Does God Still Hear Me?: a catholic's guide to prayer when faith feels silent

By MARIAN CROSSLEY

You have not stopped believing. You have stopped feeling heard.
There is a kind of faith that no one writes about - the faith of the person who has shown up faithfully for years, said every prayer, received every sacrament, and somewhere along the way quietly began to wonder whether any of it is reaching anyone at all. Not a crisis. Not a collapse. Just a silence so complete and so prolonged that it has started to feel like an answer in itself.
Does God Still Hear Me? was written for exactly that person.
Drawing from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the dark night theology of Saint John of the Cross, the shocking private letters of Mother Teresa - who prayed in documented interior darkness for fifty years without abandoning her faith or her work - and the final agonizing months of Saint Th r se of Lisieux, this book makes a case that will genuinely surprise you: the silence you have been interpreting as evidence of failure may be the most recognized, most documented, and most theologically significant experience in the entire Catholic spiritual tradition.
This is not a book that will hand you five techniques for praying better. It will do something far more valuable. It will tell you the truth - about what the Church actually teaches about silence, about what the saints actually experienced in prayer, about what the sacraments actually offer independent of what you feel when you receive them, and about why the quiet, stubborn, unspectacular faithfulness you have been maintaining through the silence is not the least impressive version of faith.
It may be the most impressive version of all.
Does God Still Hear Me? is the book you did not know existed - the one that finally sits with the hardest question in your interior life and refuses to look away.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H6N28BWF
• ISBN13: 9798184277400
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"