To the unstudied eye, St.
Each short meditation comments on a verse or two, pointing to some facet of the text.
The lay reader can derive great profit from reading this.
In his third volume of Meditations on Matthew (chapters 19-25), Erasmo Leiva continues to show 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Matthew\'s Gospel can seem a terse narrative, almost a historical document and not the tremendously spiritual (and doctrinal) storehouse that it is.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