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Fire of Mercy, Heart of the Word: Meditations on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew, Volumes 1–3: Chapters 1–25 is unavailable, but you can change that!

To the unstudied eye, St. Matthew’s Gospel can seem a terse narrative, almost a historical document and not the tremendously spiritual (and doctrinal) storehouse that it is. In these three volumes on Matthew, Erasmo Leiva shows Matthew’s prose to be not terse so much as economical—astoundingly so given its depth. The lay reader can derive great profit from reading this. Each short meditation...

not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins” (1 Jn 4:19, 10). If the disciples are to become vibrant instruments of grace in God’s hands, they have to acquire the malleability of youth, the pliancy of disposition, and the gentleness of character that will make it possible for Jesus to use them as he sees fit. This can only occur if, responding to his call, they go to Jesus and abide in him in the strongest sense of the word: they must accomplish the
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