The Hermit Bird's Song: Echoes of Heaven on Earth

By A Monk Hermit Of New Clairvaux

This is a book about reflective praying. It invites a person to ask: What does it mean to pray? Traditional answers to this question affirm that prayer and praying is talking with God, conversing with God from the heart, a journey of the mind to God, or the ascent of the mind to God. While all of these answers may in fact be true, separating the mind from the heart always remains a possibility. Within the monastic tradition, however, there is a distinct understanding of prayer as a transformative heightening of one's consciousness; a bringing together of one's heart and mind.This book, in tradition with the same ancient Christian monastic teaching, offers praying in prose and poetry that can aid us in our spiritual journey. These prayers lead a person through the entire mystery of God from the loving heart of divinity itself into the great expression of that love--the Incarnation--and further into a revelation of the Holy Trinity and one's integration into divine eternity and blessed happiness. These prayers are tools that can help transform our consciousness. They can wake us up to the marvelous goodness and presence of God, the all-loving and generous. They can evoke a personal transfiguration of our human depths into the very mystery of God in whose image and likeness we have been created.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1466442263
• ISBN13: 9781466442269
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"