Bücher von Richard G Manning

Life often feels random. We often wonder if anyone is in control. And then, quite suddenly and unexpectantly, He who is in control makes an appearance, a solid physically comprehensible experience. At that moment, we feel many deja vus of our past coming into alignment with our multi-faceted present and pointing to an unchangeable perfectly ordered future destination. We have experienced God. In this book, the author tells how He lost and found Jesus, in one day, and he continues to lose and find Him in one unfolding life, in Jesus' word, Prayer and sacraments. All three move together, orderly, drawing from the past to impact our present to point us to a glorious future.

The author hopes this small 'Primer' will stimulate deep contemplation of two of Christianity's most famous and powerful sayings within the context of where Jesus spoke them, chapters five, six, and seven from the Gospel of Matthew, the Sermon on the Mount. Having imbibed the spiritual truths from this starting point of Jesus's teaching ministry, the reader will then follow where Jesus leads to nine mountain-top experiences subtly and not so subtly embedded by Matthew within his gospel to contemplate nine biblical characters, Adam, Abel, Noah, Abraham, Joseph, Moses, (think of Moses and Elijah with Jesus during His mountaintop transfiguration), David, John the Baptist and Jesus. Lastly, the reader will contemplate the Catholic Church's sacraments as the source of strength Christ gives those traveling the arduous beatific journey away from self-indulgence towards self-giving.