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Barbara Graver

Barbara Graver

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Markmaker by Mary Jessica Woods (SciFi Book Review)

September 20, 2022

The Noxxiin are a people set adrift, piloting through space in a fleet of refuge ships. Tattoos are central to their culture.  And the tattoos inked by the guild artists of the Serix clan are especially significant. Some mark accomplishments, others disgrace. But they always speak the truth.

Or so Mariikel Serix a young, up and coming guild markmaker once believed.

Soon after “Markmaker” opens, however, we learn that Mariikel now suspects that he has given an exile mark to an innocent man. At great personal risk, the young markmaker begins to visit the place of exile, in the depths of the ship, to make amends. 

As we follow him, we begin to learn that there is more to the Noxxiin than meets the eye.

This is the beginning of an epic story about the Noxxiin and their struggle to reclaim their ancestral homeland. But it is also a very personal story about one man coming to terms with a very difficult realization and rising to the challenge that is presented. 

“Markmaker” hooked me immediately and kept me interested from beginning to end. I read it over the course of a single weekend and enjoyed every minute!  

I especially appreciated the complex world of the Noxxiin and the idea that there is more to a culture than what what we see on the surface.  In “Markmaker” I think the point is well made that it is often what’s hidden that matters – whether it is what lies under the skin or below deck or just beneath the veneer of a society.

Highly recommended!

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The Seven Sorrows which Pierced Our Lady’s Heart.

1. The Prophecy of Saint Simeon. (Luke 2:34–35)

2. The escape and Flight into Egypt. (Matthew 2:13)

3. The Loss of the Child Jesus in the Temple of Jerusalem (Luke 2:43–45)

4. The Meeting of Mary and Jesus on the Via Dolorosa.

5. The Crucifixion of Jesus on Mount Calvary. (John 19:25)

6. The Piercing of the Side of Jesus, and His Descent from the Cross. (Matthew 27:57–59)

7. The Burial of Jesus by Joseph of Arimathea. (John 19:40–42)

Not only do we get to unite our sufferings and sorrows to Our Lady of Sorrows, we are also promised 7 Graces:

According to St Bridget of Sweden (1303-1373), there are Seven Graces of this devotion.

1. I will grant peace to their families.

2. I will be enlightened about the Divine mysteries.

3. I will console them in their pains, and I will accompany them in their work.

4. I will give them as much as they ask for as long as it does not oppose the adorable will of my Divine Son or the sanctification of their souls.

5. I will defend them in their spiritual battles with the infernal enemy, and I will protect them at every instant of their lives.

6. I will visibly help them at the moment of their death, they will see the face of their Mother.

7. I have obtained this Grace from my Divine Son, that those who propagate this devotion to my tears and dolors, will be taken directly from this earthly life to eternal happiness since all their sins will be forgiven and my Son and I will be their eternal consolation and joy.

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