“A prophetic book is that rare book that speaks to one’s time with a timeless wisdom. This is one such book. It contains the kind of wisdom that flows down from above, but which one finds condensated in its purity only on spiritual peaks known only to spiritual mountain climbers. One can only hope that enough persons in a dry and thirsty land, which has largely forgotten what Christianity is, as Kierkegaard rightly said, will find their way to it, drink deeply, and be filled.”—JOHN BETZ
“This work exposes us to a forgotten tradition and contextualizes it in such a way that self-denial becomes desirable, not frightening. All clerical formation should include this in its reading list.”—DCN JAMES KEATING
“David Fagerberg’s remarkable new work is one of the most original and important developments in contemporary liturgical theology.”—REV. STEPHEN MORGAN
“This book is a treasure box full of the deep words of many unvalued and largely unread spiritual voices of the last few centuries—from Jean-Jacques Olier and Louis of Blois to Louis of Montfort and François Fenelon.”—J. STEPHEN RUSSELL
“This is a deeply moving reflection by David Fagerberg—personal, luminous, and threaded throughout with pearls of wisdom, both his own and those drawn from his long company of saints and spiritual masters.”—REV. SŁAWOMIR NOWOSAD
“Drawing on more than eighty Catholic spiritual masters between 1500 and 1900, Fagerberg undertakes the formidable task of reframing the traditional language of annihilation, mortification, nothingness, crosses, and self-denial within the horizon of love and its perfection.”—JAMES CHUKWUMA OKOYE, CSSp
“This book will be a theological and spiritual guide for the everyday practice of humility, self-denial, and love as a condition for the possibility of true worship of God. Here, David Fagerberg offers us the quintessence of liturgical spirituality.”—REV. KENNETH O. AMADI
