Ordering Your Rest

Catholic Wisdom for Leisure, Silence, and a Sabbath Heart

von Anna Loretto

152 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Some tiredness needs sleep, treatment, practical help, or a lighter load. Some restlessness asks a deeper question: where is the heart trying to rest?

Ordering Your Rest begins by refusing an easy diagnosis. Exhaustion may come from illness, disability, depression, anxiety, trauma, sleep disorder, poverty, grief, caregiving, unsafe work, or ordinary human limits. Acedia is a real spiritual category, but it is not a label for every tired person and cannot replace medical or psychological assessment.

From that careful foundation, the book recovers Catholic wisdom about rest: the seventh day blessed by God, Sunday Mass and proper rest, works of mercy, true leisure, holy silence, night prayer, and the surrender of unfinished work. St. Bruno and St. Charles de Foucauld serve as companions in proportion, hiddenness, and attention to God, not as lifestyle templates.

The practical movement helps you write an adaptable rule that may include:

- placing Sunday Mass at the center when the obligation applies and attendance is reasonably possible- receiving proper rest, family life, joy, and works of mercy- ending the day with prayer and handing unfinished concerns back to God- choosing a form of quiet suited to your health and nervous system; and- trying a screen-fast period where screens are not required for work, accessibility, medical support, safety, or connection.

Caregivers and overburdened readers are encouraged to seek help, respite, treatment, and shared responsibility rather than romanticize depletion. The appendix includes a model rule, a ten-question examen, and prayers for evening, Sunday, and abandonment.

Ordering Your Rest is for Catholics who need a faithful language for worship, leisure, limitation, and surrender.

• ISBN: 9798192953686
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 16.08.2026
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp