Golden indeed is this masterwork of the Franciscan friar, St. Peter de Alcántara, detailing the Franciscan method of mental prayer. Mental prayer, the surest method (combined with the sacraments) of approaching close to God, has never been so simple to approach. St. Peter outlines this method in a remarkably straightforward and readable way, such that anyone can follow and practice it. Nor is the book ponderous and dreary; it's simple and approachable, and anyone can follow this way to drive away his enemies. After all, Our Lord himself told us that some “can got out by nothing, but by prayer and fasting”.

Containing two full sets of meditations designed specifically for beginners in mental prayer, along with instructions on how to prepared for mental prayer, begin it, proceed with it, and end it, the work also includes a set of common temptations that make mental prayer difficult, and how to defeat them, along with a set of advice on how to begin and maintain the practice.

Constantly exhorting us to prayer and the love of God, this will be a blessing to anyone who wishes to follow St. Francis, and by him Christ.

Praise be to Christ the King!

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