Ever wish you had your own personal spiritual trainer? For Lent we offer you 40 of them.
1. Henri J. M. Nouwen: An Ash Wednesday prayer
2. Joyce Rupp: Focus on one thing only
3. Mother Teresa: Dying and rising
4. Thomas Moore: Cleansing the soul
6. Saint Teresa of Avila: Companion in the garden
7. Kathleen Norris: A new/old slant on sin
8. Pope John Paul II: Giving of yourself
9. Kathleen O. Chesto: Fasting from fast-ing
10. Saint Francis de Sales: Divine solitude
11. M. Scott Peck: Communal confession
12. Edith Stein (Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, O.C.D.): Thy will be done
13. Dorothy Day: Works of Mercy
14. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Discipleship and death
15. Frederica Mathewes-Green: Asking and giving forgiveness
16. Jessica Powers: Repairer of fences
17. Thomas à Kempis: Silence and solitude
18. Mohandas Gandhi: Fasting and the voice of God
19. Edwina Gateley: Contemplative prayer
20. Fyodor M. Dostoevsky: Choose to love
21. Joan Chittister, O.S.B.: A growing season
22. M. Basil Pennington, O.C.S.O.:A clash of wills
23. Meister Eckhart: True Conversion
24. Joseph Cardinal Berdarndin: The value of suffering
25. St. Francis of Assisi: Peace prayer
26. Megan McKenna: The fast I want
27. St. Vincent de Paul: God’s mercy
28. Ronald Rolheiser, O.M.I.: Mourning our losses
29. St. Thérèse of Lisieux: The vocation of love
30. Macrina Wiederkehr, O.S.B.: Real presence
31. Pierre Teillard de Chardin: Redemptive suffering
32. Archbishop Oscar Romero: Admit guilt
33. Phyllis Tickle: Spiritual season
34. Thich Nhat Hanh: Mindful consumption
35. Madeleine L’Engle: Repentant lambs
36. C.S. Lewis: The risks of love
37. Diana Hayes: Dying on the cross
38. Thomas Merton, O.C.S.O.: Give it time
39. Richard Rohr, O.F.M.: Being prayer
40. Mary Lynn Hendrickson: Turn off the technology
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