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Mental Prayer: ON UNION WITH GOD and AN EASY METHOD OF MENTAL PRAYER
This book contains two booklets on mental prayer. On Union with God, by Saint Albert the Great, and An Easy Method of Mental Prayer, by Father Bertrand Wilberforce. Both books are easy to understand and should lend themselves to improvements of your prayer life, especially those new to mental prayer.
ON UNION WITH GOD
“Surely the most deeply-rooted need of the human soul, its purest aspiration, is for the closest possible union with God. As one turns over the pages of this little work, written by Blessed [Saint] Albert the Great towards the end of his life, when that great soul had ripened and matured, one feels that here indeed is the ideal of one's hopes.
Simply and clearly the great principles are laid down, the way is made plain which leads to the highest spiritual life. It seems as though, while one reads, the mists of earth vanish, and the snowy summits appear of the mountains of God. We breathe only the pure atmosphere of prayer, peace, and love, and the one great fact of the universe, the Divine Presence, is felt and realized without effort.
“But is such a life possible amid the whirl of the twentieth century? To faith and love all things are possible, and our author shows us the loving Father, ever ready to give as much and more than we can ask. The spirit of such a work is ever true; the application may vary with circumstances, but the guidance of the Holy Spirit will never be wanting to those souls who crave for closer union with their Divine Master.”
- Rev. P. J. Berthier, O.P
AN EASY METHOD OF MENTAL PRAYER
A short and easy to understand booklet on the need of mental prayer, and the steps that can be used to add mental prayer to your prayer life. It includes an explanation of what mental prayer is, the ease of mental prayer, and steps needed to start mental prayer, such as preparation, prayer, will, petitions, resolutions, and concluding the prayer session. Father Wilberforce suggests a thirty minute session daily, but as little at fifteen minutes can be useful.
There are many complicated books on this topic, but this is a good booklet for those beginning their journey to a more prayerful life.
ON UNION WITH GOD
“Surely the most deeply-rooted need of the human soul, its purest aspiration, is for the closest possible union with God. As one turns over the pages of this little work, written by Blessed [Saint] Albert the Great towards the end of his life, when that great soul had ripened and matured, one feels that here indeed is the ideal of one's hopes.
Simply and clearly the great principles are laid down, the way is made plain which leads to the highest spiritual life. It seems as though, while one reads, the mists of earth vanish, and the snowy summits appear of the mountains of God. We breathe only the pure atmosphere of prayer, peace, and love, and the one great fact of the universe, the Divine Presence, is felt and realized without effort.
“But is such a life possible amid the whirl of the twentieth century? To faith and love all things are possible, and our author shows us the loving Father, ever ready to give as much and more than we can ask. The spirit of such a work is ever true; the application may vary with circumstances, but the guidance of the Holy Spirit will never be wanting to those souls who crave for closer union with their Divine Master.”
- Rev. P. J. Berthier, O.P
AN EASY METHOD OF MENTAL PRAYER
A short and easy to understand booklet on the need of mental prayer, and the steps that can be used to add mental prayer to your prayer life. It includes an explanation of what mental prayer is, the ease of mental prayer, and steps needed to start mental prayer, such as preparation, prayer, will, petitions, resolutions, and concluding the prayer session. Father Wilberforce suggests a thirty minute session daily, but as little at fifteen minutes can be useful.
There are many complicated books on this topic, but this is a good booklet for those beginning their journey to a more prayerful life.
113 pages, Paperback
Published April 18, 2022
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Albertus Magnus
465 books54 followersborn in perhaps 1206
German religious philosopher Saint Albertus Magnus, originally Albert, count von Bollstadt, and also noted as the teacher of Saint Thomas Aquinas, sought to apply methods of Aristotle to current scientific questions.
Also known as Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne, this member of the Catholic order of preachers (Dominicans) served as friar and from 1260 to 1262 as bishop of Regensburg. During his lifetime, people knew him as doctor universalis and doctor expertus and later appended the term magnus ("the great") to his name. Scholars, such as James Athanasius Weisheipl and Joachim Roland Söder, referred to this greatest theologian of the Middle Ages. The Church honors him among its 35 doctors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertu...
German religious philosopher Saint Albertus Magnus, originally Albert, count von Bollstadt, and also noted as the teacher of Saint Thomas Aquinas, sought to apply methods of Aristotle to current scientific questions.
Also known as Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne, this member of the Catholic order of preachers (Dominicans) served as friar and from 1260 to 1262 as bishop of Regensburg. During his lifetime, people knew him as doctor universalis and doctor expertus and later appended the term magnus ("the great") to his name. Scholars, such as James Athanasius Weisheipl and Joachim Roland Söder, referred to this greatest theologian of the Middle Ages. The Church honors him among its 35 doctors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertu...
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