Thanks for all the good work you are doing,Teresa! Very interesting reviews. I have only read a few chapters, but I can tell you this:
JON is not "a book", it's an aria!
It's Papa's own personal search for Christ, a successful search if you ask me. On every page I'm learning something. I especially like the way he is explaining individual texts within the whole of Scripture, always pointing back to the Old Testament.
The scene of Jesus' baptism, where Jesus "blends into the grey mass of sinners waiting on the banks of Jordan", is almost like a screenplay, you actually "see" the scene. Beautiful!
The chapters I have read so far are all very approachable, even for a novice like myself, yet the messages are deep and powerful and are material for reflection and meditation.
I know I am going to "sing" this book over and over and over .....
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What a beautiful way to put it, Liv - Not just singing its praises but 'singing the book' itself! It does make you want to sing out Hosannah, Alleluia, Gloria in excelsis Deo!, Credo, Domine! Kyrie! Christus!, My Lord and my God!.....All the familiar prayer 'formulas' take on new meaning and splendor.....
It says something that JESUS OF NAZARETH came in among the #1's on the French bestseller list the week it came out (the titles it shares the top spot with sound like pop fiction) - in 'anti-clerical, super-secular' France!
TERESA
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