FR. Vincent McNabb, O.P., is something of an unknown quantity even to those familiar with his name. For some he is a peripheral figure, the confidant and confessor of Hilaire Belloc and inspiration to G. K. Chesterton (at whose deathbed he sang the Salve Regina), but visible only as an occasional companion in their lives. He seems to many something of a shadowy figure, enigmatic--even elusive.This book, The Wayside, gives its reader a chance to know better this man of prayer, of contemplation and of action--and that is good because, writing as he always did of eternal verities, he has a lot to say to this age, and indeed to every age.

-- From the Foreword by Michael Hennessy

Foreword by Michael Hennessy

Preface

• The Riches of Ritual
• The Fulness of Time
• Rome of the Pagans: An Impression
• Rome of the Christians: An Impression
• On Candlesticks
• Harnack and History
• The Romance of Religion
• Post-Impressionism
• On Miracles
• The Place of Fear
• Points of View
• Jane Seedcombe, Woolweaver
• An Innocent
• The Love of Jesus: A Point of Apologetic
• The Drama of Creation
• The Home of Song
• The White Swan of St. Hugh
• The Dumb Ox of Thought
• The Creator Child
• The Pensées of Pascal
• The Great Sacrament (Preface to a Casus Conscientiae)
• St. Thomas as a Controversialist