Monday, 12 August 2019

A Month with… Edited by Rima Devereaux



These 4 books, A Month with Julian of Norwich, St Augustine, St Teresa of Avila, and St Francis, follow the same simple format – providing a dozen or so lines from the writings of the relevant spiritual guide for each morning and evening of a month.

These are offered without comment – and that was perhaps one of the things I liked most, Rima Devereaux doesn’t give a gloss to the words or force a particular interpretation, there is space for the words to breath and your own response to form.

Of the 4, the last I read was St Francis and this was the one I didn’t engage with as much of it was medieval “Life of...” with some odd supernatural happenings rather than the spiritual reflections of the other collections.

If more follow I would definitely follow them.

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