Prayer Works: Getting a Grip on Catholic Spirituality

If you've never read a book on prayer, you've got the right one. ...and if you've read lots of books on prayer, you've still got the right one.

Prayer Works is a unique blend of great storytelling, laugh-out-loud humor, and rock-solid instruction. Matthew Leonard has the rare gift of making deep topics easy to understand and digest.

Practical and inspirational, this book will set your heart on fire and teach you how to engage in a life of divine intimacy you never thought possible. Put simply, Prayer Works will radically transform your spiritual life.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Why Pray?

Chapter 2: What Is Prayer?

Chapter 3: Prayer & the Purgative Way (i.e. 3 Stages of the Spiritual Life)

Chapter 4: Illumination & Union (i.e. 3 Stages of the Spiritual Life)

Chapter 5: How Does Prayer Work?

Chapter 6: Talking to God

Chapter 7: Meditation

Chapter 8: Contemplation

Chapter 9: The Sound of Silence

Chapter 10: How to Progress

Chapter 11: To Whom Do We Pray?

Chapter 12: Practically Speaking

Chapter 13: Abandonment

Praise:

“I invite you to sit down and begin reading a book that will not only inform you but transform you, your prayer life, and your spiritual life in Christ." Dr. Brant Pitre, Renowned Author & Scripture Professor - Augustine Institute, Graduate School of Theology

 

"I guarantee you will walk away from this book with a new understanding of prayer and an intense desire to live in deeper communion with the Lord." Curtis Mitch, Author, Professor, & Assoc. Editor of the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible