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Article: Hail Mary: A Marian Book of Hours.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
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- January 17, 2003
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Hail Mary: A Marian Book of Hours Edited by William G. Storey Ave Maria Press, $14.95, 316 pp.
The bishops at Vatican II wisely refrained from issuing a separate document on Mary, instead adding a wonderful chapter dedicated to her in the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church. The result was to put the mystery of Mary in the context of ecclesiology and Christology, reining in the excessive expansion of Mariological speculation. This does not mean that Catholicism has abandoned its deep-felt veneration for Mary, the Mother of God, nor should it. That would hardly happen, in any event, because John Paul II is famously dedicated to Mary. The pope always--sometimes ...