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Restore: A Guided Lent Journal for Prayer and Meditation
Follow the Lord into the depths of your heart this Lent and you will never be the same.
Take a healing journey with Sr. Miriam James Heidland, SOLT, as she helps you turn away from what wounds you and toward God who heals you and makes you whole.
In this beautiful guided journal for prayer and meditation, Sr. Miriam invites you to meet the tenderness of God’s mercy, the power of his love, and the restoration of your heart and life as you practice prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.
Restore features stunning original art by Valerie Delgado of Pax.Valerie along with daily meditations on a passage from scripture, reflection questions, guided prayer, and space for journaling and notetaking.
Throughout Lent, you’ll move through four different phases of healing, focusing on traditional Lenten
Prayer is the means of healing our relationship with God.Fasting disciplines us in healing our relationship with ourselves.Almsgiving leads us to healing our relationships with others.Sacrifice shows us the path to heaven and union with God.If you enter into Lent with Christ, your heart will see more clearly, be pierced more easily, love more strongly, and serve more passionately. Jesus will be etched into the crevasses of your being.
Restore is perfect for both individual and group use. Free companion videos and a downloadable leader’s guide are available at avemariapress.com.
Take a healing journey with Sr. Miriam James Heidland, SOLT, as she helps you turn away from what wounds you and toward God who heals you and makes you whole.
In this beautiful guided journal for prayer and meditation, Sr. Miriam invites you to meet the tenderness of God’s mercy, the power of his love, and the restoration of your heart and life as you practice prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.
Restore features stunning original art by Valerie Delgado of Pax.Valerie along with daily meditations on a passage from scripture, reflection questions, guided prayer, and space for journaling and notetaking.
Throughout Lent, you’ll move through four different phases of healing, focusing on traditional Lenten
Prayer is the means of healing our relationship with God.Fasting disciplines us in healing our relationship with ourselves.Almsgiving leads us to healing our relationships with others.Sacrifice shows us the path to heaven and union with God.If you enter into Lent with Christ, your heart will see more clearly, be pierced more easily, love more strongly, and serve more passionately. Jesus will be etched into the crevasses of your being.
Restore is perfect for both individual and group use. Free companion videos and a downloadable leader’s guide are available at avemariapress.com.
225 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 11, 2022
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April 5, 2026
I purchased this to experience an intentional Lent. It was indeed helpful. Instead of journaling in the book, I chose to use separate lined paper. Creating the opportunity for an annual meditation or to pass the book on.
April 18, 2022
Phenomenal. I'm glad I was working with a therapist as I went through this journey. It touched some really deep, raw places in my heart, but I really feel like I'm on the road to healing. It left me better than I was when I started it. I'm so grateful for having done it, even though it was hard ❤️
April 5, 2026
During Lent in 2026 I worked through a few volumes, and two of them were from this series. They were both very different but I benefited greatly from both of them. To date it appears there are 5 offerings each for Lent and Advent in the “A Guided Lent/Advent Journal for Prayer and Meditation” series. I plan on working through all of them because both this and the other volume I did this year were excellent!
About the author we are informed:
“Sr. Miriam James Heidland, SOLT, is a popular Catholic speaker, cohost of the Abiding Together podcast, and the author of the bestselling book Loved as I Am.
A former Division I athlete who had a radical conversion and joined the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity in 1998, Heidland has shared her story on EWTN’s The Journey Home, at numerous SEEK and Steubenville conferences, and at the USCCB’s Convocation of Catholic Leaders.
In addition to speaking, Heidland has served in parish ministry and as the director of novices for her SOLT community. She also has served as an assistant to both her provincial and general superiors.
Heidland earned a master’s degree in theology from the Augustine Institute and speaks extensively on the topics of conversion, authentic love, forgiveness, and healing.”
About the illustrator:
“Valerie Delgado is a Catholic painter, a digital artist, and the owner of Pax. Beloved. She illustrated the books Prepare Your Heart by Fr. Agustino Torres, CFR; Adore by Fr. John Burns; Restore by Sr. Miriam James Heidland, SOLT; and ABC Get to Know the Saints with Me by Caroline Perkins.”
