"This is a truly spectacular, instructive and powerful book. Neill has shown his inspiration through his fine poems that have led him to seek out apposite and clarifying works of art by the best artists which illustrate his faith and insights as recorded in his poems. The selection of pictures (and sculpture and etchings) bears constant review and examination. The key is Neill's statement that 'These great artists seem to have been present in the moment they are depicting.' As Einstein said, 'Time is a persistent illusion.' What we have here--assembled with great sensitivity and insight by Neill--is a breakthrough in time, a trembling of the curtain, revealing the ultimate fascination and power of the Virgin's story and the Gospels of Christ. Each picture is somehow unexpected and surprising in its insight, and its usefulness as a key to the Holy Spirit. I go back again and again to the Immaculate Conceptions of Tiepolo and Velasquez.

Sublime beauty of character and form. The surprising Tanners, the Rembrandt entombment, the Caravaggios, The Madonna of the Book by Botticelli, the Blake watercolor of the sepulcher, The Durer etchings, at first not welcoming but rewarding close examination. Over and over the character and magic of Mary and Christ are revealed in unexpected gestures, scenes, and colors. Brilliant art. Beautiful poems introducing each section. And finally visual epiphany, each piece worthy of meditation and offering the reward of enlightenment. One could have no better gift than to receive this book and place it near at hand for constant education and pleasure. Art as its highest and most powerful.

" -- Charles Wick.