Bøker av Fr. Bill McCarthy

Prayer and worship are human activities in the human spirit, "we worship in spirit and truth". This book is focused mostly on the actual practice of the most ancient form of prayer about the holy name of Jesus in both the Eastern and Western traditions of the Christian and Catholic faith. The book itself is a guide to Christian meditation, prayer and praise and a resource to use. The principles of the Our Father and practical steps of worship and praise, the Church Fathers, the Philokalia and their teachings on the Jesus Prayer are related. Aspiration, Centering Prayer, passive and active meditation, and Charismatic praise and tongues as well as the purification and healing dimensions and the scientific studies on prayer and meditation are also explained.

Christianity is made up of various practices, sacraments, prayers, meditations, devotions, praise and worship sessions, prayer meetings, purification methods, fasting and Biblical Nutrition recommendations and parish, community settings.Each one of these are concrete practices not doctrinal, or conceptual or theory or academic studies, but practical practices that people do! This book goes over ten practices that are central in our Christian and Catholic faith and beliefs: Prayer and the Our Father; Meditation and the Rosary; Devotion to the Virgin Mary; Praise, Baptized in the Holy Spirit; The Gift of Tongues; Christian Community; Seeking Healing and Wholeness; Sacraments as the Eucharist; Biblical Fasting; and Biblical Nutrition for a healthy body.