Flunking sainthood a year of breaking the Sabbath, forgetting to pray, and still loving my neighbor
"... Jana Riess shares a year-long quest to become more saintly by tackling twelve spiritual practices, including fasting, fixed-hour prayer, gratitude, Sabbath-keeping, the Jesus Prayer, and generosity. Although she begins with great plans for success, she finds to her growing humiliation that...
| Main Author: | Riess, Jana. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Brewster, Mass. :
Paraclete Press,
c2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Choosing practices
- Fasting in the desert
- Meeting Jesus in the kitchen, or not
- Lectio divination
- Nixing shoppertainment
- Centering prayer, er, the Jesus prayer ... Look! A squirrel!
- Unorthodox Sabbath
- Thanksgiving every day
- Benedictine hospitality
- What would Jesus eat?
- Seven ... five ... three times a day will I praise you
- Generosity
- Practice makes imperfect.