Book No. : 2082263670 Name : BY WAY OF GRACE - Moving from Faithfulness to Holiness ( 8 Virtues That Open the Heart to God ) Category : SPIRITUALITY Author : PAULA HUSTON Publisher : Loyola Press Price : $180.00 No. of page : 205 Description : One moring, in a hermitage nestled in California's lovely Big Sur country, Paula Huston read a Scripture verse that she had read hundreds of times be fore: "Let anyone who thirsts come to me and drink," This time, however, the verse penerrated her heart as never before. Much has happened to her in the preceding years; a return to Christianity, a conversion to Catholicism, a choice for a radically simplified life, an increasing hunger for prayer and the Eucharist. Now, Huston understood that all these things were just the beginning. God was calling her to a deeper experience of holiness, an experience that would require arduous work - and the simplest surrender. by Way of Grace is Huston's beautifully written and compelling account of what she learned during her journey into a deeper faith. She gained a keen sense of the profound challenge that orthodox Christianity presents to the secular mind-set she had uncritically absorbed. Her journey also took her deep into a study of the lives and writings of the great saints of the Catholic mystical tradition, where she was spiritually strengthened by the Christian virtues of prudence, temperance, fortitude, justice, humility, faith, hope, and love. Most important, she discovered that Jesus' call to "come to me and drink" is an invitation that will fully satisfy a yearning heart. This book reveals the essential simplicity of holiness and how we can - by way of grace - know, love, and serve God. Saints and virtues in this book : * St. Basil on prudence, the art of seeing clearly * St. Gregory on temperance, the art of holding a balance *St. Bernard of Clairvaux on fortitude, the art of courageous continuing * St. Thomas Aquinas on justice, the art of forgiving * St. Teresa of Avila on humility, the art of honest self-appraisal * St. Francis de Sales on faith, the art of believing in things unseen * St. Therese of Lisieux on hope the art of parient waiting * St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) on charity, the art of loving the enemy