![]() ![]() Brother Elias relives his long sojourn on an island off the coast of Spain, where he meditated for many hours each day. The author recalls his near death experience at ten, and the time when God suddenly appeared to protect him, minutes before he would have been murdered. The author speaks of the healing, transformative power of inner silence, and of the mysterious Round Dance of the Trinity. Contemplation of the second kind is sudden, unexpected: a gift of God unmediated by the senses, intellect, memory, or imagination. ![]() The book outlines two kinds of contemplation, the first involving activity on the part of the person seeking intimacy with God. Book Review by Amazon - Tears of an Innocent God invites the reader to explore the ways of the One who would have us perceive, listen, and love as Christ did, and still does: not by imitation, but through a gradual inner transformation.Tears of an Inocent God - Brother Elias Marechal, OCSO.The Rule of Benedict: A Spirituality for the 21st Century - Sr. ![]()
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