The appearance in the Fontana series of Father Gerald Vann’s masterpiece is a particularly happy event, as so many people have insisted that this book should not merely be read, but re-read constantly, for it becomes more valuable the more it is pondered upon. Doubters as well as professing Christians who look for a strong simple statement of the abiding truths of Christianity will find inspiration from The Divine Pity. Subtitled a Study in the Social Implications of the Beatitudes, Father Vaan sets each of these statements – which present the central core of Our Lord’s moral teaching – within the framework of the modern scene and in terms which modern men, whose world, external and interior, has changed so completely from the world of their fathers, will understand and appreciate. Father Vann ranges in this book from shrewd practical wisdom to a brilliant and beautiful description of the Prayer of Quiet. “If.” Wrote a critic, “you are taking your spiritual life seriously, you will want to read this book; if you are not you certainly, you will want to read it; and if You have not begun to think that you have a spiritual life, then you, above all, must read it.”