The chapters and sections in this book are:
Week of Ash Wednesday
First Week of Lent: The Desert
Second Week of Lent: Freedom of Heart
Third Week of Lent: The Roots of Sin
Fourth Week of Lent: The Healing Balm of Almsgiving
Fifth Week of Lent: The Journey of Forgiveness
Holy Week, the Week of All Weeks
A sample reflection is:
“Ash Wednesday
But you are merciful to all, for you can do all things, and you overlook men’s sins, that they may repent. . . . You spare all things, for they are yours, O Lord who love the living.
Wisdom 11:23, 26
The Inner Room
Here we begin, dear friends. Ash Wednesday. Our foreheads are marked with the blackness of death while the words “Repent and believe in the gospel” or “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return” are spoken over us. Every single person, no matter their age or state in life, receives the same greeting, for we all are called to repent, believe, and remember. All things pass away and only the eternal remains.
We receive glimpses of this reality throughout our lives, but today we ponder it specifically as the door through which we follow Jesus out into the desert. The Catechism states that “interior repentance is a radical reorientation of our whole life, a return, a conversion to God with all our heart, an end of sin, a turning away from evil, with repugnance toward the evil actions we have committed” (CCC 1431). We must turn away from what wounds us, destroys us, and makes us sick and turn toward God who heals us, saves us, and makes us whole.
While other people may know certain things about us, and we may know ourselves to varying degrees, only the Lord knows us fully. He alone sees us in our fullness and wholeness and loves us completely. This is why we must go into the “inner room” with him, into the hidden place, so all can be revealed.
He is inviting us into an encounter with him, in the depths of our hearts, for that is where true transformation takes place.
Reflect
Where are you in your heart and life right now? What is Jesus wanting to heal in you as you pray, fast, and give alms this Lent?
Take a few minutes to write about this in your journal.
Pray
Jesus, help me as i begin this journey with you. Give me an open heart, a willing spirit, and the courage to keep going, no matter what. Amen.”
I highlighted numerous passages while working through this volume. Some of them are:
“The season of Lent stirs many things in our hearts. Some people love it, some people dislike it, and all of us know that we are supposed to somehow be transformed through it all. We often give up chocolate, alcohol, or meat. We try to practice mortification and remember that we are only pilgrims on this earth and that all things pass away. And while all these things are inherently good and important, I often wonder what is being engaged at the deeper level of our hearts.”
“Perhaps by now you have noticed some areas of your life that need attention this Lent. When you look at the traditional Lenten disciplines of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, you may have chosen a few practices for each discipline that will help bring you into deeper freedom during this season.”
“As sin scatters and fragments, love brings us into communion and wholeness.”
“He is calling us into union with him in the heart. This is why we must allow the Lord to prompt our actions with his inspiration and further them with his help. We are not making the journey of Lent on our own or from our own will. We are being led by the Lord as the Holy Spirit led Jesus out into the desert.”
“This is a journey about your heart with Jesus and your relationship with him. Each person’s relationship with Christ is unique and unrepeatable. As God loves each of us in a way he loves no other person, so too we love God in a way that no one else loves God.”
“Prayer heals our relationship with God. Where we are shattered by sin and disorder, prayer draws us into the heart of God.”
“Or more succinctly, the heart of God enters into our misery. God enters into the true misery of our sin, sorrow, and suffering, and he saves us, restores us, and redeems us.”
“The beautiful thing about the desert, though, is that it lays all things bare and Christ goes before us. We do not go into the desert alone, and the Lord will not reveal anything to us that he does not also wish to attend to and heal.”
“A covenant says, “I love you. I will never leave you. I will never forsake you. I am not going anywhere. I am here for you. No matter what happens, I will not reject you. I love you as you are, and I desire your ultimate good. I give myself to you completely and I receive you completely. You do not have to hide anything. You do not have to pretend. You can bring anything to me and I will be with you in it, bear it with you, and speak the truth to you about it in love.” This is how God loves us. This is the freedom and responsibility of love.”
“Prayer is not mere words; prayer is life itself. This is why we pray without ceasing.”
