Description

Lent is a season in which we deepen our friendship with Christ. In this five-week retreat, Fr Philip Caldwell invites us to contemplate friends of Jesus from the Gospels – some well-known like His Mother, Mary and the Beloved Disciple, others often overlooked like Nicodemus and Zacchaeus – in order to come to know Him more clearly and love Him more dearly ourselves.

Through biblical meditations, reflective questions, and suggested Scripture passages, this book provides a structured yet flexible guide for personal devotion or group study. Rooted in prayerful contemplation, Friends of Jesus encourages us to discover a Friend who invites us to His table to drink His wine, who washes our feet, lies peacefully next to us, is with us in fear and darkness, dies forgiving us and rises to say He will be with us always.