Flunking Sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor
A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor
Biography & Memoir
| Author: | Jana Reiss | ISBN: | 9781612610337 |
| Publisher: | Paraclete Press | Publication: | October 1, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Paraclete Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Jana Reiss |
| ISBN: | 9781612610337 |
| Publisher: | Paraclete Press |
| Publication: | October 1, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Paraclete Press |
| Language: | English |
This wry memoir tackles twelve different spiritual practices in a quest to become more saintly, including fasting, fixed-hour prayer, the Jesus Prayer, gratitude, Sabbath-keeping, and generosity. Although Reiss begins with great plans for success ("Really, how hard could that be?" she asks blithely at the start of her saint-making year), she finds to her growing humiliation that she is failing - not just at some of the practices, but at every single one. What emerges is a funny yet vulnerable story of the quest for spiritual perfection and the reality of spiritual failure, which turns out to be a valuable practice in and of itself.
This wry memoir tackles twelve different spiritual practices in a quest to become more saintly, including fasting, fixed-hour prayer, the Jesus Prayer, gratitude, Sabbath-keeping, and generosity. Although Reiss begins with great plans for success ("Really, how hard could that be?" she asks blithely at the start of her saint-making year), she finds to her growing humiliation that she is failing - not just at some of the practices, but at every single one. What emerges is a funny yet vulnerable story of the quest for spiritual perfection and the reality of spiritual failure, which turns out to be a valuable practice in and of itself.
