Beatitudes 

What is received is received after the fashion of the recipient. Truth does not change, its recipients do. If, therefore, the abiding truth of Catholic Christianity is to take root in souls and bear fruit, it must be stated so as to reach the minds and hearts of a generation whose world external and interior has changed so completely form the world of their fathers. Yet no parcel of truth must be lost in the process. Of this difficult art Fr. Gerald Vann is an expert practitioner. And this book is his masterpiece. He follows a Thomist scheme of the correlated beatitudes, virtues and gifts of the Holy Ghost. And he constructs with it a body of ascetical and contemplative theology adapted to the man of our twentieth century. He ranges from shrewd practical wisdom as when he warns against jocularity at the breakfast table to one of the best and most beautiful descriptions we have read of the Prayer of Quiet. Throughout a perfect balance is kept between a wide and understanding humanism and the theocentrism which is the lifeblood of genuine religion. The changeful pageant of man's life, its interests, possibilities, duties and sufferings, these above all are displayed and judged against the background of the Divine eternity present and changeless. Altogether this book is a most notable contribution to the literature of the spiritual life and in the widest and most positive sense of Catholic apologetic.

Taken from the front inside flap.