The Home, the Christian home based on the sacramental grace of matrimony, was the theme of one of the last series of sermons preached by Fr Bede Jarrett, O.P., in America. That was in 1929, only a few months before Pius XI's great encyclical on Christian marriage delivered in Rome. Twenty-five years have passed since these sermons were first published and the welcome new edition of the book gives us an opportunity to look back over this epoch which has been characterized by so much discussion and theologizing on the of marriage. With the attack on marriage and the home to such intensity during this century it was inevitable that the Christian should have to think out his position anew in his defence of an intitution so central to his life as a human being and as a sharer in the life of God. During these last twenty-five years in particular there have been many theories which seemed to place the love and companionship of the married couple above that of the family, that is of the children.