“How might you give the Lord permission to come into any place of your life and bring you into wholeness and into relationship with himself?”
“The earth that we live upon is not neutral territory. We live on not a cruise ship but a battlefield. And we know this battle through and through, as well as the ache for communion in eternal love.”
““First, our wounds are not arbitrary, they are not random. Satan is like a sniper. He intuits with his angelic intellect the destiny of every human person and he shoots his deadly arrows into the place that will do the most damage in order to thwart the flourishing of the person and God’s plan for their life. Satan succeeds when he can convince us to hate God, hate ourselves, and hate others for the wounds we bear.”
““Suffering that is not transformed is transmitted.” Every experience of suffering we have had that has not yet been redeemed and transformed by the love of Christ is transmitted to those around us. The suffering we have experienced does not just disappear; it is most often buried alive. And that pain buried alive continues to afflict us and those around us.”
“The priest who mentored me for many years before and after I entered religious life was very fond of offering the adage that when we fast from one thing, we need to feast on something else. This is not compensating for what we are aching for but offering our heart, mind, body, and soul the true food that it needs.”
“As Adam and Eve hid in the garden, so do we. In light of our story and where we hurt and how we try to avoid suffering, our sin and broken ways of living follow a pattern.”
““Behind every disordered desire is a good and holy desire, an unmet need, an unhealed wound, and a hidden pattern of sin.””
“Maybe we feel that no one in our life listens to us or really hears our heart and takes us seriously with attentiveness and love. Maybe we don’t feel as though we have a safe place to bring our sorrows, and we have had to bury our anger our entire life. Maybe we have wounds of rejection, abandonment, shame, fear, powerlessness, hopelessness, or confusion. These unhealed wounds and unacknowledged needs (that often tie back to our childhoods with long histories and patterns) continue to play out over and over again in our lives. Collectively they are the proverbial “iceberg under the water” that drives so much of our painful behavior.”
“Jesus continually comes to us where we are ill and in need and asks us if we want to be well. As we recall our Lenten journey thus far, we know that if we are honest, we all have places in our lives where we are not well, where we are out of communion and experiencing isolation, and where we need healing. And as we discover, it is through communion that healing gushes forth.”
“And yet this is often the very thing we want the most—to be seen, received, and loved. Jesus is truly present to us and receives us.”
“Lord, give me a generous and open heart. May my love for you grow more deeply into a fragrant, life-giving aroma that fills the world around me.”
“This life is not the end. This life is not all there is. The best things on earth are only a small foreshadowing of the beauty of heaven.”
I hope that sample reflection and those quotes give you a feel for this volume. The supplemental weekly videos and other resources on the Ave Maria Site really do make this a self-guided retreat. You can work through it personally, as a family or in a small group. The illustrations are great for meditation.
The material is easy to engage with and written and a very compelling manner. Anyone with a secondary school education could easily worth through this volume. But the working through it might not be easy. It will help you go deeper over the days of Lent. But it will be work. It will challenge readers to be more open and honest with them and with God. It will encourage us to open our hearts, our hurts, our wounds and turn to God for healing and restoration.
This volume was so good I plan on picking up all of them in the series and hope to work through them over the next few Lents and Advents.
An amazing volume I can easily recommend.
This book is part of a series of reviews: 2026 Catholic Reading Plan!
About the author we are informed:
“Sr. Miriam James Heidland, SOLT, is a popular Catholic speaker, cohost of the Abiding Together podcast, and the author of the bestselling book Loved as I Am.
A former Division I athlete who had a radical conversion and joined the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity in 1998, Heidland has shared her story on EWTN’s The Journey Home, at numerous SEEK and Steubenville conferences, and at the USCCB’s Convocation of Catholic Leaders.
In addition to speaking, Heidland has served in parish ministry and as the director of novices for her SOLT community. She also has served as an assistant to both her provincial and general superiors.
Heidland earned a master’s degree in theology from the Augustine Institute and speaks extensively on the topics of conversion, authentic love, forgiveness, and healing.”
