Juan Luis Lorda, professor of the School of Theology at the University of Navarra, has renewed his book The Sign of the Cross, with a collection of sonnets on the Passion of Christ and the rhymed translation of some classic Eucharistic hymns, such as 'Adoro te devote'. "The Sign of the Cross," he says, "is conceived as a book of meditation. With brief and lively considerations, it involves the reader in the mystery of the passion, death and resurrection of Christ".

"It is an attempt to delve into the surprising paradox of the Lord's Cross, where we are given the keys to discover the depth of divine love, the gravity of sin and the meaning of human suffering," explains the author in the prologue.

Professor Lorda points out that the new sonnets "maintain this intimate and poetic tone and go through the scenes of the Passion up to the joy of the Resurrection. It is a timely companion for the Lenten season and the preparation of Holy Week".

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Juan Luis Lorda.

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Juan Luis Lorda holds a degree in Industrial Engineering and a Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Navarra. On the campus teaching a professor at the School of Theology, the Ecclesiastical School of Philosophy the Institute of Anthropology and Ethics. He is also a member of group research , Reason, and Faith research group and theadvisor committee advisor catechesis the Spanish lecture , and a contributor to religious media, cultural journals, and the daily press. He is the author of several textbooks and theological and humanistic essays, including Theological Anthropology; Toward a Christian View of Man; Christian Anthropology; To Be Christian; Morality, the Art of Living; Humanism, The Invisible Goods; and Humanism II, Tasks of the Spirit.