What happens when a former Zen Buddhist monk and his feminist wife experience an apparition of the Virgin Mary? Weaving together their own remarkable story of how they came to the rosary, the authors reveal an ancestral path--available to everyone, religious or not--that returns readers to the powerful healing rhythms of the natural world.ral world.
What cause could there be for fear? Weaving together their own remarkable story of how they came to the rosary, their discoveries about the eco-feminist wisdom at the heart of this ancient devotion, and the life-changing revelations of the Lady herself, the authors reveal an ancestral path--available to everyone, religious or not--that returns us to the powerful healing rhythms of the natural world..
Your body is one with that body.
She told Strand and Finn: The Rosary is My body, and My body is the body of the world.
Instead, she spoke of the miraculous power of the Rosary to transform lives and heal the planet, and revealed the secrets she had Hidden within the rosary\'s prayers and mysteries--secrets of a past age when forests were the only cathedrals and people wove rose garlands for a Mother whose loving presence was as close as the ground beneath their feet.
But this Lady barely even referred to the Church and its proscriptions.
Their main spiritual concerns were the fate of the planet and the future of their children and grandchildren in an age of ecological collapse.
I adore this book.--Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit Before a vision of a mysterious Lady invited Clark Strand and Perdita Finn to pray the rosary, they were not only uninterested in becoming Catholic but finished with institutional religion altogether.
What happens when a former Zen Buddhist monk and his feminist wife experience an apparition of the Virgin Mary? This book could not have come at a more auspicious time, and the message is mystical perfection, not to mention a courageous one.
What happens when a former Zen Buddhist monk and his feminist wife experience an apparition of the Virgin Mary? Weaving together their own remarkable story of how they came to the rosary, the authors reveal an ancestral path--available to everyone, religious or not--that returns readers to the powerful healing rhythms of the natural world.ral world
