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Each
meditation is followed by a colloquy that helps the
person at prayer to start a friendly conversation with God where
acts of praise and love, petition and thanksgiving are made,
together with good resolutions for the future. Here we are at
the very heart of prayer, which is a heart-to-heart encounter in
faith with the living God.
Divine
Intimacy is the highest state attainable on earth. In this
union of love, the soul produces acts of love which have an
immense apostolic influence on a multitude of souls. This
knowledge of the ways that lead to God, according to the
teaching of the renowned Spanish mystics, is distilled into the
pages of this book.
This
edition of Divine Intimacy has been elegantly
bound in a flexible black leather cover with gold
embossing, marbled endsheets, clearly printed on bible-type paper [click
here to open a sample page in PDF],
has gilded page edges and 2 marking ribbons.
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with gold embossing, sewn binding, gilded page
edges, marbled endsheets, 2 satin marking ribbons,
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Fr.
Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, OCD
(1893-1953)
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Fr. Gabriel was a Discalced
Carmelite priest who became one of the most revered masters of
the spiritual life in the 20th Century.
He acquired a vast knowledge of the ways
that lead to holiness and to union with God. His experience with
souls, whom he guided to the heights of perfection, was
outstanding.
He was an expert in the spiritual and mystical
doctrine of St. Teresa of Jesus (Avila) and of St. John of the
Cross.
The Discalced Carmelite nuns of the Monastery of St.
Joseph in Rome were the heirs of the Father Gabriel’s vast
output of published works and private manuscripts. For ten
years, he guided these nuns as their confessor and spiritual
director, and it was they who helped him to arrange his material
in line with the course of the liturgical year, while following
the ascent of the soul to transforming union with God.
Almost as a last testament, he
published this in a book titled Divine
Intimacy, in 1952, a year
before his death.
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