Why a book about Saint Maria Skobtsova? Because Saint Maria Skobtsova highlights the "scandal" of the Christian mystery through her life and radical theological discourse, in all its disarming and innovative "paradoxality."

Saint Maria of Paris, as she is also known, brings a testimony that the contemporary Orthodox Christian – and not only that – absolutely and unequivocally needs. This testimony concerns a God whose love knows no bounds, a God who does not "settle" for preconceptions and conventions, a God who knows how to surprise and astonish, in short, a biblically-living God!

The words of Saint Maria are prophetic; the saint listens perceptively to the divine will for the here and now of humanity. Whose humanity? The humanity of today, which wants to live in the present, which does not live in yesterday, does not dream of "past glories."

The discerning gaze of the saint is focused on the essential and thus overturns the certainty of habit, the shackles of traditionalism, and the comfort of the "Self," opening the reader to the infinite horizons of the "Truly Other."