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Feed Your Soul &
Revitalize Your Relationship with the Lord
"Nine Days to..." offers a guided nine day retreat to be lived at home or on vacation, in the subway or on the train... for people who have little time but wish to devote ten minutes a day to spiritual growth.
Two meditations are offered for each day. One can be experienced in the morning and the other at any opportune moment during the day or evening.
The journey includes reflection exercises, the Word of God, a meditation from a saint or another great spiritual author, and a resolution—all geared to help the participant dive into an authentic spiritual experience.
Prayer changes our lives. Through fruitful prayer, God freely graces us with the gifts of joy, peace, courage, and determination.
We can often find, however, that, despite our good intentions, prayer doesn’t come easily. We often have obstacles in our path—distractions from the outside or our own internal weaknesses—that keep us from praying or being faithful to our Christian commitment to Love.
Allow your heart to be guided gently by Fr. Jacques Philippe toward a joyous prayer life that feeds your soul and revitalizes your relationship with the Lord.
Feed Your Soul &
Revitalize Your Relationship with the Lord
"Nine Days to..." offers a guided nine day retreat to be lived at home or on vacation, in the subway or on the train... for people who have little time but wish to devote ten minutes a day to spiritual growth.
Two meditations are offered for each day. One can be experienced in the morning and the other at any opportune moment during the day or evening.
The journey includes reflection exercises, the Word of God, a meditation from a saint or another great spiritual author, and a resolution—all geared to help the participant dive into an authentic spiritual experience.
Prayer changes our lives. Through fruitful prayer, God freely graces us with the gifts of joy, peace, courage, and determination.
We can often find, however, that, despite our good intentions, prayer doesn’t come easily. We often have obstacles in our path—distractions from the outside or our own internal weaknesses—that keep us from praying or being faithful to our Christian commitment to Love.
Allow your heart to be guided gently by Fr. Jacques Philippe toward a joyous prayer life that feeds your soul and revitalizes your relationship with the Lord.
About Fr. Jacques Philippe
With over one million copies sold in 24 languages, Jacques Philippe’s writings on themes such as prayer, interior freedom, and peace of heart have become classics of modern Catholic spirituality.
Jacques Philippe was born on March 12, 1947 in Lorraine, France. After studying mathematics in college, he spent several years teaching and doing scientific research. In 1976, he met the then recently-founded Community of the Beatitudes and answered the Lord’s call to follow Him through this vocation (see below for more information on the Community of the Beatitudes). He then spent several years in Nazareth and Jerusalem immersing himself in the study of Hebrew and the Jewish roots of Christianity. In 1981, he traveled to Rome to study theology and canon law, was ordained a priest in 1985, and began his work as a spiritual director, working in the formation of priests and seminarians of the Community. In 1994, he returned to France, where he assumed various responsibilities including the development of training in the Community, and participation in its General Council. He has also preached retreats regularly in France and abroad and has consolidated his principal retreat themes into several books on spirituality. In recent years, he has devoted himself primarily to spiritual direction and preaching retreats.
To Inquire about having Father Philippe come speak at your parish or event, please email Info@ScepterPublishers.org
About Fr. Jacques Philippe
With over one million copies sold in 24 languages, Jacques Philippe’s writings on themes such as prayer, interior freedom, and peace of heart have become classics of modern Catholic spirituality.
Jacques Philippe was born on March 12, 1947 in Lorraine, France. After studying mathematics in college, he spent several years teaching and doing scientific research. In 1976, he met the then recently-founded Community of the Beatitudes and answered the Lord’s call to follow Him through this vocation (see below for more information on the Community of the Beatitudes). He then spent several years in Nazareth and Jerusalem immersing himself in the study of Hebrew and the Jewish roots of Christianity. In 1981, he traveled to Rome to study theology and canon law, was ordained a priest in 1985, and began his work as a spiritual director, working in the formation of priests and seminarians of the Community. In 1994, he returned to France, where he assumed various responsibilities including the development of training in the Community, and participation in its General Council. He has also preached retreats regularly in France and abroad and has consolidated his principal retreat themes into several books on spirituality. In recent years, he has devoted himself primarily to spiritual direction and preaching retreats.
