Arouca Press is pleased to announce that they are now accepting pre-orders for their new sewn hardcover edition of Cardinal Bacci's Meditations For Each Day. Ships out from the United States in late September. This edition is only available via Arouca Press. International customers (outside the US & Canada) can purchase the book.
Trim size: 5 x 7 (smaller than our previous edition)
Pages: 690
· Sewn Binding; Sections are sewn together for greater strength, flexibility, and durability.
· Hardcover; A sturdy casebound volume suitable for frequent handling throughout the year.
· Newly Typeset; A clean, readable interior prepared especially for this new edition.
· Thick Paper Stock gives the volume an attractive and traditional feel.
· Ribbon Marker; One bound-in ribbon allows the reader to retain the current day’s meditation.
Originally published in Italian in 1959 and in an English translation in 1965, this book consists of a series of simple but beautiful daily meditations written by the eminent Latinist Antonio Cardinal Bacci, who served the Holy See as one of its principal Latinists for more than forty years.
Cardinal Bacci ranges across the great principles of the Catholic spiritual life, drawing from Sacred Scripture, the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, the writings of the saints, and the perennial wisdom of Catholic tradition. Particular attention is given to St. Thomas Aquinas, while numerous passages from Thomas à Kempis’s The Imitation of Christ and other trusted spiritual authors enrich the meditations.
Written with clarity, warmth, and doctrinal precision, these reflections are suitable both for structured daily meditation and for quiet spiritual reading. Each entry offers the reader a concise point of doctrine, a practical application, and matter for prayer.
Antonio Cardinal Bacci (1885–1971) was born in Giugnola, Italy, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1909. Already renowned as a Latinist, he was summoned to Rome in 1922 to serve in the Secretariat of State.
He became Secretary of Briefs to Princes in 1931 and was created a cardinal by Pope John XXIII in 1960. He was among the twentieth-century Church’s foremost defenders of Latin and participated in all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council. He is perhaps most well-known to traditional Catholics for co-signing the “Ottaviani Intervention.”
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