Description: Now in paperback, fifty selected images by renowned icon-painter William Hart McNichols are illuminated by Mirabai Starrs lyrical prose-poems to help make the eternal figure of Mary vibrantly accessible.
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"You gaze on the icon, but it gazes on you too...We need to gaze on truly conversational, truly loving images, images that will return our love." -- William Hart McNichols
Stunning . . . the reader is brought to the door of a deep and potentially transformative experience. --PresenceOpen this book and allow these icons to open your eyes to our patron and our companion: Mary, the Mother of God. --James Martin, S.J., author, My Life with the SaintsThis book through its icons and reflections highlights the role of Mary in our salvation history and in our day to day life. She is similar to fire in that she purifies and challenges all that harms human dignity. --Emmanuel Ndlovu, in Grace & Truth