In this book we find a sure companion for this journey, showing us how to begin to pray, exploring the many sources of prayer that we may encounter, and sharing the experience of the saints and other spiritual writers from both Eastern and Western Christianity. The great variety of prayer, meditation and mystical experience in the Christian tradition is expertly treated, as well as the many stumbling blocks and obstacles that may come out way. Christian prayer needs to be discovered, or in many cases, rediscovered- it is that mountain waiting to be climbed.

"It is essential for us today to realize that life is more than the frenzied bustle of activity in which we all sometimes find ourselves. We must begin with the interior life… This is a fine book, drawing from many rich sources in the lives of great spiritual leaders. I commend it to those who are undertaking a serious prayer life for the first time and to those who are looking for a fresh beginning in their own lives of prayer."
-John J. Myers, Archbishop of Newark

Reverend Dr. James Tolhurst was spiritual director of the Pontifical English College in Valladolid and a parish priest in the Southwark diocese. He is the author of Comfort in Sorrow (which contains many of Cardinal Newman's prayers), and two volumes of reflections on the daily Gospel readings drawing on the spiritual wisdom of the Fathers of the Church - Come, Lord Jesus (Advent and Christmas Season) and The Glory of These Forty Days (Lent and Eastertide) - all also published by Gracewing.

Paperback, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 130 pages