Product Description: This sourcebook brings together a great range of texts that offer a glimpse into the vast tradition about Mary, the woman of Nazareth, the mother of God, the friend of sinners, the protector of the weak, the defender of the poor, the comforter of the sick and dying...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Because marriage, like all sacraments, enacts the words of liturgy, this book is organized around blessings and vows associated with various marriage rites, one of which begins each section of the book. This structure, though, is no more linear than the course of married life; the concerns of each invocation resound with the promises of the ones that precede it and the ones that succeed it...read more

Product Description: 978-0929650937