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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Priest Urges Faithful to Embrace a Life-Changing Relationship

In ''How Big Is Your God? The Freedom to Experience the Divine,'' columnist Paul Coutinho, SJ, challenges readers to move above adoration to a accord with God that will radically change how they chronicle to God and the church.

(Vocus/PRWEB ) March 13, 2009 -- Is active one's faith-life about alive one's adoration or accepting a claimed accord with God? In ''How Big Is Your God? The Freedom to Experience the Divine,'' columnist Paul Coutinho, SJ, challenges readers to move above adoration to a accord with God that will radically change how they chronicle to God and the church.

…I animate you to assurance this accomplished abecedary and let him advance you to some actual big and new places so that you too can acquaintance what 'no eye has seen, no ear has heard, no apperception has conceived -- what God has able for those who adulation him' (1 Corinthians 2:9). You are in for a treat, and a amusement that will last! Written in the aboriginal person, Fr. Coutinho encourages the clairvoyant to abound stronger in acceptance by all-embracing a God whose adulation absolutely knows no bounds. This abolitionist artlessness to God, Coutinho claims, will advance the clairvoyant to acquaintance the absolute across of God in a acutely claimed way.

Father Coutinho is an Indian Jesuit priest with a affable faculty of amusement and a affection for allurement acutely thought--provoking airy questions: Do you accept a absolute accord with God, or do you just accept a religion? Do you apperceive God, or do you just apperceive about God? Have you anytime advised assertive in a God after limits, a God able abundant to accredit you to think, love, and abide differently?

As the clairvoyant journeys with Coutinho appear a abandon to acquaintance the Divine, he introduces readers to his Hindu accompany who put him on the aisle to mysticism; to his Buddhist agents who bankrupt accessible his bound angle of the divine; to Viktor Frankl, Desmond Tutu, and added aware guides who led him to a far added allusive airy life; and to St. Ignatius of Loyola, whose Spiritual Exercises abide to appearance his absorption and adoration life.

As Richard Rohr, OFM states in the Introduction to the book, "…I animate you to assurance this accomplished abecedary and let him advance you to some actual big and new places so that you too can acquaintance what 'no eye has seen, no ear has heard, no apperception has conceived -- what God has able for those who adulation him' (1 Corinthians 2:9). You are in for a treat, and a amusement that will last!"

Fr. Paul Coutinho, SJ, divides his time amid India and the United States. He currently conducts an all-embracing admiral of speaking, retreat work, and airy administration from a abject at St. Louis University, area he accustomed a doctorate in actual theology. If you would like to account Fr. Coutinho, amuse acquaintance Michelle Halm, PR & Communications Manager (see advice below).

''How Big Is Your God? The Freedom to Experience the Divine''
Paul Coutinho, S.J.
Loyola Press
Hardcover $18.95 (15 - minute DVD of Paul Coutinho, SJ, included)
ISBN-13978-0-8294-2481-2 ISBN-10: 0-8294-2481-4

Contact:
Michelle Halm
PR & Communications Manager
773 529 3789

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New Book Offers a Fresh Approach to Experiencing God’s Limitless Love

In Just as You Are, Paul Coutinho, SJ, helps us move advanced in the aplomb that God already loves us and artlessly asks that we embrace this amazing adulation and abide in it on a circadian basis.

Many of us go through activity cerebration and acting as admitting we can somehow, in some way, acquire God’s adulation and favor. If alone we do this, or that, or both, or more, God just ability action us at atomic a baby bit of Divine approval or acceptance. Eventually acumen the impossibility of “getting right” with God through our own efforts, and annoyed of futilely traveling ’round and ’round in airy circles, some of us about-face abroad from the Divine.

Just as You Are by Paul Coutinho, SJ,

When we stop disturbing to acquisition God and instead acquiesce ourselves to acquaintance life, we will be fatigued into the Divine attendance and essence. In Just as You Are, Paul Coutinho, SJ, helps us move advanced in the aplomb that God already loves us and artlessly asks that we embrace this amazing adulation and abide in it on a circadian basis. Fr. Coutinho insists, “When we stop disturbing to acquisition God and instead acquiesce ourselves to acquaintance life, we will be fatigued into the Divine attendance and essence.”

A built-in of India, Fr. Coutinho combines Eastern sensibilities with Ignatian attempt and practices to appearance us how we can stop acting as admitting we can somehow acquire God’s favor and love, and instead move advanced in our abysmal adulation of God already present in our lives.

Fr. Paul Coutinho, SJ, divides his time amid India and the United States. He currently conducts an all-embracing admiral of speaking, retreat work, and airy administration from a abject at St. Louis University. He is the columnist of How Big Is Your God?: The Freedom to Experience the Divine.

For added advice or to account Paul Coutinho, SJ, amuse acquaintance Michelle Halm.

Just as You Are:
Opening Your Life to the Infinite Love of God
by Paul Coutinho, SJ
Loyola Press • $18.95 • hardcover
978-0-8294-2721-9

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