Many Catholics feel their faith slipping away - not because they have stopped believing, but because they have stopped feeling it. Prayer is dry. Mass seems routine. The inner warmth that once made the faith feel alive has quietly drained away. And so they conclude, with sadness, that something must be wrong with them.

A Month of Virtue: Faith begins by correcting that conclusion - and the correction is the most consoling thing this book offers: what you are feeling is not the loss of faith. It may be faith in its purest and most demanding form.

Over thirty short daily readings, this traditional Catholic devotional forms the virtue of faith as the Church has always understood it: not as a feeling of religious certainty, but as the intellect's firm assent to all that God has revealed - held on His word alone, sustained even in darkness, exercised even in dryness. Drawing on the saints who have walked exactly this road - Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Saint John of the Cross, Saint Th