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His theological reflection vivifies doctrine by seeking its roots in the words and actions of Jesus..
He uses numerous quotes from the Fathers and the Liturgy of the Church to demonstrate the way the Tradition has lived and read the Word of God.
Leiva comments on the Greek text, demonstrating nuances in the text that defy translation.
The goal of the book is to help the reader experience the heat of the divine heart/the light of the divine Word.
Leiva\'s work is scholarly but eminently approachable by the lay reader.
Each short meditation comments on a verse or two, pointing to some facet of the text not immediately apparent, but rich with meaning.
The lay reader can derive great profit from reading this.
In his second Volume of Meditations on Matthew (chapters 12-18), Erasmo Leiva shows Matthew\'s prose to be not terse so much as economical--astoundingly so given its depth.
Matthew\'s Gospel can seem a terse narrative, almost a historical document and not the tremendously spiritual (and doctrinal) storehouse that it is.
To the unstudied eye, St
