Mary in 3-D ─ Icon of Discipleship, Doctrine, and Devotion

This book is a small contribution to the special Year of Jubilee in honor of the 150th anniversary of the restoration to public veneration of the icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help. Although much has been written about the history of the icon and its rich symbolism, little has been done to present devotion to this sacred icon in the larger theological and spiritual context of the church’s general Marian teaching. Mary is Our Mother of Perpetual Help because she is, at one and the same time, Mother of God and Mother of the Church. The goal in these pages is to present Mary in 3-D, as a living icon of Discipleship, Doctrine, and Devotion, as someone who points at all times to her son, Jesus, “the way, and the truth, and the life” (Jn 14:6).

Author of numerous books and articles, Redemptorist Fr. Dennis Billy earned a Th.D. in Church History from Harvard Divinity School and a S.T.D. in spirituality from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas. He holds the John Cardinal Krol Chair of Moral Theology at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary and also serves as Karl Rahner Professor of Catholic Theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation.