Lovve Set Free

Meditations on Christ's Passion

By: Martin L. Smith

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Paperback | 30 July 2014

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Love is always ringing in our ears, but when is it not mixed up with something else? Love and the desire to possess, love and the need to control, love and the need to be needed, love and the lust to absorb, love and condescension, love and narcissism.In this short book of mediations on the Passion according to Saint John, Martin L. Smith shows how in the Christian mystery love itself must be crucified, must die to be reborn as the grace of communion, as love set free.Through the simple pledging of Mary to the beloved disciple and of him to her, the author of the fourth gospel takes the new commandment to love one another and places it directly in the vortex of death and self-offering. By doing so, he squeezes every remaining drop of sentimentality out of our understanding of love.In a mysterious sign the evangelist points to the new home of the beloved disciple as the place where this has happened, the household from which the church's authentic identity has its origin.

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'Fresh insights and emphases, which the reader will need take time to assimilate ... The final meditation on the silence of the tomb is very moving ... This book will repay quiet and prayerful study. It is pre-eminently suitable for Lent reading and meditation.' -- Martin SSF Vol. 24 No. 3 'Smith's insights ... all made me stop and think. It would be easy to read this book quickly, but to do so would be a waste. It would be a fine companion for a Lenten retreat or quiet day, or daily reading for Holy Week.' -- Len Driver

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