful Mother of all the living. With readings from Belloc and Chesterton, Houselander and Gerard Manley Hopkins, Maisie Ward and Walter Farrell, O.P. (among others),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Blessed Virgin: Mother of Mercy\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eoffers a graceful portrait of Our Lady as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMater misericordiae\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52185742246169,"sku":"BBV-CM\/VOL2","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/0989\/5705\/files\/book_of_bl_virgin_2.jpg?v=1778044283","url":"https:\/\/www.fidelitybooks.com.au\/products\/book-blessed-virgin-vol2-cluny","provider":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","version":"1.0","type":"link"}