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"In the first work by poet and psychoanalyst Esťs (Women Who Run with Wolves) in a decade, this brilliant treatment is much larger than the sum of its parts. Esťs's understanding of Our Holy Lady ('she wears a thousand names') is disturbing and enlightening; she presents a figure who reflects and elevates the essential and inherent qualities of humanity. Through sacred traditions, personal stories, prayers, and images, Esťs makes visible the ancient...
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In this wonderful novel about love and trust, hope and belief, Elizabeth Berg, the bestselling author of We Are All Welcome Here and The Year of Pleasures, transports us to Nazareth in biblical times to reimagine the events of the classic Christmas story.
We see Mary–young, strong, and inquisitive–as she first meets Joseph, a serious-minded young carpenter who is steadfastly devoted to the religious traditions of their...
We see Mary–young, strong, and inquisitive–as she first meets Joseph, a serious-minded young carpenter who is steadfastly devoted to the religious traditions of their...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 97 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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Español
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The veneration for Tonantzin-Guadalupe has been an essential Mexican theme underlying Mexican cultural and political values since the 16th century. Guided by the testimonies of Indigenous people, Mexicans of mixed heritage and Chicanos about this complex subject matter, the film helps us to understand why.
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Fatima, Portugal, 1917: The Virgin Mary appears to three peasant children, sharing with them three secrets, two of which are soon revealed to the world. The third secret is sealed away in the Vatican, read only by popes, and not disclosed until the year 2000. When revealed, its quizzical tone and anticlimactic nature leave many faithful wondering if the Church has truly unveiled all of the Virgin Mary's words--or if a message far more important has...
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In Medjugorje in Bosnia and Herzegovina, on June 25, 1981, five teenagers and a nine-year-old began telling others that they were seeing the Blessed Virgin Mary on a local mountain with the Infant Christ in her arms. The religious visions of the children continued daily. The Blessed Virgin Mary, who identified herself as the "Queen of Peace" on that day continues to bring messages for the entire world.
Like Lourdes and Fatima before it, Medjugorje...
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A provocative imagining of the later years of the mother of Jesus finds her living a solitary existence in Ephesus years after her son's crucifixion and struggling with guilt, anger, and feelings that her son is not the son of God and that His sacrifice was not for a worthy cause.
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
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1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Begins with the slaughter of Bethlehem's innocents under orders from a paranoid King Herod. Go back a year to the prophecy that informs Zechariah that his wife, Elizabeth, will bear a child. Elizabeth's cousin, the adolescent Mary, struggles with her family to make ends meet and is promised to the carpenter Joseph. Mary is told by the angel Gabriel that she will carry, while still a virgin, the long-awaited Messiah who will liberate the Jews from...
14) The unholy
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
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1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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On the holiest weekend of the year comes a film that follows Alice, a young hearing-impaired girl who, after a supposed visitation from the Virgin Mary, is inexplicably able to hear, speak and heal the sick. As word spreads, people from near, and far flock to witness her miracles, a disgraced journalist hoping to revive his career visits the small New England town to investigate. When terrifying events begin to happen all around, he starts to question...
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Dutton
Pub. Date
c2007
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Doubleday large print home library ed.
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xviii, 232 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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The author draws on insights from her spirit guide, as well as research into the Gnostic texts, to explore the lives of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Mary Magdalene.
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