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

About the book >.>.> All methods of prayer are simply human ways of disposing oneself to be open to the mystery of God’s unique communication. This collection of methods prayer exercises prayer patterns and suggestions is no different. Dom Chapman is quoted as saying “Pray as you can do not pray as you can’t.” Many of the items contained in this booklet may or may not be a help either for your own prayer or your guidance of others. Sometimes during a directed retreat or during spiritual guidance over a longer period of time a spiritual guide will want to help directees make their hearts more available to the influence of God’s Word and Spirit. Many of the exercises contained herein are intended for just that. The idea is that a guide would have several copies of this booklet on hand *and in a needed circumstance would lend a copy of it to the directee to use a specific exercise on a particular page. For example the page entitled Entering Into Retreat is helpful for a retreatant who is making a directed retreat for the first time or when the director cannot meet with the directee upon arrival and would something to keep the new retreatant occupied until the first interview. Again the section called Developing A Discerning Heart (phases of growth in the practice of the consciousness examen) is a help to develop the skill and habit of the consciousness examen in the situation of ongoing spiritual guidance over a long period of time. This is particularly useful for persons who are not accustomed to reflect on their interior spontaneous reactions. Sometimes in the course of ongoing spiritual guidance or during a shorter directed retreat a guide will want to use one or other of the exercises from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. I have found that my own paraphrase of some of these exercises contained here is very useful for this. In the guiding of the Spiritual Exercises in any setting this (LL)