As a priest and a physician, Richard Frechette has known the body, heart, and soul of people in the most anguishing of circumstances

Foreword Introduction 1. The God of Rough Places 2. The Christ of Burnt Men 3. The Transfiguration of Barnabas 4. A Tale of Two Tragedies 5. On the End of the World (and Other Chances to Renew the Face of the Earth) 6. The Tiny Mustard Seed and the Ferocious Gates of Hell 7. The Deceased Pope and the Risen Christ 8. The Children of Cain ... and Other All Souls to Be 9. Jonah Under the Withered Tree 10. The Presentation of the Lord and the Art of Un-Kidnapping (A Celebration of Light) 11. Good Fridays, Bad Choices Voodoo and the Passion of Christ 12. To Eulogize a Saint: The Life and Death of Fr. William Bryce Wasson 13. Keeping Sabbath 14. The Thirteenth Day of Christmas 15. Crown of Thorns 16. Last Supper in the Shadows 17. Fr. Bill Wasson Remembered, for Forever and a Day 18. Assumption into Earth (On the Burial of Hundreds of Destitute Dead) 19. St Nicholas and the Antichrist 20. The Land of Milk and Honey Conclusion