Spiritual Steps to Christmas
Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1953. First edition. Octavo, original green cloth, gilt spine, original dust jacket. About Fine. Item #1761
"CHRISTMAS IS THE FEAST OF THE HOME"
First edition of Spiritual Steps to Christmas, Monsignor Coogan's mid-century guide to the prepatory season of Advent. A lovely copy in the original decorated dust jacket.
The companion volume to Coogan's Forty Steps to Easter, this collection of daily meditations begins on the First Sunday of Advent and concludes on Christmas morning. Each "Thought a Day" ends with a short prayer. With the author's extended Dedication, "To the Holy Family," dated "Feast of the Sacred Heart / June 12, 1953." A lifelong New Yorker, Aloysius Coogan was a longtime official with the Archdiocese of New York. His Preface concludes: "Merry Christmas to you! May Christ and His Mother bless you by their presence because of your goodness in giving to them your will and understanding during these Advent days." Approbations.
Price: $50.00