{"product_id":"the-essence-of-prayer-foreword-by-sister-wendy-beckett","title":"The Essence of Prayer: Foreword by Sister Wendy Beckett","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ruth Burrows OCD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Burns \u0026amp; Oates\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 01-01-2010\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description\n\n\n\nPrayer is a word we take for granted but what do we mean by prayer? Almost always when we talk about prayer we refer to something we DO. But Burrows argues that our Christian knowledge assures us that prayer is essentially what God DOES. And what God is doing for us is giving us the Divine Self in love. This is the vision of a contemplative nun who contradicts the heresy of so much modern spiritual writing. The growing fascination in the contemplative and monastic life is evidence of the profound appeal of this approach. For this there is a real hunger. Ultimately, we live for God and not for ourselves.\n\n\n\nReview\n\n\nA genuine attempt to introduce the theory and practice of prayer to the uninitiated, in language that is accessible to all men and women.' Mount Carmel, July 2010,\"\"The book has been written by one who clearly lives every word she writes.  As Wendy Beckett says in her Foreword: 'to read Ruth Burrows...is to take into your mind and heart the insight of somebody who is close to God, and has the rare ability to share that closeness with others.  God has given her great gifts, and she has opened herself to receive them' (p. vii).  In this lies her appeal.  Teresa of Avila wrote from her own experience.  Ruth Burrows, too, writes from her own experience, albeit different from Teresa's.  So she too writes with authority--and it shows!  I especially appreciate how in this volume great care has been taken with the use of language, which is inclusive both as regards God and ourselves.\"\" --Elizabeth Ruth Obbard, Mount Carmel, July-Sept. 2010\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\nRuth Burrows is a Carmelite Nun from Quiddenham in Norfolk. She is the author of a number of bestselling books including Guidelines for Mystical Prayer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780860124252\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eItem Condition:\u003c\/b\u003e UsedLikeNew\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burns \u0026 Oates","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40218471301272,"sku":"AS-K4IP-6XNI","price":11.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0293\/7474\/2572\/products\/51sdHT_MFdL.jpg?v=1623232641","url":"https:\/\/www.pigeonhousebooks.com\/products\/the-essence-of-prayer-foreword-by-sister-wendy-beckett","provider":"Pigeonhouse Books, Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}