Pope Pius XII’s Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus, which defines the dogma of the Assumption, is available on the Vatican website in several languages.
Joseph Ratzinger, Daughter Zion: Meditations on the Church’s Marian Belief, Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 1983. ISBN 0-89870-026-4 or 978-0898700268. Get it from a real bookshop if you can.
As well as the sequences I mentioned in the podcast, Ratzinger explores the imagery in the prophets of the nation of Israel as the daughter or the erring wife of the Lord; and also relates her to the ‘Wisdom’ who speaks at length of herself in the Book of Wisdom.
These pages have fewer features than the apps, and some pages (such as Spiritual Reading) are not available.
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