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sarahareinhard's review
4.0
Groome is a college professor, and I thought that perhaps he and I would duke it out as I read the book. I couldn’t help but look at the title itself, with what look like scare quotes, and wonder what his problem was.
“My hope with this text,” he writes in the prelude, “is to help shift the reader’s consciousness, as needed, to first associate being ‘Catholic’ with living as a disciple of Jesus Christ, the whole intent of its spirituality.” He doesn’t mince words, and this isn’t a book to tackle lightly. I found it a challenging read, because Groome isn’t just positing nice things but is also defining terms and reshaping how we approach a topic.
We hunger for God. But what does that mean, beyond just a twinge in our spiritual gut? Exploring it point by point, Groome gives us a series of classes that may serve to reshape how we live our lives.
“My hope with this text,” he writes in the prelude, “is to help shift the reader’s consciousness, as needed, to first associate being ‘Catholic’ with living as a disciple of Jesus Christ, the whole intent of its spirituality.” He doesn’t mince words, and this isn’t a book to tackle lightly. I found it a challenging read, because Groome isn’t just positing nice things but is also defining terms and reshaping how we approach a topic.
We hunger for God. But what does that mean, beyond just a twinge in our spiritual gut? Exploring it point by point, Groome gives us a series of classes that may serve to reshape how we live our lives.
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