Holy Wisdom Contemplative Prayer

Practical Teaching on Prayer  by 
Augustine Baker

Augustine Baker was a catholic priest who lived his life with risk as his persecutors followed him on his journey to profess religion. This book is a remarkable and effective collection of Baker’s spiritual teachings, exhibiting the breadth of his devotion. Thorough this book, Baker encourages Christians to aim for an internal life with God as a guide. He advises them to strengthen the will to overcome desires that can lead to sin by explaining the process of mortification, all the while focusing on prayer, its usefulness and its expression in different forms. In his way of life, Baker believed that being consistent in the practices of holy exercises is a way to be close to God. Baker believed that the continued practice of holy exercises draws Christians close to God and he persuades Christians to develop their character in light of this observation, with prayer, meditation, contemplation and mortification.