Personal Prayer: A Guide for Receiving the Father’s Love
Overview
Prayer is at the heart of the Christian life. Given that we are weak and even sinful human beings, how can it be that God has anything to do with us? What does it mean to have a personal relationship with God? Why is God so silent and hidden? How do we grow in prayer?
Personal Prayer: A Guide for Receiving the Father’s Love brings the depth of human experience together with the Catholic tradition of prayer to present the path to an intimate and vulnerable relationship with God.
Experienced spiritual directors Fr. Thomas Acklin, OSB, and Fr. Boniface Hicks, OSB, explore the many forms of Catholic prayer and demonstrate that vulnerability is essential to growing in relationship with God. Rich with the wisdom of Scripture, Catholic teaching, and the writings of the saints, Personal Prayer is an exhaustive guide for priests, religious, and laity desiring to receive the Father’s love in a profoundly personal way.
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- Contains a practical guide for learning how to pray
- Invites in nn eloquent, intimate, and deeply persuasive way to seek out a personal relationship with the Father
- Contemplates the dimention of prayer and gives a deeper understanding in the relationship between God and man
- Human and Divine Relationship
- Experiencing Prayers as a Relationship
- Silence and Prayer
- Praying in Loving Faith
- Praying to a Hidden God
- Poverty
- Liturgical Prayer: Mass, Other Sacramentos, Liturgy of the Hours
- Prayer with Word and Sacrament
- Devotional Prayers
- Charismatic Prayers
- Then We Sall Be like Him
In a sense, this is a ‘how to’ book of the best sort: a simple, practical guide for learning how to pray. But it’s also vastly more than that: An eloquent, intimate, and deeply persuasive invitation to seek out a personal relationship with the Father who made us, and to master the art of immersing ourselves in the love of God.
—Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Philadelphia
Personal Prayer is one of the finest contemporary books on prayer. . . . I would highly recommend this book to anyone who hungers for deeper communion with the Blessed Trinity.
—Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Bishop of Phoenix
I have no doubt that no matter who you are, or how much experience you have with prayer, this book will lead you deeper into prayer and into the heart of God.
—Dan Burke, President of the Avila Foundation for Spiritual Formation
This practical book will serve as a valuable guide for those who wish to grow in their life of prayer toward a deeper union with God. I pray that this book will bring many souls closer to God.
—Sr. Mary Grace, CP, Directress of Formation, Passionist Nuns, Our Lady of Sorrows Monastery, Pittsburgh
I believe this book will be helpful for all who pray and want to better understand the mystery of our relationship with God in prayer.
—Fr. Thomas Nelson, O. Praem, National Director of the Institute of Religious Life, Canon of St. Michael’s Abbey in Silverado, California