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Spurred on by the need to consider the mystery of prayer, Father Thomas Green combines the insights of two experts he knows well - St. John of the Cross and St. Ignatius of Loyola. The Favourite themese of these two saints repeatedly emerge in the excellent commentary on teh contemporary experience of the spiritual life: prayer as "loving attentiveness," the darks nights of sense and spirit, seeing by faith, the beauty and cost of "loving service," and labouring with Christ.
He aslo offers consolation and adivce for when prayer and action seem to dry up and become useless. The result, a felicitous merging of contemplation and action, is a must reading for those who pray amidst the clamour of the contemporary world. Drinking from a Dry Well is a worthy sequel to an enduring favourite, a summing up of the personal prayer and apostalic witness of a seasoned director of souls.