His Way: An Everyday Plan for Following Jesus [Paperback]

David Knight (Author), David M. Knight (Author)

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Publication Date: April 1, 1977

This book is light and humorous in style, challenging and thought- provoking in content. It has sold over 150,000 copies and been used as a growth tool in several dioceses. It is a book about knowing and responding to Jesus Christ, and living our faith in a growing, dynamic way. It gets to the heart of lay spirituality as a spirituality which focuses, not on 'renunciation," but on union with Christ through involvement in the world of work and family, social and civic life.

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Fr. David M. Knight is an internationally recognized authority on both religious life and the spirituality of the laity. He has been a pastor three times and diocesan Spiritual Director of Cursillos. He has given more than four hundred workshops missions and retreats on lay spirituality and on the religious vows throughout the United States and Canada, England, Ireland, Australia, Peru and Guatemala. He holds a Master's Degree in philosophy and a Doctorate in Theology. He has taught spirituality at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., at Loyola University in New Orleans, Christian Brothers University in Memphis, and at the Memphis Theological Seminary (Presbyterian). Currently he is pastor of Sacred Heart Church and spiritual director of the Hispanic Community of Memphis. He has written thirty-two books.

Fr. Knight's books are the fruit of his experience. After his ordination in 1961 he spent three years as a bush pastor in Chad (Africa). He then earned a Doctorate in Theology at Catholic University and was made pastor two parishes - one black, one white - with the mission of integrating them. He has been a pastor three times, has taught in both boys' and girls' high schools, including a rural black high school and school of girls under the care of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. He spent four years as a campus minister at Christian Brothers University, and has been chaplain to five different communities of women religious, both active and contemplative. He has given priests' retreats or performed other ministry in over half the dioceses of the United States and in forty states, including Hawaii and Alaska.

For the ten years after Vatican II Fr. Knight gave workshops and retreats on the religious vows based on his book Cloud by Day, Fire by Night. He then wrote the landmark book on the spirituality of the laity, His Way, which has sold over 150,00 copies and been used in renewal programs in dioceses throughout the country. Since then his focus has been on pastoral plans and programs of spiritual growth among the laity. He believes there is a hunger for spiritual growth today and that dioceses and parishes should respond to this hunger with long-term, consistent programs of spiritual formation which build on each other in a progressively challenging way. The development of such programs, and their integration into parish life and ministry, is the goal of his life.

Product Details

• Paperback: 246 pages
• Publisher: His Way Inc; 2 edition (April 1, 1977)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0942971248
• ISBN-13: 978-0942971248
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,178,243 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars His Way, June 10, 2001

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This review is from: His Way: An Everyday Plan for Following Jesus (Paperback)

His Way is an excellent book for any Christian and Non-Christian who is interested in encountering the person of Jesus in their lives and is willing to answer the questions "What are you looking for in life?" "What do you want your life to mean?" and who is willing to accept Jesus' invitation to "Come and See" and follow him and begin to live by his values and attitudes instead of the socially accepted moral codes and rituals of the society in which we live. The author presents three elements on how to encounter Jesus in our lives.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Lay spirituality for the Christian reader, August 24, 1998

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I have bought many copies of this book, it is a stable in my library and is relevant to more than just the Catholic laity. Any Christian will find this a spiritual feast. A non-Chirstian will find an elegant discussion on the impact believing in Jesus has on Christians and the gift of Jesus that makes them different from non-Christian. Non-Catholics will find a Catholic view of Mary, and how the Mother of God fits into the Catholic religious faith.

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5.0 out of 5 stars I Bought a Bunch!, November 29, 2001

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This review is from: His Way: An Everyday Plan for Following Jesus (Paperback)

I was at one time several years ago in a Secular Franciscan Order. God caused a miracle in the mountains of Mescalero, New Mexico that is bearing good fruit to this day. I believe they still use this book in their formation. It is a marvelous book written by a man of God who is also one of God's holy, Catholic priests. It is clear by the content and the words chosen to express it that he lived by the words he has penned. These words are those of one who has striven to live a life intent on imitating that of the Master Who was both God and man. To live up to that calling is one that can only be accomplished by God's unmerited favor, aka, Grace. Living a prayerful life, one that relies on God for everything is the only way. His Way makes this clear by what is said, how it is said, and what is not said.