Title: A chance to find your own retreat
Review: This book has been a source of peace for some difficult times for me. Starting or ending the day with the reading for the day, allows a reflection on a different kind of life. If you start reading the book daily 30 weeks before Easter (usually September) , the book more or less follows the Christian holiday year. The selections for the first 11 months are ordered by century, starting with Ignatius of Antioch ; through Saint Ambrose and Augustine, Martin Luther, , John of the Cross, up to Thomas Merton and the Carthusians. A short biographical paragraph is included about each selected author. In the final four weeks are included readings from different times, to allow some link between the ages: for example from Augustine to Julian of Norwich. Starting or ending the day in this Cloister is a nice journey to an inner sanctuary from the world. As Saint Clements of Alexander writes "God never fails to hear this inner conversation".
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