Meditations on the Stabat Mater

CTS. Soft cover. New/No Jacket. Join our Blessed Mother at the foot of the Cross of her Son and walk with her on the road from Lent to Passiontide to Easter, by meditating upon the Stabat Mater line by line.Stabat mater dolorosa � �The mournful mother was standing�. This is the opening line of the extraordinary hymn attributed to the 13th-century Franciscan friar Jacopone da Todi, which is still a popular Lenten devotion.In this book Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP meditates upon the Stabat Mater line by line. This is a book to help the reader to walk the road from Lent to Passiontide to Easter � and indeed from life to death to eternal life � in the company of the most Blessed and Sorrowful Mother, who stands at the foot of the Cross of her Son.""If you truly wish to be transformed by Christ, go to the Cross and contemplate his Passion. If you truly desire to plumb the depths of knowledge of Christ�s Passion, go to his Blessed Mother� If you want to know some of what the Blessed Virgin Mary teaches about her Son�s Passion, read this book."" (Mother Marilla, OSB, Superior General of the Tyburn Nuns)""This beautiful little book, born of prayer, is just what I need, what every Catholic needs, for the fruitful praying of the Stations of the Cross."" (Fr John Sayward, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford) Number of Pages: 64