Daily Readings from St. Therese of Lisieux and The Imitation of Christ by a Benedictine of Stanbrook. Introduced by Ronald Knox. "The compiler of the anthology has been happily inspired to sit between two treasure chests, dealing out to us a jewel first from this then from that, like matched pearls. One is the Imitation of Christ, the other, the writings of Therese of Lisieux. Just five centuries divide them in date. Your first impression when you see the pearls so well matched, is to exclaim at the resemblance; your second, that after all Christian piety does not alter with the ages, and there are certain rock-bottom truths which need constant reassertion...This is a book to keep by your bedside so that you can turn to it before your examination of conscience and read in it the diary of what you have left undone." From the introduction by Ronald Knox
Templegate Puplishers 1943, First published in USA in 1949. 8th publication 2002 242 pp |
