Book Review: Advent & Christmas with Fulton J. Sheen

I haven't written a book, but I imagine that it's quite a lot like birthing & raising a child. You conceive it & labor to bring it into the world, hoping one day it will find a happy & gratifying relationship with a loved one, & take care of you in your old age.

I say this to acknowledge the effort that must be poured into a project like this. With all that said, I was disappointed with this beautifully produced prayer book by Judy Bauer & Liguori press.

While one might think that any book featuring America's great TV preacher would score an automatic home run with me (see here), & even more so with a William Adolf Bougereau painting on the cover; honestly, I just found it a little too brief to be useful.

The scripture passages, excerpts from Abp. Sheen's works, & concluding prayers are really too short to draw one in or connect the elements together into a single prayerful act as it should. Some days were very good, but others left me going, "huh?" At least for what I was looking for, it lacked depth & cohesiveness.

In the final analysis, I read every page of the Magnificat through the holidays, but the truth is, I didn't finish this book.

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H.E. Rating:

2-1/2 Asperigellum shakes