This dramatic and involving story is also a profound meditation on the Lord of the Millennia - Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever. It charts the impact of Christ on some of the people who knew him, in the hectic circumstances of their everyday lives.
In Trimming's previous book, Abigail and the Widow Mary, the focus was on the impact which Our Lord had on children, and the story was told from their perspective. This time Trimming turns his attention to the house at Bethany, the home of Our Lord's close friend Lazarus. As the tragic and glorious events of the last six months of His ministry unfold - from the raising of Lazarus to the Ascension - Martha and Mary and the other members of Lazarus' household have their lives changed forever by their encounter with the Master.
The Biblical record, the cultural milieu and the historical background have all been extensively researched, and Trimming's deeply moving story, hailed by the Catholic Herald as "a novel with a profoundly religious purpose", is charged with a startling freshness and immediacy.
| "Full of action and with … a fine attention to detail, The Face of the Nazarene is also a gentle and sensitive account of Our Lord's final weeks on earth." |
| The Sower, April 1998. |
The Face of the Nazarene, by Noel Trimming.
157 pages, paperback. ISBN 1 901157 90 3.
£7.95 ; $16.95 in the U.S.A.
Published by The Saint Austin Press.
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Another book by Noel Trimming retells Gospel stories from the perspective of children who would have been involved in them. Click here to find out more about ABIGAIL AND THE WIDOW MARY by Noel Trimming.