The Way Of The Rose

When you read spiritual books that are more general, they are about information and some story. When you read books on sacred feminine, they are about journey. I had never heard of this book before, “The Way Of The Rose” but I was interested in how it isn’t looking at the rosary from a catholic point of view but from a journey by its authors as they learned to follow the way of the goddess. They dig back into the history of the visions of Mary (and Isis before her) and listen to their hearts as they make connection with the earth and the newness of life that comes from our mother.

In this book you follow the story of its authors, Clark Strand (a Zen Buddhist Monk) and Perdita Way (A Feminist / Childhood Catholic) as they go from having an encounter with Madonnas all over the world and listening to their “girl” along the way.

I really loved the story and feel compelled to know more about the prayer mantra and practice of the rosary.

More About The Book:

Before a vision of a mysterious “Lady” invited Clark Strand and Perdita Finn to pray the rosary, they were not only uninterested in becoming Catholic but finished with institutional religion altogether. Their main spiritual concerns were the fate of the planet and the future of their children and grandchildren in an age of ecological collapse. But this Lady barely even referred to the Church and its proscriptions. Instead, she spoke of the miraculous power of the rosary to transform lives and heal the planet, and revealed the secrets she had hidden within the rosary’s prayers and mysteries—secrets of a past age when forests were the only cathedrals and people wove rose garlands for a Mother whose loving presence was as close as the ground beneath their feet. She told Strand and Finn:

The rosary is My body,
and My body is the body of the world.
Your body is one with that body.
What cause could there be for fear?

Weaving together their own remarkable story of how they came to the rosary, their discoveries about the eco-feminist wisdom at the heart of this ancient devotion, and the life-changing revelations of the Lady herself, the authors reveal an ancestral path—available to everyone, religious or not—that returns us to the powerful healing rhythms of the natural world.