The living reminder: Service and prayer in memory of Jesus Christ - Hardcover

Nouwen, Henri J. M

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816412197 ISBN 13: 9780816412198

Publisher: Seabury Press, 1977

Synopsis

How service is prayer and prayer is service

In this rich and deceptively simple book, beloved writer Henri Nouwen speaks--from the heart and from his own experience--of the joys and challenges of religious service. He shows how ministry cannot be separated from spirituality and reveals how anyone involved in religiously motivated service can act as a healing, sustaining, and guiding reminder of Jesus.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

In this rich and deceptively simple book, beloved writer Henri Nouwen speaks-from the heart and from his own experience-of the joys and challenges of religious service. He shows how ministry cannot be separated from spirituality and reveals how anyone involved in religiously motivated service can act as a healing, sustaining, and guiding reminder of Jesus.

About the Author:

Henri J. M. Nouwen, (1932-1996) was the author of With Open Hands, Reaching Out, The Wounded Healer, Making All Things New, and many other bestsellers. He was the senior pastor of L'Arche Daybreak in Toronto, Canada, a community where men and women with mental disabilities and their assistants create a home for one another.

About this edition

• Publisher: Seabury Press
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0816412197
• ISBN 13: 9780816412198
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 80