Flunking Sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor

by Jana Riess

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This wry memoir tackles twelve different spiritual practices in a quest to become more saintly, including fasting, fixed-hour prayer, the Jesus Prayer, gratitude, Sabbath-keeping, and generosity. Although Riess begins with great plans for success ("Really, how hard could that be?" she asks blithely at the start of her saint-making year), she finds to her growing humiliation that she is failing--not just at some of the practices, but at every single...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1557256608

ISBN13:9781557256607

Release Date:November 2011

Publisher:Paraclete Press (MA)

Length:192 Pages

Weight:0.45 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.1"

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