Description: Gardens of Saint John Vianney
A garden is many things at once: a place of refuge, nourishment, and labor. Likewise, this book is many things: memoir, meditation, confession, inspiration, and hymn of praise. Fr. J.C. Ortiz invites us into the gardens of Saint John Vianney like friends on a companionable stroll. Along the winding path we may admire a single rosebud, a cactus in bloom, or birch branches encased in ice. And from each of these springs a memory, a recognition, or musings on nature, liturgy, and the gifts that surround us. Some will bring laughter. Others will inspire thoughts about our relationships to each other and to the world. Many will restore a sense of gratitude and delight. Even a single green leaf can be a threshold through which God’s love flows toward us — and the pages of a book can be a garden through which we wander, our hearts refreshed. ~ C.H.
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