I've never even heard of it until it showed up here. Some (a lot?) of the statements seem bizarre and I have no interest in defending it. In order to properly express my personal opinion on the content of a lot of devotional material I'd have to use language that would get this post deleted. My devotional practices tend more in the direction of the old Divine Office than to anything particularly Marian, I just don't have a Marian spirituality.
The Daughters of St. Paul publish a lot of stuff, most of the mainline Catholic publishing houses have churned out a lot of garbage over the last 40-50 years. Amazon doesn't even stock the Ferraro book and when I searched "rosary meditations" and sorted by bestselling it showed up at #50, it doesn't even seem to be available from Pauline Books.
I spent about an hour writing a post that I subsequently deleted because after all that time and effort I'd only made it through the first few items. I junked it because what we do believe is so likely to send people into orbit that I wonder what the point is. So many people are already convinced that we never actually mean what we say and are inclined to jump on the worst possible interpretation that I'm not sure it's worth the effort.
I will say I wouldn't waste my money on that book.
GOOD. What search efforts I spent on it last night seemed to turn up something similar. I didn’t find any ranking but from my efforts I wouldn’t be surprised at the #50 listing.
Thanks.
I hope most others on FR share your perspective. However, given the responses, I’m not encouraged on that note. You are one of the 3 or 4 reasonable RC’s hereon.
I haven’t been able to enlist the rest of the Proddys in a reasonably fair brief survey of the RC’s in our social networks on such matters. Maybe I’ll have to do my own more extensively. What I have done indicates that the percentages are frightful in terms of those folks who would subscribe to the Fararro sentiments.
Nevertheless, I am encouraged that you found the book low on the rankings. I’m glad to be wrong in my guesses about its popularity.
Me neither, and I expect never to hear of it again. As clumsily written as it is, though, I find it far less disturbing than people so seriously disordered by hatred that they have to seek out obscure sources to feed it (or "Dowd-ify" legitimate sources), as if they're afraid the hatred might flicker out, when they apparently prefer to treasure it and nurture it and lasciviously drool over it.
Is that a form of morbid delectation? I can't even imagine putting that much time and effort into something repellent to me.
One, good, solid denunciation.
I would be remiss to not count it.
Thank you.