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A Total Consecration to the Father through Jesus Based on the Gospel of John

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TDGGP

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Paperback

ISBN/UPC:

9781596145139

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0.5 (in)

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8.5 x 5.5 (in)

Pages:

240

Publication date:

February 02, 2020

Weight:

11.1 oz

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Fr. Michael E. Gaitley, MIC, author of 33 Days to Morning Glory, one of the most popular Catholic books of the last decade, brings us his first new book in three years. 33 Days to Greater Glory completes a trilogy of consecrations: first to Mary, then to Jesus, the Divine Mercy, and now to God, our Father. This final consecration to our Heavenly Father truly is the “greater” consecration, the one in which all others find their origin an end.

In this third installment of his 33-day consecration series Fr. Gaitley has truly saved the best for last! 33 Days to Greater Glory stands as the culmination of a trilogy of consecrations that begins with Our Lady, then to Jesus, and finally to God the Father. This consecration to our Heavenly Father truly is the perfect climax of this powerful consecration series that has changed the spiritual lives of millions of people throughout the world.

Finally, as a bonus, Fr. Gaitley has also included his popular and easy-to-use novena of consecration to St. Joseph, Nine Days to Joseph, which helps us enter more fully into the Fatherhood of God.

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In certain manuscripts of Sirach, wisdom proclaims herself the “mother of fair love” (Sir 24:18: ἐγὼ μήτηρ τῆς ἀγαπήσεως τῆς καλῆς), a title often attributed to Mary. This paper will explore the beauty of the Mother of God for the various calls or vocations of Christian life. The word “for” is quite intentional here, since hers is no mere appearance to gratify sense perception, but a beauty chosen for God and, therefore, able to elevate, to save, to purify all the creation. Since the radiance of this beauty penetrates into the whole created order, it also does so for the sake of each believer and each vocation. The main sources for the reflections herein will be the dormition homilies of the Church Fathers, the Marian Psalter attributed to St. Bonaventure, and the theology of the body of Pope St. John Paul II. First, the Church Fathers’ homilies show how Mary’s bodily assumption is the eschatological sign for all believers, and hence the Virgin illumines the mystery of consecrated life especially. Furthermore, she plays an essential role in deification: “For if you had not gone before us, no one would ever become perfectly spiritual,” wrote St. Germanus, and “all things are made holy by your myrrh-like fragrance,” according to St. Andrew of Crete. Secondly, in exploring the Marian Psalter, one encounters in Our Lady a beauty most desirable and fecund that bears fruit for those who praise her. This beauty speaks to the universal call to holiness (universali vocatione ad sanctitatem). Beauty is a thread woven throughout the psalter’s praise of the Virgin. Her body and her face are beautiful; her beauty is pedagogical: “Beautiful are your ways: and your paths are peaceful. In you shine forth the beauty of chastity, the light of justice, and the splendor of truth.” The psalmist even writes in the language of eros concerning the virtue of Mary: “I have coveted your chastity from my youth up.” Finally, this article will show how the image of spousal love given by Pope St. John Paul II in his theology of the body points beyond Eve to Mary, the New Eve. He wrote, “Man appears in the visible world as the highest expression of the divine gift, because he bears within himself the inner dimension of the gift. And with it he carries into the world his particular likeness to God, with which he transcends and also rules his ‘visibility’ in the world, his bodiliness, his masculinity or femininity, his nakedness.” The femininity of the Virgin-Mother exists as gift to her Son, but as sign it also is a sacrament of divine love. In this section, particular attention will be paid to John Paul’s exegesis of the Song of Songs to see how the beauty of the vocation to spousal love is particularly illumined by the mutual love of Jesus and Mary and by the communion of persons in the Holy Family.