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The Practice of the Presence of God

With Spiritual Maxims

By Brother Lawrence
Foreword by Mother Tessa Bielecki

$11.95
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9781590304266
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Shambhala Publications
04/22/2015
Pages: 152
Size: 4.25 x 6.75
ISBN: 9781590304266
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This enduring classic of devotion consists of the letters and recorded conversations of a simple seventeenth-century lay brother who, through the most ordinary of activities, was able to achieve a profound intimacy with God. At any moment and in any circumstance, he taught, we can “practice the presence of God”—by thinking on Him, loving Him, and offering up our daily tasks as acts of worship. This volume also includes Brother Lawrence’s “Spiritual Maxims,” a summary of his teachings in the form of short aphorisms and sayings.

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Author Bio
Brother Lawrence

Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection (1611–1691) was a Carmelite monk who spent the greater part of his life in the Monastery of the Discalced Carmelites in Paris.

Mother Tessa Bielecki

Mother Tessa Bielecki is the co-foundress and former abbess of the Spiritual Life Institute, a modern Carmelite community with retreat centers in Colorado and Ireland. She is the author of Holy Daring, Teresa of Avila: Ecstasy and Common Sense, and Teresa of Avila: Mystical Writings.

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