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A reviewer, an artist and reader of philosophy, July 12, 2004,  
Epic, important, timely
The Jade Chalice is a story crafted over forty years. It is a contemporary story which draws on events spanning 100 years and two continents. This story explores the depths of a man and his faith, a people and their government, and reaches a crescendo of sublime love between a man and a women. The Jade Chalice is written by a man who takes an unflinching look at the church he loves and teases apart the many threads that bind together contemprary church doctrine. Where does man's law end and God's begin? What is love? What is integrity? What are values to hold dear and artificial boundaries that destroy? These questions and more are taken hold of and looked at as one might explore the facets of a diamond. Read the first chapter, feel the cold wind ripping down a mountain pass and through a lone building and feel the way the author masters every element of story telling and you won't want to stop reading until you know the fate and faith of all those involved.
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A reviewer, film producer and director, July 12, 2004,
The Jade Chalice Scores a Triumph
The Jade Chalice runs the gamut of religious experience and attitude through clergy behavior and training. It shows how beliefs can direct a person's life toward good or evil. The development of characters, both American and Oriental, portrayed in the book make them real and lifesize in the imagination as they all move toward the explosive climax of The Jade Chalice. It has all the conflict for a great movie.
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Val Weaver, A reviewer, July 12, 2004,
A stunning love story
This book tells a stunning love story that explains so much of the confusion in the Church today. It shows how, no matter where life takes us, we have choices to make that sometimes rip us apart, but always have serious consequences. These characters could be anywhere or in any faith that seeks goodness. It would make a great movie.
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Dear Rudy:
The Jade Chalice is positively brilliant. Your painstaking historical research is to be applauded.
I read your compassionate book about the clergy of that particular era in two and one half days. Needless to say nothing was done at home.
You touched on sensitive topics that are so pertinent almost seventy years later.
I found myself wrapped up in the individual character's lives that you portrayed so sympathetically. The flashbacks were especially poignant
I read many passages with tears in my eyes and in my heart.
Jack will begin reading your book this week. Since he is such a history buff, he will enjoy reading about China in the thirties and forties....the China of our childhood.
I will encourage all of our friends to purchase THE JADE CHALICE. I know they will love it as much as I have.
Fondly, Roseanne
P.S. I would like you to autograph my copy when we meet again.
Fellow Author Pierrette Le Cafe de Cadix::
Having finished Rudolph J. Girandola’s 360-page The Jade Chalice I thought you would like to know what I thought of it. I knew as soon as I started reading The Jade Chalice that I was going to like it. But what I didn't realize was that I would soon love it!
In the very beginning the author mentions St Augustine of Hippo, a town later to be called BONE . Saint Augustine was a man who was born but a few miles from my birthplace in Algeria.. My interest started to peak right there. I , personally, always admired a Saint, who could implore our Lord daily by asking "God make me chaste-but not too soon!" Saint Augustine was certainly man after my own heart.
As I continued to read, The Jade Chalice only got better. I am absolutely amazed by the author’s outstanding knowledge of the inner workings of the Catholic Church. An understanding he no doubt acquired when he attended a Seminary for Theological studies for two years. But what is most striking about The Jade Chalice is the smooth, creative, poetic writing style of the book. Girandola mixes real historical facts with a fertile imagination. It is the kind of writing that many authors aspire to and hope to achieve. It is the kind of style I hope to emulate.
The Jade Chalice could surely have been made into two more books. It is filled with stories about the mores of the Protestant world, as well as the long and bloody history of China and the infiltration of the Communist party, under Mao Tse Tung whose cunning crowned him the Chairman of that unfortunate country.
Reading The Jade Chalice caused me to read rapidly like a child, who quickly rips out all of his packages at Christmas to see what was coming next in the package. I must confess that I read quickly so that I could find out immediately what was in store for our protagonists. However, I was not disappointed because now I shall have the pleasure of reading it all over again. It was that captivating. But this next time I will read very slowly to savor its scenes.
To say that I highly recommend Girandola’s book, The Jade Chalice, would be the proverbial-understatement of the year. Aside from its entertaining and riveting prose, I especially recommend it, to anyone who is looking to discover why we, as a Nation, now find ourselves in trouble in the Middle East. History certainly repeats itself. Indeed, it is why we now must defend our religious freedoms more then ever. That lesson is so well demonstrated in The Jade Chalice. So many have suffered and died, and are still dying, to preserve our religious freedoms today. Can the Catholic Church and all religions learn the lessons of the past? I sincerely hope so.
The answers to those questions and many more can be found in the pages of this truly wonderful and riveting book, The Jade Chalice. I loved it and I know you will, too.
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