Tales of Grace: Reflections on the Joyful Mysteries by Luigi Santucci,Demetrio S. Yocum

This compelling and fascinating publication employs tale and whimsy, with smooth, lyrical touches, in order that readers can adventure in new mild the cheerful mysteries of the Rosary. Translated for the 1st time into English, the good Italian writer's poetic, unique imaginative and prescient is helping readers rediscover the tenderness and wonder within the miracle of Jesus’s start and youth, starting together with his notion, and concluding together with his adolescence.

"Demetrio S. Yocum’s masterful translation of Luigi Santucci’s stories of Grace makes on hand what's frequently missing in modern religious examining – a piece of excessive literary price that communicates a feeling of mysticism rarely exhibited in devotional writing.

Without going the course of educational exegesis, Santucci’s stories transpose the reader from the gospel texts to innovative instances and locations that motivate clean insights and awakenings. those are strong meditations that appear quite acceptable at present of the pope whose pleasure of the Gospel echoes those narratives of ask yourself and awe."
—Andrew D. Ciferni, O.Praem, St. Norbert College

"Luigi Santucci’s publication is an excellent and compelling account of the pleased mysteries. Readers will relatively benefit from the approach Santucci hyperlinks jointly the Scriptural occasions together with his personal own reviews and observations. Yocum’s sleek and impeccable translation totally captures the sound and rhythm of Santucci’s stylish, mid 20th-century Italian prose. a gorgeous variation, hugely recommended."
—Massimo Faggioli, college of St. Thomas, writer of John XXIII the medication of Mercy

"Complete with angels who movement homes, a dairy boy and pregnant ladies who percentage secrets and techniques, rogue visitors on the Christmas ceremonial dinner, a awesome baptism, and scholars and lecturers who opposite roles at an alumni collecting, Luigi Santucci’s stories of Grace rejoice the secret of notice made flesh. just like the pleased mysteries to which they element, those are stories to delight in, to consider, and to include. due to the proficient translation of Demetrio Yocum and the artistry of George Kordis, English-speaking readers are actually invited to this imaginitive ceremonial dinner as well."
—Mary Catherine Hilkert, O.P.
University of Notre Dame
author of Naming Grace: Preaching and the Sacramental Imagination

"This publication is an extravagant invitation inviting the reader on a wealthy and robust trip in the course of the pleased Mysteries of the Rosary. We keep on with the writer as he's inserted into the tale within the kind of inventive contemplation. interpreting daily components of sin and charm, this fabulous allegory is wealthy in language and emblems, illustrated with wonderful icons that beckon us into deeper prayer. the paranormal meditations construct to a super crescendo of the enjoyment of the salvific energy of Christ.
—Fran Rossi Szpylczyn is a Catholic author, speaker, and lay minister in Albany, long island. Her paintings should be accessed at there'll be Bread