The Gospels for Prayer

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877939861
• ISBN13: 9780877939863
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Ave Maria Press
• Length: 733 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Note Taking

I have owned a "plastic" cover of this book for about 10 years and it has become the only text I use for reading the gospels. Most important for me is that there is plenty of room on each page to write my own comments and thoughts. The paper is thin but I use pencil and it works fine. As someone who preaches on a regular basis, I have used this volume to develop my own commentary with notes useful to me for preparing homilies. I am busy looking for an edition of the epistles that is as useful as this collection of the gospels.

Fine book for Scriptural meditation

I like this text because the passages are arranged one to a page for meditative reading without notes and study material. Passages are cross referenced with other gospels at the bottom of each page. Introduction on various approaches to gospel based prayer is very helpful. And the price is right!!!!

The Gospels for Prayer

Michael Hansen has produced an aesthetically beautiful book on how to pray with the Gospels. If you are used to reading or trying to pray with a standard bible or new testament chances are you will have lots of footnotes and comments and the text condensed into small columns on each page. Michael has produced the Gospels with the major passage from each section of the four Gospels on one page at a time, with no footnotes and not comments. It is a book that is designed to allow you to pray and enter more deeply your relationship with Jesus without distraction. Michael has also an excellent introduction outlining different ways of praying that can help you to use this book more effectively. It is a beautiful book that I cannot recomment highly enough.

So simple - yet absolutely profound

Michael Hansen SJ in his book "The Gospels for Prayer" has freed the Gospel texts. I didn't realise just how much was packed into so few pages until I began to pray with my copy of "The Gospels for Prayer". I didn't realise just how most printed versions of the Gospels are cluttered and filled with helpful notes for study etc. But what if you want to just pray with them? For years I have struggled in my prayer to find and keep my place in the Gospels whilst I pray. But now, when I pick up my copy of "The Gospels for Prayer" I know that I have already begun to pray. Each page sets free the text for prayer. Uncluttered, clear and simple. This book is incredible. Such a simple idea, yet profound. I can't thank Michael enough for his innovative and Spirit filled book. Brilliant!