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Lenten Healing: 40 Days to Set You Free from Sin
Based on the popular spiritual healing program designed by Bob Schuchts and the John Paul II Healing Center, Lenten Healing offers a twist to traditional Lenten instead of giving up chocolate, give up your sin. This daily Lenten devotional offers a unique approach to fasting, helping you reexamine the psychological and spiritual roots of sin in your life while sharing reflections and prayer exercises for overcoming sinful habits and acquiring virtuous ones.
Lent is the ideal time to identify and address "spiritual blind spots"—unacknowledged emotional wounds and false ideas that hinder your prayer life and worship.
During each week of Lent, Ken Kniepmann of the John Paul II Healing Center breaks open one of the seven deadly sins (pride, lust, gluttony, sloth, anger, envy, and greed) and its corresponding virtue (humility, chastity, abstinence, diligence, patience, kindness, and liberality). You'll start by learning about the sin and how it manifests itself in daily life and thought patterns. Then you'll move into reflection and prayer exercises that guide you through the process of renouncing that week's sin and resolving to adopt that week's virtue.
Fasting, the practice of giving up pleasures or comforts, allows us to grow in holiness by putting our desires to a kind of death. Obvious examples include giving up a habit such as a favorite food, sleeping in, or late-night TV—but what happens when you try to give up your sins while recognizing the deeper reasons you commit them in the first place? By seeing those connections and praying specifically for God's insight, healing, and revelation, you’ll be able to experience God’s mercy and love to a greater capacity.
Kniepmann helps you see how the depth of Catholic teaching is connected to your daily life. Sin isn't just an activity; it is a place of the heart (the interior life) and the movement of the heart (toward or away from sin) as related to thoughts, beliefs, and emotions. By the time Easter arrives, you'll possess a deeper understanding of sin and emotional wounds as impediments to intimacy with God and come away with tangible, practical tools for addressing those impediments in your life.
Lent is the ideal time to identify and address "spiritual blind spots"—unacknowledged emotional wounds and false ideas that hinder your prayer life and worship.
During each week of Lent, Ken Kniepmann of the John Paul II Healing Center breaks open one of the seven deadly sins (pride, lust, gluttony, sloth, anger, envy, and greed) and its corresponding virtue (humility, chastity, abstinence, diligence, patience, kindness, and liberality). You'll start by learning about the sin and how it manifests itself in daily life and thought patterns. Then you'll move into reflection and prayer exercises that guide you through the process of renouncing that week's sin and resolving to adopt that week's virtue.
Fasting, the practice of giving up pleasures or comforts, allows us to grow in holiness by putting our desires to a kind of death. Obvious examples include giving up a habit such as a favorite food, sleeping in, or late-night TV—but what happens when you try to give up your sins while recognizing the deeper reasons you commit them in the first place? By seeing those connections and praying specifically for God's insight, healing, and revelation, you’ll be able to experience God’s mercy and love to a greater capacity.
Kniepmann helps you see how the depth of Catholic teaching is connected to your daily life. Sin isn't just an activity; it is a place of the heart (the interior life) and the movement of the heart (toward or away from sin) as related to thoughts, beliefs, and emotions. By the time Easter arrives, you'll possess a deeper understanding of sin and emotional wounds as impediments to intimacy with God and come away with tangible, practical tools for addressing those impediments in your life.
192 pages, Paperback
Published January 5, 2018
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April 2, 2018
A great Lenten devotional! My husband and I did this together and it drew us closer. The book gets specific about the wounds we carry and how we sin because of them. The prayers are very healing. I took off one star because there were sections that were a little too repetitive. Highly recommended!
March 31, 2018
What a Lenten Treasure
This book is another that simply made its way into my life. I have gone through the Lenten Journey time in the wilderness day by day and every day the Lord has met me and healed something in my life. Many times it was hidden and I did not even know I carried that hurt or that scar...but each one was exposed and gently, lovingly healed.
To the authors: Thank you from the bottom of my heart !
This book is another that simply made its way into my life. I have gone through the Lenten Journey time in the wilderness day by day and every day the Lord has met me and healed something in my life. Many times it was hidden and I did not even know I carried that hurt or that scar...but each one was exposed and gently, lovingly healed.
To the authors: Thank you from the bottom of my heart !
March 3, 2018
A do-it-yourself retreat that focuses not only on sin, but on the virtues that will have room in our lives if we free ourselves from sin. Filled with relatable, concrete examples of the faces of sin in our lives, Scripture passages and questions for meditation (keep a journal handy!), and short prayers, this book is a gateway for readers to confront — and weed out — those sinful actions and tendencies that keep us far from God. Read my full review.
April 13, 2020
This was exactly what I needed this Lent. I'm planning on doing these reflections every year for the foreseeable future. They didn't ask a lot of my time, but they asked me to go deep in the time I gave. I'm glad I did this now, especially since Lent got... a bit Lentier than usual this year. I'm hoping to bring some of my growth with me into the Easter season too. 10/10, would Lent again.
August 1, 2020
This wasn't a book I picked up and read cover to cover. It's the type of book you can pick up and select a passage for the day and be completely transformed. It helped me dig deep and see how patterns in my life have stemmed from woundedness. I've found a ton of peace from the surrender part of this book.
April 23, 2019
Beautiful book. Definitely made lent more engaging for me, and brought me closer to God and a place of healing.
April 11, 2020
Transformative, powerful, healing, amazing.
October 14, 2023
Great companion for lent.
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April 5, 2018One of the best prayer resources I've ever used for Lent. This really takes daily prayer and conversion to a deeper level.
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