Journey Towards Easter

This book offers to the public the meditations of the Lenten Retreat given in the Vatican by Cardinal Joseh Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for Doctrine and the Faith, in the presence of Pope John Paul II. Starting out from the conviction that the forty days of Lent are already a Retreat in themselves which the Church offers us year by year, a sacramental grace which is at the same time an education in the faith, the author has sought to bring together the aspects of a journey suggested by the liturgy. The relative 'novelty' of these pages consists in the fact that they bring out not only the theological acumen of the author but also the profound spirituality of one who shares with all believers the labour and joy in the faith.