15 Days of Prayer with Saint Teresa of Avila

15 Days of Prayer with Saint Teresa of Avila
Author: Jean Abiven
Publisher: New City Press
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2011
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1565483669

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

15 Days of Prayer with Saint Alphonsus Liguori
Author: Jean-Marie Segalen
Publisher: New City Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2001
Genre: Spiritual life
ISBN: 0764807145

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.

15 Days of Prayer with Saint Bernadette of Lourdes

15 Days of Prayer with Saint Bernadette of Lourdes
Author: Francois Vayne
Publisher: St. Francis of Assisi Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Spiritual life
ISBN: 9780764804939

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.

15 Days of Prayer with Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

15 Days of Prayer with Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
Author: Constant Tonnelier
Publisher: New City Press
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2011
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 156548391X

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.

15 days of Prayer with Saint Clare of Assisi

15 days of Prayer with Saint Clare of Assisi
Author: Jean Abiven
Publisher: New City Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2010-12-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1565483995

As spiritual guide and director, Teresa of Avila placed prayer at the center 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. She places steadfast trust in God as the cornerstone of a holy life, but insists upon intellectual engagement and good judgment, objectives this 15-day journey will help readers achieve. Teresa of Avila is a faithful mentor for anyone seeking a spiritual education. Saint Teresa of Avila, a 16th-century Carmelite nun and Doctor of the Church, withstood tremendous opposition to revive the primitive monastic rule and conditions of poverty, hardship and solitude for religious life. With Saint John of the Cross, Teresa became an influential spiritual director, leaving a legacy of classic writings that include The Way of Perfection and The Interior Castle, her most complete statement on prayer and contemplation.

15 Days of Prayer with Blessed Frédéric Ozanam

15 Days of Prayer with Blessed Frédéric Ozanam
Author: Christian Verheyde
Publisher: New City Press
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2013-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1565484878

15 Days of Prayer with Blessed Frederic marks the 200th anniversary of Ozanam's birth. Verheyde's meditations reflect the breadth of Ozanam's interests: his love for his family; his desire to proclaim the faith authentically.

15 Days of Prayer with Saint Faustina Kowalska

15 Days of Prayer with Saint Faustina Kowalska
Author: John J. Cleary
Publisher: New City Press
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2010
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1565483502

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.

15 Days of Prayer With Dorothy Day

15 Days of Prayer With Dorothy Day
Author: Michael Boover
Publisher: New City Press
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2013-12-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1565484916

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.

A Holy Life

A Holy Life
Author: Patricia A. Mceachern
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2010-12-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1681490102

While the story of the apparitions of Our Lady to Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes in 1858 are well known, relatively few people are familiar with the saint's own spiritual insights and profound holiness. For the first time in English, this book presents a wide selection of St. Bernadette's thoughts, advice, sayings, and prayers through the touching words of her spiritual diary, notes, and letters to friends and family. After receiving the visions of Our Lady at the grotto in Lourdes, Bernadette eventually became a religious sister as a member of the Sisters of Charity. She lived a life of simplicity, charity, suffering and deep holiness, dying at the age of 35. When she was canonized a saint, her body was found to be incorrupt. In these beautiful writings of St. Bernadette, we learn the secrets of her holiness and happiness. Though she suffered greatly throughout her life, the heroic response of this humble, self-effacing nun transformed excruciating suffering into spiritual fruitfulness. Her letters and writings serve as a model for others passing through their own trials. Her writings reveal and intimate and profound love for God and neighbor. Anyone pursuing a deeper spiritual life will appreciate knowing Bernadette as she truly was, and the inspiring spiritual works of wisdom she offers to us all.