Quotes From
"Nine Days to Rediscover the Joy of Prayer"
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“Beyond our sins and our misery, the discovery of our condition as children of God. God loves us just as we are, with an absolutely unconditional love, and it’s this love that forms our deepest identity.” |
“Prayer lets us glimpse and savor a happiness that isn’t of this world, one that nothing here below offers us, this happiness from God that we are destined for and for which we were created.” |
“Faced with God, lies are no longer possible; there’s no escaping, no justification, no more masks to cling to. We are obliged to recognize who we are, with our wounds, our weaknesses, our inconsistencies, our egoism, our hardness of heart, our secret complicities with evil, etc.” |
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“Especially today: there is so much ugliness, evil, and heaviness in our world that God, who is faithful and wants to revive our hope, doesn’t miss the opportunity to reveal the treasures of his kingdom to his children.” |
"Man seeks God, but God seeks man far more." |
“Prayer permits us to go from our ideas about God, from our representations (always either wrong or too narrow) to an experience of God. And that’s very different.” |
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"Experience shows that faithfulness to prayer, even if it sometimes goes through difficult periods, moments of dryness or trying times, progressively leads us to find in God a profound peace, a security, a happiness that makes us free with regard to others and to things." |
"It is prayer that creates this unity. Over time and with faithfulness, prayer reveals itself to be a marvelous “unifying center” of our lives." |
"Thanks to a regular encounter with God in prayer, everything, in the end, becomes positive: our desires, our good will, our efforts, but also our poverty, our errors, our sins." |
Quotes From
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“Giving God absolute primacy in relation to all other things (work, human relationships, etc.) is the only way to establish a right relation with things, a true investment and holy distance that lets us keep interior freedom and unity in our lives.” |
“Prayer lets us glimpse and savor a happiness that isn’t of this world, one that nothing here below offers us, this happiness from God that we are destined for and for which we were created.” |
“Faced with God, lies are no longer possible; there’s no escaping, no justification, no more masks to cling to. We are obliged to recognize who we are, with our wounds, our weaknesses, our inconsistencies, our egoism, our hardness of heart, our secret complicities with evil, etc.” |
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“Experience shows that faithfulness to prayer, even if it sometimes goes through difficult periods, moments of dryness or trying times, progressively leads us to find in God a profound peace, a security, a happiness that makes us free with regard to others and to things.” |
“We go through combats, suffering, and arid periods in prayer life. But if we persevere faithfully, from time to time we taste an indescribable happiness, a peace and reassurance that are a foretaste of paradise.” |
“Beyond our sins and our misery, the discovery of our condition as children of God. God loves us just as we are, with an absolutely unconditional love, and it’s this love that forms our deepest identity.” |
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“Especially today: there is so much ugliness, evil, and heaviness in our world that God, who is faithful and wants to revive our hope, doesn’t miss the opportunity to reveal the treasures of his kingdom to his children.” |
"Man seeks God, but God seeks man far more." |
“Prayer permits us to go from our ideas about God, from our representations (always either wrong or too narrow) to an experience of God. And that’s very different.” |
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“Giving God absolute primacy in relation to all other things (work, human relationships, etc.) is the only way to establish a right relation with things, a true investment and holy distance that lets us keep interior freedom and unity in our lives.” |
“Prayer lets us glimpse and savor a happiness that isn’t of this world, one that nothing here below offers us, this happiness from God that we are destined for and for which we were created.” |
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“Experience shows that faithfulness to prayer, even if it sometimes goes through difficult periods, moments of dryness or trying times, progressively leads us to find in God a profound peace, a security, a happiness that makes us free with regard to others and to things.” |
“Beyond our sins and our misery, the discovery of our condition as children of God. God loves us just as we are, with an absolutely unconditional love, and it’s this love that forms our deepest identity.” |
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“Especially today: there is so much ugliness, evil, and heaviness in our world that God, who is faithful and wants to revive our hope, doesn’t miss the opportunity to reveal the treasures of his kingdom to his children.” |
“Faced with God, lies are no longer possible; there’s no escaping, no justification, no more masks to cling to. We are obliged to recognize who we are, with our wounds, our weaknesses, our inconsistencies, our egoism, our hardness of heart, our secret complicities with evil, etc.” |
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"Man seeks God, but God seeks man far more." |
“Prayer permits us to go from our ideas about God, from our representations (always either wrong or too narrow) to an experience of God. And that’s very different.” |
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