Our Lady, Undoer of Knots
A Living Novena
by Marge Fenelon
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Pub Date Sep 18 2015 | Archive Date Oct 29 2015
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Advance Praise
“Exceptional and inspiring, this armchair pilgrimage and prayer guide will help to untangle even the most vicious knots in our lives. Combining Pope Francis’s Holy Land pilgrimage, her own pilgrimage experiences, and the seventeenth-century novena to Our Lady, Undoer of Knots, Marge Fenelon fashioned this heartfelt novena. A must read!”
Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle
EWTN host and author of Rooted in Love
“Whether you read it as an armchair pilgrimage or as a devotional or use it to pray a novena, this guided meditation is an absolute treasure of faith.”
Woodeene Koenig-Bricker
Author of 365 Saints
“Marge Fenelon shares her Holy Land pilgrimage with reflections on the knots that impede peace there, creatively comparing them to the knots in our soul that impede our interior peace. The novena invites us to join Pope Francis in presenting the knots of our soul to the Father of mercy through Mary, the Undoer of Knots.”
Most Rev. Kevin C. Rhoades
Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese
“As I read this book, many times did I feel that the Holy Spirit was speaking to my heart as I recalled my own trip to the Holy Land. Using the form of a novena, Marge Fenelon takes us on a journey through the sacred sites visited by the Holy Father during his historic pilgrimage. Each day tackles a different knot—injustice, separation, confusion, hopelessness, grief and loss, discord, betrayal, envy and pride, and affliction—both as they relate to the situation is the land where Jesus lived as well as in our own lives. It was a joy reading this book.”
Diana von Glahn
Producer and host of The Faithful Traveler
“In Our Lady, Undoer of Knots, Marge Fenelon has written the book I wish I had written! Marge’s beautiful, evocative and poetic application of the devotion to a pilgrimage in the Holy Land takes my breath away. I not only feel like I have walked the ground where Jesus and Mary walked, but Marge’s heartfelt prayers and meditations opened a deeper appreciation of the way Mary does undo the knots of our lives—if we invite her in. Whether you read it as an armchair pilgrimage or as a devotional or use it to pray a novena, this guided meditation is an absolute treasure of faith.”
Woodeene Koenig-Bricker
Author of 365 Saints
“Pope Francis brought Our Lady, Undoer of Knots out of obscurity into a living reality for our everyday lives. Marge Fenelon has taken this reality and provided a roadmap enveloped in a novena tied to the Holy Land to help us untie the most common knots that prevent us from living a truly joy-filled life. This book will help you firmly place the ribbon of your life in the hands of Our Lady where she will become your advocate in ways you never imagined possible. Buy this book. Read it, pray with it and then share it someone you know who is searching for freedom from a troubled heart.”
Lisa Wheeler
Founder of Carmel Communications
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781594716300 |
| PRICE | $13.95 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Janet P, Reviewer
Using the devotion to Our Lady, Undoer of Knots (a favorite of Pope Francis) is the occasion of a guided novena in this book. Felton uses the places Pope Francis visited during his visit to the Holy Land.
This isn't your usual novena, instead each day looks at a source of knots in our lives, connecting them to a place in the Holy Land.
Each day of the novena begins with a quote by Francis. Next there is a reflection on this particular source of knots and how it might affect us. The following section relates this to a particular place. Then there is a prayer. Finally there are some questions for you to think about and answer.
Felton was one of the journalists selected to accompany the Pope on this trip and the visit affected her greatly. Often she was seeing these sites shortly after the Pope did.
The book is wonderful for popularizing this devotion and for bringing attention to the need for peace in that troubled place. But I think most folks will find the book not universally useful, as I did.
Some of the sources of knots brought home to me areas in my life where I need to be more prayerful. Others just aren't an issue for me.
With each day of the novena taking relatively little time to read, this book can be a help to your devotions.
Andrew K, Librarian
I find Fenelon's approach interesting. This devotional book integrates Pope Francis' writings with her own thoughts as she explores the human condition and how the Blessed Virgin can assist us in our worries grief and stress. I think this will be a book for my library.
Janka H, Educator
This is a great book. It sounds clichey, I know, it is a truth I deeply acknowledge. The content is very deep, yet gentle; enriching, yet simply beautiful in its peace. Novena (from Latin word "nine") is an act of religious devotion, often consisting of prayers repeated for nine successive days in belief of obtaining special intercessory graces).
The authoress Marge Fenelon created the Marian devotional practice based on admiration of Our Lady, Undoer of Knots (Virgin Mary as one who unites the knots of our problems) and integrated there her experience from her pilgrimage to Holy Land (as a journalist during the Pope Francis´s visit there) - as she reflected deeply on the painful issues going on in these parts of world. The novena contains of 9 guided meditations, each one dealing with one of the "knots" aka sufferings in our lives (like betrayal, pride and envy etc.) and the reader is invited to reflect on them both from the "outer" land of her experience from visiting Holy Land and "inner land" aka accompanying the reader in "inspecting" their issues, situations and soul state. Her input is very, very understanding, yet truthful (I personally think the authoress had suffered and/or witness quite a lot of pain, because only the one who overcame the suffering can touch the painful places so gently. Thank you for that understanding, Ms Fenelon).
This is A Catholic book, but it can be of help to any Christian understanding the concept of novena and knowing a bit about Catholic "practice" as the terms used are of Catholic traditions.
This is a book I deeply recommend for anyone going through some crisis and in a need of loving help from above and from a loving ears here on Earth, or withessing these issues. What makes it so unique is the visible, lovely presence of peace. How could I describe it? When going through the pages, praying and meditating, some of my questions and troubles got "unknotted" just by the gentle way the authoress puts her words together, acknowledging the pain, reminding of responsibility and showing the way to where put the problems - into the hands of the Our Lady, Undoer of Knots.
I did the novena in the days of emotional turmoil and it brought me a lot of peace. My problems haven´t disappeared, but I got quite a lot of strength - just by passing them into Mary´s hands. In hope of some strength I am highly recommending the book to others.
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