New Nazareths In Us

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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: </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><ul><li class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Humility and cheerfulness</span></li><li class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Anxiety and truth</span></li><li class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Modernism and Mary</span></li><li class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Law and the Little Way of St Therese </span></li><li class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Scandal hope and the Divine Gardener</span></li><li class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The cloister's unlikely lessons on Patriotism</span></li><li class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Courage pharisaism and a fate worse than death </span></li><li class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The peace of the wounded Christ</span></li></ul><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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. </span></p><p><br></p>