The Precious Blood, or, The Price of Our Salvation by Frederick William Faber, 362 pages
Fr Faber, best known as the author of the hymn "Faith of Our Fathers", wrote this devotional work on the subject of the Precious Blood of Jesus in 1860. A poet as well as a theologian, a parish priest as well as a hymnist, a friend of both Wordsworth and Bl John Henry Newman, Faber combines intelligence, eloquence, and empathy in his writing.
Faber finds in his exalted subject the principle of creation, incarnation, and redemption, and the binding unity of the three. This brings him into contact with the vast mystery of eternity, God's foreknowledge, and His suffering. His meditation ends where it began, with the reality of the total self-giving love of God as it is revealed in the shedding of His Most Precious Blood.
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