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Two Readers: A Colorful Enantiodromia,
"Reading the Mysteries of Your Other Self"
Peter Daino, SM
230 pp., $20.00
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Why is Mary called “Reader’s Guide?”
There are five reasons:
Through her reading it the Word became flesh: Mary’s flesh, Human flesh
Mary taught the Word (the boy Jesus) to read
Mary compiled the traditional 15 mysteries of the rosary. The rosary, you could say, is a kind of anthology of all the gospels. . .
Mary symbolized Wisdom. In the Catholic reading of the Old Testament, Mary is Sophia who was present with the Creator when each and every thing was given its character. She also knows how each and every thing yearns for wholeness, logs to become its opposite.
Mary helps us read the future.
We needn’t say more abut the first reason. All Christians believe that the Word was made incarnate through Mary’s “Yes.” Mary practiced lectio, so intensely that the Word she read became her very flesh and blood.
That Mary taught the Word to read, to speak, to see, to touch, to feel, to hear, to smell, to know the world—this is the source of great wonder. . . .
Allow us another paragraph on the rosary. It is essential to this book that you understand the rosary as fifteen hero stories. The first five hero stories are about the childhood of Jesus. Mary probably told these stories to the adolescent Jesus so that he would see himself as the hero. . . . Mary told the next five hero stories to the apostles to show them that they could handle their crosses as Jesus did his. Mary told the last five hero stories to St. Dominic (when she gave him the whole anthology). The people of Dominic’s time, when a third of Europe’s population died of the Bubonic Plague, needed those final mysteries of the rosary to imagine the dead, the millions and millions of dead, in glory. The fifteen stories which Mary strung together are mediums of power. The rosary is a chaplet for champions; it will help you to see and love your hero-self.
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