In the present volume, Adrienne von Speyr meditates on eternity and eternal life. The entryways, or “gates,” to the mystery are manifold for her: the Church year, faith, the sacraments, ordination and consecration, the contemplation of the Trinity, and prayer. The book fittingly ends with the theme of adoration, which, as Adrienne herself writes, “unites the prayers of the Old Covenant with the words of the Son and also with those of the saints and of the entire Church. Such a unity towers above the individual person at prayer and could never be reached by him, even in the most intense and ardent prayer; its ultimate purpose is to draw man along the path to eternal life” (from “The Presence of Eternal Life”).