Mary, Mary, and More Mary

Over at Faith & Family Live last week, there were a lot of book recommendations in the comments of my guest posts, and though I was going to do a resources post there, I really wanted to do a wrap-up, sharing some of the gems from the comments (you can read that wrap-up here, if you’d like).

But since I have my own blog, I’m going to do a round-up of my favorite Marian resources (of the “learning more about Mary” type). If you have any to add, feel free to mention them in the combox and I’ll update this post with them. I’m not linking all the books as I trust we all have a favorite shopping or library outlet and know how to use them.

Books recommended last week at Faith & Family Live:

• The Life of Mary as Seen by the Mystics, by Raphael Brown
• The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich
• Refuting the Attack on Mary: A Defense of Marian Doctrines, by Father Mateo
• Saint Joseph, by Louise Bourassa Perrotta

Books and resources I’ve loved for learning about Mary and Marian devotions:

• The Catechism of the Catholic Church (completely online and fully searchable here)
  
• Dictionary of Mary, published by the Catholic Book Publishing Company
• The Rosary: Keeping Company with Jesus and Mary, by Karen Edmisten (which I reviewed here)
• Rosary Meditations for Real Life, by James Hahn (my quick review is here)
• Hail Holy Queen, by Scott Hahn
• The Glories of Mary, by St. Alphonsus Liguori
• True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, by St. Louis de Montfort (which I reviewed here)
• Mary and Me, by Ginny Moyers (my review’s here)
• Behold Your Mother, by Heidi Hess Saxton (here are my review and an interview with the author)

Some items from the deposit of faith and Church tradition:

• The Gospel of the Nativity of Mary
• The Protoevangelium of James (The Birth of Mary the Holy Mother of God and Very Glorious Mother of Jesus Christ)

Church documents worth the read (encyclicals, apostolic exhortations, etc.) – and please note, these are a very small sampling of what’s available…I have many more printed out and ready to be read…sometime soon:

• Ad Caeli Reginam (On Proclaiming the Queenship of Mary), by Pius XII
• Ad Diem Illum Laetissimum (On the Immaculate Conception), by Pius X
• Ineffabilis Deus (The Immaculate Conception), by Pius IX
• Le Pelerinage de Lourdes (Warning against Materialism on the Centenary of the Apparitions at Lourdes), by Pius XII
• Marialis Cultus (For the Right Ordering and Development of Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary), by Paul VI
• Redemptoris Mater (On the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Life of the Pilgrim Church), by John Paul II
• The Message of Fatima (Document of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith)

Great places to learn Marian devotions:

• The Little Crown of the Blessed Virgin
• Rosary Army
• CatholiCity’s Beginner’s Guide to the Rosary

Your recommendations (from the combox):

• The Imitation of Mary, by Fr. Alexander de Rouville (Recommended by Elena)