Mystic Rose in God's Fair Garden Growing

by Peter A. Kwasniewski
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  • ISBN: 978-1-997133-02-5 (pbk)
  • ISBN: 978-1-997133-03-2 (cloth)
  • ISBN: 978-1-997133-04-9 (ebook)
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  • Product Code: mrigfg
  • Publication date: Mid-October
  • Pages: 364
  • Size: 6 x 9

     
    Overview

    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.”

     
     
  • Contents

    Mystic Rose in God’s Fair Garden Growing

    Preface xi
    Part I: The Spotless Mirror of Perfection 1
    1. A Soul Magnifying the Lord 3
    2. Our Lady, Mediatrix of All Graces 17
    3. The Son Can Never Be Separated from His Mother 31
    4. The Annunciation and the Mass 41
    5. Our Lady at the Mass on Calvary 59
    6. The Wedding at Cana and the Mass 69
    Part II: The Sacred Garland of Mysteries 87
    7. Lingering in the Mystical Rose-Garden 89
    8. The Rosary and the Traditional Mass 103
    9. Bugnini’s “New Rosary” and Paul VI’s Firm No 111
    10. Should Laity Pray the Breviary or the Rosary? 127
    11. The Rosary Sounds the Trumpet of the New Israel 139
    12. Telling Beads and Beading Tales 145
    Part III: Feasts and Apparitions 159
    13. The Sorrows of Reform 161
    14. “Heaven Must Go Home” 171
    15. The Message of Fatima: Obligatory, Not Optional 187
    16. The Vision of Our Lady of Knock as Liturgical Apocalypse 217
    17. The Leonine Prayers after Mass 237
    18. Reasons for Serious Skepticism about Medjugorje 261
    Epilogue 275
    Appendices 281
    1. Our Lady as Seat of Wisdom and Ark of the Covenant 283
    2. Mary as Co-Redemptrix 305
    3. Abide in the Unblemished Heart of Mary 311
    Bibliography 319
    Illustrations 335
    Index of Names 339
    About the Author 345
  • Peter A. Kwasniewski

    Peter A. Kwasniewski holds a BA in Liberal Arts from Thomas Aquinas College and an MA and PhD in Philosophy from the Catholic University of America, with a specialization in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. After teaching at the International Theological Institute in Austria, he joined the founding team of Wyoming Catholic College, where he taught theology, philosophy, music, and art history and directed the choir and schola until 2018. Since that time, Kwasniewski has worked as a full- time writer and lecturer known especially for his contributions on liturgy and music; he has published over twenty books and his writings have been translated into over twenty languages. He regularly posts at his Substack Tradition and Sanity and runs a publishing house, Os Justi Press. In addition, Kwasniewski is a composer whose sacred choral music has been performed around the world.

    Visit his sites:
    www.peterkwasniewski.com
    www.CantaboDomino.com
    www.osjustipress.com
    www.traditionsanity.com

  • Praise for Mystic Rose

    Mystic Rose in God’s Fair Garden Growing

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    Filled with piety and doctrinal clarity… Mystic Rose follows a classically Montfortian approach, emphasizing total consecration to Jesus through Mary. There is much food for thought and prayer in these chapters, which I recommend to all who seek to be those ‘little ones’ whom the Savior promises will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

    Bishop Athanasius Schneider

    Dr. Kwasniewski defends Our Lady’s prerogatives with a steady and confident hand. The reader will find inspiration and encouragement for Rosary month, or anytime.

    Archbishop Thomas E. Gullickson

    In this beautifully produced book, with its ravishing illustrations, the reader encounters the scriptural, traditional, and theological basis for the Christian’s love and honor for our Blessed Mother. He will also find solid spiritual advice for growth in virtue and devotion. This book has the bracing effect of an infusion of iron, to strengthen our blood for spiritual combat.

    Leila Marie Lawler

    Far from recycling pious clichés, Mystic Rose furnishes an arsenal of Marian ammunition. A must-read for all who would fight under Our Lady’s banner in these trying times.

    Sister Marie Gabrielle, MICM

    Mystic Rose provides the missing bridge between Our Lady and the healing of the postconciliar Church. Kwasniewski shows how the reformers stripped her from the new rite, turned devotion to her into a pious extra, and thereby left the Church barren. He recovers what was lost: the Rosary’s bond with the traditional liturgy, and Mary as teacher of the Mass, through whom the Church learns to receive Christ rather than manage Him. This book is the map we need to follow her back to fruitfulness.

    Jennifer S. Bryson

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