Through Christ Our Lord / Gerard Mackrell

Prayer is the very heart of the Christian life, but for many there appear to be insuperable obstacles to making it fully a part of their own life.

Using the Gospels to illuminate the experience of prayer, Gerard Mackrell shows us how the difficulties may be overcome. In one of the most significant pieces of contemporary spiritual writing, he brings the Jesus of the New Testament into intimate relationship with today’s Christian.

This is a book that addresses the depths of our need. Understanding fully our situation, it shows how we can work through guilt, suffering and forgiveness to be at one with Jesus in prayer.

Gerard Mackrell writes with deep insight and presents new ways of praying with and through Scripture. This is a book rooted in deep prayer and profound experience of people, of their pain, and of the longing for God.

Gerard Mackrell is a Montfort Missionary Father, with long experience in teaching and in parish work. He has been headmaster, head of religious education and university chaplain. He is now engaged in pastoral work, and gives retreats and missions.

 “Opens up prayer and the Scriptures wonderfully well.” Gerald O’Collins SJ