Grow closer to God through six weeks of prayer focused on a specific spiritual topic.
Since their original release in the late 1980s, the Take and Receive prayer-book series has sold more than 150,000 copies, and its five themed books are hailed as classics in the Ignatian prayer tradition. The first two books in the series are being repackaged and reprinted by Loyola Press. Love: A Guide for Prayer and Forgiveness: A Guide for Prayer provide topic-based opportunities for people to grow deeper in their relationship with God through prayer. The theme of each volume directly correlates with a segment of the Spiritual Exercises, though no previous experience with the Exercises is needed to benefit from these books. Covering 36 days over a six-week period, each day offers scriptural passages with commentary, followed by a suggested approach to prayer for that day. Especially helpful is a section at the beginning of the book that explains the different types of solitary prayer that readers will be asked to engage in throughout the six weeks, such as meditation, contemplation, and centering prayer. Ideal for all who desire a closer relationship with God, these books help us reimagine what it means to pray and help us see with new eyes God’s presence and activity in our daily lives.

Love: A Guide for Prayer (Take and Receive)

Religion & Spirituality

Bergan, Jacqueline

Schwan, CSJ, Marie

Christian Books & Bibles

Loyola Press

Since its original release in the late 1980s, the Forgiveness book in the Take and Receive prayer-book series has been helping people re-imagine what it means to pray and see with new eyes God’s presence and activity in their daily lives. Forgiveness: A Guide for Prayer have now been repackaged and reprinted by Loyola Press.Hailed as a classic in the Ignatian prayer tradition, this book by Jacqueline Syrup Bergan and Sister Marie Schwan provides a topic-based opportunity for people to grow deeper in their relationship with God through prayer. The topic of forgiveness directly correlates with a segment of the Spiritual Exercises, though no previous experience with the Exercises is needed to benefit from the book.Covering 36 days over a six-week period, each day offers scriptural passages with commentary, followed by a suggested approach to prayer for that day. Especially helpful is a section at the beginning of the book that explains the different types of solitary prayer that readers will be asked to engage in throughout the six weeks, such as meditation, contemplation, and centering prayer.

Forgiveness: A Guide for Prayer (Take and Receive Series)

Meet Ignatius of Loyola. A ladies’ man of the court turned prayerful man of faith, Ignatius devoted his adult life to developing a way to build and deepen our personal relationship with God. He created the Spiritual Exercises to help others develop a fulfilling life of prayer and faith. Praying with Ignatius of Loyola integrates the life of Ignatius with principles of spirituality and offers an entry point for the reader through quotations, reflection questions, poetry, and prayer inspired by the spirituality of St. Ignatius. In this new edition of a classic book, Praying with Ignatius of Loyola makes Ignatian spirituality available to everyone and enriches an active, contemporary life with support and direction. Wedding mind and heart, Bergan and Schwan’s unique approach to a 500-year-old practice will inform you, inspire you, and, with the grace of God, transform you.

Praying with Ignatius of Loyola

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.

Loved and Loving: A Guide for Prayer

Bergan, Jacqueline Syrup

Worship & Devotion

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Birth: A Guide for Prayer offers 36 meditations that will help readers to know, love, and follow Jesus more closely in their daily lives. The meditations invite contemplation on the earthly life of Jesus, from his incarnation through his public ministry. Based on the second week of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, the book incorporates key exercises such as Ignatius' "Two Standards" and "Three Kinds of Persons." Each meditation features a Scripture passage, a short commentary, and a suggested approach to prayer for that day. This is the third book in a series entitled Take and Receive. Each of these titles offers support and direction for private prayer and can also be used in prayer groups, faith-sharing groups, and Bible studies. The authors, Jacqueline Syrup Bergan and Marie Schwan, CJS, have extensive backgrounds leading retreats, parish days of renewal and prayer, and spirituality workshops.

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