The Spiritual Writings of Pierre Favre

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Author: Pierre Favre, S.J.,Translators: Edmond C. Murphy, S.J. Pierre Favre, S.J. and Martin E. Palmer, S.J.
Introduction By: Edmond C. Murphy, S.J. and John W. Padberg, S.J.
ISBN: 978-1-880810-25-5
Media Type: Cloth

Pierre Favre was the person whom Ignatius of Loyola thought to be the best director of the Spiritual Exercises. Favre has left to us a legacy consisting of his spiritual autobiography (traditionally called the Memoriale) and a series of letters and instructions.

 The present book begins with a lengthy introduction that places Favre's life and work in its historical setting. It then presents the first English edition of Favre's works, drawn from the critical edition published in the Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu.

 A spiritual autobiography is a record of God's dealings with an individual and of that person's response to God. Favre's Memoriale is very much in that tradition: God is at the center of the activities he records, the one who takes the initiative, showing Favre what path to follow and helping him along the way. In turn, Favre records these graces and favors and his response to them. Favre's prayer is always a dialogue, whether this be with the trinitarian God or with the angels, the saints, and even with himself as he strives to understand the experiences he is undergoing.

 The twenty-seven selected letters and instructions have a range of recipients and topics, and extend from 1540 to 1546. Writing in the midst of thousands of miles of journeying from one end of Europe to the other, Favre addresses Ignatius, young Jesuit scholastics in Paris, the Carthusian prior in Cologne, Francis Xavier in India, and King John III of Portugal.

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