Book: Discover God Daily - Seven Life-Changing Moments from the Journey of St Ignatius

This book illustrates how the 'slow work of God' (Teilhard de Chardin), an unfolding of God's plan for our lives over time, is a helpful and humanising way to look at faith. Using seven distinct moments from the life of St Ignatius, the authors illustrate how God works through the unexpected twists and turns of life and how this process plays out over time.

The Ignatian spirituality points from each are drawn out and explained in imagined conversations with God, reflections, scripture pieces and real-life applications. The authors have established a very popular style of conveying the essentials of Ignatian spirituality and readers will find the book both accessible and enjoyable.

It took 15 years for Ignatius of Loyola to be able to fully listen to what God was saying - why then should we expect a quick and dramatic intervention on our own spiritual journey and get disheartened when that doesn't occur? Maybe we apply the norms of our everyday and working life today - deadline-drive, with short turn-around times and instant results - to our spiritual life, instead of allowing the 'slow work of God'.

Using biographical details, the authors explore seven stages in the life of St Ignatius of Loyola, through reflections, personal stories, scripture and imagined conversations with God. The book presents a hopeful vision of a compassionate God who is always with us, working powerfully to guide us through the messy experiences of life.

Brendan McManus SJ works as a Spiritual Director and retreat giver in Belfast. Jim Deeds is a poet and author and works in Pastoral Ministry in the Diocese of Down and Connor. This is their third book together.

Discover God Daily: Seven Life-Changing Moments from the Journey of St Ignatius by Brendan McManus SJ and Jim Deeds is published in Ireland and the UK by Messenger Publications.

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