A book about the insight, comfort, and direction our troubled age can find in monastic wisdom.
Erik Varden is a monk and bishop. Born in Norway, he was a Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, before entering Mount Saint Bernard Abbey in Leicestershire, UK. He has published several translations and scholarly monographs and is much in demand as a preacher, spiritual director and lecturer. In 2019 Pope Francis appointed him Bishop of Trondheim, Norway.
I have little doubt that this will also become a spiritual
bestseller following on from his previous much acclaimed book, The
Shattering of Loneliness.
*Church Times*
Varden's work is the fruit from a tree for the healing of the
nations, from a monk who has his feet firmly and incarnationally on
the ground.
*Lutheran Theological Journal*
[Erik’s] homilies are accessible – written in clear, standard
English – but rich, sometimes breathtakingly, in their content.
*Catholic Herald*
These [homilies] are as bracing and enlivening for the reader as
they will have been for the congregations who heard them … Varden’s
combination of extensive learning, passionate engagement with the
history and demandingness of Christian life, and the sharp focus of
a keen mind, make his preaching something from which many will
benefit.
*The Tablet*
Varden’s erudition in this edifying work of Catholic monasticism
should earn him comparisons to Edith Stein.
*Publishers Weekly*
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