Customer Reviews:
 EXCELLENT LEARNED AND SPIRITUAL INSIGHT OF THE HISTORY AND THEOLOGY OF THE ORIGINAL MARIAN PRAYER April 5, 2007
Long before the well known Hail Mary was pieced together with verses from Saint Luke, from the Annunciation and Visitation, of words addressed to Our Holy Mother by others, followed by our own sinful recognition and prayer for assistance, the Church prayed this powerful prayer made by Mary herself at the Visitation of her own incarnational experience and its meaning within all of Salvation History.
Once the Magnificat was chanted daily in Catholic religious communities, by hermits and by priests and other religious of all stripes and colors, in a variety of simple and solemn tones, with antiphons relevant to the day and season. Now we have all but forgotten this powerful and revolutionary prayer, which explicitly indicates the revolutionary divine action of God in our history and in our world, and now we never learn this greatest hymn of divine praises in the normal course of our catechetical preparations and follow-through.
This present book, now so inexpensive, resolves and heals this modern negligence, examining carefully in every way the meaning and importance of each verse, and indicating further academic studies of each line. While avoiding the direct political and secular phenomena which would date this excellent study as it has so many others, it remains a solid and theological treatise on why we must once again join our ancestors in the daily union of our prayer with Mary in her own words.
A great and necessary study for any initiate or continuing practicing Catholic. Cheap enough to pass out freely at your Church door with no objection from anyone as it bears the necessary IMprimatur and Nihil Obstat
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