The attract of Saints: A Protestant Experience of Catholic Tradition.

The attract of Saints: A Protestant Experience of Catholic Tradition. by way of Jon M. Sweeney. Brewster, Ma.: Paraclete Pres 2005 Pp 237 Hardcover. $2195

There are many traditions of Christianity that were one time shared by all branches of the faith. In latter years, various forms of meditation, including Centering Prayer, lectio divina, or spiritual reading, pilgrimages to sacred places, retreats, and other practices have been rediscovered in Protestant worship, as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but public and private. Practices like as these were lost to greatest in number Protestant denominations in the wake of the Reformation in the sixteenth hundred Times are changing, and the lines dividing Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox are becoming a great deal of thinner. This book explores the meaning of saints in history and today, offering many layered reflections upon how Protestants might learn from the richness of the Catholic imagination.

Full of colorful characters, wise insights, and deep-felt appreciation for faith, The decoy of Saints is an exploration of by what means exemplary-and sometimes unusual-men and women have impacted the two the Church and the world. This compelling guide includes profiles of ancient, medieval, and recent figures representing East and West; the sublime and the unusual, with special chapters exploring differences between the Catholic and Protestant imaginations; for what cause saints were made in the past and by what mode they are today; devotions and spiritual practices; the radical triumph of the Protestant idea; miracles, doubt, and belief; tears, pain, foolishness, apparitions, stigmatas, and more strange, saintly behavior.

Also included are the personal reflections of other religious teachers and writers who have daily practices of relating to the saints, including Abbot M Basil Pennington, Mitch Finley, Fr Murray Bodo, Rev Mary E Haddad, and others.

- Regis Jordan, OCD

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