The Triptych

Herein are collected three different works that, unique in their content and nature, nonetheless complement one another in creating a single image: a triptych like the three-paneled works of art often found above altars, serving as they do to nourish the minds, hearts, and prayer of believers. By gathering these books together here, I have humbly tried to offer a little triptych of word and contemplation. It is my hope that it may help to illustrate the central realities of our human existence bathed in the light of God's healing, redeeming, and transfiguring grace, and may aid in the work of the Holy Spirit who draws us to the center-point where all fulfillment is found in the everlasting embrace of the Blessed Trinity.

The books included in this collection are:

Sheltered Within Her Heart: 33 Days to Deeper Entrustment to Mary
Responding to the Thirst of God: 40 Days to the Heart of Love
Icon of the Father: 33 Days to Entrustment to Saint Joseph

We thus behold in this three-paneled image not only a reflection of the Triune nature of God, exploring in turn the revelation of the profound work of the Spirit in the Virgin Mary, the countenance and the holiness of Christ, and the icon of the heavenly Father in Joseph of Nazareth. But we also see how the nature of God as Love is reflected and manifest at the heart of human communion, at the heart of the Holy Family and the heart of the Church, God's ever-enduring and grace-born holy family. In this family we are all carried by the current of his saving tenderness toward the consummation of the new creation that awaits us at the end of time, when God shall be all in all and the entire cosmos shall be introduced into the very heart of the eternal intimacy of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.