A Generous Openness:: Praying the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius. - Softcover

Charlotte Prather

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0932506852 ISBN 13: 9780932506856

Publisher: St Bede's Publications,U.S., 2002

Synopsis

One woman's personal account of Saint Ignatius' "Spiritual Exercises" in her own prayer life. "This book is the result of an improbable friendship," she admits from the outset, "Mine with St. Ignatius Loyola." The book grew out of a 30-day retreat the author took away from her busy life as a wife, theology student in pastoral education, translator and mother of two little boys. Yet "nothing had prepared me for the experience. I had thought this would be a nice "project" for Lent. Lent began and ended, but the project went on, and radically changed my way of seeing things. In a sense I never finished them. They have become a part of me, the meditations being a kind of horizon against which I can see and reflect upon the course of my life, and to which I return again and again."

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Review

"A Generous Openness is a true gift to all who seek a deeper life of faith and prayer. . . . it invites readers to a discovery of God's love in the everyday experiences of both the beauty and the suffering of our world."----David Hollenbach, S.J., "Boston College "

Edition details

• Publisher: St Bede's Publications,U.S.
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0932506852
• ISBN 13: 9780932506856
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112