Pray All Ways [Paperback]

Edward Hays (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1981

Father Hays challenges us to explore the common and ordinary in our lives as the stuff from which are made whole and holy people.

Product Details

• Paperback: 164 pages
• Publisher: Forest of Peace Publishing (November 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0939516012
• ISBN-13: 978-0939516018
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,704,217 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent roadmap to the mysticism of the everyday., February 7, 1999

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This review is from: Pray All Ways (Paperback)

Through the prayers and meditations in this book, I've enhanced my faith greatly. Father Hays helps us to see the Divine in the everyday. I highly recommend this book and plan to buy several copies as gifts for friends and family members whom I think would benefit from the messages contained in this work.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Spiritual Challenge of the Twenty-First Century, December 2, 2007

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This review is from: Pray All Ways: A Book for Daily Worship Using All Your Senses (Paperback)

In the preface to the 2007 edition of his classic on prayer, Edward Hayes defines the spiritual challenge of the twenty-first century as "an exodus out of the God-dwelling space of churches to experience God inhabiting all spaces." We are called not simply to engage in formal times of prayer, Hayes writes, but to live in communion with Jesus and the father. "Different activities of daily life are not distractions, but rich soil for prayer." He mentions the chapters on the prayers of Tears and Napping, described below, as ways to discover a new style of prayer.

The Prayer of Napping is presented in the context of Mark 4: 38-41 in which Jesus falls asleep on a fishing boat in the midst of a violent storm. Hayes addresses "the heresy of hurry-hurry," a mistaken notion that without our "rest-less" efforts, God's plan to bring about the kingdom will fail. He also recounts Scripture stories in which God delivered messages to slumbering people. The Prayer of Tears chapter is rich with images: tears are prayer-beads, sacraments of humility. Tears, the author explains, signal loss of control, and they are prayer "because prayer is communion with that which is beyond our control: God." The fifth stanza in Hayes' Prayer of Tears summarizes the message: "It would seem/that from among the many beautiful prayers, / the sacred songs and canticles of praise, / my tears may be the best worship of all."

Each of the 15 chapters consists of a reflection on the prayer topic and an original prayer poem. This revised work on prayer belongs in every Catholic home and at the fingertips of all those engaged in faith formation.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pray All Ways, December 3, 2010

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This review is from: Pray All Ways: A Book for Daily Worship Using All Your Senses (Paperback)

Edward Hayes is an incitefully spritual author. I pick this book up almost daily, and sometimes more than once. His prayer for patience, among many others, is very comforting and all are innovative. He is not offering prayers for people of any one religion - it seems they address all religions, or I should say spiritual persuasions. Definitely a keeper. I am giving a copy to each of my closest friends.