A Fierce and Tender Love: 7 Meditations on Mary, Mother of God

• Rediscover Mary as a model of discipleship, tenderness & hope
• Find your identity in the tender mercy of God as she did, and as she calls you to
• Seven meditations on her life to help you navigate life's challenges
• Let Mary help you find renewed tenderness and meaning in your life & the Church

In A Fierce and Tender Love, bestselling author and theologian Timothy P. O’Malley invites readers to rediscover Mary as a model of discipleship, tenderness, and hope. Drawing from theology, personal stories, and spiritual reflection, O’Malley shows how Mary—Mother of God and of the Church—leads us to Christ and teaches us how to live as true disciples.

He reminds us that Mary’s vocation is our own: to find our identity in the tender mercy of God.

This book includes seven meditations on Mary’s life that offer wisdom for navigating today’s challenges:

• The Immaculate Conception – A model of true freedom
• The Annunciation – Trusting in God's plan
• The Visitation – Embracing enduring hope
• The Incarnation – A revolution of tenderness
• The Seven Sorrows – Walking with us in suffering
• Mary’s Motherhood of the Church – A call to deeper discipleship
• The Assumption – A vision of our future glory in Christ

Through Mary’s example, O’Malley helps us engage in Pope Francis’s “revolution of tenderness” and find renewed meaning, identity, and purpose within the Church.

Part of the Engaging Catholicism series from the McGrath Institute for Church Life.