Edward M Hays

More than depicting the patron saint of poverty, peace, ecology, and animals, this book shows Francis, who wrestled with opposing personalities his whole life, as a holy model for becoming fully oneself as a unique individual. Original.

Sickness, divorce, falling in love losing a job, the death of a loved one or crossing over a border of one of life's stages all can make us temporary emigrants into zero gravity. These 148 original psalms are prayers for life's pilgrims calling us, like medieval troubadours, to the gravity-free joy of falling in love with God.

"Held by God...like a feather, which...lets itself be carried by the wind:" so wrote medieval mystic Hildegard of Bingen. To float like a feather requires freedom not so much from gravity as from attitudes about life's problems. These short reflections promise a day's worth of insight for life's journey.

The journeys of Lent and of life are seldom straight roads, but are usually like complicated mazes or labyrinths. While we often can feel lost along the complex twisting patterns of the labyrinth path, to travel the maze of the Way is the greatest of all adventures. This guidebook of daily reflections for this journey of transformation has the power to change "to radically enrich" our way of thinking, loving and believing. Each day's reflection-which takes but a few minutes to read-is followed by brief questions/exercises aimed at inspiring personal implications. Short of time? A few minutes daily with Father Hays can nourish a hungry soul for 24 hours. Both books of daily Lenten reflections-The Ascent of the Mountain of God and The Lenten Labyrinth-maximize our limited resources of time, making our journey through Lent into the heart of Holy Week a time of real renewal.