Lessons in Love: Moving Toward Divine Intimacy

by Anne, a lay apostle

This latest book from Anne, a lay apostle highlights the importance of loving others with the unconditional love that Jesus has for each one of us. Anne illuminates a hopeful path of loving the people Jesus has placed in our lives. In particular, she shares her thoughts on the sacramental call to marriage and offers points for consideration when choosing a mate. She gives suggestions to navigate predictable marital difficulties and challenges. Also included is a series of thoughts for those living with homosexuality.
We learn about the place of the divine will. We read about the fruits of the renewal in which we are all asked to participate.
Anne discuses some frequently asked questions regarding our Catholic faith, guiding us in our interactions with non-Christians. The book concludes with a reprint of five “Heaven Speaks” booklets.
“What is the truth about you? What does tomorrow hold for you? In Anne’s latest book we hear Jesus’ tender invitation to discover in Him the truth about ourselves and God’s plan for our lives; to know that we are valued by heaven beyond our imagination and are invited to become students of heaven’s love. We are made, as Anne says so eloquently, to inhale love from heaven and exhale love to each other. Anne’s book, I believe, is a gift of a loving God especially meant for you and me.”
Fr. Gerard W. Battersby, Archdiocese of Detroit
Includes:
The Place of the Divine Will
Visions
God is Love
Marriage
Questions and Answers
Intimacy
"Heaven Speaks" Booklets

269 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Kathryn Ann Clarke is an American writer living in Ireland, known for her young adult fiction and her work in domestic violence prevention, and also for her Catholic mystical writings published under the pseudonym "Anne, a lay apostle".

In September 2001, Clarke visited the town of Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina, a site of alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary, and soon thereafter began to write messages which she has claimed are from Jesus, from the Virgin Mary, and from many other Catholic saints. Clarke stated she received these messages in prayer (as interior locutions).

In 2003 she began to publish them in ten books under the general title "Direction for Our Times as Given to 'Anne', a lay apostle", saying she was adopting a pseudonym to protect her family. The first four volumes were issued by CMJ Marian Publishers based in Chicago by May 2004. On October 15, 2004, "Anne" recorded the last message of the ten volumes, and several more volumes of the set were issued in December 2004. Volumes 5 and 8 were published in 2013.

Clarke also reported a new message for the world each month from December 2004 to August 2012.

Anne is a wife, mother of six, and a Secular Franciscan.