About the illustrator:
“Valerie Delgado is a Catholic painter, a digital artist, and the owner of Pax. Beloved. She illustrated the books Prepare Your Heart by Fr. Agustino Torres, CFR; Adore by Fr. John Burns; Restore by Sr. Miriam James Heidland, SOLT; and ABC Get to Know the Saints with Me by Caroline Perkins.”
The chapters and sections in this book are:
Week of Ash Wednesday
First Week of Lent: The Desert
Second Week of Lent: Freedom of Heart
Third Week of Lent: The Roots of Sin
Fourth Week of Lent: The Healing Balm of Almsgiving
Fifth Week of Lent: The Journey of Forgiveness
Holy Week, the Week of All Weeks
A sample reflection is:
“Ash Wednesday
But you are merciful to all, for you can do all things, and you overlook men’s sins, that they may repent. . . . You spare all things, for they are yours, O Lord who love the living.
Wisdom 11:23, 26
The Inner Room
Here we begin, dear friends. Ash Wednesday. Our foreheads are marked with the blackness of death while the words “Repent and believe in the gospel” or “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return” are spoken over us. Every single person, no matter their age or state in life, receives the same greeting, for we all are called to repent, believe, and remember. All things pass away and only the eternal remains.
We receive glimpses of this reality throughout our lives, but today we ponder it specifically as the door through which we follow Jesus out into the desert. The Catechism states that “interior repentance is a radical reorientation of our whole life, a return, a conversion to God with all our heart, an end of sin, a turning away from evil, with repugnance toward the evil actions we have committed” (CCC 1431). We must turn away from what wounds us, destroys us, and makes us sick and turn toward God who heals us, saves us, and makes us whole.
While other people may know certain things about us, and we may know ourselves to varying degrees, only the Lord knows us fully. He alone sees us in our fullness and wholeness and loves us completely. This is why we must go into the “inner room” with him, into the hidden place, so all can be revealed.
He is inviting us into an encounter with him, in the depths of our hearts, for that is where true transformation takes place.
Reflect
Where are you in your heart and life right now? What is Jesus wanting to heal in you as you pray, fast, and give alms this Lent?
Take a few minutes to write about this in your journal.
Pray
Jesus, help me as i begin this journey with you. Give me an open heart, a willing spirit, and the courage to keep going, no matter what. Amen.”
I highlighted numerous passages while working through this volume. Some of them are:
“The season of Lent stirs many things in our hearts. Some people love it, some people dislike it, and all of us know that we are supposed to somehow be transformed through it all. We often give up chocolate, alcohol, or meat. We try to practice mortification and remember that we are only pilgrims on this earth and that all things pass away. And while all these things are inherently good and important, I often wonder what is being engaged at the deeper level of our hearts.”
“Perhaps by now you have noticed some areas of your life that need attention this Lent. When you look at the traditional Lenten disciplines of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, you may have chosen a few practices for each discipline that will help bring you into deeper freedom during this season.”
“As sin scatters and fragments, love brings us into communion and wholeness.”
“He is calling us into union with him in the heart. This is why we must allow the Lord to prompt our actions with his inspiration and further them with his help. We are not making the journey of Lent on our own or from our own will. We are being led by the Lord as the Holy Spirit led Jesus out into the desert.”
“This is a journey about your heart with Jesus and your relationship with him. Each person’s relationship with Christ is unique and unrepeatable. As God loves each of us in a way he loves no other person, so too we love God in a way that no one else loves God.”
“Prayer heals our relationship with God. Where we are shattered by sin and disorder, prayer draws us into the heart of God.”
“Or more succinctly, the heart of God enters into our misery. God enters into the true misery of our sin, sorrow, and suffering, and he saves us, restores us, and redeems us.”
“The beautiful thing about the desert, though, is that it lays all things bare and Christ goes before us. We do not go into the desert alone, and the Lord will not reveal anything to us that he does not also wish to attend to and heal.”
“A covenant says, “I love you. I will never leave you. I will never forsake you. I am not going anywhere. I am here for you. No matter what happens, I will not reject you. I love you as you are, and I desire your ultimate good. I give myself to you completely and I receive you completely. You do not have to hide anything. You do not have to pretend. You can bring anything to me and I will be with you in it, bear it with you, and speak the truth to you about it in love.” This is how God loves us. This is the freedom and responsibility of love.”
