The Lord Holds Us by the Hand - Private HomiliesIn The Lord Holds Us by the Hand, we experience a different side of Joseph Ratzinger. This collection of private homiliesall delivered off the public record in small chapels, during his years as pope and pope emeritusreveals not a detached exegete, as his longtime secretary Archbishop Gnswein notes, but a Christian in lively participation with God. In these meditations, never before published in English, exegesis, theology, catechesis, and

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