Moments of Grace:
The Spirituality of The Lord of the Rings
Announcing the coming of a new book to be published just in time for the return to Middle-earth!
One early admirer wrote to J.R.R. Tolkien and told him that he had created "a world in which some sort of faith seems to be everywhere without a visible source, like light from an invisible lamp" (Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, 413).
Would you like to know more about the Source of that light?
Would you like to know how to embrace God's Will for your life, even when it involves also embracing suffering?
Would you like to know how to persevere through great trials?
Would you like to know how to maintain hope while enduring torment?
Would you like to know why God allows evil?
All these answers can be found in the Red Book of Westmarch.
Join emerging author Anne Marie Gazzolo, a fellow traveler down the Road, in the exploration of this and the many ways in which “that one ever-present Person who is never absent and never named” is involved in the lives of His children and how to apply the lessons taught by them to our own lives.
Excerpt from the Introduction:
“Frodo did not fight in combat as did the soldiers of Rohan and Gondor; instead, like all of us, his battlefield was in his own mind, heart and soul and ‘it is by warfare that the soul makes progress,’ as St. Abba John the Short (339-409) said. ” Read more...
Rave reviews from blog:
“I have never read anything that so beautifully captured the Catholicism of the Quest.” Read more...
“My first thought is just pure amazement...how practically you get it all down and relate it to life!” Read more...
“The authoress, Anne Marie, shares some of the most beautiful and profound thoughts on Tolkien's tales that I have ever encountered.” Read more...