Life Lessons: Fifty Things I Learned in My First Fifty Years by Patrick Madrid (Ignatius Press / Augustine Institute, US$16.95; also available as a eBook download; or by order from Veritas)
The little lessons of life are very important too
Peter Costello
Do evil and suffering serve a purpose for Christians?
Where is God in Suffering? by Brendan Purcell (Veritas, €12.99) God You’re Breaking My Heart: What is God’s Response to Suffering & Evil by Brian Grogan SJ (Messenger Publications, €9.99)
Draw your own conclusions to many-coloured Bible mysteries
The Heavens and the Earth: Colour your way through the Bible’s most beautiful Verses Created by Stu McLellan (Hodder & Stoughton, £9.99)
An Ulster poet lost to sight
Louis MacNeice: In A Between World by Christopher J. Fauske (Irish Academic Press, €29.99pb / €70.00hb)
A vision of a Church looking to the future
The Church Always in Need of Reform by Gabriel Daly OSA (Dominican Publications, €19.99)
Memoirs of the great struggles
Centenary Classics Series edited by Fearghal McGarry with special introductions by others to each volume (UCD Press, €60 the set of six)
Towards new ways of Christian living
Just Living: Faith and Community in an Age of Consumerism by Ruth Valerio (Hodder & Stoughton, £13.99)
Aspiring visions in Ireland before the Rising
Conflicting Visions in a Turbulent Age 1900-1916 by Dr Éimear O’Connor and others (Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, €10.00)
The transforming power of word and image
Transformed by God’s Words: Discovering the Power of Lectio and Visio Divina by Stephen J. Binz, with icons painted by Ruta and Kaspars Poikans (Ave Maria Press, £11.99; distributed by Alban Books)
Liturgists in London seek to share a sense of direction
Predictably, Cardinal Robert Sarah’s comments at the recent Sacra Liturgia conference in London have met with widespread debate and even heated disagreement online, so much so that Durban’s Cardinal Wilfrid Napier has tweeted from his @CardinalNapier account: “Cardinal Sarah addresses a meeting in London on subject no one has been consulted on, and everyone is…
