Open Book: "Mary Most Holy: Meditating with the Early Cistercians"

What do we know — really — about a woman who only speaks seven times in all of the Bible? Such is the mystery of Mary, mother of Jesus. The Cistercian monks, who have claimed a special devotion to Mary for hundreds of years, used deep reading of scripture to crystallize some of the ideas and perceptions we hold today about Mary. And they used meditations, or poetic writings, to express these ideas. Join Alice and Lori as they examine a few of these meditations and consider why and how Marian devotion can affect us as contemporary women and believers.