| Hammer
& Fire
Fr. Raphael Simon
Hammer & Fire is a guide to Christian prayer
and contemplation. In simple but evocative prose, the author - a
contemplative monk, retreat master, and spiritual director - guides
the reader towards a deeper prayer life, and a closer union with
God.
Fr. Raphael describes his approach in the book's
Introduction:
"The human personality is not fulfilled
by the inauthentic, the false, the incomplete. On the contrary,
these are the sources of dissatisfaction, frustration, warping of
the mind and heart, anxiety, depression, neuroses, impulse and personality
disorders.... To become fully human and alive, to be integrated
and mature, to be effective in our service and undertakings, we
need to be transformed into Jesus Christ through a transforming
union, through which we become truly ourselves. This book is about
that transforming union."
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