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Tools Matter: For Practicing the Spiritual Life
In her book, Thoughts Matter: The Practice of the Spiritual Life, Sister Mary
Margaret Funk, elaborating on the teaching of John Cassian, dealt with the eight
classic thoughts that distract us from the presence of God. In this book,
casting her net more widely, she treats more than two dozen tools or practices
of the spiritual life.
Many of these (such as fasting, vigils, ceaseless prayer and manual labor)
derive from the desert mothers and fathers of the fourth and fifth centuries,
but just as many come from later times: the practices of emptiness based on The
Cloud of Unknowing and The Book of Privy Counseling; the practice of recollection,
The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, Vol. II The Way of Perfection; for self-abandonment,
The Sacrament of The Present Moment by Jean-Pierre
de Caussade; of The Practice of The Presence of God, by Brother Lawrence
of The Resurrection; for colloquy, He and I by Gabrielle Bossis;
for the Little Way of Therese of Lisieux, Story of the Soul: The
Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux.
The book concludes with a chapter on discernment, spiritual direction, and the
limitations of each tool. Tools, says Sr. Meg, are means, not ends.
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