“Prayer is not mere words; prayer is life itself. This is why we pray without ceasing.”
“How might you give the Lord permission to come into any place of your life and bring you into wholeness and into relationship with himself?”
“The earth that we live upon is not neutral territory. We live on not a cruise ship but a battlefield. And we know this battle through and through, as well as the ache for communion in eternal love.”
““First, our wounds are not arbitrary, they are not random. Satan is like a sniper. He intuits with his angelic intellect the destiny of every human person and he shoots his deadly arrows into the place that will do the most damage in order to thwart the flourishing of the person and God’s plan for their life. Satan succeeds when he can convince us to hate God, hate ourselves, and hate others for the wounds we bear.”
““Suffering that is not transformed is transmitted.” Every experience of suffering we have had that has not yet been redeemed and transformed by the love of Christ is transmitted to those around us. The suffering we have experienced does not just disappear; it is most often buried alive. And that pain buried alive continues to afflict us and those around us.”
“The priest who mentored me for many years before and after I entered religious life was very fond of offering the adage that when we fast from one thing, we need to feast on something else. This is not compensating for what we are aching for but offering our heart, mind, body, and soul the true food that it needs.”
“As Adam and Eve hid in the garden, so do we. In light of our story and where we hurt and how we try to avoid suffering, our sin and broken ways of living follow a pattern.”
““Behind every disordered desire is a good and holy desire, an unmet need, an unhealed wound, and a hidden pattern of sin.””
“Maybe we feel that no one in our life listens to us or really hears our heart and takes us seriously with attentiveness and love. Maybe we don’t feel as though we have a safe place to bring our sorrows, and we have had to bury our anger our entire life. Maybe we have wounds of rejection, abandonment, shame, fear, powerlessness, hopelessness, or confusion. These unhealed wounds and unacknowledged needs (that often tie back to our childhoods with long histories and patterns) continue to play out over and over again in our lives. Collectively they are the proverbial “iceberg under the water” that drives so much of our painful behavior.”
“Jesus continually comes to us where we are ill and in need and asks us if we want to be well. As we recall our Lenten journey thus far, we know that if we are honest, we all have places in our lives where we are not well, where we are out of communion and experiencing isolation, and where we need healing. And as we discover, it is through communion that healing gushes forth.”
“And yet this is often the very thing we want the most—to be seen, received, and loved. Jesus is truly present to us and receives us.”
“Lord, give me a generous and open heart. May my love for you grow more deeply into a fragrant, life-giving aroma that fills the world around me.”
“This life is not the end. This life is not all there is. The best things on earth are only a small foreshadowing of the beauty of heaven.”
I hope that sample reflection and those quotes give you a feel for this volume. The supplemental weekly videos and other resources on the Ave Maria Site really do make this a self-guided retreat. You can work through it personally, as a family or in a small group. The illustrations are great for meditation.
The material is easy to engage with and written and a very compelling manner. Anyone with a secondary school education could easily worth through this volume. But the working through it might not be easy. It will help you go deeper over the days of Lent. But it will be work. It will challenge readers to be more open and honest with them and with God. It will encourage us to open our hearts, our hurts, our wounds and turn to God for healing and restoration.
This volume was so good I plan on picking up all of them in the series and hope to work through them over the next few Lents and Advents.
An amazing volume I can easily recommend.
This book is part of a series of reviews: 2026 Catholic Reading Plan!
April 17, 2022
What a journey!
This was the most fruitful Lenten journey I’ve ever made. Through Sister Miriam’s reflections God shed light in very dark and damaged parts of my heart and healed them. He restored me.
This was the most fruitful Lenten journey I’ve ever made. Through Sister Miriam’s reflections God shed light in very dark and damaged parts of my heart and healed them. He restored me.
April 16, 2022
I love Sister Miriam James! If you do this Lenten Journal, check in with Ave Maria Press and watch Sister's short weekly videos each weekend in Lent, they add a beautiful dimension. Our book club selected this to read and do on our own but to meet every other week and discuss it. We all got so much out of "Restore: A Guided Lent Journal for Prayer and Mediation."
"God is sovereign. All time, every moment of our lives, belong to him. Nothing is outside the grasp of God. It is by his glorious wounds that he heals us, guards us, and protects us. And it is the light of Christ that dispels the darkness of our hearts and minds. And may it always be so."
I highly recommend this beautiful Lenten journal and prayer time!
"God is sovereign. All time, every moment of our lives, belong to him. Nothing is outside the grasp of God. It is by his glorious wounds that he heals us, guards us, and protects us. And it is the light of Christ that dispels the darkness of our hearts and minds. And may it always be so."
I highly recommend this beautiful Lenten journal and prayer time!
April 5, 2026
I wanted to really love this study because I love sister Miriam, but I only liked it. I feel that the questions were deep and made you have to think hard .. which was good but some days it felt like homework you would get from therapy. Loved going into hard questions but not all the time which I feel like this study did, but my lent was so fruitful because of this study. I feel more free in Christ
April 17, 2022
Reading this book was a great way to open your heart for Easter!
April 18, 2022
One of the best Lenten books in a long time.
April 17, 2022
This book was an excellent resource for my Lenten journey. The reflections and questions led me deep into many area I had not though of in a long time. Very thankful for this book and Sr. Miriam.
April 20, 2022
This book was excellent and so so beautiful. It was a deep dive into woundedness, forgiveness, identity, redemption and so much more. Highly recommend this as a Lenten journey.
March 31, 2024
Out of all the Catholic books I’ve read, I have probably grown and changed the most reading this book (besides the Bible, of course). Her writing is both wonderfully comforting and inspiring. At the beginning she said that Lent is a time of healing and using this journal, it was definitely a time of healing for me. She helped to break down past hurts and heal from them. My word for the year is forgiveness and this Lent has been a time of forgiveness for me. Thank you for writing this book! Thank you God for this gift!
April 18, 2022
This is possibly the most powerful lenten devotional I've ever read. I wasn’t sure a "healing -focused" book was for me. Sr. Miriam thoughtfully leads the reader through some tough questions. Some days were very difficult, but I really did uncover some tender spots. I received such an affirmation as Easter approached, I could tell God was healing me. I loved the scriptural and liturgical tie-ins to each day and the conversational style.
March 25, 2023
I used this as one of my additional prayers/ meditation for Lent 2023. I took it to Adoration and prayed that God would reveal to me virtue I needed to work on , wounds of the past that may still need healing. This is a book but also a prayer journal with pages to respond in writing with reflections. Its interesting to read/ pray through it and see my journey/ revelations. I did not stick with one a day. If i felt so moved and had the time i just kept going.
April 9, 2023
This is the first Lent where I truly feel changed, where I feel diffrent. I think that is because I finally took it seriously and reflected on what Christ did for us. I am also finally confirmed in my faith.
This book really taught me to look inside my heart and even though sometimes I struggle to answer the questions I did what I could to answer them truthfully. It is such a compelling and helpful book to take you on the journey of Lent. I'm sure in years to come I'll use this one again.
This book really taught me to look inside my heart and even though sometimes I struggle to answer the questions I did what I could to answer them truthfully. It is such a compelling and helpful book to take you on the journey of Lent. I'm sure in years to come I'll use this one again.
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April 7, 2026Sr. Miriam James writes so beautifully and with such a pastoral tone. The questions and reflections help you to dig deeper and assess your heart so you may find healing and restoration. Some of the questions are related to your own traumas, most painful memories, etc. so I would say do the reflections alongside a trusted loved one. My high school youth minister also did the illustrations for this book and I adore her!
April 19, 2022
Helpful
This was part of my Lenten walk with Jesus and Our Lady. It has been helpful in general, and has aided me in looking through a couple doors in my heart with them; with honesty and the tenderness and gentle, life-giving love that God breathes. Thanks for this. It has been a blessing of a journey. I am different now than I was when we began.
This was part of my Lenten walk with Jesus and Our Lady. It has been helpful in general, and has aided me in looking through a couple doors in my heart with them; with honesty and the tenderness and gentle, life-giving love that God breathes. Thanks for this. It has been a blessing of a journey. I am different now than I was when we began.
