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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Even though the subject was at first the topic of a thesis this book is the work not of a “specialist” but rather of a monk who like the readers and together with them is trying to seek God unceasingly. In response to repeated requests that he has received to present his reflections on acedia to a wider public the author gives us here a livelier more contemporary version of his study. The spoken style which reflects the conferences on which this book is based has been preserved. At Saint Wandrille’s Abbey? the monks have preserved the custom of reciting before study and most especially before the prayerful study of Sacred Scripture the traditional in- vocation to the Holy Spirit the Veni sancte Spiritus: “God you have instructed the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Spirit; grant that through that same Holy Spirit we may always be truly wise [literally savor what is right] and rejoice in his consolation.” This prayer asks two things of the Holy Spirit: to make us relish or savor (in Latin: sapere) what is right what is true; and on the other hand that we may rejoice (in Latin: gaudere) in his divine consolation. Savor and joy. (LL)