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  • The Holy Longing

  • The Search for a Christian Spirituality
  • By: Ronald Rolheiser
  • Narrated by: Bill Loran
  • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (66 ratings)

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The Holy Longing

By: Ronald Rolheiser
Narrated by: Bill Loran
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Listeners will be fully engaged in a unique and altogether fascinating discussion of Christian spirituality. Rolheiser seeks to reconcile the rift between a smorgasbord of spiritual voices and an authentic Christian discipleship by the use of anecdotes, personal examples and a wide range of literary and cultural references. His starting point is the desire within us that longs irresistibly for fulfillment.

He indicates four essentials that support a healthy marriage of Christianity and spirituality: private prayer and morality, social justice, mellowness of heart and active participation in a Church community. His insights will help many who are searching to understand what spirituality means and how to apply it to daily living.

Rolheiser unravels the implications of the Incarnation and the Pascal mysteries and defines how spirituality impacts every aspect of the human experience. From the spiritual masters he weaves the best from the old and the new into a practical discipleship.

©2014 Ronald Rolheiser (P)2020 Franciscan Media
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This audiobook needs to be re-recorded

Content is pretty good, but the recording is outdated, low quality audio, and stiffly read. I almost quit it several times.

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Great content

Love the material. It was difficult to listen to. The reader struggled with saliva or loose dentures. Sorry but perhaps it needs a redo.

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Wonderful read

The content was outstanding. The reading was well done. Overall, I would recommend this work.

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I loved this book and will share it with others💚

Great resource to understand sexuality.
Wish I had read it as a young person!
A must for teens!

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Insightful and Lovely (but perhaps with an error somewhere?)

Overall, I think this was a very interesting and comprehensive read. I think there seems to have been a technical error, though—at one point, an entire section was repeated.

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Lazy and cheap production

This came from a CD recording. Before selling it as an audiobook, the chapters could have been indexed to match the book (not the length of each CD). The jarring and abrasive voice of the woman telling you to change the CD should have been removed. This is lazy and disrespectful to the reader and the author. How hard would it have been to do better?

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Nothing is based on subjective facts

The basis of his argument made no sence. Nothing was subjective. Honestly it was really creepy and mystical.

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