Funny God! of Louis Marie Chauvet
The author himself writes in his introduction: “Many are the books on the parables of Jesus”… It is a fact, among the texts of the New Testament, these short teachings of Jesus, from the workers of the eleventh hour to the Prodigal Son passing through the Good Grain and the Tares, have passed widely through the doors of the churches! But it is precisely the interest of this new work that the priest and theologian Louis-Marie Chauvet built with the participation of Dominique Saint-Macary and Pierre Sinizergues. Eight of the 39 parables of the Bible, these jewels of the Gospel, are there dissected, clarified, brought to light according to a diagram each time identical. Preceded by an explanation “at first sight” and followed by “another look”, these sorts of homilies, like the parables themselves, should be put in everyone’s hands! Striking comments revealing this extraordinary God, really God, “oddly” God! JQ
Venison, €16.
Nonna’s Shawl, by Florence Dutruc-Rosset and Juliette Barbanègre
She, him, me, of Stephane Barroux
They are not so widespread, children’s albums which make it possible to approach the question of mourning with finesse and delicacy. Which only makes the very pretty tale all the more precious. Nonna’s Shawl which, without omitting anything of the darkness of the loss of a loved one, recounts the different stages of mourning in a colorful way, through the quest of Capucine, who has gone in search of her grandmother who has just died. A nice way, spiritual and universal, to put words on the pain with the youngest. At the other end of life, where it begins, She, him, me recounts the arrival of a child by placing him at the heart of the love story that precedes him and continues in him. A story that looks like a very simple genesis which, naturally, begins in confusion and ends in a garden… Two soft and deep albums on essential mysteries. AC
Bayard Youth, €13.90.
Albin Michel youth, €14.90.
The Heart of Jesus, heart of our faith, by Benoit de Baenst
In the XVIIe century, Jesus appeared to Marguerite-Marie, a visitor from Paray-le-Monial, to reveal to her “this heart which has loved men so much”. After the death of the nun, the devotion to the Sacred Heart will spread with force. However, it would be wrong to believe that the Church waited 17 centuries to honor the divine heart! And it is all the merit of this book of luminous simplicity to immerse us in the history of this cult which finds its source in Scripture. Thanks to the author, priest of the Emmanuel community, we understand how the heart of Jesus is “the reality and expression of something essential” and so, even today, “hot news”. A reading that dusts off the image that we may have of the Sacred Heart and that revives in us the desire to let ourselves be burned by Him! AV
Emmanuel Editions, €15.
My Mother’s Bible, by Emmanuel Godo
“The Bible is my fundamental mother tongue”, the poet confided to us when he played the Essentials game. His latest opus, a very intimate but modest text, takes us back to the source of this nurturing intimacy: the Ostervald Bible, which his mother opened every Christmas of his childhood, the Gospel of Luke so that Luke, his father left too soon, be present. The old book in which she slipped wedding, baptism or death announcements, photographs, children’s notes or cards. “Over the years, the Bible has become a kind of ark, carrying the stelae of our life”, writes the author. By exploring the mysterious correspondences between “the sand of our lives” and the “Pages of Eternity”, by placing his unique story alongside sacred history, Emmanuel Godo highlights how alive the word of God is. Invigorating! AV
From Corlevour, €16.
Spiritual Guide of Souvigny, under the direction of Christiane Keller
Gaële de La Brosse has the art of transmitting the virus of the paths that she caught in her youth. Thus she coordinates at Salvator a very beautiful collection dedicated to homelessness, the first title of which, which she edited, was published last summer: Spiritual guide of the Puy-en-Velay route. The new-born child is dedicated to the priory complex of Souvigny (Allier), “eldest daughter of Cluny”, to its Romanesque sanctuary (proclaimed “sanctuary of peace”) and to the paths that lead to it, such as those of Saint -Jacques-de-Compostelle. Small in size, this pocket guide to which 84 authors have contributed is powerful in its content, both practical and spiritual. The walker, like the pilgrim, will find there something to nourish his walk and give it meaning. AV
Salvador, €12.