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

To the unstudied eye, St. Matthew\x27s Gospel can seem a terse narrative, almost a historical document and not the tremendously spiritual (and doctrinal) storehouse that it is. In his fourth and final volume of meditations on Matthew (chapters 26\x26ndash 28), Father Simeon, formerly Erasmo Leiva\-Merikakis, continues to show Matthew\x27s prose to be not so much terse as economical\x26mdash astoundingly so given its depth. The lay reader can derive great profit from reading this book. Each short meditation comments on a verse or two, pointing to some facet of the text not immediately apparent, but rich with meaning. \/p \n Read more