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A helpful little book that passionately calls Christians to walk in the ancient paths of the church. Not the message we want, but he is undoubtedly right.

This book needs to be read slowly. It’s so good.

This book is genuinely lovely. There is so much goodbess and honesty in it.

McBride knowshow to tell a story!

Bulgakov offers a compelling and brilliant reading of the Holy Grail that is theologically dense but significant. Moving beyond the legend and stories, he asks what it means for the world… for us… that Christ’s blood is poured out into the earth.

The matter of the world that turned out to be worthy of receiving Christ's blood and water is also worthy of the mysterious transmutation of its ele ments in the Eucharist.

“This blood and water wash human sin and create the New Testament Church, with its grace-bestowing mysterious gifts: baptismal water and eucharistic blood. Out of the side of the old Adam was created woman, who tempted him to fall. But the wound delivered to humankind from Adam's side is healed by the spear wound in Jesus' side. The blood and water that flowed into the world abide in the world.“

The whole world is the Holy Grail, for it has received into itself and contains Christ’s precious blood and water.

Stretching beyong Barth for a bit ;)

I love how Green writes and wish that more writers could write not just about interesting things but in an interesting way.

Chapter 2 is a nice engagement with St John of the Cross

I have intentionally read this books slowly and only when I have time to ponder it. I have honestly loved reading it and can’t wait for volume 2.

“Our tendency to sync to something other than God's kingdom time makes ongoing liturgical recalibration necessary. This is especially true, I believe, if we are going to be animated by a properly eschatological orientation to the future. Hope takes practice.”

"Space offers us something to love, but time steals away what we love and leaves in the soul crowds of phantasms which incite desire for this or that. Thus the mind becomes restless and unhappy, vainly trying to hold that by which it is held captive. It is summoned to stillness so that it may not love the things which cannot be loved without toil.”

The trick, Augustine says, is to learn to love what you'll lose.

Smith is always fun to read. Surprised to find a positive religious reference to Heidegger in the opening - that’s rare these days, so I’m curious to see how this plays out.