This book helps bring more joy and peace into your life, because it shows you new and different ways to live your devotion to Mary and how to do Marian apologetics.
St. Robert Bellarmine's ways of practicing devotion to Mary and doing Marian apologetics may be new to you, because this is a rather recent translation of his Marian writings.
For the first time in English, you're about to see previously untranslated biographical material about St. Robert, showing you how he lived his own devotion to Mary.
In fact, St. Robert shows you precisely how to "learn from the example of Mary."
St. Peter tells us: "Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope" (1 Pt. 3:15).
St. Robert helps you avoid becoming tongue-tied when you hear things like:
"Why do Catholics worship Mary?"
"Mary wasn't conceived without sin. The Bible says, "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Rom. 3:23)."
"Mary wasn't a perpetual virgin. The Bible says Jesus had brothers."
And other such things.
St. Robert shows you how to live your devotion to Mary and practice Marian apologetics unlike anyone you've ever seen before.
The intellectual gifts which God bestowed upon St. Robert through Mary were so exceptional, that when Pope Clement VIII named him a cardinal, he said...
"The Church of God has not his equal in learning."
What's perhaps the most impressive is that he was defending Marian dogmas centuries before the Church formally defined them.
He brilliantly defends and sheds light on Our Lady's Perpetual Virginity, and her other privileges as well.
You'll enjoy his defense of the Salve Regina (Hail Holy Queen). Whereas St. Alphonsus Liguori wrote about it from a devotional point of view, St. Robert explores it from an apologetics point of view.
When you see how well he explains Marian doctrine and devotion, you'll be pleasantly surprised to see just how easy it is to put what he says into practice.
You know the Church calls Mary the "Queen of peace" and the "Cause of our joy".
Mary knows life isn't always easy, and how hard it can be to "count it all joy, when you encounter various trials" (James 1:2). And like a good mother, she wants to be by your side, to help you experience joy and peace in the midst of your inevitable trials, because...
Mary Loves You More Than All Mothers Combined
Blessed Pope Pius IX wrote:
"Therefore, far above all the angels and all the saints so wondrously did God endow her with the abundance of all heavenly gifts poured from the treasury of His divinity that this mother, ever absolutely free of all stain of sin, all fair and perfect, would possess that fullness of holy innocence and sanctity than which, under God, one cannot even imagine anything greater, and which, outside of God, no mind can succeed in comprehending fully" (Ineffabilis Deus, Dec. 8, 1854).
Elsewhere, he said:
"God has committed to Mary the treasury of all good things, in order that everyone may know that through her are obtained every hope, every grace, and all salvation. For this is His will, that we obtain everything through Mary."
Because God "wills everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth" (1 Tim. 2:4), and because she is perfectly conformed to the will of God...
Mary wants nothing more than to unite you with her Son, the Prince of Peace (Is. 9:6), so "that your joy may be full" (Jn. 16:24).
Since God grants all graces come through her, she's the one who enlightened St. Robert Bellarmine.
Mary is ready to start helping you use these new ways of practicing devotion to her and Marian apologetics, so she can unite you to her Son - it's up to you to say WHEN. Why not let her get started today?
