by: Joseph Oppitz, C.Ss.R.
(0)Publication Date: May 21, 2016
Book Size: 5.5" x 8.5"
Pages: 178
Binding: Perfect Bound
Color: Standard Black & White
Cover Finish: Glossy
Paper: 60# Uncoated White
Book Synopsis
In this book we introduce you to Sister Maria Celeste Crostarosa, a marvelous mystic of the eighteenth century, whose message still has a lot to say to our twentieth century.
Today, we are seeing a new openness toward the prayer life in all its many forms. People long to satisfy that deep hunger hidden in all of us for union with the divine. It is in this area that Maria Celeste has something to offer. She is a mystic who believes that prayer, in all its forms, from beginning to end, is a gradual deepening of a union which already began with God’s loving creation of us in His own image. Its natural direction and, if we are faithful to prayer, its natural terminus is divine union with the Trinity, through the life of Jesus, with his Holy Spirit accomplishing the work within us.
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About The Author
Joseph W. Opptiz, C.Ss.R., 1926-2011, was a Professor of Philosophy when he came to know and love Sister Maria Celeste. He was a renowned Redemptorist missionary and retreat master who survived the sinking of the Andrea Doria in 1956.
Here he brings to light the life and message of the foundress
of the Redemptoristine Nuns,
Sister Maria Celeste Crostarosa.
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