Radical Amazement - anyone know about it?

[seagal]

Has anyone read the book Radical Amazement by Judy Cannato? My mother is studying this book with a group and she is highly recommending it. The information on the author’s site seems to indicate that it would be a worthwhile read but I’d like to hear from a Catholic point of view. My mother is staunchly Catholic but I sometimes question whether she’s edging into “new age” stuff.

 

[Pfaffenhoffen]

Has anyone read the book Radical Amazement by Judy Cannato? My mother is studying this book with a group and she is highly recommending it. The information on the author’s site seems to indicate that it would be a worthwhile read but I’d like to hear from a Catholic point of view. My mother is staunchly Catholic but I sometimes question whether she’s edging into “new age” stuff.

Your mother’s feedback would be wonderful to hear, please.

 

[Dorothy]

Has anyone read the book Radical Amazement by Judy Cannato? My mother is studying this book with a group and she is highly recommending it. The information on the author’s site seems to indicate that it would be a worthwhile read but I’d like to hear from a Catholic point of view. My mother is staunchly Catholic but I sometimes question whether she’s edging into “new age” stuff.

I haven’t read the book but I went on Amazon, and also on the site you have above and read a bit about it.

We have such wonderful classic books on spiritual direction in our Church’s treasury, and by comparison the book mentioned above just seems like a novelty. It speaks of being a part of the universe, etc., and doesn’t discuss the cross, suffering, and the spiritual journey like the Catholic Doctors of the Church such as St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Therese of Lisieux, and many other saints of heroic virtue who have written about prayer and the various approaches we can take on our prayer journey.

It can be “high sounding” and amaze people with the nature and cosmos vocabulary, but I personally would not look for good spiritual direction in a book such as “Radical Amazement”.

The grace of God is truly amazing, and we have the tried and true canonized saints, and excellent writers of Catholic books on prayer that expound on the writings of these saints.