Prayer is not dessert but is meat and potatoes for all who walk with faith the way of spiritual growth. With over 65,000 copies in circulation, this collection of prayers by Father Hays has nourished numerous hungry souls, infusing their personal prayer with new devotion. If you are hungry for spiritual nourishment in your prayer, this book can become a substantial part of your daily diet of the Divine. Besides a menu of daily prayers for each of the four seasons, along with newly created psalms for Lent, Easter and other sacred seasons, it is without peer as a guide for the pilgrim path of prayer.
Prayers for a Planetary Pilgrim calls us out of a parochial way of praying into one that is truly global. It provides a pattern for prayer that responds to the compelling challenge of the Spirit to expand our religious boundaries to embrace ever larger and wider worlds, to find a new and more expansive spirituality that keeps pace with the great scientific advances on the last century.