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Finding Our Way to God offers an approach to spiritual direction using mental prayer that can be used to create healing and peace when conducting guidance sessions with seekers. Based on the teachings of St. Alphonsus Liguori, the founder of the Redemptorists, Fr. Dennis Billy's approach examines the moral life in the context of spiritual direction. While thoroughly Catholic, St. Alphonsus was so pastoral -- focusing on the poor and marginalized -- that the approach can be easily learned and used by adherents of other religious, philosophical, and ethical traditions. In Finding Our Way to God, Fr. Dennis Billy: Teaches active listening, which is essential for spiritual directors. Emphasizes the continuity between a person's spirituality and morality through growth in the virtues and gifts of the Holy Spirit. Provides an understanding of how the model of spiritual direction can be adapted to meet the needs of a wide variety of people. Helps the reader use Alphonsian spirituality as a backdrop for conducting spiritual direction.

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In Finding Our Way to God, Fr. Dennis Billy pragmatically reveals how to gauge spiritual growth and bridge the gap between how we live today and how to live the good life of Christ, the source of all goodness. This work of love is a delight and an elixir for the heart. Clergy, religious, spiritual directors, pastoral counselors and adult faith formation ministers will find a treasure map to this good life that abounds with the fruits and gifts of the Spirit. -- (06/14/2018) As a son of St. Alphonsus, Fr. Dennis Billy continues Alphonsus' mission to lead others to a deeper, more intimate relationship with God. Readers of Finding Our Way to God will find it informational, inspiring, practical, pastoral, and helpful, whether they are spiritual directors, people currently in spiritual direction, or those curious about what it involves and whether they might benefit from it. -- (06/14/2018) An important work for current times! Solidly anchored in Alphonsian spirituality and moral theology, Fr. Dennis Billy's book, like a triptych, unfolds to reveal how it is truly Catholic, yet easily adapted to embrace ecumenical and interfaith settings of spiritual direction. Through his comprehensive treatment of the scope and skills required for spiritual direction; overview of the moral life; review of virtues, gifts, and fruits of the Holy Spirit, Finding Our Way to God is an excellent renewal resource for veteran spiritual directors, and it's a handbook for beginning spiritual directors and those without formal training in direction whom the Holy Spirit has chosen to work with those in need. Readers will discover how the common tasks of spiritual direction and the moral life come into focus and merge. -- (06/14/2018)

As a son of St. Alphonsus, Fr. Dennis Billy continues Alphonsus' mission to lead others to a deeper, more intimate relationship with God. Readers of Finding Our Way to God will find it informational, inspiring, practical, pastoral, and helpful, whether they are spiritual directors, people currently in spiritual direction, or those curious about what it involves and whether they might benefit from it. -- (06/14/2018) An important work for current times! Solidly anchored in Alphonsian spirituality and moral theology, Fr. Dennis Billy's book, like a triptych, unfolds to reveal how it is truly Catholic, yet easily adapted to embrace ecumenical and interfaith settings of spiritual direction. Through his comprehensive treatment of the scope and skills required for spiritual direction; overview of the moral life; review of virtues, gifts, and fruits of the Holy Spirit, Finding Our Way to God is an excellent renewal resource for veteran spiritual directors, and it's a handbook for beginning spiritual directors and those without formal training in direction whom the Holy Spirit has chosen to work with those in need. Readers will discover how the common tasks of spiritual direction and the moral life come into focus and merge. -- (06/14/2018) In Finding Our Way to God, Fr. Dennis Billy pragmatically reveals how to gauge spiritual growth and bridge the gap between how we live today and how to live the good life of Christ, the source of all goodness. This work of love is a delight and an elixir for the heart. Clergy, religious, spiritual directors, pastoral counselors and adult faith formation ministers will find a treasure map to this good life that abounds with the fruits and gifts of the Spirit. -- (06/14/2018)

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Fr. Dennis J. Billy, CSsR, is an American Redemptorist of the Baltimore Province with advanced degrees from Harvard University, The Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum), and The Graduate Theological Foundation. He taught for more than twenty years at the Alphonsian Academy of Rome's Pontifical Lateran University. He is currently the Karl Rahner Professor of Catholic Theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation. He has authored numerous books and articles on various religious topics.

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