The Journey Never Ends: How to Prepare a Spiritual Will - Softcover

Petrosky, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594718059 ISBN 13: 9781594718052

Publisher: Ave Maria Press, 2018

Synopsis

In the first book of its kind specifically for Catholics, theologian, spiritual director, and social worker Sr. Mary Petrosky, F.M.M., shows how a spiritual willa document that outlines your values, intentions, and hopes for the futurecan help you focus on whats most important in your life. As you grow older, it will be something youll want to share with those you love. The Journey Never Ends guides you through the process of preparing a spiritual will as an expression of your lifes intentions. If you are a Catholic or Christian of another background, you will find this a useful tool for creating the kind of life you want to live now in order to positively impact the world around you. In addition, like a traditional will, it will help you create a legacy for your family. She provides a variety of sample wills to illustrate various approaches you can take and in the final chapter of the book, guides you to write your own spiritual will with simple, clear, inspirational prompts and examples. Following the teachings of St. Francis of Assisi, who lived life with joy and welcomed his death with openness and optimism, Petrosky guides you in how to best appreciate the art of livingand the way of dying.|In the first book of its kind specifically for Catholics, theologian, spiritual director, and social worker Sr. Mary Petrosky, F.M.M., shows how a spiritual willa document that outlines your values, intentions, and hopes for the futurecan help you focus on whats most important in your life. As you grow older, it will be something youll want to share with those you love. The Journey Never Ends guides you through the process of preparing a spiritual will as an expression of your lifes intentions. If you are a Catholic or Christian of another background, you will find this a useful tool for creating the kind of life you want to live now in order to positively impact the world around you. In addition, like a traditional will, it will help you create a legacy for your family. She provides a variety of sample wills to illustrate various approaches you can take and in the final chapter of the book, guides you to write your own spiritual will with simple, clear, inspirational prompts and examples. Following the teachings of St. Francis of Assisi, who lived life with joy and welcomed his death with openness and optimism, Petrosky guides you in how to best appreciate the art of livingand the way of dying.

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Review:

"The Journey Never Ends responds to the hunger, shared by all of us, to be known intimately and authentically and serves as a reliable spirit guide for fellow pilgrims making their way, generation after generation, to the ones we love." --From the foreword by Thomas Lynch, Poet, essayist, and author of The Undertaking

"We have all been told to give away our lives, but few tell us how to give away our deaths just as generously. What a courageous and life-affirming idea! Mary Petrosky is your good guide here and in ways that you perhaps never imagined. One wonders why dozens of books have not been written on this very important subject." --Rev. Richard Rohr, O.F.M., Author of Falling Upward

"This is a small spiritual oasis amid the expansive modern secular desert. The enlivening questions Mary Petrosky asks reminds me of ones posited by Abraham Joshua Heschel. The themes she puts forth call to mind Henri Nouwen and Joyce Rupp. However, the suggestions made on how to write a 'spiritual will' are guided by her own life--born of more than sixty years as a woman religious committed to prayer, honesty, authenticity, and of course as a Franciscan, compassionate service. On a quiet evening or a break during the week please enter the oasis she has provided for you. This oasis book will help you not to miss what could be the heart of the remainder of your life and to become more keenly aware of the particular gift you are to others." --Robert J. Wicks, Author of Riding the Dragon

"It is joy to read Mary Petrosky's very accessible guide to planning a spiritual will. Her own religious life experience has shaped a beautiful volume with warm, elegant suggestions on how to organize the reader's plans for a prayerful legacy." --Anne H. McCormick, Trustee of the Thomas Merton Legacy Trust

"Mary Petrosky's book is a treasury of Franciscan wisdom about how looking ahead to a world where I will no longer be present can help me live more deeply in this world, live more alive to the beauty of life around me, live more deeply into the mystery of the God who grounds my being and invites me to a life of love." --William R. Burrows, Research Professor of Missiology, New York Theological Seminary

About the Author:

Sr. Mary Petrosky, F.M.M., is a psychiatric social worker and a spiritual director who has served her religious order--the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary--in the United States, Australia, and Papua New Guinea. She entered the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary community in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1951 and professed first vows in 1954. She earned her bachelor's degree in sociology from Emmanuel College (magna cum laude) in Boston and made her final vows in 1957. She earned a master's degree in psychiatric social work from St. Louis University in 1957 and a master's degree in systematic theology with an emphasis on spiritual direction from the Jesuit School of Theology in 1979. Petrosky has worked in family and child care in New York City and in Sydney, Australia. She founded a counseling center in Papua New Guinea and taught at Holy Spirit Seminary and Xavier Institute of Missiology. She has served in leadership roles for her order in Australia and Papua New Guinea and was provincial of the US Province. She has been at Holy Name of Jesus Convent in New York City, where she has been involved in spiritual direction and pastoral work, since 2003. She also serves in bereavement ministry at Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church. Thomas Lynch is an American poet, essayist, and funeral director. His essay collection, The Undertaking, won the American Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Br. F. Edward Coughlin, O.F.M., is president of Siena College in Albany, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ave Maria Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1594718059
• ISBN 13: 9781594718052
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96