Gifts of the Visitation
Nine Spiritual Encounters with Mary and Elizabeth
by Denise Bossert
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Pub Date Mar 09 2015 | Archive Date Jun 07 2015
Description
The biblical encounter between the Virgin Mary and her cousin Elizabeth, before the births of Jesus and John the Baptist, is at the heart of Gifts of the Visitation by popular speaker and syndicated columnist Denise Bossert. She uses their story to highlight nine gifts experienced by both women as they awaited the arrival of their sons and to encourage readers to develop these gifts themselves.
Advance Praise
“This is a little gem of a book that both women and men will return to, again and again, when the demands of life are such that we need fresh grounding in our appreciation of humility and grace, spontaneity and readiness, thanksgiving, and adventure and awe. It is, in two words, ‘a treasure.’”
Elizabeth Scalia
Catholic blogger and author of Strange Gods
“Loving Mary isn’t always easy for Catholics, especially converts. Sometimes the praise and adulation can seem a bit over the top. And all the various names and devotions! The ‘real’ Mary can sometimes get lost but, in her latest book, Denise Bossert gives all of us—converts and cradle Catholics alike—a Mary we can love through all the joys and sorrows of our lives. In Gifts of the Visitation, Bossert has written a book that will touch your heart and grace your soul by combining prayerful insight and meditation with the experience of one who has actually walked in the footsteps of Mary.”
Woodeene Koenig-Bricker
Author of 365 Mary
“Gifts of the Visitation is a fresh look at one of the most important moments of Mary’s life—the Visitation—adeptly written through the personal experiences and meditations of a proficient and perceptive author. Denise Bossert takes you home, to Elizabeth and Zechariah’s house, where the Christ and the Baptist meet for the first time.”
Marge Fenelon
Author of Imitating Mary
“Gifts of the Visitation not only imaginatively chronicles Mary’s joyful meeting with Elizabeth, it also unwraps nine gifts that encourage would-be evangelizers to grow in their Catholic faith and in their zeal for bringing it to others.”
Pat Gohn
Author of Blessed, Beautiful, and Bodacious
“Gifts of the Visitation helped me to see Mary and Elizabeth in a new light and to better understand and cherish my role as Christ Bearer. It motivated me to pray fervently for an increase in these invaluable gifts, some of which I have in spades, and the others . . . not so much.”
Diana von Glahn
Coproducer and host of The Faithful Traveler on EWTN
“In the Gifts of the Visitation, author Denise Bossert tells a tender yet poignant story about Mary and Elizabeth and their phenomenal journey of faith, hope, and love. Bossert shares her own story, too, and, through reflection points, takes the reader by the hand, and invites them on a compelling prayerful journey.”
Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle
EWTN host and author of Rooted in Love
“Denise Bossert uses the seemingly simple and oh-so-familiar Scripture story of Mary’s visit to Elizabeth to take us on a journey deeper into the heart of Mary, deeper into the heart of our faith, and deeper into the untouched recesses of our own restless hearts. Gifts of the Visitation is a gift in itself to all those who want to grow closer to Jesus through Mary.”
Mary DeTurris Poust
Author of Cravings
“A compelling, profound, and poetic meditation on the spiritual dimensions of the Visitation, enlivened and made uniquely present by incorporating the author’s own personal experiences of each of the nine ‘gifts’ drawn from Mary and Elizabeth’s deep encounters with God.”
Helen Hull Hitchcock
Founder of Women for Faith & Family
“Denise invites us to journey deeper into the mystery of the Visitation and to activate the same gifts Mary and Elizabeth were given in order to manifest Christ in our lives today. Denise writes with such ease that reading her work feels like sitting down over a cup of coffee to receive wise counsel from a trusted spiritual friend. This book is scriptural, historical, wise, and spiritually challenging. Whether you are a cradle Catholic, new to the faith, or simply exploring, Denise breaks open the Visitation in a novel way to enlighten, edify, and even entertain.”
Lisa Schmidt
Catholic speaker and writer at ThePracticingCatholic.com
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| ISBN | 9781594715686 |
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Featured Reviews
Janet P, Reviewer
This charming book looks at the Visitation through nine gifts that result from it. This method makes for an effective way of looking at this momentous event and also creates a wonderful book for reflection or for a self-directed retreat.
Each chapter looks at the event, or a part of it, both from Mary's and Elizabeth's points of view. Bossert also considers how they might have reacted. For example she considers how elderly Elizabeth might have felt about a teenager coming for a visit and staying for three months.
The author also considers how these gifts have played out in her own life and during her conversion.
These things invite readers to consider how these gifts have been manifestr in our own lives.
Bossert then goes on to generalize about the gift and why it is important.
Each chapter ends with a short reflection and a prayer.
These things make it more than a book for individual reading. They could make it great as a text for a study group or as the basis for a retreat. If you want to use the Visitation as the basis for a Novena, the Magnificat and all nine of the prayers are summarized in an appendix.
It's an excellent book for reflection and study.
Chris W, Reviewer
Manifesting Christ in our lives – How to activate your own gifts of grace
What do you think about a daughter of a Protestant minister converting to Catholicism and, for over forty years, not recognizing the important part Mary (mother of Jesus) and Elizabeth (mother of John the Baptist) played in the life of Jesus?
Denise Bossert, author of Gifts of the Visitation, Nine Spiritual Encounters with Mary and Elizabeth is that former Protestant daughter.
In this engaging book, Bossert wants us to imagine what life was like during Mary’s Annunciation and the elderly Elizabeth’s blessed pregnancy that inspired her to align nine gifts she believes we can model.
Gifts of the Visitation is also a book about Bossert’s journey to Catholicism and how we, too, can activate the nine gifts of the blessed connection to Mary’s and Elizabeth’s life of grace on our own spiritual journey.
Bossert’s Illuminating insights and personal lessons learned during her conversion and connection to these women is refreshing.
Reading, reflecting, responding and praying are other elements Bossert delivers after each chapter that allows us to learn how to manifest our own golden treasure chest of spirit.
Join Bossert on her journey to will, want and be open to receiving and activating our own gifts of grace.
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