Kicking the Nails is a collection of intense monastic and ascetic life, great missionary experience, intense pastoral work and fiery empathy, during a long period of more than sixty years.

With their immovable center the Living Cross of the Lord, they turn with wholehearted interest to the wounded human face in society, in time and above all in its eternal perspective.
The critical turning point of the life of Saul in the resurrected life of the Apostle of the Nations, Saint Paul, seems to have sealed like a red-hot seal the course of the Elder Anthony, giving his reflection a sense of urgency in relation to the (re)evangelization of the world - the re-evangelization of the "Christian" life.