Book Review: Refreshing Brevity: Review of “New Nazareths In Us”, by Julian Kwasniewski

Authors which manage to help us think for ourselves without burdening our minds with their own thoughts are quite refreshing. They open doors without dragging us through them; when the author has shown us something interesting, we find ourselves walking through of our own accord!

Such is New Nazareths In Us, a slim book of sermons and meditations published last year by a New England parish priest. Most of his meditations are barely a page and a half long. As he says in the foreword, “we are dealing, not with a legal brief or a position paper, but with relaxed, and yet reasoned, out-loud thinking. A meditation never pretends to be the last sayable word about anything.” That is one of the refreshing things about brevity. They, of themselves, are too short to exhaust: “the onus is on the reader—he must do his own thinking, teasing out for himself whatever true things may be waiting beneath the limitations of the written word.” …

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