The Spiritual Practice of Growing Older
Part of the Spirituality series:
- Mystery and Hermeneutics- Part Two
- James Martin: Essential writings
- The Way of Gratitude - Readings for a Joyful Life
- The Cross in Contexts
- Vesper Time
- Joyce Rupp
- Be Still and Know
- The Works of Mercy
- Spiritual Direction
- Richard Rohr
- And God Created Wholeness
- A New Way to Be Church
- Rejoice and Be Glad
- Blessed Are the Refugees
- Soul Seeing
- Jon Sobrino
- Culture over Christ
- Loving Water across Religion
- Ruth Burrows
- The Way of Forgiveness
- Love Prevails
- A Living Gospel
- Becoming New
- Catholicity and Emerging Personhood
- Vesper Time - The Spiritual Practice of Growing Older
- Ellen Birx: Embracing the Inconceivable
- When Tears Sing
- The Radical Gospel of Bishop Thomas Gumbleton
- Saints Celebrated and Unsung
- The Diary of Jesus Christ
- Catholic Social Teaching
- 99 Names of God
- Eyes of Compassion
- Hunger for Hope
- Belonging
- The Ten Green Commandments of Laudato Sí
- Letters of Tribulation
- O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?
- Mystics in Action
- Walter Rauschenbusch
- Creation's Wisdom
- Unlearning white Supremacy
- The Way of Love
Vesper Time addresses the yearning among elders for continued growth, expansiveness of heart, improvement of mind, and a meaningful understanding of our lives. As with Christianity’s age-old practice of Vespers, or evening prayer, observed at the time of the lighting of the lamps just before darkness descends, Frank Cunningham views it is a time of life, when colors deepen and our experience of aging becomes spiritual practice. With humor and wisdom, he looks at five facets of this integral spirituality—memory, intimacy, diminishment, gratitude, and acceptance—offering guidance and encouragement for those who are on this stage in their journey of life.
