The Cantata of Love : A Verse by Verse Reading of The Song by Fr. Blaise Arminjon,Henri Cardinal de Lubac,Nelly Marans

What publication of the outdated or New testomony has generated the main commentaries within the background of the Church? no longer John’s Gospel, now not Paul’s letter to the Romans, now not the prophet Isaiah, no, it's the track of Songs. it's a publication that's unknown to many Catholics, and stunning to people who notice it for the 1st time as a result of its descriptions of a lover and his beloved—God is just pointed out as soon as and that's on the very finish.

And but the best of the Fathers have commented on it. Origen’s is the vintage and St. Jerome says of it: “Origen, having handed all the interpreters of all of the books of Scripture, handed himself during this interpretation of the Canticle.” St. Bernard of Clairvaux, St. Francis de revenues, St. John of the pass, all have extra to the nice culture of reading this publication for they see it as God’s love for Israel and the Church, Christ’s love for Mary, for the Church, and for every people. the writer attracts on these kinds of classics of Catholic culture to provide us a verse through verse interpreting of the track of Songs so as to deepen the non secular lives of all of us—a deepening rooted in God’s be aware and the main profound Catholic culture.

“A superb booklet of notion. it's going to contact many a center with the message of God’s love that the Canticle brings. examining it was once a revelation to me. it's going to do a huge quantity of good.”
—Bishop Patrick V. Ahern
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of recent York

“This paintings deals us entire treatise at the non secular lifestyles. It used to be slowly delivered to adulthood, lovingly polished and solidly equipped. The dramatic realism can be a very good aid to all who will be tempted to renounce someplace alongside the way.”
—Henri Cardinal de Lubac, S.J.