What Every Catholic Should Know About Mary: Dogmas, Doctrines, and Devotions

What Every Catholic Should Know about Mary: Dogmas, Doctrines, and Devotions

by Terrence J. McNally

This book provides a concise summary of Traditional Catholic Mariology. It explains the following facts:
? Jesus worked his first miracle for Mary (Jn 2:1?11).
? Mary kept the faith of the Church alive on Calvary (Jn 19:25?27).
? By 200 CE, Catholic Mariology was virtually completed.
? Early Christians painted pictures of Mary in the catacombs.
? The earliest prayer to Mary dates from c. 270 CE.
? Between 100 and 200 CE, a church was dedicated to Mary at Nazareth.
? In the 350s, the feast of the Assumption of Mary was celebrated on August 15.
? In 431 CE, the Church proclaimed Mary Mother of God.
? Marian devotion is Christ-centered and presupposes conversion of heart.
? Catholic Marian teaching derives from the Bible and Tradition (the apostles as witnessed by the Fathers of the Church).
? The four Marian dogmas are the Divine Maternity, Perpetual Virginity, Immaculate Conception, and Assumption into heaven. The Church never defined dogmas of Mary as Co-Redemptrix and/or Mediatrix of all graces.
? In heaven, Mary shares subordinately in the mediation of Jesus Christ, the only Mediator.
? The rosary is 57 percent biblical.