a Month of Virtue: Faith: 30 Days to More Believing Heart

Many Catholics feel their faith slipping away - not because they have stopped believing, but because they have stopped feeling it. Prayer is dry. Mass seems routine. The inner warmth that once made the faith feel alive has quietly drained away. And so they conclude, with sadness, that something must be wrong with them.A Month of Virtue: Faith begins by correcting that conclusion - and the correction is the most consoling thing this book offers: what you are feeling is not the loss of faith. It may be faith in its purest and most demanding form.Over thirty short daily readings, this traditional Catholic devotional forms the virtue of faith as the Church has always understood it: not as a feeling of religious certainty, but as the intellect's firm assent to all that God has revealed - held on His word alone, sustained even in darkness, exercised even in dryness. Drawing on the saints who have walked exactly this road - Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Saint John of the Cross, Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, and Blessed John Henry Newman - each day offers a brief reflection, a verse from the Douay-Rheims Bible, a single concrete resolution, and a short closing prayer.This month moves through four movements: what faith truly is (and is not); how it is lived before God in prayer, in the sacraments, and in the long dark night that many believers pass through; how it is expressed and passed on in life with others; and how it perseveres against personal doubt all the way to a consecrating act of faith that offers the whole soul to God on the strength of His word alone.For the Catholic who wants to believe more deeply, the one who feels they have lost a faith they cannot quite locate, and the one who carries hard questions alongside a faithful life - this is the month's work.

Pagina's: 161, Paperback, Independently published