This delightful book is made up of thirty short chapters, each with a story, sometimes a very human one but which shows the importance of a particular virtue in each case. In the foreword the author begins by reminding us that the human virtues constitute the foundation for the supernatural virtues and quotes the Catechism of the Catholic Church which teaches the importance of the human virtues as “the fruit and seed of morally good acts; they dispose all the powers of the human being for communion with divine love”.

 

Fr. Mandia is a priest based in Macau. The book is a compilation of thirty articles written over a period between 2016 and 2017. Each one is short but packs a punch.