The Blessed Virgin Mary is uniquely associated with Catholicism, and the century preceding the Second Vatican Council was arguably the most fertile era for Catholic Marian studies. In 1964, Pope John Paul VI published the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, or Lumen Gentium (LG), the eighth chapter of which presents the most comprehensive magisterial teaching on the Blessed Virgin Mary. As part of its Marian Initiative, the Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame invited scholars to a conference held at Notre Dame in October 2013 to reflect the rich Marian legacy on the eve of the Second Vatican Council. The essays unanimously stress that the Blessed Virgin Mary is not merely a peripheral figure in Christian faith and in the panorama of theology. More than fifty years after Lumen Gentium, students of theology as well as Marian devotees take their bearings from this document in order to promote the person of Mary and the study of Mariology, as well as grow in authenti...
A little Vietnamese girl tries to come to terms with her grief over the loss of her family and her new life with an Australian family.
The swallows are here again. They have come south looking for summer. Did they fly over my country? Did they see my mum and dad? Did they see my little yellow canary?
Onion Tears tells the story of Nam-Huong, a young Vietnamese girl living in Australia who is attempting to come to terms with her memories of the war in her homeland.
Nam-Huong cries lots of onion tears, and it's only when she learns to laugh, that her tears fall like drops of dew.
AWARDS
Winner - Premier's Literary Award, 1990
Shortlisted - CBCA Book of the Year Younger Readers, 1990
Product details
- 12-17
- Paperback | 80 pages
- 127 x 198 x 6mm | 74g
- 01 Nov 1990
- HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
- New South Wales, Australia
- English
- 0207170282
- 9780207170287
- 438,181
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