I don’t know who invited Lent to the party so early, but here it comes – on Valentine’s Day, no less. I’ve found a short devotional book with which to enter the season: There You Are, God by the father-daughter team of Deacon Steve Lumbert and Karina Fabian. I know Karina from her work with Catholic Writers Guild, and sci-fi is her usual milieu, but this nonfiction title of hers appeals to me. ”Light spiritual exercise,” says the description on Amazon, so it’ll be a supplement to Lenten reading rather than the main course. I’m looking forward to it.
Of a different style is Cardinal Newman’s Meditations and Devotions, which I’ve been reading this year during Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Each chapter is fairly short, but contains enough food for thought and prayer that I read only a single one each time I pick up the book.
A new addition to my pro-life bookshelf is Melissa Ohden’s Abortion Survivors Break Their Silence. This is a difficult topic, but an important one: what happens when a child survives a procedure intended to end the child’s life? The book is filled with the stories of such survivors, who have come to terms with their experience in different ways. See my full review.
Ellen Kolb 