Waiting for the Presence: Spirituality of Pilgrimage to the Holy Land

Waiting for the Presence is an ancient Eastern concept of staying in a holy place until God speaks to the pilgrim. In this book Fr. Wild shows how this way can still be practiced today. At once deeply personal and revealing it is also discreetly silent on some special graces from the Lord. Here the reader will find a burning love for Christ the Lord who can accompany one on the lonely top of the Mt. of Olives or beside the starlit midnight shore of the Sea of Galilee. Beyond a strong link to Catherine Dohertys spirituality and the Desert Fathers you will discover here an openness to the Holy which is in fact a profound interiorization of the Holy Places. Holy enthusiasm breathes throughout the book and can be contagious as it was for the typesetter. I hope more pilgrims who come to the Holy Land will heed Fr. Wilds practical hints on how to do rather how to live a true pilgrimage experience. --Fr. Raphael Bonanno OFM HOLY LAND magazine Jerusalem Fr. Robert Wild is a member of the late Catherine de Hueck Dohertys Madonna House community in Combermere Ontario Canada. He lives as a poustinik spending much of his time in prayer spiritual direction and writing. He helped to edit Catherine Dohertys works but has also published several books himself among which are Desert Harvest The Post-Charismatic Experience Journey to the Lonely Christ and His Face Shone like the Sun. Ordained in 1967 he joined Madonna House in 1971. He came to the Holy Land in the fall of 1983.