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Mary and Me: Catholic Women Reflect on the Mother of God | 
 enlarge | Author: Ginny Kubitz Moyer
Publisher: Saint Anthony Messenger Press
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Pages: 120
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 0867168315
Dewey Decimal Number: 232.91
EAN: 9780867168310
ASIN: 0867168315
Publication Date: February 15, 2008
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Book Description
How does Mary, the Mother of God, speak to the modern female experience? Does she comfort, challenge or inspire?
Ginny Moyer wanted to know how women today would answer those questions, so she invited women of all ages, some cradle Catholics and some converts, some lay and some religious, to share their thoughts on Mary. In the process of collecting women's stories, Moyer learned that the answers to these questions are as diverse as the women themselves.
In Mary and Me you will discover:
*An eating disorder activist who describes how Mary helped her overcome her struggles with anorexia.
*An attorney who reveals how a trip to the Holy Land inspired her to see Mary not as a passive figure but as a tough and resilient woman.
*A religious sister who shares how the Visitation inspires her work with recovering drug addicts and prostitutes.
*A music teacher and mother who explains her difficulty in relating to Mary's perfection, but how she still treasures Mary as a personal friend and ally.
Woven with commentary and Scripture references, Mary and Me offers a fresh, compelling look at the depth and breadth of Mary's influence on women today.
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Pondering Mary in a New Light May 6, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Moyer, a freelance writer, shares stories of the "grassroots Mary" drawn from a diverse group of women. Bits and pieces of her own experiences of Mary are interwoven throughout. In the introduction we learn that Moyer suffered an ectopic pregnancy early in her marriage. In the chapter on Our Lady of Sorrows she writes of her later miscarriage and the effect it had on her relationship with Mary. Finally, in the epilogue Moyer reveals that she gave birth to healthy baby as she was completing work on the book. "As I hold my little son and pray for his health and safety and happiness, I sometimes think: This is how Mary held Jesus, how she looked at him, and what she hoped for him."
Though Moyer occasionally uses incidents from her own life, the bulk of the material represents other women's views on such themes as Mary's purity and virginity, the human desire to love and be loved unconditionally, and praying with the Blessed Mother. Childhood memories that emerge range from poignant to surprising. One woman recalls her mother's explanation of Mary as advocate using the image of prayer as a bushel of apples that Mary sweetens and bakes into a pie, which she presents to Jesus. Another interviewee's father disapproved of his family's participation in the parish rosary service. As an adult, she realized that her dad was offended by the "unhealthy perspective for women" surrounding the Blessed Virgin Mary.
One of Moyer's goals in writing Mary and Me was to provide readers with "occasions to ponder Mary in a new light." Her unique approach has done that.
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