El Primer Amor Del Mundo. María La Madre De Dios

by Fulton J. Sheen, LUMEN S.R.L. (Editor)

Un retrato conmovedor y elocuente de María. Combinando espiritualidad. historia y teología. toda la vida de María se delinea en esta imperdible exposición del obispo Sheen.Todo ser humano que persigue un ideal. un vínculo de amistad en el universo. busca un amor que no es sólo el amor por ella o por él. sino algo que está por encima de ambos y que es llamado nuestro amor . Todos amamos algo más cuando amamos.Ese amor es el mismo ideal que Dios tuvo en su corazón desde toda la la mujer a la que llama Madre . Es la única persona con la que se da una perfecta correspondencia entre lo que Él quiere que sea y lo que ella su propia Madre. El ideal que Dios tenía de ella coincide con lo que ella es. el modelo y la copia son perfectas; ella es tal como había sido prevista. planeada y soñada. La melodía de su vida es interpretada tal como fue escrita.María es aquella a la que todo hombre ama cuando ama a una mujer. lo sepa o no. María es lo que toda mujer desea

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Published January 1, 2007

About the author

Fulton John Sheen was an American bishop of the Catholic Church known for his preaching and especially his work on television and radio. Ordained a priest of the Diocese of Peoria in Illinois, in 1919, Sheen quickly became a renowned theologian, earning the Cardinal Mercier Prize for International Philosophy in 1923. He went on to teach theology and philosophy at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and served as a parish priest before he was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York in 1951. He held this position until 1966 when he was made bishop of the Diocese of Rochester in New York. He resigned as bishop of Rochester in 1969 as his 75th birthday approached and was made archbishop of the titular see of Newport, Wales.
For 20 years as "Father Sheen", later monsignor, he hosted the night-time radio program The Catholic Hour on NBC (1930–1950) before he moved to television and presented Life Is Worth Living (1952–1957). Sheen's final presenting role was on the syndicated The Fulton Sheen Program (1961–1968) with a format that was very similar to that of the earlier Life Is Worth Living show. For that work, Sheen twice won an Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Television Personality, and was featured on the cover of Time magazine. Starting in 2009, his shows were being re-broadcast on the EWTN and the Trinity Broadcasting Network's Church Channel cable networks. His contribution to televised preaching resulted in Sheen often being called one of the first televangelists.
The cause for his canonization was officially opened in 2002. In June 2012, Pope Benedict XVI officially recognized a decree from the Congregation for the Causes of Saints stating that he lived a life of "heroic virtues," a major step towards beatification, and he is now referred to as venerable. On July 5, 2019, Pope Francis approved a reputed miracle that occurred through the intercession of Sheen, clearing the way for his beatification. Sheen was scheduled to be beatified in Peoria on December 21, 2019, but his beatification was postponed after Bishop Salvatore Matano of Rochester expressed concern that Sheen's handling of a 1963 sexual misconduct case against a priest might be cited unfavorably in a forthcoming report from the New York Attorney General. The Diocese of Peoria countered that Sheen's handling of the case had already been "thoroughly examined" and "exonerated" and that Sheen had "never put children in harm's way".