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Teresa of Avila writes engagingly and honestly, allowing us to follow her struggles with not only her health, but with the conflict between her desire for a life of prayer in a real relationship with God and her attachment to the comforts and distractions of her not- at- all strict convent.

This book offers a unique presentation of the Orthodox faith: starting with a historical introduction and moving on through anthropology, ecclesiology and the faith of the Church, to the Church at Prayer and the Last Things.

A book of simple meditations accompanied by line drawings which follow St Benedict in his discovery of the Gospel. It features Benedictine realism.

Occasionally in the Church some spirit is raised up who proves to have a universal significance that endures through the ages. Such a one was Francis of Assisi, whose life continues to inspire countless thousands of Christians, and even people of other faiths and none.

A short introduction to Hildegard of Bingen, newly declared Doctor of the Church, and a woman of such formidable accomplishments that one wonders if there was anything she did not master!