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Revisiting Marian Treasures - Stephano Panga OFMCap (Paperback)
Fr. Stephano Panga OFMCap, is a Franciscan Capuchin Friar from the Province of Our Lady of Assumption Tanzania. Fr. Stephano was born at Bashnet Parish in the Catholic Diocese of Mbulu. After his Secondary education, he joined the Capuchin Friars in 2013, whereby he professed his first vows in July 2015, immediately after Novitiate. After a year of pastoral experience, he was sent to St. Bonaventure University in Lusaka, Zambia, for his Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and Religious Studies, and he graduated in 2019. Thereafter, he was admitted to Jordan University College, Morogoro, for his Bachelor in Theology, where he graduated in 2023. He was ordained Priest on 15th August 2023 at Mbulu Cathedral by Bishop Wolfgang Pisa, OFMCap, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Lindi. Thanks to all who journeyed with him and made all these possible; may God bless them abundantly.
During his studies, he was deeply inspired to intensify his spirituality and knowledge about the devotion to Our Lady, the inspiration that led him to write this marvellous book. He felt the need to share his faith and admiration for our Lady with you in the same way the Apostles felt in sharing the beauty of their Testimony about the Resurrection of Christ with the world. As a result, he let the breath and richness of the Church's Traditions speak for themselves, and so he collected from dierent sources possible the evidences of Our Lady, from the choicest passages extracted in the Holy Bible, Fathers of the Church, Great Theologians and Council documents up to Vatican Il and other relevant documents. And he puts altogether this information in this edition in order that the devouts may have easy access to these inexhaustible treasures of Our Mother to inflame themselves for her love. He faithfully presents our Lady as foreshadowed in the Scriptures and as believed in the early Church and comments on Substantial quotations from the major Sources of the Church Traditions extending all the way to Apostolic Fathers, focusing on the Marian Doctrines and devotions at all ages of the Church to our present time.
Fr. Stephano presents to the reader a collection of all major teachings regarding the Blessed Virgin Mary in simple language, which will enable the reader to rediscover the greatness of the Holy Mother of God and the richness of the Catholic Church doctrines on the one through whom the Savior came to the world.
Hence, this book is a comprehensive work on the Marian devotions and doctrines studied in the light of the faith of the Church and according to the love Fr. Stephano has for Our Lady, Queen of Heaven and Earth. Hence, he felt the necessity to share with you the Sons and Daughters of our Lady, these hidden treasures of the Mother Church.
