Holy Wisdom: Instructions on the Spiritual Life, Mortification, and Prayer She Is Near is a

She Is Near is a moving companion for Catholics seeking to grow in love of Christ and His Mother

More than a catalogue of errors

His physical endurance

In this burlesque but nonetheless profound Dantean odyssey

Holy Wisdom: Instructions on the Spiritual Life, Mortification, and Prayer She Is Near is aDrawn from the English Benedictine tradition in exile and shaped by the wisdom of the Desert Fathers, the mysticism of Dionysius, and the spiritual clarity of St. Teresa and the Cloud of Unknowing, this volume presents one of the most profound guides to the interior life ever composed in the English tongue. Venerable Father Augustine Baker (15751641), a Welsh monk of the English Benedictine Congregation, composed these treatises for the instruction of