April 19, 2022
Sr. Miriam and The Abiding Together ladies guided me through meditation and prayers with the help of this book. The journaling part is so worth it because it allowed me to look deeper inside my heart, examining places of hurt and fear. Best companion to the best journey of this 2022 Lenten season.
April 25, 2022
A perfect way to deepen the lent experience
I really enjoyed this Lenten companion. Sister has a beautiful way of expressing challenging ideas. She offers easy to apply ideas that help bring the reader into a deeper connection to the season and God as well. I plan to use again next Lent.
I really enjoyed this Lenten companion. Sister has a beautiful way of expressing challenging ideas. She offers easy to apply ideas that help bring the reader into a deeper connection to the season and God as well. I plan to use again next Lent.
April 25, 2022
Superb guide to self-reflection by Miriam James Heidland. Excellent work to help an individual consider where they are in life, where they want to be, and how to forgive those who may have wronged them in the past. Very helpful in preparing me for Easter 2022 after all we have gone through with the pandemic and all the related issues.
April 21, 2025
Great companion for your Lenten journey…
I loved every part of this book and the weekly introduction videos on the publisher website. The journaling exercise kept me on track and I experienced Lent more deeply than in past years. I highly recommend this for everyone. Sister Miriam is such a blessing.
I loved every part of this book and the weekly introduction videos on the publisher website. The journaling exercise kept me on track and I experienced Lent more deeply than in past years. I highly recommend this for everyone. Sister Miriam is such a blessing.
April 23, 2025
This lenten study is by far the most impactful, thought provoking, faith enriching book that I have ever experienced. It helped me to create a deeper, more authentic relationship with Jesus. And more than that it truly changes you if you are ready to approach your faith in a more honest, life changing way!!
April 10, 2023
Wow
Everyone should read this. I pray and hope Sister Miriam writes many more books. She understands the human heart more than most.
I will re-read this devotional for many Lenten seasons to come.
Everyone should read this. I pray and hope Sister Miriam writes many more books. She understands the human heart more than most.
I will re-read this devotional for many Lenten seasons to come.
April 2, 2024
This was an awesome Lenten reflection journal. A great and healing Lent! Sister Miriam’s voice shines through. Much of the material she pulls from her experience with the JPII Institute’s Healing the Whole Person. While a couple of days felt a little disjointed, I cannot think of a better way to do Lent. I might do it again next year.
June 14, 2025
1000000000/10!!!!
This is the only follow along journal you ever need! Really makes you grow your connection with Jesus and be true and vulnerable!!! The questions and prompts have you open your heart and souls!! Giving you daily Bible versus abs prayers!!!! ❤️
This is the only follow along journal you ever need! Really makes you grow your connection with Jesus and be true and vulnerable!!! The questions and prompts have you open your heart and souls!! Giving you daily Bible versus abs prayers!!!! ❤️
April 17, 2022
A beautiful & thought provoking Lenten study. I felt like this year I just scratched the surface, so I will do it again next Lenten. TY Sr. Mariam, for gently guiding us along.
April 18, 2022
Great devotional!
This was a great Lenten devotional. It helped me focus on the reason for the Lenten season and brought many graces of healing and forgiveness
This was a great Lenten devotional. It helped me focus on the reason for the Lenten season and brought many graces of healing and forgiveness
April 18, 2022
Wonderful Lenten Guide Book.
Sr Miriam will guide all who pick up this book, if they let her, through a rich and powerful Lenten experience.
Sr Miriam will guide all who pick up this book, if they let her, through a rich and powerful Lenten experience.
April 18, 2022
This was a great Lenten study with lots of good daily journal prompts that help foster relationship with Christ through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.
April 18, 2022
Enjoyed this Lenten devotional- Sr Miriam is such a gift! Even more enjoyed the videos that accompanied the book
April 23, 2022
excellent stud
Sr. Miriam is a true wonder to me. Please watch the videos that go along with this book. She brought me new insights into old scriptures.
Sr. Miriam is a true wonder to me. Please watch the videos that go along with this book. She brought me new insights into old scriptures.
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