The Imitation of Christ

<b>This meditation on the spiritual life that has inspired readers from Thomas More and St. Ignatius Loyola to Thomas Merton and Pope John Paul I.&#160;<br></b><br>Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than <i>The Imitation of Christ.</i> Written by the Augustinian monk Thomas &#224; Kempis between 1420 and 1427 it contains clear instructions for renouncing wordly vanities and locating eternal truths.&#160;&#160;No book has more explicitly and movingly described the Christian ideal: My son to the degree that you can leave yourself behind to that degree will you be able to enter into Me. With a new Preface by Sally Cunneen author of <i>In Search of Mary: The Woman and the Symbol.</i><br><br>God is our home but many of us have strayed from our native land.&#160;&#160;The venerable authors of these Spiritual Classics are expert guides&#151;may we follow their directions home.<br>&#151;Archbishop Desmond Tutu