To the unstudied eye, St. Matthew\x27s Gospel can seem a terse narrative, almost a historical document and not the tremendously spiritual (and doctrinal) storehouse that it is. In his fourth and final volume of meditations on Matthew (chapters 26\x26ndash;28), Father Simeon, formerly Erasmo Leiva\-Merikakis, continues to show Matthew\x27s prose to be not so much terse as economical\x26mdash;astoundingly so given its depth. The lay reader can derive...