"A Book of Hours" is a departure for Father Lee - a personal
memoir, cast in the form of a secular breviary, that recreates a
year Father Lee spent teaching at an American college campus in
Rome over a quarter century ago. The book draws together in an
intricate web of refracting relationships the three great loves of
Father Lee's life: opera, literature, and his life and work as a
priest. A Eurorail pass allowed him to visit all the great opera
houses of Europe, which in turn reflected on his teaching in the
classroom during the week: Homer and Virgil, Whitman and Rilke. And
all of this is set in the context of a personal crisis - impending
hearing loss, theological doubts, and the celibate's inevitable
regret, at age forty, that he cannot share his remaining years with
children of his own. In this inspiring and beautifully crafted
book, Father Lee shows us how religious faith and a deeply
humanistic culture need never be enemies, but rather can be a
source of mutual enrichment.
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