Isbn: 9798196872242 - the interior life for ordinary catholics: st teresa, st thérèse, and brother lawrence on finding god in daily life (3 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The interior life is not only for monks, nuns, mystics, or saints in stained glass. It is for ordinary Catholics living ordinary lives.Many Catholics quietly believe deep prayer belongs somewhere else: in the cloister, in the retreat house, in a quieter season of life, or in the lives of those with more silence, discipline, and visible holiness. But the call to holiness is not reserved for the few. It belongs to every baptised soul.The Interior Life for Ordinary Catholics is a rich and accessible guide to finding God in the life you already have. Drawing from the wisdom of St Teresa of Avila, St Thérèse of Lisieux, and Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection, this book shows that the ordinary Catholic life - with its duties, distractions, fatigue, work, family responsibilities, temptations, hidden sacrifices, and repeated beginnings - can become a real path to prayer, charity, and union with God.St Teresa teaches that the soul is a castle, made for God and capable of deep friendship with Christ. St Thérèse teaches that the way to holiness is little, hidden, merciful, and built through small acts of love. Brother Lawrence teaches that God can be loved in the ordinary task, in labour, repetition, weakness, and the present moment. Together, they offer a vision of holiness that is deep without being abstract, practical without becoming shallow, and contemplative without escaping real life.This book is written for Catholics who want more than surface religion but do not live in ideal conditions. It is for parents, workers, students, converts, reverts, tired Catholics, distracted Catholics, and sinners beginning again. It does not ask the reader to imitate monastic life externally. It invites the reader to discover the 'little monastery of the heart' within the life God has already entrusted to them.Rooted in Catholic tradition, the Catechism, Scripture, the Eucharist, confession, the universal call to holiness in Lumen Gentium, and the spiritual wisdom of the saints, The Interior Life for Ordinary Catholics offers a serious yet hopeful path for those who long to live with God in daily life.The soul is a castle.The way is little.God is present.The Eucharist is the centre.Charity is the test.Union is the goal.God is not waiting in the life you imagine.He is waiting in the life you already have.…