Hearts on Fire: Praying with Jesuits In order to receive a discount you must order 100 or more copies. Then the cost is $4.50

Price: $5.25

Author: Michael Harter, S.J.
ISBN: 978-1-880810-04-2
Media Type: Paper

"Were not our hearts on fire?" the two disciples of Jesus are reported by St. Luke (24:13-35) to have said to each other as they hurried back to Jerusalem to relate to their friends what had happened to them on their trip to the village of Emmaus. What they told their companions about their experience, and what they heard in return about others' encounters with the risen Jesus, deepened their faith and enabled them to carry on with renewed energy and hope.

Those who ponder Scripture know that what those disciples experienced can happen to any Christian who searches for a closer relationship with the Lord. From the time of St. Ignatius onwards, Jesuits have prayed the Scriptures, and have found their hearts set on fire; and they have shared their insights and questions with their companions and friends. They have taught classes and preached sermons and directed retreats. They have distilled their struggles, questions, and wisdom into journals and books. From such sources the prayers in this book have been gleaned.

All 117 of the prayers in this book are by some 40 Jesuits from the earliest years of the Society of Jesus up to the present. Some are direct paraphrases of material in the Spiritual Exercises; others are practical applications stemming from retreat meditations. Other than a general grouping of the prayers according to the four "weeks" of the Exercises, however, no particular order is imposed on the prayers. The prayer of a Jesuit steeped in the piety of the 17th century may well find itself set next to one of a social reformer of the 20th or 21st; the reflections of a heady theologian or an ecclesiastical statesman may follow the thoughts of an ordinary parish priest.

Add to Cart: