I try to live in sync with the liturgical year because doing so provides a glorious framework for daily living. I mention this because revising my book, Come to the Table: A Passover Seder for Parish Use during Advent felt downright weird. But an author needs to do what an author needs to do, so [...]
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The first review of A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer is up. Meredith Gould likes it! Read it here. While you’re at it, browse through Meredith’s blog “Virtual Abbey.”
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- A sample of my new book about the Ignatian examen, A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer, is available for your reading pleasure. Click the image above to read the first two chapters. (If you can’t see the image, click here.) If you like what you see, click here to buy your own copy (and copies for [...]
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I’ve just published a new book. It’s called A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer, and it’s about the Ignatian examen, which has changed a lot of things for me in the last couple of years. One of my good friends, Paul Campbell, gave the book a nice mention on his People for Others blog yesterday, and that [...]
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America Magazine features two new books of Ignatian interest. The January selection of the Catholic book club is Mother of God Similar to Fire, a collection of 50 icons of Mary by former Jesuit William Hart McNichols. Also new is the biography Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ A Model Theologian by Patrick W. Carey. A review [...]
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As I get ready for Thanksgiving Day I’m thinking of Speedy, “a thrill seeker in the world of project gangbanging,” as the Jesuit Greg Boyle describes him in his terrific book Tattoos on the Heart. Speedy hailed from a broken family, left the gangs, worked his way out of the projects, and made a life. [...]
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I thought that the “Almost” in Fr. Jim Martin’s The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything was only a clever word in catchy title, but it turns out that the book really doesn’t cover everything. The author had to drop a whole section on some of his Jesuit heroes for space reasons (St.Aloysius Gonzaga, St. Jean [...]
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Authors are all over YouTube talking about their books. This interview with Bert Ghezzi about his book Voices of the Saints is one of the best author videos I’ve ever seen. The book is a terrifically informative and entertaining look at 365 saints, classified in themes (examples: humility, joy, twenty-something saints, married saints, saints who [...]
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Fr. Jim Martin, SJ, has an excellent reflection for All Saints Day on The Huffington Post, titled “The Saints Were as Strange as You Are – And You Can Be as Holy as They Were.” Jim is the author of the excellent, best-selling My Life with the Saints.
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