title: Adventures in Prayer: Reflection on St Teresa of Avila, St John of the Cross and St Therese of Lisieux
author: Noel O'Donoghue
description: 'One of the most perceptive spiritual writers of our time' - Religious Life Review<br /><br /><div> </div><div class=MsoSubtitle style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0in"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi- mso-bidi- mso-bidi-font-style: italic">"Burns and Oates and Continuum have done a singular service by making available to North American readers of the work of Noel Dermot O'Donoghue who was a lecturer in Philosophical Theology and Director of Studies in the Faculty of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh until he retired in 1988. Anyone who has read other books by O'Donoghue will recognize in the book under review the lively, creative, imaginative and even at times whimsical mind of a scholar who was an incisive reader of the three Carmelite doctors of the church, Teresa of Jesus, John of the Cross and Therese of Lisieux to whom are devoted the three parts of this book. Unfortunately O'Donoghue is an excellent guide to the writing s of these Carmelite doctors of the church. He walks through their texts with insights that even seasoned readers will find enlightening. He was especially helpful to the modern reader with his ability to bring earlier language into a modern idiom.</span> <div> </div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi- mso-bidi- mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast- mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">I highly recommend O' Donoghue's </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi- mso-bidi- mso-fareast- mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Adventures in Prayer</span></i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi- mso-bidi- mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast- mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> as a genuine adventure in reading Carmelite classics with a guidance of a gifted scholar who has engaged texts with rare verve and uncommon insight. I expect that anyone who reads this text will want to sample other books by this learned Irishman who spent much of his life in Scotland teaching and writing with a truly creative imagination."</span></div> (<i>Catholic Books Review</i>)<br /><br /><div>"In church libraries, Adventures in Prayer would be useful as a reference source for a serious study of prayer." R&amp;#233; Stooksberry, <em>Congregational Libraries Today</em>, January/ February 2008</div> (R Stooksberry)<br /><br /><div> </div><div class=MsoSubtitle style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0in"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi- mso-bidi- mso-bidi-font-style: italic">&#8220;Burns and Oates and Continuum have done a singular service by making available to North American readers of the work of Noel Dermot O&#8217;Donoghue who was a lecturer in Philosophical Theology and Director of Studies in the Faculty of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh until he retired in 1988. Anyone who has read other books by O&#8217;Donoghue will recognize in the book under review the lively, creative, imaginative and even at times whimsical mind of a scholar who was an incisive reader of the three Carmelite doctors of the church, Teresa of Jesus, John of the Cross and Therese of Lisieux to whom are devoted the three parts of this book. Unfortunately O&#8217;Donoghue is an excellent guide to the writing s of these Carmelite doctors of the church. He walks through their texts with insights that even seasoned readers will find enlightening. He was especially helpful to the modern reader with his ability to bring earlier language into a modern idiom.</span> <div> </div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi- mso-bidi- mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast- mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">I highly recommend O&#8217; Donoghue&#8217;s </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi- mso-bidi- mso-fareast- mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Adventures in Prayer</span></i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi- mso-bidi- mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast- mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> as a genuine adventure in reading Carmelite classics with a guidance of a gifted scholar who has engaged texts with rare verve and uncommon insight. I expect that anyone who reads this text will want to sample other books by this learned Irishman who spent much of his life in Scotland teaching and writing with a truly creative imagination.&#8221;</span></div> (Sanford Lakoff)<br /><br /><div>"In church libraries, Adventures in Prayer would be useful as a reference source for a serious study of prayer." R&#233; Stooksberry, <em>Congregational Libraries Today</em>, January/ February 2008</div> (Sanford Lakoff)
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  THE RACCOLTA OR COLLECTION OF INDULGENCED 
  PRAYERS & GOOD WORKS 
  By AMBROSE ST JOHN 
  Of the Oratory of St Philip Neri, Birmingham 
  The 1910 Edition 
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  TO THE HOLY SOULS IN PURGATORY ALL ESPECIALLY 
  WHO HAVE BEEN BENEFACTORS OF THE CONGREGATION 
  OF THE ORATORY AND ARE NOW IN NEED OF THE 
  PRAYERS OF THOSE WHOM ON EARTH THEY AIDED TO LOVE 
  AND SERVE GOD 
  THIS TRANSLATION IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED 
  The Oratory, Edgbaston November 2, 1857 
  NIHIL OBSTAT: �HENRICUS S. BOWDEN, Censor Deputatus.  
  IMPRIMATUR: � EDMUNDUS SURMONT, Vicarius Generalis.  
  Westmonasterii, die 10 Maii, 1909.  
  The Oratory, Birmingham,  November 28, 1909. 
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  PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION - IN MEMORIAM AM