Böcker av Daniel Bourguet

In this meditation on John 17 we see how God has created the world as a sanctuary, a holy place, but it is also a battlefield in which God now wages holy war against sin and the powers. To participate in his holy war, we need first to be sanctified. It is into this paradoxical world, sanctuary and battlefield, that Jesus sends his disciples, asking his Father to perform the sanctifying work. because while the world is around them, it is also within them.This meditation will help you grow in your love for the world, while also facing its suffering-resisting evil because you are confident in the victory of Christ.

Although fifteen centuries old, this profound, luminous meditation of Matthew's gospel by the monk Philemon of Gaza speaks directly into the faith of today's reader. Philemon's meditations cover all four gospels; this translation from a French edition is the second to be published in English following the meditation on Mark.As he continues in contemplative prayer, Philemon hears within himself the call of the gospel account, contemplates Jesus, adores the Trinity, but is constantly challenged by the failures of understanding and lack of faith in the disciples as though he was with them himself on the roads of Galilee or in the courts of the temple in Jerusalem.The original translator of Philemon's manuscript, into French, was an anonymous, contemporary monk who entrusted his work to Daniel Bourguet, who in turn edited it, with the addition of helpful notes.

Happy or blessed are the pure in heart! As we look together with Daniel Bourguet at the texts concerning the 10 lepers and at Psalm 51 and then at the theme of tears, we pursue pathways of inner cleansing as operated by God himself . . . Going beyond forgiveness, each of us needs to recover inner purity of both the conscious and unconscious, an opening up to new relationship with others, with self and with God.By means of his broad understanding of the Church Fathers, the author also helps us discover the importance of tears, bringing to our attention certain figures in the Bible who wept: Jeremiah, Jesus . . . and even God! There are tears that cleanse and heal wounds to the soul.