The St. Francis Prayer Book: A Guide to Deepen Your Spiritual Life Jon M. Sweeney. Paraclete Press (MA), $14.95 (192pp) ISBN 978-1-55725-352-1 ...

BOOK PICK: St. Gregory’s Prayer Book. A Service of EWTN News, Inc. ... He covered Pope Francis's historic visit to the United States in 2015, and to Jerusalem and the Holy Land in 2014.

Sweeney's earlier book, The St. Francis Prayer Book: A Guide to Deepen Your Spiritual Life, has a similar structure. Praying: Finding Our Way Through Duty to Delight, J.I. Packer and Carolyn ...

Sweeney, author of the St. Francis Prayer Book and The Lure of Saints, sketches the true nature of the liaison, which he says was marked by natural affection, but never led to marriage or an affair.

Ultimately, St. Francis’ list of desirable virtues came to include devotion to the Lord, simplicity, purity, friendliness and common sense, according to The Mirror of Perfection, a book of ...