Saint John

Meditation on the biblical texts of the Gospel according to Saint John, reflection by Delmira Maçãs, benefactor of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, comments written in the form of dialogue with the sacred text. In this volume of the collection titled Dialogues with the Gospels, Delmira Maçãs shares with readers a set of reflections that resulted from the reading of the Gospel of Saint John, a text from the New Testament that focuses on the profound meaning of the words and gestures of Jesus, with the aim of helping them "to also draw inspiration from the Holy Scripture," as clarified in the preliminary note to this work. These writings reveal Delmira Maçãs, a complex and contradictory personality who found in the blank pages her most stimulating confidant. It was on paper that she meticulously recorded the daily register of life, but also religious meditations, deep reflections scattered in numerous texts that she methodically preserved throughout her life. The books of Delmira Maçãs were published by Santa Casa in 2009, in fulfillment of the testamentary charge stipulated by the benefactor to the Misericórdia de Lisboa, the institution she chose as her heir: the publication of her personal writings, of an autobiographical nature, but also of a religious and literary character. This is a set of 16 volumes, organized into three collections: Biographical Notes – Steps to Death, Dialogue with the Gospels, and Miscellany.

Author: Delmira Maçãs
Collection: Dialogues with the Gospels

Year of publication: 2009
Publisher: SCML
ISBN: 9789728761516