The Jesuit Guide To (Almost) Everything - James Martin [199]
—John L. Allen, Jr., author of The Future Church
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Fratribus carissimis in Societate Jesu
Grateful acknowledgments are made to the following sources for granting permission to use their material: The poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., are used with the permission of the British Province of the Society of Jesus. Selections from A Pilgrim’s Testament: The Memoirs of St. Ignatius Loyola, translated by Parmananda Divarkar, S.J.; The Spiritual Exercises: A Translation and Commentary, by George E. Ganss, S.J.; and One Jesuit’s Spiritual Journey: Autobiographical Conversations with Jean-Claude Dietsch, by Pedro Arrupe, S.J., are used with the permission of the Institute of Jesuit Sources. Selections from The Song of the Bird, by Anthony De Mello, S.J., and He Leadeth Me, by Walter Ciszek, S.J., are used with the permission of Random House, Inc. Selections from With God in Russia, by Walter Ciszek, S.J., are used with the permission of America Press, Inc.
THE JESUIT GUIDE TO (ALMOST) EVERYTHING: A SPIRITUALITY FOR REAL LIFE. Copyright © 2010 by James Martin, S.J. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Contents
Chapter One – A Way of Proceeding
Chapter Two – The Six Paths
Chapter Three – What Do You Want?
Chapter Four – Beautiful Yesterdays
Chapter Five – Beginning to Pray
Chapter Six – Friendship with God
Chapter Seven – God Meets You Where You Are
Chapter Eight – The Simple Life
Chapter Nine – Like the Angels?
Chapter Ten – More by Deeds Than by Words
Chapter Eleven – Surrendering to the Future
Chapter Twelve – What Should I Do?
Chapter Thirteen – Be Who You Is!
Chapter Fourteen – The Contemplative in Action
Acknowledgments
For Further Exploration
Index
About the Author
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