Sr Pascale Dominique Nau: 5 books

Saint Augustine was a zealous pastor. He often talked about prayer, explaining what prayer is, what we should ask and hope for-both for ourselves and our loved ones-, and how God might answer. Repeating the exhortation of St. Paul and of Christ himself to pray without ceasing, he emphasized the great...

Practicing lectio divina. Saint John of the Cross based his teaching of lectio divina on two major sources of spirituality: the Ladder of Monks, Guigo II's classic on the subject and the Rule of Carmel. From the first he received the structure: reading, meditation, prayer and contemplation, and from...

Blessed Pope John Paul II, in his autobiographical book "Gift and Mystery," recalled the prayers that marked his vocation in a special way. The first and most important of them are the "Godzinki" in honor of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. Since the introduction of...

Guigo II the Chartusian (1114 - c. 1193) was the ninth prior of the Grande Chartreuse. His Ladder of Monks is one of the great spiritual classics that has inspired the method of lectio divina –spiritual reading of the Holy Scriptures– since the early Middle Ages. We find its influence, for example,...

In his "Chapters on Prayer" Evagrius shows the dynamic connections between, on one side, the images in the mind of the man who wants to pray and, on the other, the passions and usual attitudes of mind and heart. It is only when images in the mind and the spirit are fully adapted in the light...