The Water and the Fire Godden Selected from verbatim notes of

Selected from verbatim notes of McNabb’s retreat conferences

Delivered with prophetic zeal and fierce honesty

In these essays

it is only by means of grace that man becomes what according to the Divine will he ought to be

The Water and the Fire Godden Selected from verbatim notes ofBy Gerald Vann, O. P. Where there is no vision, the people perish. Never one to mince his words, Gerald Vann, O. P., confirms this warning from the Book of Proverbs. The people are perishing and the preachers task is of the utmost urgency: to restore vision before the darkness is absolute. The deep evil underlying the common misery and discontent of the post war world is a psychological crisis. This crisis of the human soul threatens to destroy