Love's Mysteries The Body, Grief, Precariousness and God, by Rachel Mann Advent & Christmas Books John Henry Newman's Lectures on

John Henry Newman's Lectures on Difficulties Felt by Anglicans in Submitting to the Catholic Church is a series of twelve talks that the convert gave at the London Oratory in King William Street before an audience of Catholics

Drawn chiefly from his sermons and gently modernized

ALAN GRIFFITHS was adviser in liturgy to the Catholic Conference of Bishops of England and Wales

this is a magnificent piece of work

as well as poetry centred on the Mother of God

Love's Mysteries The Body, Grief, Precariousness and God, by Rachel Mann Advent & Christmas Books John Henry Newman's Lectures onLove's Mysteries reflects powerfully on our fundamental limitations as creatures of flesh and bone, and what our experiences of grief, loss and fragility tell us about God and his astonishing choice to inhabit human flesh. Rachel Mann explores what happens when our bodies are under pressure, living under conditions of trauma, violence, pain or distress, suggesting that the precariousness of life might be where we most authentically encounter God. Her