The four Gospels tell only
part of the story of Christ's Passion.
Not Included are
background facts that provide
powerful context to the events
surrounding Jesus’ arrest,
trial, and crucifixion.
The Gospels were initially written for readers
already familiar with many of the persons,
places, parties, and politics that governed
events in those long-past days.
So many of these details are
unknown to modern readers, twenty
centuries later!
Which is why Fr. Ralph Gorman
has here crafted a single, unforgettable,
detailed account of Jesus' Passion from
Gethsemane to Golgotha.
He combines material from all four Gospels with critically-important Old Testament passages, plus relevant facts from Jewish and Roman history, laws, traditions, and practices.
Fr. Gorman also includes helpful first century military, political, geographical, and archaeological information and keen depictions of Gospel places based on his three years residence there.
The result?
A richly-textured, moment-by-moment account that brings to vivid life the powerful events that transpired between Jesus' Agony in the Garden and His death on the Cross. 
From The Last Hours of Jesus, you’ll
come to learn scores of new – and often
surprising – things, including:
- The exact moment that Satan entered Judas
- The dangerous political currents in Palestine that fueled the fatal events of Holy Week
- Why Jesus refused to answer many of His accusers
- Pontius Pilate: why he admired — but condemned — Jesus
- Why, so quickly, Palm Sunday’s “Hosannas” led to Good Friday’s“Crucify him!”
- Why, after His death, the Sanhedrin still feared Jesus
- And much more to enrich your knowledge, understanding, and love of Jesus
That’s a lot of important, new information – which
is why you might not want to read The Last Hours of Jesus
straight through, but just turn to one chapter a day
as spiritual reading before Mass or during Lent.
Either way, you’ll come to understand better
the malice of the crowds, the dismay and confusion
of Christ’s friends, and the speed with which
the deadly events unfolded.
Best of all, you’ll come to grasp anew the depths
of Christ’s love for you, awakening in you greater
devotion to Him than ever before.
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In the tumult and drama of Holy Week,
with its angry crowds and corrupt rulers,
its horrors and death, it’s sometimes easy
to lose sight of the simple goodness
of the Man at the center of it all.
Not only could Pilate, as he admitted,
“find no fault in this just man”;
there was no fault to be found.
For Jesus is the one man who was
truly and perfectly good.
In this new century, when each day brings us ever more salacious news about the evils of men and women, the life of Christ reminds us that goodness is not an illusion, holiness is worth striving for, and our existence has meaning and direction.
Jesus Christ – the Perfect Man that philosophers and storytellers have searched for since the dawn of history – was greater than storytellers have been able to imagine, more sublime than we had a right to hope.
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In this modest little book, The Good Galilean,
the holy bishop Alban Goodier highlights
for us the quiet goodness of Our Lord,
and in ways that place that goodness
within our reach, too.
In it, we walk with Jesus, see him talking, answering questions, healing and consoling the men and women who are drawn to him – and in ways that Bishop Goodier shows are possible for us, whoever we are and wherever we live.
You know, the saints demonstrate that it’s possible, by grace, to imitate the model of goodness Jesus has provided us; Bishop Goodier shows how to do it.
Love as Jesus taught it
was a new thing in the world.
Love as he practiced it made
the world another place.
Now, with the help of The Good Galilean,
it’s time for each of us to play our role in
restoring to our suffering world the goodness
purchased for it by Jesus.
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