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Prayer: Our Deepest Longing By Ronald Rolheiser, Franciscan Media, 2013, 80 pp., ISBN 978-161636-657-5, $8.99 (paper).
Written by one of the foremost spiritual guides in the United States, this book is vintage Rolheisersimple but not simplistic, brief but profound. The purpose of this work is to help people move beyond their struggles with prayer, to a place where they can clearly hear God and others say, "I love you" (viii, 37-38). The title reflects Jesus's invitation to struggling disciples in Lk 5:1-7, who after a full night of fishing had caught nothing. However, when they respond to His invitation to "put out into the deep" they catch so many fish that their boats begin to sink. The busyness and the constant...