NEW from Father Cliff Ermatinger!
Letters from the Desert: Two Centuries on Prayer in the Byzantine Tradition is now available!
Weight: 0.50 lbs
Description
JESUS AWAITS YOU IN THE HERMITAGE OF YOUR HEART
The Desert Fathers of the East, the Church's first monks and hermits, left the tumult of cities fro the silence of uninhabited spaces. But it wasn't solitude per se that they sought. It was a place - in the world and in their interior life - where they could practice contemplative prayer with focus and discipline. Their ultimate goal: intimacy with God.
Many of the monks who followed after them wrote down their thoughts and observations. With Letters from the Desert, Father Cliff Ermatinger guides us into their minds. A collection of 200 brief yet profound quotes from the monks' writings, this book opens the Byzantine monastic experience to everyone inclined to try it.
Those who do so via these selections will be richly rewarded. "My intent is not to come up with the right answer to the question 'What is prayer,'" writes Frather Ermatinger in his introduction, "but to assist the reader in [the] inward and upward journey toward the Face of Christ."
FATHER CLIFF ERMATINGER works in a parish in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. He is the author of several books, including Common Nonsense, also available from Circle Press.
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