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What Every Catholic Should Know About Mary: Dogmas, Doctrines, and Devotions
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Review The author is a Catholic layman, a retired professor of literature at Northern Kentucky University, who, by his own admission, is not a "professional Mariologist." He offers his book not for specialists, but for Catholics, Protestants, especially Evangelicals, and anyone curious about Catholic teachings on Mary. Prof. McNally well knows the objections to Marian devotion brought especially by Evangelicals, namely, that such devotion detrarcts from Christ, that prayer to Mary and the saints is not biblically sanctioned, that the Bible does not support the virginity of Mary. His response is found throughout the work in clear and inviting explantions of Marian doctrines and practices of devotion. Occasionally he draws on his own experience: "What family or household flourishes without a mother?" He notes how the rosary produces a sense of peace and serenity in troubled individuals. The book neatly "packages" much information on the historical development of Marian devotion, a tribute both to the author's organisational skill and to the Library of the Athenaeum of Ohio to which he acknowledges his indebtedness. --The Marian Library Newsletter, Winter, 2010 What Every Catholic Should Know About Mary is a fine introductory text to the Virgin Mary and to Marian devotion. The author, Terrence J. McNally, taught college English for many years, and he has devoted the last ten years to studying the literature on the Virgin Mary. He writes for Catholics and for Protestants, particularly Evangelicals, who express interest in the Virgin Mary. He well illustrates that only within the context of Scripture and the Catholic Tradition can the identity of the Virgin Mary be understood. This clear and accrate summary of Marian doctrine and devotion can do much to clarify and encourage an appreciation of the Virgin Mary's role in the life of the Church and every follower of Chirst. Highly recommended--a great gift for the college-bound student. --The Mary Page, Marian Research Institute of the University of Dayton, September 17, 2009 "A Wonderful Book about Mary." It is a common assumption or belief that devotion to Mary, the Mother of God, has declined since Vatican II, but that belief is a myth, according to Terrence J. McNally, author of WHAT EVERY CATHOLIC SHOULD KNOW ABOUT MARY: DOGMAS, DOCTRINES AND DEVOTIONS. . . . Almost everyone in the world knows of Mary, McNally writes, and an estimated 30 million people annually visit her six major shrines: Guadalupe (10 million visitors annually), Lourdes (six million), Czestochowa (five million), Fatima (four million), and Aparecida in Bracil (four million).... The author is a retired professor of English from Northern Kentucky University. ... His book on Mary is a tightly written encyclopedia on just about everything you wanted to know about the Mother of God, what the Church teaches about Mary, her doctrines and devotions, with an abundance of charming stories about her and devotion to her through the ages.... Catholics' devotion to Mary goes back at least to the year 100 AD, and it was fostered by, among others, St. Justin Martyr, St. Irenaeus, and Tertullian; moreover, references to her in the liturgy date back to at least 215. By the middle of the 300s, McNally says, the Feast of the Assumption was established in Jerusalem, and by the middle 600s it had spread throughout the Eastern churches. The Feast of the Presentation dates to at least 400, the Annunciation to 496, and the Nativity of Mary to 550. The first church dedicated to Mary was built in Jerusalem in the late 300s. Marian devotion spread across Europe with the first missionaries. Dr. McNally says that in 607, St. Augustine of Canterbury built the first church dedicated to Mary in Britain, and in 725, Ina, King of the West Saxons, dedicated a church to Mary Ever-Virgin in Glastonbury. "In Anglo-Saxon deeds," McNally writes, "Mary was always spoken of as the Mother of God, Our Lady, or the Holy Mary Glorious Queen." ... Anglo-Sa
