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On Retreat with Henri Nouwen: Engaging Life's Big Questions
To mark the 25th anniversary of the death of Henri Nouwen, one of the most beloved spiritual writers of contemporary times, this retreat companion offers a guide for spiritual transformation and growth based on Nouwen's own writings and experience.
Nouwen’s own spiritual journey, marked by a restless quest and yearning for an experience of the divine, led him down paths familiar to many spiritual seekers today. The questions he wrestled with are the same that speak to our own Who am I? Who is God? How do I know God loves me? Where is God when suffering surrounds me? How can I find interior peace in anxious, troubled times?
On Retreat with Henri Nouwen provides a retreat experience for both individuals and churches seeking to renew their self-understanding and purpose. It offers connections to contemporary life, points for reflection, prayer pauses for contemplation and prompts for engaging in one’s own spiritual quest, whatever shape it may take.
Nouwen’s own spiritual journey, marked by a restless quest and yearning for an experience of the divine, led him down paths familiar to many spiritual seekers today. The questions he wrestled with are the same that speak to our own Who am I? Who is God? How do I know God loves me? Where is God when suffering surrounds me? How can I find interior peace in anxious, troubled times?
On Retreat with Henri Nouwen provides a retreat experience for both individuals and churches seeking to renew their self-understanding and purpose. It offers connections to contemporary life, points for reflection, prayer pauses for contemplation and prompts for engaging in one’s own spiritual quest, whatever shape it may take.
104 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 30, 2021
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April 26, 2023
On retreat with Henri Nouwen provides readers with a unique retreat experience (in my case over a period of weeks) while posing the questions, Who am I? Who is God? How do I know God loves me? Where is God when suffering surrounds me? and How can I find interior peace in anxious troubled times? At the end of each chapter are prompting questions for discussion and through reading and journaling it helps one to reflect on these questions thus taking you on your own spiritual quest.
This was my first introduction to Henri Nouwen, and I hope to read more from this spiritual master.
This was my first introduction to Henri Nouwen, and I hope to read more from this spiritual master.
October 1, 2024
The ghost of Henri Noun speaks wisely & helpfully on the topic of spiritual living through the quotes provided. The six chapters on different topics also provide time & practical suggsestions for reflection, as well as for exercises & prayerful activities. The last chapter helps the reader how to DO something with the material for life one's ongoing life now.
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