Loved and Loving: A Guide for Prayer - Softcover

Bergan, Jacqueline Syrup; Schwan, CSJ, Marie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 197624143X ISBN 13: 9781976241437

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

Synopsis

Loved and Loving is a uniquely beautiful guide for prayer based on the Contemplation to Attain God's Love, the famous, crowning moment in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Each meditation in Loved and Loving is intended to lead us into a prayer experience of God's love; to deepen that experience by recalling it, remembering and collecting how much it is, how personal it is. As we are led into the heart of the meditation we receive this interior knowledge of God's love, as immeasurable, unconditional, abounding in kindness, and everlastingly faithful. In response to such great overflowing love, our hearts are moved to gratitude, to loving response and action; we offer ourselves, all that we are and have- "Take Lord and Receive." Loved and Loving is rich in options, possibilities, invitations, resources, and practical suggestions. It offers beautifully written commentaries, scriptural resources such as major theologians and spiritual masters as well as classical and contemporary poets and novelists. For those who long to have their lives magnify love, for retreat facilitators, and spiritual companions who long to help others in contemplating love in daily life, this book is a treasure. A very creative work of love about love.

About this title

About the Author:

Award winning authors, Jacqueline Syrup Bergan and Sister Marie Schwan ministered together for nearly forty years, as retreat directors and authors. They collaborated in the writing of several books related to Ignatian spirituality and contemplative prayer, eventually authoring the five-volume, highly acclaimed Take and Receive series based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. The great desire that energized their ministry was to set people's hearts on fire with the awareness of how much God loved them; to instill within the community of faith the image of a God of loving kindness, ever faithful, ever forgiving, ever present. This book, Loved and Loved was completed under the mantel of love, gratitude and grief. As they strived to finish this work, Jacqueline and Marie were aware of Marie's approaching death. This book represents the conclusion of their long and graced ministry together.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 197624143X
• ISBN 13: 9781976241437
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 382