Mary of Nazareth, Prophet of Peace

This small jewel is also blessed by the prayerful and thoughtful introduction by Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister, whose spiritual works are also essential reading in this time of imperial warfare. As if this is not enough, the several beautiful and evocative icons throughout this volume draw us closer into prayerful encounter with Mary, the Mother of God and thus Prophet of Peace. We faithful are fortunate the skilled preacher of peace and of the true meaning message and mission of the Gospel of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Reverend Father John Dear, SJ, has turned his heart, his soul and his finely developed talents and scholarly, spiritual mind to this theme, and delivers to us like a babe in swaddling clothes this volume for our consideration and our Advent edification. Please study it slowly, carefully, thoughtfully, prayerfuly, and discover how we are called into being and this life, and how we must dedicate ourselves to God's peace and God's highest commandment to love, not war. As Saint Maximilian Kolbe wrote, Love will conquer all, as hate cannot create. Read also, please, for your further journeying within the gentle path of Catholic spirituality Father Dear's Disarming the Heart: Towards a Vow of Nonviolence, and his Jesus the REbel, as well as Living Peace, etc., etc. as well as Sister JOan, all available very inexpensively here, for those of us practicing poverty in the old sandals of Saint Francis upon the road to peace.