Coram Deo: In the Presence of God

Brother Lawrence's practice of the presence of God, with a full year of daily prayer.

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About this edition

"The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer."

For more than three centuries, the witness of Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection, an unlettered Carmelite lay brother who found God among the pots and pans of a monastery kitchen, has taught ordinary souls the simplest and most luminous path in all of Catholic prayer: to do everything, however small, for the love of God, and so to walk always in His presence.

This Sanctified Souls edition gathers his witness whole, the four Conversations and the fifteen Letters, and offers far more than a reprint.

Inside

• An original foreword on the Carmelite way of the lay soul
• A full year of daily prayer: for every day of the calendar, a saint or feast to keep you company, and a prayer to say
• Original prayers for the practice of the presence, words to turn the heart to God in the midst of work
• Eight full-color plates pairing original devotional art with the domestic-sacred masters: Vermeer, Chardin, de Hooch

Printed in full color and made to be kept close, it is a book for the kitchen and the quiet hour alike, that the whole of an ordinary year might become, like Brother Lawrence's kitchen, a place of the presence of God.

Details

• Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection, compiled by Joseph de Beaufort
• Scripture from the Douay-Rheims Bible
• Sanctified Souls, The Devotional Series
• Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 286 pages, printed in full color