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Authors: Jacques Philippe, George Driscoll (Translator), Jannic Driscoll
ISBN-13: 9780818909061, ISBN-10: 0818909064
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Alba House
Date Published: January 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Jacques Philippe

Book Synopsis

We live in a day and age characterized by an extraordinary amount of agitation and lack of peace. This tendency manifests itself in our spiritual as well as our secular life. In our search for God and holiness, in our service to our neighbor, a kind of restlessness and anxiety take the place of the confidence and peace which ought to be ours. What must we do to overcome the moments of fear and distress which assail us all too often in our lives? How can we learn to place all our confidence in God and abandon ourselves into his loving care? This is what is taught in this simple, yet profound little treatise on peace of heart. Taking concrete examples from our everyday life, the author invites us to respond in a Gospel fashion to the upsetting situations we must all confront. Since peace of heart is a pure gift of God, it is something we should seek, pursue and ask him for without cease. This book is here to help us in that pursuit.

Table of Contents

Prefacevii
Part 1Interior Peace, The Road To Saintliness
1.Without Me, You Can Do Nothing3
2.Interior Peace and Apostolic Fruitfulness7
3.Peace and Spiritual Combat8
4.Peace Is Often at Stake in the Struggle10
5.The Reasons Why We Lose Our Peace Are Always Bad Reasons13
6.Goodwill, a Necessary Condition for Peace15
7.Goodwill: Sufficient Condition for Peace18
Part 2How To React To That Which Causes Us To Lose Peace
1.The Troubles of Life and the Fear of Being Without23
2.Our Difficulty in Believing in Providence28
3.The Fear of Suffering30
4.To Grow in Confidence: A Child's Prayer33
5.One Abandons Oneself Completely or Not at All37
6.God Asks For Everything, But He Doesn't Necessarily Take Everything39
7.What to Do When You Are Unable to Abandon Yourself?40
8.The Lord is My Shepherd, I Shall Not Want41
9.Attitude When Confronted With the Suffering of Those Close to Us45
10.In All People Who Suffer There is Jesus49
11.The Faults and Shortcomings of Others50
12.Patience Towards Others55
13.Patience Vis-a-vis Our Own Faults and Imperfections56
14.God Can Draw Good Even From Our Faults61
15.What Should We Do When We Have Sinned?64
16.Unrest When We Have Decisions to Make69
17.The Royal Way of Love78
18.Some Advice in the Guise of a Conclusion81
Part 3What The Saints Tell Us
Juan de Bonilla85
Saint Francis de Sales87
Teresa of Avila95
Marie of the Incarnation97
Francois-Marie-Jacob Libermann99
Blessed Padre Pio109

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