House of Gold collects a brilliant series of sermons and lectures that the author, an English Dominican, gave in New York during Lent in 1930. The book is divided into three sections: homilies given at Sunday masses during Lent and Passiontide that deal with the Gospel readings of the day, weekly lectures about marriage and the family given on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays in Lent, and homilies for Holy Week, plus a discourse on the seven last words of Christ given on Good Friday. Jarrett's writing is highly readable and incredibly informative, which probably made his homilies highly listenable to as well when they were given. I particularly enjoyed the sermons in the first section, which gave me additional insights to the readings I had heard at mass that day (note that this only works with the extraordinary rite). Highly recommended. It is the perfect book Lenten reading. ( )