Archbishop Alban Goodier

Broschiertes Buch

Overcoming Worldly Concerns

Beschreibung

No matter how pure or virtuous your intentions may be, you can easily get so caught up in temporal pursuits -- the things of this world -- that you forget about God and His intimate, sustained involvement in your life. But with help from this book, you can turn that around by making an examination of your life that will orient you on the fertile path to Jesus Christ. It's not enough simply to call yourself a Christian or attend Sunday Mass: you need to decide to live for God rather than for yourself. To help you do so, Archbishop Alban Goodier explains how giving yourself to God will ennoble you and bring you great rewards. He details the many ways in which you will gain happiness by rising above the concerns of this world, even amid the cares and duties of your daily life! He shows how the very fact of God's existence -- to say nothing of achieving spiritual closeness with Him -- gives meaning and dignity to your life in a way that worldly possessions or success never can. Uncompromising, incisive, and comprehensive, Overcoming Worldly Concerns is a much-needed wake-up call for every "comfortable Christian." Abandon yourself fully to God and learn: * The little-known fact that will inspire you to resist sin with all your strength * The ways in which you've been throwing away God's grace * The secret of the saints that makes them such a powerful help for you today -- if only you ask for that help * How you can be certain of God's love for you at any given moment * How you can arm yourself for the spiritual warfare that is sure to beset your soul * The many forms and levels of prayer (and why just knowing them is not enough) * The most common hindrances to prayer -- and how to overcome them

Autor

These pages remind us that God's grace can conquer every human flaw . . .Christ came not to call saints but to make them -- often out of weak, stupid, and sinful men. That's why the saints are not only models of holiness for us to imitate; they're reminders that God's grace can outshine every human flaw.As Alban Goodier's classic Saints for Sinners shows us, even the greatest saints had to battle the same stubborn vices, temptations of the flesh, and bouts of spiritual dryness that afflict you and me today. In these pages, with a style that perfectly blends hagiographical detail, spiritual meditation, and a skilled storyteller's touch, Archbishop Goodier brings us the tales of: The mercenary fighting man and itinerant gambler who left behind his rough soldier's habits and founded a religious order to care for the sickThe backward, sickly teenager, disowned by his family and dogged by the Inquisition, who became a miraculous healer and paragon of humble simplicityThe willful Tuscan beauty with a bad reputation who forsook vanity and lust to answer God's call to live in poverty and penitenceThe brilliant, brooding Spanish nobleman who gave up everything to be a missionary -- only to see most of his efforts failThe royal chaplain and daring Counter-Reformer who escaped the gallows but had to endure a lifelong interior martyrdom of doubt and discouragementThe hedonistic heretic and womanizer who traded worldly pleasure for divine happiness, and became one of the Church's greatest theologiansAnd other inspiring tales of imperfect souls "made perfect in infirmity"Read these stories and find in them delight and encouragement, as well as hope. You'll come to see that there is no one so sinful, weak, or desolate that God has not already raised another like him to the heights of glory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sophia Institute Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 140mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 195g
• ISBN-13: 9781644137000
• ISBN-10: 1644137003
• Artikelnr.: 63432830