This book is a unique and profound theological meditation on the nine months the God-man spent in His Virgin Mother's womb. Drawing on Christian philosophy, poetry, liturgy, as well as the Fathers and great theologians of the Church, Saward shows that faith in the Incarnation commits the believer inescapably to the defense of the unborn child. He invites the reader, in the light of Christ, to rediscover the beauty of his own, and every human being's, first few months of existence.

The first book of its kind, it invites every Christian to contemplate with renewed appreciation the mysteries of the life of Jesus. It shows the coherence and unity of the dogmatic faith and moral teaching of the Catholic Church.

"Carefully balancing theology and spirituality, the author takes his argument all the way from the 'revelation in the womb' to the 'revelation of Ethics', where the unborn Jesus not only reveals God but also human reality. Saward's essay is a manifest to life, of divine life in human reality ... from the very moment of their encounter."
- Fr. Johann Roten, S.M.
International Marian Research Institute

"A most unusual study and a contribution to Mariology of exceptional interest. Even more, it should prove to be an extraordinarily rich guide for meditation."
- Cardinal John J. O'Connor