A noted spiritual writer seeks answers to life's big questions in the stories of the saints In All Saints---published in 1997 and already a classic of its kind---Robert Ellsberg told the stories of 365 holy people with great vividness and eloquence. In The Saints' Guide to Happiness, Ellsberg looks to the saints to answer the questions: What is happiness, and how might we find it? Countless books answer these questions in terms of personal growth, career success, physical fitness, and the like. The Saints' Guide to Happiness proposes instead that happiness consists in a grasp of the deepest dimension of our humanity, which characterizes holy people past and present. The book offers a series of "lessons" in the life of the spirit: the struggle to feel alive in a frenzied society; the search for meaningful work, real friendship, and enduring love; the encounter with suffering and death; and the yearning to grasp the ultimate significance of our lives. In these "lessons," our guides are the saints: historical figures like Augustine, Francis of Assisi, and Teresa of Avila, and moderns such as Dorothy Day, Flannery O'Connor, and Henri J. Nouwen. In the course of the book the figures familiar from stained-glass windows come to seem exemplars, not just of holy piety but of "life in abundance," the quality in which happiness and holiness converge.

The Saints' Guide to Happiness

Christian Books & Bibles

Ellsberg, Robert

Catholicism

NORTH POINT PRESS

“What is happiness and how can I find it?” may be one of the most frequently asked questions there is. Perhaps that’s because it is so hard to experience lasting happiness. In The Saints’ Guide to Happiness, Robert Ellsberg suggests that some of the best people to show us are holy men and women throughout history—from St. Augustine to Flannery O’Connor, Thomas Merton to St. Theresa of Avila and Mother Theresa. These people weren’t saints because of the way they died or their visions or wondrous deeds. They were saints because of their extraordinary capacity for goodness and love, which—in the end—makes us happy.

The Saints' Guide to Happiness: Practical Lessons in the Life of the Spirit

Self-Help

Happiness

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Since the early centuries, Christians have held up the saints as models of living the Gospel of Jesus Christ. While the church officially recognizes a relatively small number of saints, the actual roster is infinitely wider. Blessed Among Us explores this eclectic “cloud of witnesses”—lay and religious, single and married, canonized and not, and even non-Christians whose faith and wisdom may illuminate our path. Brought to life in the evocative storytelling of Robert Ellsberg, they inspire the moral imagination and give witness to the myriad ways of holiness. In two stories per day for a full calendar year, Ellsberg sketches figures from biblical times to the present age and from all corners of this world—ordinary figures whose extraordinary lives point to the new age in the world to come. Blessed Among Us is drawn from Ellsberg’s acclaimed column of the same name in Give Us This Day, a monthly resource for daily prayer published by Liturgical Press.

Blessed Among Us: Day by Day with Saintly Witnesses

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Liturgical Press

From Therese of Lisieux to Mother Teresa, from Moses to Gandhi, this inspiring treasury combines traditional saints with other spiritual giants whose livs speak to the meaning of holiness forever.

All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, & Witnesses for Our Time

Crossroad

This praised and best-selling daily reader presents short, comprehensive biographies of 365 saints and spiritual masters from Christianity and other faith traditions, including Mary Magdalene, Therese of Lisieux, Thomas Aquinas, Mother Teresa, Moses, Martin Luther, and Gandhi.

All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time

History

World

The Spanish version of the praised and best-selling daily reader All Saints presents short, comprehensive biographies of 365 saints and spiritual masters from Christianity and other faith traditions, including Mary Magdalene, Therese of Lisieux, Thomas Aquinas, Mother Teresa, Moses, Martin Luther, and Gandhi.

Todos los Santos: Reflexiones Diarias Sobre Santos, Profetas y Testigos de Nuestro Tiempo

Christian Living

The author of the bestselling All Saints offers a new book that focuses on female saints, presenting 120 inspirational readings from and twenty pieces of black-and-white art highlighting female women of God.

Blessed Among All Women: Women Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time

Community & Culture

The Crossroad Publishing Company

Winner of three Catholic Press Awards. The best-selling author of All Saints presents this new collection of devotional sketches on history’s greatest women. From Joan of Arc to Anne Frank to Mary Magdalene, Ellsberg offers insights into the lives of women that inspire us.

This praised and best-selling daily reader presents short, comprehensive biographies of 365 saints and spiritual masters from Christianity and other faith traditions, including Mary Magdalene, Therese of Lisieux, Thomas Aquinas, Mother Teresa, Moses, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Gandhi.

All Saints 25th Edition: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time

Religion & Spirituality

PublishDrive

For over sixty years The Catholic Worker has served as the organ of a movement that has joined the spirituality of the Gospels with a radical engagement in the pressing social issues of the twentieth century. Founded in 1933 by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, The Catholic Worker reflected the editors' day-to-day solidarity with the poor and commitment to nonviolent social change. This expanded edition of A Penny a Copy draws on writings from The Catholic Worker to provide a chronicle of this unique movement, its founding and growth, and its courageous grappling with such issues as poverty, homelessness, war, civil disobedience, as well as the Works of Mercy, the spirit of hospitality, community, and the editors' efforts to imagine and construct "a new society in the shell of the old."

A Penny a Copy: Readings from the Catholic Worker

Cornell, Thomas C.

Orbis Books

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The Saints' Guide to Happiness

The Saints' Guide to Happiness: Practical Lessons in the Life of the Spirit

Blessed Among Us: Day by Day with Saintly Witnesses

All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, & Witnesses for Our Time

All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time

Todos los Santos: Reflexiones Diarias Sobre Santos, Profetas y Testigos de Nuestro Tiempo

Blessed Among All Women: Women Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time

Blessed Among All Women: Women Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time

All Saints 25th Edition: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time

A Penny a Copy: Readings from the Catholic Worker