Late Have I Loved Thee: The Recovery of Intimacy

Susan Muto

Religion & Spirituality

Crossroad Pub. Co

Blessings That Make Us be: The Beatitudes

Adrian Van Kaam

St.Pauls

If you're ready to take the next step on the path of spiritual progress, these pages will provide you with the solid, faithful direction you need to develop a rich spiritual life, deepen it through regular prayer, and model it humbly in your relationships with others. From these short, accessible chapters, you'll learn how to identify the greatest challenges you face as you seek to live a spiritual life, and you'll discover sound, proven strategies you can use to overcome each one of those challenges. Am I Living a Spiritual Life? will also show you: How to hear and follow God's special call for you. How to find silence amid the world's noise. How to combat loneliness, listlessness, fatigue and fear. How to make your spiritual life bear fruit in you family and community. How to balance your active life and your prayer life. The right way to use Scripture, spiritual reading and meditation. How your own temperament affects your spiritual life. The secret to maintaining spiritual peace when life's in turmoil. How to pray even when you are tired and discouraged. How to sort out seemingly conflicting calls from God. Simple ways to practice mortification. How to tell if you need a spiritual director (and how to find a good one) Plus much more to help you live a proper spiritual life! Spiritual life is communion with God through prayer, and loving reflection of him. When that proves difficult, turn to wise counsel found in these pages. No longer will you wonder if you're living a spiritual life, for your soul will soon be soaring upward to God and dwelling in happy contemplation of him.

Am I living a spiritual life?: Questions and answers on formative spirituality

Dimension Books,U.S.

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Practicing the Prayer of Presence

Dimension Books

John of the Cross for today: The Ascent

Ave Maria Press

Book by Susan Muto, Kieran Kavanaugh, Preface n Translation

Words of Wisdom for Our World: The Precautions and Counsels of St. John of the Cross

Kieran Kavanaugh, Preface & Translation

ICS Publications, Washington, DC

The things with which we do not want to part may have little or no monetary value. We treasure them not as possessions but as memory banks to retain when life loses its meaning and we feel as unstable as twigs tossing wildly on a stormy sea. These precious keepsakes remind us that life may look chaotic but that there is a plan to it. Keepsakes influence the way we view the connection between what we do and who we are. Each of us has known on some level the longing to be a free spirit whose self-sacrificing ways are worthy of emulation. Without in the least forfeiting the uniqueness of our call, we do what we can to advance the common good. A life like this, full of meaning, makes every keepsake an epiphany of sorts. It proves to us, despite onslaughts of doubt, that there is a hopeful thread binding our lives together. To touch these treasures is to come to the conclusion that we are not masters of our fate but servants of a mystery we may glimpse in time but never fathom totally.  Muto has collected brief sayings by classical and contemporary spiritual writers whose words are keepsakes by anyone s standards. As Saint Augustine of Hippo once said, 'Feed your soul in divine readings; they will prepare for you a spiritual feast.'

Keepsakes for the Journey: Four Weeks on Faith Deepening (7 X 4: A Meditation a Day for Four Weeks)

New City Press of the Focolare

Susan Muto challenges us to turn away from the cultural impulse toward me-centeredness.

One in the Lord: Living Our Call to Christian Community (Contemporary Spirituality)

The book is about the formation of disciples (laity, clergy, and religious) to fulfill the Church's call for evangelization in the Third Millennium. Each chapter presents through the lens of discipleship the building blocks of how to become spiritually mature by having the courage to drop whatever obstacles stand in the way of following the Lord. It considers in an experiential way the conditions for discipleship he himself lived to the full, among them, obedience, hope, joy, and fidelity. The chapters open with a thematic poem and end with a closing prayer, followed by questions for reflection. Each chapter invites readers to enter into personal reflection as well as to engage in small group faith sharing.

Drop Your Nets and Follow Jesus: How to Form Disciples for the New Evangelization

New City Press

St. Thérèse of Lisieux’s “Little Way” has been embraced by people of all walks of life. In Twelve Little Ways to Transform Your Heart, author Susan Muto explores twelve facets of St. Thérèse’s simple spiritual path as a way to personal holiness and the secret to being a powerful witness to Christ in the world today. Though she lived only to the age of twenty-four and spent almost her entire life at her family home and in the Carmelite convent, St. Thérèse of Lisieux displayed a love for Jesus and a passion for his gospel that have made her the patroness of the missions. The “Little Flower’s” humility and childlike trust are still powerful examples of how ordinary people can grow closer to Jesus and respond to Pope Francis’s call for a new evangelization. The calls to holiness and to witness to Christ can seem daunting, but as Susan Muto—renowned speaker and expert on Carmelite spirituality—explains, Thérèse shows us that they are neither difficult nor dramatic. The Little Way can be lived by any of us, even with what Thérèse called the “ministry of the smile.” With deep insight and warm personal devotion, Muto explains the Little Way and will help you put twelve dimensions of it into practice, drawing others to Christ by living a simple, joyful life. These twelve ways, derived from the example of Thérèse, are:
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<li>Learn to love the hidden life</li>
<li>Appreciate what a treasure the ordinary is</li>
<li>Trust in Divine Mercy as little children do</li>
<li>Receive the sacraments devoutly day after day</li>
<li>Abandon yourself to Father, Son, and Holy Spirit</li>
<li>Foster friendship with God and others</li>
<li>Take up your cross and follow Jesus</li>
<li>Pray unceasingly</li>
<li>Simplify your life</li>
<li>Let God free you to be your best self</li>
<li>Commit yourself—body, mind, and spirit—to living the Gospel</li>
<li>Leave a legacy of evangelical virtues others want to cultivate</li>
</ul> Muto features short quotations from the saint’s autobiography, poetry, letters, and prayers, as well as perceptive reflection questions and personal prayers to show how imitating Thérèse can make us a powerful force of love. Muto also offers practical spiritual advice for those who want to deepen their faith and are attracted to the simplicity of St. Thérèse’s Little Way.

Twelve Little Ways to Transform Your Heart: Lessons in Holiness and Evangelization from St. Thérèse of Lisieux

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