Our Days are Numbered: Getting Ready for Eternity Cardinal Van Thuan through the solid Christian understanding

through the solid Christian understanding of the human person—body and soul—how we can rise above it all

on his contribution to the renewal of the liturgy (specifically of the Roman Missal) since the Second Vatican Council

Then he explains the doctrinal bases of the titles given to Our Lady in the Litany of Loreto: Mystical Rose

longtime prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship

It reveals how the pope viewed all the significant events in the life of the Church and in European and world events of the last two decades of the twentieth century

Our Days are Numbered: Getting Ready for Eternity Cardinal Van Thuan through the solid Christian understandingThat Jesus would return after his ascension and would judge all men and women individually was taken literally by the earliest Christians. How this was understood and practiced, and how it still needs to be taken into account by modern day believers, remains a compelling story in todays world. For these Christians, when their end times would arrive did not matter so much as the response they took toward their eventual death and judgement. Georges