Latin Letters of C.S. Lewis Karper

Latin Letters of C.S. Lewis KarperIn September 1947, after reading The Screwtape Letters in Italian, Fr. Giovanni Calabria was moved to write the author, but he knew no English, so he addressed his letter in Latin. Therein began a correspondence that was to outlive Fr. Calabria himself (he died in December 1954 and was succeeded in the correspondence by Fr. Luigi Pedrollo). Translator editor Martin Moynihan calls these letters "limpid, fluent and deeply refreshing. There was a charm

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and Charley the sweeper adds cockney mischief

rehearsal techniques and accompaniment together with a potted history of its development through to the current day

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(now Pope Benedict XVI)

You came to me

Gradually material from diverse sources began to flesh out the life

This book is a pilgrimage

As commentator

both in Holy Orders and the transmission of Revelation

the Maxims penetrate to themes at the center of reflection and judgment about the human situation

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