Book Review: Contemplating Christ: The Gospels and the Interior Life, by Vincent Pizzuto. (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press 2018)
A frequent question retreatants to our monastery ask is, “Is there a book you can recommend that I can use for my own daily spiritual reading?” While there are many good books on prayer and meditation, the majority of them seem to be established, tried and true classics that one can always go to for renewed inspiration and guidance. Less frequent are new arrivals that shed fresh light on the spiritual path and provide new insights. It’s almost as if we have hit a fallow period in which there has been a lull in new books of spiritual depth. Thus I typically recommend books that have been in print for substantial lengths of time and which I know can still inspire. Happily, however, I can now report the appearance of a new book that clearly stands against this pattern. Fr Vincent Pizzuto is an Episcopal priest who has written a very stimulating and perceptive book, Contemplating Christ: The Gospels and the Interior Life . This book seeks to unlock the Christian