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"Springs of water will burst out in the wilderness, streams flow in the desert. Hot sands will become a cool oasis, thirsty ground a splashing fountain."

Is. 35:6-7, The Message

Facing East, Praying West

Poetic Reflections on the Spiritual Exercises

 by Kent Ira Groff

The book grew out of a sabbatical in India.

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If the old rule lex orandi est lex credendi (how we pray is how we believe) has any truth to it, then this little book is a real gem of both prayer and belief in practice. Kent puts together the big picture with a big heart—and a big God.

—Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F.M.

This very meaningful, very   powerful piece is the beginning of an edifice of witness that will stand for all time for all the world to see. It will be part of the chorus of voices across the ages now rising up to cry unjust to would-be preachers of justice.

—Joan D. Chittister, O.S.B.

The essence of spirituality today is to conjoin again what has been torn apart, the mind and the body, spirit and matter, prayer and justice, East and West. Kent Groff does this in Facing East, Praying West with passion and with poetry.

—John Philip Newell, author of Christ of the Celts: the Healing of Creation

Kent Ira Groff is a writer poet, spiritual companion, and retreat leader and founding mentor of Oasis Ministries for Spiritual Development, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. To view this book and his other writings see www.kentiragroff.com  

Facing East, Praying West is a 2010 publication of Paulist Press

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