Flunking Sainthood

Flunking Sainthood

Flunking Sainthood

Jana Riess

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Editorial:
Paraclete Press
Año de edición:
2011
Materia
Vida y práctica cristianas
ISBN:
9781557256607
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This wry memoir tackles twelve different spiritual practices in a quest to become more saintly, including fasting, fixed-hour prayer, the Jesus Prayer, gratitude, Sabbath-keeping, and generosity. Although Riess begins with great plans for success ("Really, how hard could that be?" she asks blithely at the start of her saint-making year), she finds to her growing humiliation that she is failing--not just at some of the practices, but at every single one. What emerges is a funny yet vulnerable story of the quest for spiritual perfection and the reality of spiritual failure, which turns out to be a valuable practice in and of itself. 

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