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We are pleased to announce the publication of a new e-book, “Resurrection Is Now”, by Dom Aelred Watkin OSB. This book has long been out of print in physical form and we have had many requests for it as an e-book.

This book, rigorously reasoned but with a keen poetic sensibility, shows how death is not only an end but a beginning, and how to live life as a preparation for death and resurrection.

Dom Aelred Watkin (1918-1997) was a wise and respected Head Master of Downside from 1962 to 1975. 

Dom Aelred wrote little, preferring to communicate with a live audience, so “Resurrection is Now” is a rare opportunity to benefit from his understanding. A learned man, Dom Aelred nevertheless wears his learning lightly, and the reader will find something enlightening on almost every page.

“All, even the most superficial, have at times felt that there is something ‘other’, something ‘further’, something ‘beyond’ ordinary experience; have had the feeling that the whole of what we are or would be is not realised in the situation in which we find ourselves; have come to the conviction that ‘more’ and ‘better’ exist beyond what we have experienced hitherto. Just as children in the murmur of a shell held up to the ear listen to the swell and surge of the sea, so we, from time to time, seem to catch echoes and intimations of a life, a vigour and a meaning which exist beyond familiar sights and sounds. Even in ecstatic happiness we sense that there is something more, something not yet attained; in sorrow we are aware poignantly of so much that apparently has been held from us….”

The cover photograph shows Dom Aelred’s grave in the monastic graveyard at Downside. Please pray for the repose of his soul and of all those who rest there. His contemporaries are nearby. To his left, in the foreground, is Dom Laurence Kelly, first a housemaster and then the Chaplain of the school, a confessor of unrivalled skill and discernment. To his right, in the background, is Dom Denis Agius, housemaster of the Junior House and responsible for easing new boys into the life of a big school.

If you already have one of the Universalis apps or programs, you can use the Daily Books feature to read this book in instalments day by day. Otherwise you can buy the e-book, as follows.

Price: £4.99 (UK) and similar prices worldwide.

Kindle: Get it from Amazon UK · USA · Australia · Brazil · Canada · France · Germany · India · Italy · Japan · Mexico · Netherlands · Spain

ePub: · Get it on Apple Books