Cartas de Dios para ti

A book parishes give to parents to help them prepare for their child's Baptism. Although the purchaser is the parish, the back cover copy will address the parents.

" Forja es un libro de fuego, cuya lectura y meditación puede meter a muchas almas en la fragua del Amor divino, y encenderlas en afanes de santidad y apostolado. Con 1055 puntos de meditación, distribuidos en trece capítulos (...), Forja acompaña al alma en el recorrido de su santificación, desde que percibe la luz de la vocación cristiana hasta que la vida terrena se abre a la eternidad (...). Me atrevo a asegurarte, amigo lector, que si tú y yo nos metemos en esa forja del Amor de Dios, nuestras almas se harán mejores (...). San Josemaría Escrivá nos guiará por los caminos de la ...

It is approved by the Conference of the Mexican Episcopate and confirmed by the Congregation for the Divine Cult and Discipline of the Sacraments (Rome). On the cover it has a beautiful drawing by Fray Gabriel Chavez de la Mora. This cover, with the two rings intertwined before the cross--represents the vows of love with which a new Christian family is formed. The same drawing also alludes to the weddings of Cana, where the Lord did his first miracle of turning water into wine.

Max Lucado has assembled a collection of moving portraits of historical moments when the real God met people with real pain. The message is that God moves the stones we can't budge.