Year of Grace: A Spiritual Journal

by Andrew M. Greeley

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0883472627
• ISBN13: 9780883472620
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Thomas More Publishing
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

A Real Existentialist

This excellent book by Andrew Greeley takes the form of a spiritual diary kept by one man, over the course of a year or so, in order to tease out the sense and significance of some specific moments in his life. The author is in pursuit of the sacred in life, and he sees the holiness of life in the everyday, which he celebrates and memorializes. In fact, the word sacramental is one that crops up a lot in the book. One of the lovely things for me is the sense of joy and wonder he manages to convey. It reads in every sense as a lover's diary. A man in love with God, usually seen as feminine, and deeply in love with the world in all of it's precious fragility. A book such as this always runs the risk of becoming overly introspective; this one never does. He is very much engaged with and committed to the real world. This accounts in many ways for the charm of the book. His spiritual insights are always mediated via the world of the everyday, the world of the `ordinary'. This is the diary of a real existentialist.