The Biblical Roots of Marian Consecration & Behold the Handmaid of the Lord (2 Book Set)

• The Biblical Roots of Marian Consecration: Devotion to the Immaculate Heart in Light of Scripture
• Scriptural references & explanations
• History, rich insight, and biblical truths
• Behold the Handmaid of the Lord: A 10-Day Personal Retreat with St. Louis de Montfort's True Devotion to Mary
• Personal retreat with Our Lady
• 10 days of intimate reflection, reading and prayer

The Biblical Roots of Marian Consecration: Devotion to the Immaculate Heart in Light of Scripture

Did you know that Marian Consecration is biblical? With roots stretching all the way back to Genesis?

Just as Jesus is the only Way to the Father (Jn 14:6), the sole mediator between God and man (1 Tm 2:5), so Mary is the primary mediator and intercessor before her Son. By virtue of the grace given to her as the Mother of God, she is the “Queen of Heaven and Earth.”
 
In this timely book, Shane Kapler uncovers the biblical basis for Marian Consecration. He demonstrates how entrusting oneself to Our Lady—and living this devotion through practices such as praying the Rosary, wearing the Brown Scapular, and keeping the Five First Saturdays—is firmly rooted and foreshadowed in the Old and New Testaments. In Mary, we see the heights to which each of us is called: to be without blemish (Eph 5:27), be glorified in body and soul (1 Cor 15:51–53), and share Christ’s heavenly reign (Rv 3:21).

Discover how, like Saint Joseph and Saint John the Apostle, we are invited to share in Mary’s interior life, to fully surrender ourselves to the action of the Holy Spirit, and to begin loving Jesus with her Immaculate Heart.

More than ever, the popes have recognized Our Lady of Fatima’s call—as urgent now as it was in 1917—for consecration and devotion to the Immaculate Heart as a reiteration of the Gospel, a plea for Christians to enflesh the message of Scripture.
 

“Blessed are the pure [or ‘immaculate’] in heart, for they shall see God” (Mt 5:8)

Behold the Handmaid of the Lord: A 10-Day Personal Retreat with St. Louis de Montfort's True Devotion to Mary

Considered by many to be the greatest book of Marian spirituality in one volume, True Devotion to Mary is St. Louis de Montfort's classic statement on the spiritual way to Jesus Christ though the Blessed Virgin Mary. In Behold the Handmaid of the Lord, Marian theologian Fr. Edward Looney masterfully summarizes the central teachings of St. Louis in a ten-day personal retreat that will bless even those who have completed the full devotion.

During the course of ten days, you’ll explore ten different titles for Mary popularized by St. Louis. Each presents a distinct aspect of her motherhood and protection while illuminating the spiritual path to Jesus through Mary.

You’ll get to know Mary and become devoted to her as:

• The Queen of All Saints
• Our Lady of the Holy Trinity
• The New Eve
• The Mother of the Interior Life
• The Mother of Disciples
• The Star of the Sea
• The Queen of All Hearts
• The Mediatrix of Grace
• The Mold of God
• Our Mother and Our Queen

Each day you will reflect on Mary’s role in your life and the practical implications of that connection before wrapping up with a brief closing prayer tailored to the day’s title. You’ll come away prepared to begin or renew your consecration to Mary and with a refreshed love for the Mother of Jesus.

The book includes an appendix for step-by-step consecration to Mary.

Dimensions & Specifications:

The Biblical Roots of Marian Consecration: Devotion to the Immaculate Heart in Light of Scripture

• Author: Shane Kapler
• Pages: 248
• Format: Hardcover

Behold the Handmaid of the Lord: A 10-Day Personal Retreat with St. Louis de Montfort's True Devotion to Mary

• Author: Edward Looney
• Softcover
• 128 pages