There are times when the light delays its coming. When days stretch on in a uniform grey, and nights seem thicker than usual. There are moments when we study, when we teach, when we search — with the quiet intuition that something is there, near at hand, yet still veiled. April is the season of passage: between winter and spring, shadow and light, what fades and what begins. Nothing is yet visible, and yet everything is already in bud. The sap is rising once more. And weary or anxious spirits begin to stir again, gathering new momentum.

Christ the Physician, by Marc Mitri, explores the figure of Christ as a healer in the light of Gregory of Nyssa. Combining patristic tradition with contemporary issues, this book, prefaced by Marie-Anne Vannier, reinterprets salvation as the complete restoration of the human being.