Joy: The Meaning of the Sacraments

by Peter Waddell

Sacraments are eruptions of divine joy. They happen when human actions or other signs - a word of forgiveness, a piece of bread - become the form of Jesus' action in the world today. They open up our destiny, and move us towards it. They are the ways in which Jesus lays hold of ordinary lives and ordinary things, revealing them as even now charged with the hope of glory. Yet the sacraments have been radically neglected in some areas of contemporary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184825279X
• ISBN13: 9781848252790
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Canterbury Press Norwich
• Length: 192 Pages