This is a powerful, first-hand account of a religious ministry that reaches out to console, heal, and build the lives of poor and desperate immigrants who come to the United States in search of a better life.

My desire is that this book may help readers to know more fully the God of biblical revelation and, as a result, to proclaim God as the God of life. Who is God? Where is God? How are we to speak of God? Gutierrez looks at these classic questions through a review of the Bible, and his answers challenge all Christians to a deepening of faith.

After twenty years, We Drink from Our Own Wells remains a classic expression of Latin American spirituality by a pioneer of liberation theology. Starting from St.Bernard of Clairvaux's counsel to root spirituality in one's own experience, Gustavo Gutierrez outlines the contours of a spirituality rooted in the experience of the poor and their stuggle for life. His aim is to reflect on the contemporary "road to holiness" - the passage of a people "through the solitude and dangers of the desert, as it carves out its own way in the following of Jesus Christ. This spiritual experience is the...

Renowned Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutierrez opens up the riches of scriptures as they unfold through the liturgical year. Covering all three cycles (A, B and C), Gutierrez offers penetrating reflections on each of the Sunday lectionary readings. He constantly stresses the biblical themes of liberation and love, and points to the challenges inherent in living the life of faith in our own times.This book will fill a long-felt need, at a time when the authority and relevance of preaching is coming under the spotlight. It combines, uniquely, the profound thinking of a theological giant with...

Since the 1973 publication of Gustavo Gutierrez's groundbreaking work A Theology of Liberation, liberation theology's central premise of the preferential option for the poor has become one of the most important yet controversial theological themes of the twentieth century. As the situation for many of the world's poor worsens, it becomes ever more important to ensure that the option for the poor remains not only a vibrant theological concept but also a practical framework for living out the gift and challenge of Christian faith. The Preferential Option for the Poor beyond Theology draws on a...