Fire of Mercy, Heart of the Word: Meditations on the Gospel According to St. Matthew Volume 2

by Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis

Book Overview

To the unstudied eye, St. Matthew's gospel can seem a terse narrative, almost a historical document and not the tremendously spiritual (and doctrinal) storehouse that it is. In his second volume of meditations on Matthew (chapters 12-18), Erasmo Leiva shows Matthew's prose to be not terse so much as economical--astoundingly so given its depth. The lay reader can derive great profit from reading this. Each short meditation comments on a verse or two,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898709768
• ISBN13: 9780898709766
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Ignatius Press
• Length: 800 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.