Lenten Book Study

This year our Lenten book study, The Geometry of Love, will take us on a journey through the Church of St Agnes outside the Walls in Rome. Margaret Visser uses this building as an example of churches everywhere, describing section-by-section the spiritual and theological dimensions of the spaces in which we worship. If you would like to participate in the book study, please let Andrew know on or before Sunday, February 16 so copies can be ordered. Meeting times for the book study are TBD.

About The Geometry of Love: In the Geometry of Love, Margaret Visser takes one church, Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura in Rome, and tells us what it means. The book sets out to make this church—and at the same time any other church—more accessible to visitors. It is an attempt to give readers an inkling of the spiritual, cultural, and historical riches that any church offers.

The Geometry of Love is for people who are not satisfied with dates and measurements, or with texts that studiously avoid anything that might say what the building is about. "When certain beliefs are being expressed, I take them seriously and say what they are, because that is an indispensable part of the explanation. Sant'Agnese's is a building that is intentionally meaningful: it reveals itself most fully to people prepared to respond to its 'language' ". The Geometry of Love is on the best of the year lists for both The Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail. It was named number one best seller by Maclean's Magazine.