The Many Faces Of Mary

Bob and Penny Lord write about the apparitions of Mary, contending that each of them has significance for larger numbers than the fortunate few to whom she has appeared.

Bob & Penny Lord bare their souls to proclaim their great love for Mary. As they share their love for her, we see how she loves us, through her Apparitions. Every apparition was for a specific purpose, for a nation, for the world. The excitement builds as the drama unfolds. She saved America from annihilation at Guadalupe. Listen to the powerful warning of Fatima. Discover how she prepared us for World War II by her apparitions in Beauraing & Banneux. Journey to Lourdes, shrine of hope, faith, love, & healing. Is she giving us the final warning & promise in Medjugorje? Is she truly the Lady of the Apocalypse? "...It is not a book you can put aside & read later. You read it from beginning to end, for it grabs your mind. More important, it reaches into your heart...one of the great love stories of modern writings about Mary. "...not only are the sunrises & sunsets over the hills of Medjugorje, the cool breezes that whistle across the Loca de Cabeco in Fatima, & the green fields of Knock in Ireland etched into one's soul, but also the love that Bob & Penny hold for one another & for the Virgin Mary...a simple classic."--Dr. Philip Serna Callahan, The Wanderer

Marie Proulx-Meder spent four summers photographing homegrown ¿Mary Gardens¿ ¿ outdoor statues of Our Lady, usually in a setting, often incorporating flowers. It is the author¿s deepest desire that those seeking comfort, peace and our Blessed Mother¿s eternal love, will find it within these pages ¿ among the many faces of Mary.Features:* Bursting with 465 colored photographs. * Images of shrine setting, full statue and Mary¿s face.* Detailed statue ¿Overview¿, ¿Noteworthy¿ facts and inspiring ¿Personal Reflections¿. * ¿Beyond the Garden¿ section highlights Mary items and artwork from around the world.* ¿Common Titles of Mary¿ includes images and identifying features.* ¿Starting a Mary Garden¿ features flower symbolism with illustrations.

Each one of us has a medley of "faces" that composes our individual personality: intelligence, anger, love, jealousy, helplessness, courage, and many more. We're often quick to judge these characteristics as either positive or negative, without recognizing that we need each of them in order to become fuller, more balanced human beings. Originally written in 1978 by renowned psychotherapist Virginia Satir, the timeless classic Your Many Faces has been updated and reissued—and is as relevant today as ever. In a refreshingly candid style, Satir takes us on a lively and insightful journey of self-discovery and transformation. We learn how to acknowledge, understand, and manage our many faces—and in doing so, open up a world of possibilities for ourselves. This new edition also features a compelling foreword by Mary Ann Norfleet, PhD, which explores Satir's pioneering approaches to psychology and her enduring legacy in the field of family therapy.

The church’s vision of Jesus as a perfect man and a perfect God is not acceptable by all the branches of Christianity in the world. In fact, what is acceptable to one branch is sometimes an anathema to another. Today, the Catholic and the Protestant churches consider the church of the original apostles heretical! In this book, (which is the fruit of about eight years of hard work and is assiduously researched among the writings of the ante and post-Nicene fathers of the church), the author has exegetically dissected the four Canonical and several apocryphal Gospels in search of a clear vision of Jesus. The Gospels have placed the truth of the divinity of Jesus on the basis of virginal birth, the miracles, the prophecies of the Old Testament. The author by producing fresh arguments have effectively refuted the veracity of these claims. His unprecedented conversational treatment of the incomprehensible doctrine of Trinity is interesting and revealing. He has found the incomplete birth of the doctrine in the writings of one of the early fathers of the church in the second century, and has followed its gradual development by the successive fathers of the next couple of centuries, to what it is today. In the meantime, in every step of the way, he convincingly demonstrates the untenability of the doctrine.

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The standard account of early Christianity tells us that the first centuries after Jesus' death witnessed an efflorescence of Christian sects, each with its own gospel. We are taught that these alternative scriptures, which represented intoxicating, daring, and often bizarre ideas, were suppressed in the fourth and fifth centuries, when the Church canonized the gospels we know today: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The rest were lost, destroyed, or hidden. In The Many Faces of Christ, the renowned religious historian Philip Jenkins thoroughly refutes our most basic assumptions about the Lost Gospels. He reveals that dozens of alternative gospels not only survived the canonization process but in many cases remained influential texts within the official Church. Whole new gospels continued to be written and accepted. For a thousand years, these strange stories about the life and death of Jesus were freely admitted onto church premises, approved for liturgical reading, read by ordinary laypeople for instruction and pleasure, and cited as authoritative by scholars and theologians. The Lost Gospels spread far and wide, crossing geographic and religious borders. The ancient Gospel of Nicodemus penetrated into Southern and Central Asia, while both Muslims and Jews wrote and propagated gospels of their own. In Europe, meanwhile, it was not until the Reformation and Counter-Reformation that the Lost Gospels were effectively driven from churches. But still, many survived, and some continue to shape Christian practice and belief in our own day. Offering a revelatory new perspective on the formation of the biblical canon, the nature of the early Church, and the evolution of Christianity, The Many Faces of Christ restores these Lost Gospels to their central place in Christian history.