It might seem unseasonal to blog about Caryll Houselander’s The Way of the Cross after Easter (Gracewing/Angelico Press, £5.95); my justification is that some people make this devotion on Fridays throughout the year, in memory of Good Friday. First published in 1955, the year after her death, The Way of the Cross is one of those spiritual books that deserves to stay in print, partly because of its author’s intensely personal and original approach to the stations of the Via Dolorosa and partly because of the stark simplicity of her roundel black and white woodcut illustrations.
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Why the Via Crucis is not just for Lent
it might seem unseasonal to blog about caryll houselander’s the way of the cross after easter (gracewing/angelico press, £5.95); my justific...
Francis Phillips
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