The Blessed Virgin Mary is the authoritative guide to living the Christian faith-above all, when it comes to its pulsing heart, the Holy Mass. Thus claims Dr. Kwasniewski in this refreshing book, which weaves together theological, liturgical, and devotional insights into Our Lady. Disclosing the subtle splendors of the Holy Rosary, the author draws out its intimate kinship with the Latin Mass and shows the place it ought to have, next to the Divine Office, in a Catholic's life of prayer; he discovers unsuspected riches in the familiar Leonine prayers; he unfolds the meaning of select Marian feasts and apparitions, specifying the obligations a Catholic has toward approved private revelations. Nor do these pages shy away from controversial questions, such as: why Fatima deserves to be accepted and Medjugorje rejected; how the vision of Knock provides a key to understanding the crisis through which we are passing; why the traditional Roman Rite is profoundly Marian in its principles and practice, whereas the modern rite imposed in 1969 is anti-Marian, endangering the Church's vocation as virgin, bride, and mother; and why the Holy Theotokos should be held and hailed as mediatrix of all graces and co-redemptrix. And since the Queen of Heaven is "all beautiful," the book pays her loving homage with dozens of full-color artworks to nourish the imagination. Mystic Rose in God's Fair Garden Growing will help Catholics come to a deeper appreciation of-and an ever more constant reliance upon-"the mother of fair love and of fear, of knowledge and of holy hope."
