A spiritual guide to the liturgical year from one of the world's most respected theologians. In Seasons of Grace, Cardinal Walter Kasper shares his pastoral wisdom, presenting it arranged according to the seasons of the church year-with successive chapters on Advent/Christmas, Ordinary Time, Lent, Easter, and Pentecost. The theme of "lived faith" echoes throughout this volume and Kasper seeks to address the challenges that lived faith faces in our day. In facing those difficulties, Kasper writes: "We need the healing power of the gospel. Faith is the most worthwhile of all things. But we are only able to pass on.what we ourselves have lived. We must allow the love, mercy, and salvation of our God to enter completely into us, we must allow them to grow warmer and then burst into flame in our own hearts and lives, if we want to set them alight in others.

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