Bitterness and Sweet Love: The Way of the Cross and other Lenten poems

This is a must-have collection for celebrating the season of Lent. Rita A. Simmonds offers unique, penetrating poetic reflections on the traditional Fourteen Stations of the Cross along with award-winning Lenten poems.


About the Author
Rita A. Simmonds is a three-time winner of the Best Original Poetry category at the annual Catholic Press Association Awards (2011, 2010, 2004), as well as a winner of numerous second and third place CPA awards. In 2012, fourteen of her poems were featured in the bestselling MAGNIFICAT YEAR OF FAITH COMPANION. In 2013, she published her first book of poems, SOULS AND THE CITY. Her poetry appears regularly in MAGNIFICAT.