Forty Days with the Savior: Preparing Your Heart for Easter

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Gariepy divides his 40 meditations into the six divisions: Pilgrimage to Calvary; The Upper Room; Gethsemane; The Trials; The Via Dolorosa; and Calvary. He constructs a biblically oriented method of Lenten devotion for Christians who seek a less heavily liturgical praxis. Gariepy (Footsteps to Calvary; 100 Portraits of Christ; Christianity in Action, etc.), the National Literary Secretary and editor-in-chief of national publications for the Salvation Army in the U.S., understands the spiritual needs and concerns of the Protestant Christian, and his expertise serves both him and his readers well in this collection. The careful use of familiar hymns, the accessible presentation of liturgical customs where necessary and a pastoral concern for each believer's having ``a good and holy Lent'' all make this a solid selection for any Christian.