Therese's road was one of suffering, spiritual childhood, abandonment to the benevolence of the Lord, trials of faith, periods of painful spiritual barrenness, and a life devoted entirely to love and to the Church.
As spiritual guide and director, Teresa of Avila placed prayer at the centre of the relationship between the human person and God. She is best known for her mysticism, but this volume presents the many other kinds of prayer that sustain us over the course of our lives.
15 Days of Prayer with Saint Alphonsus Liguori is one of twenty titles in the series 15 Days of Prayer with.... This series provides an introduction to spiritual masters of both modern and historical times and gives the reader an opportunity to participate in a spiritual conference with a great teacher-if only through the pages of a book. Each volume contains a brief history of each spiritual guide, an itinerary for each of the fifteen days, an invitation for reflection in each chapter, and a bibliography at the end of the book.
These selections, taken from the diary that her spiritual director encouraged her to keep, relate St Faustina Kowalska's mystical experiences, and convey the spirituality she drew from love for the Eucharist and reinforced through trust in the love of God.
The Little Flower Prayerbook is a vintage manual of prayers combined with a treasury of St. Therese's spiritual writings that showcases the wisdom and contemplation she achieved in her short lifetime. Originally published in 1926 and faithfully re-typeset by TAN Books, The Little Flower Prayerbook: A Carmelite Manual of Prayers is an introduction to the time-honored Carmelite prayers and devotions that St. Therese herself practiced during her lifetime. Features Include: Morning and Evening Prayers, Acts of Faith, Daily Prayers Devotions for Confession and Benediction Extraordinary Form of the Mass Devout Exercises for Every Day of the Week Novena to Our Lady of Mount Carmel Scapular Devotions Spiritual Writings of St. Therese And so much more . . . Perfect for devotees of the Little Flower, Third Order Carmelites, and all those who wish to follow the Little Way.
Teresa of Avila was declared a doctor of the church because of her reform efforts, the profundity of her writings about the spiritual life, and her dynamic faith and love. With her ability to combine common sense and deep mysticism, Teresa shows us what it means to be persons alive in our own culture who enter into the depths of our own life and heart and find God there.
Dorothy Day connected radical faith with doing radical deeds. Beginning from her discovery of God in the Word when she was eight years old, Michael Boover shares Dorothy’s reflections about her pilgrimage to the daily discipline of readiness and openness to God in her life, especially to God in her neighbor. He shares her words on why and how she prays, on her preference for frequent confession, on her intentional choice of suffering and poverty, and on her desire to imitate the saints and to make sanctity the norm of everyone’s life. In these 15 days, we see how Dorothy’s discipline gave her true freedom. In particular, it allowed her to give priority to Love – to take the most direct route to God by loving her neighbor. She recognized “the paucity of her own best spiritual efforts and took refuge in the fact that God would do for believers what they could not fully do for themselves.” Boover’s practical exercises emulate Day’s own temperament. They push you to live with more integrity and deeper love, and they show a deep compassion for the difficulty of the challenge.
These inspirational treasures from five of the giants of Christian spirituality weave each of the spiritual master's own words into 15 days of prayer, conversation, and deepening interaction and revelation.Written from a perspective designed to emulate a personal encounter, each work transports readers to the locale of a retreat or spiritual conference where they may benefit from the personal company of the respective spiritual leader. By providing readers with an inside look at each revered figure, this collection fosters heightened understanding and creative interpretation, and transcends the typical "second-person" approach of most spiritual literature.
Now, take the wisdom and holiness of Saint Thérèse wherever you go. In 30 Days with Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Thomas J. Craughwell packs the wisdom of Saint Thérèse and the scriptures into a 30-day devotional.
Lovely short anecdotes from the lives of the Saints, showing us in a warm, encouraging and inspiring way the importance of prayer and the ease with which we can all derive great benefits therefrom, without yet being Saints ourselves. Covers the meaning of the basic Catholic prayers; plus, the Mysteries of the Rosary and the wonders of the Mass. Written for all and all should read it.