Contributor
Foster, Richard J.
Edition Statement:1st ed.
Imprint:San Francisco : HarperSanFrancisco, c2000.
Descriptionxv, 377 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:"A Reconvaré Resource for spiritual renewal."
Note:INWARD DISCIPLINES: MEDITATION: Thomas More : A godly meditation -- Joyce Huggett : Meditation -- How to meditate -- Contemplation: the prayer of loving attention -- How to contemplate -- Thomas Merton : The gift of contemplation -- Marguerite Porete: The soul describes the seven stages -- PRAYER: André Louf : Is praying difficult? -- Superabundance of the heart -- Agnes Sanford : Experiments in prayer -- Author of The Cloud of Unknowing : Starting to pray -- How and why short prayer pierces heaven -- Simone Weil : Concerning the Our Father -- FASTING: Catherine Marshall : A fasting on criticalness -- John Henry Newman : Fasting, a source of trial -- Augustine of Hippo : Cleansing the heart -- William Law : Prayer and fasting, public or private? -- STUDY: George MacDonald : The cause of spiritual stupidity -- Lilias Trotter : The secret of leadership -- J.B. Phillips : Three New Testament serendipities -- Phoebe Palmer : Is there not a shorter way? -- OUTWARD DISCIPLINES: SIMPLICITY: A.W. Tozer : The blessedness of possessing nothing -- Martin Luther : Do not be anxious about your life -- George Fox : The Lord opened unto me -- Clare of Assisi : All for nothing, nothing for all -- SOLITUDE: Anne Morrow Lindbergh : The silent beach, the bowl of stars -- Thomas à Kempis : Solitude and silence -- John Main : The meaning of silence -- Paul Tournier : The power of listening, the power of silence -- SUBMISSION : John Milton : In my great task-master's eyes -- Thomas R. Kelly : The shepherd in search of lost obediences -- Richard of St. Victor : Wait and wait again -- Alan Paton : God's instrument -- SERVICE: Hadewijch of Antwerp : Give all for all -- Meister Eckhart : When our work becomes a spiritual work working in the world -- Dorothy Day : Hospitality to the poor -- Karl Rahner : God of my daily routine -- CORPORATE DISCIPLINES: CONFESSION: Hildegard of Bingen : Letter to Christian laypeople -- Dorothy L. Sayers : Sinfulness in society -- Leo Tolstoy : Why do men stupefy themselves? -- Adolfo Quezada : Reconcile your past -- WORSHIP: Evelyn Underhill : We are called to worship -- Charles Wesley : O for a thousand tongues to sing -- Gerard Manley Hopkins : God's grandeur -- Pied beauty -- Andrew Murray : The glory of God -- The chief end of prayer -- GUIDANCE: Martin Luther King, Jr. : On love and non-violence -- John Ruusbroec : Christ guides us to seeing -- Ignatius Loyola : Rules for the discernment of spirits -- G.K. Chesterton : Enjoying the floods and other disasters -- CELEBRATION: Christina Rossetti : A Christmas carol -- Frederick Buechner : Sarah's laughter -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin : At the wedding of Odette Bacot and Jean Teilhard d'Eyry (14 June 1928) -- John Henry Newman : Religious joy -- Christ, a quickening spirit -- READINGS FOR THE FIFTH WEEK : John Wesley : The firstfruits of the spirit -- Hannah More : Comparatively small fruits and virtues -- Frederick William Faber : What it means to be a creature -- Amy Carmichael : The traffic of the temple.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
