The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life

The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life

by James Martin
The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life

The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life

by James Martin

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Overview

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER AWARD.

The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything by the Revered James Martin, SJ (bestselling author of Jesus: A Pilgrimage) is a practical spiritual guidebook that shows you how to manage relationships, money, work, prayer, and decision-making, all while keeping a sense of humor.

Inspired by the life and teachings of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus, this book will help you realize the Ignatian goal of “finding God in all things.” Filled with relatable  examples, humorous stories, and anecdotes from the heroic and inspiring lives of Jesuit saints and average priests and brothers, The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything will enrich your everyday life with spiritual guidance and history.

 

Inspired by the life and teachings of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus and centered around the Ignatian goal of “finding God in all things,” The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything is filled with user-friendly examples, humorous stories, and anecdotes from the heroic and inspiring lives of Jesuit saints and average priests and brothers, The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything is sure to appeal to fans of Kathleen Norris, Richard Rohr, Anne Lamott, and other Christian Spiritual writers.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780061981401
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 03/09/2010
Sold by: HARPERCOLLINS
Format: eBook
Pages: 448
Sales rank: 196,540
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Rev. James Martin, SJ, is a Jesuit priest, editor at large of America magazine, consultor to the Vatican's Dicastery for Communication, and author of numerous books, including the New York Times bestsellers Jesus: A Pilgrimage, The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything and My Life with the Saints, which Publishers Weekly named one of the best books of 2006. Father Martin is a frequent commentator in the national and international media, having appeared on all the major networks, and in such diverse outlets as The Colbert Report, NPR's Fresh Air, the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.  Before entering the Jesuits in 1988 he graduated from the Wharton School of Business.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 A Way of Proceeding What Is Ignatian Spirituality? 1

Chapter 2 The Six Paths Spiritual, Religious, Spiritual but Not Religious, and Everything in Between 29

Chapter 3 What Do You Want? Desire and the Spiritual Life 57

Chapter 4 Beautiful Yesterdays Finding God and Letting God Find You 86

Chapter 5 Beginning to Pray So I've Found God... Now What? 103

Chapter 6 Friendship with God Father Barry's Insight 115

Chapter 7 God Meets You Where You Are Ignatian Traditions of Prayer 143

Chapter 8 The Simple Life The Surprising Freedom of Downward Mobility 174

Chapter 9 Like the Angels? Chastity, Celibacy, and Love 213

Chapter 10 More by Deeds Than by Words Friendship and Love 231

Chapter 11 Surrendering to the Future Obedience, Acceptance, and Suffering 266

Chapter 12 What Should I Do? The Ignatian Way of Making Decisions 305

Chapter 13 Be Who You Is! Work, Job, Career, Vocation... and Life 339

Chapter 14 The Contemplative in Action Our Way of Proceeding 389

A Question-and-Answer Session with James Martin, S.J. 399

Questions for Personal Reflection or Reading Groups 402

Ten Things You (Almost) Didn't Know About Jesuits 409

Friends in the Lord 411

Acknowledgments 415

For Further Exploration 417

Index 423

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