To dare the Our Father : a transformative spiritual practice
(2018)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
242.722/SHEA,J

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 242.722/SHEA,J Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Collegeville, Minnesota : Liturgical Press, [2018]
DESCRIPTION

xxiv, 160 pages ; 21 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780814645604, 0814645607, 9780814645604
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

The Lord's Prayer accompanies the lives of Christians. When we are happy or sad, when we eagerly wait for a child to be born or silently keep watch as an elder dies, alone in the woods or together in liturgy, filled with gratitude or emptied by grief, driven to praise or dragged to repent, the Our Father finds its way to our lips. To Dare the Our Father recognizes and respects these experiences but it envisions praying the prayer as a more sustained and challenging undertaking. How does praying the Our Father inform our thinking, feeling, willing, and acting? How does it become for us a transformative spiritual practice? John Shea explores these questions and more to discover what it looks like to become people of prayer