New Nazareths In Us: Sermons & Meditations on Seeking Christ & His Mother (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781739624149)

Born in the silence and simplicity of rural New-England, this book gathers some brief reflections and sermons of a parish Priest. The sermons fix their attention upon the Mother of God, and the author's approach is essentially liturgical. Side-stepping the language of apologetics and controversy, he studies the texts of the Roman liturgy and shares what he finds there. The meditations-concentrated and pithy-consider, beneath the light of inspired human reason and Sacred Scripture, such topics as:

Humility and cheerfulnessAnxiety and truthModernism and MaryThe Law and the Little Way of St Therese Scandal, hope, and the Divine GardenerThe cloister's unlikely lessons on PatriotismCourage, pharisaism, and a fate worse than death The peace of the wounded Christ

Drawing on a wide variety of sources, Fr Sliwa enriches his meditations by engaging with saints, writers, and philosophers from Augustine and Aquinas to Evelyn Waugh and Georges Bernanos. In a phrase of the priest-poet Hopkins, the grace of Christ's Incarnation 'Makes, O marvelous! New Nazareths in us.' Thus the aim of this book can be summed up as preparing human lives for the visits of divine grace.

Author: Ryan T. Sliwa
ISBN-10: 1739624149
ISBN-13: 9781739624149
Publisher: Cenacle Press at Silverstream Priory
Language: English
Published: 09/12/2022
Pages: 92
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.22d