Prayer Works: Getting a Grip on Catholic Spirituality

If you’ve never read a book on prayer, you’ve got the right one. And if you’ve read lots of books on prayer, you’ve still got the right one. Prayer Works is a unique blend of great storytelling, laugh-out-loud humor, and rock-solid instruction. Matthew Leonard has the rare gift of making deep topics easy to understand and digest.

Practical and inspirational, this book will set your heart on fire and teach you how to engage in a life of divine intimacy you never thought possible. Put simply, Prayer Works will radically transform your life.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Why Pray?
Chapter 2: What Is Prayer?
Chapter 3: Prayer & the Purgative Way (i.e. 3 Stages of the Spiritual Life)
Chapter 4: Illumination & Union (i.e. 3 Stages of the Spiritual Life)
Chapter 5: How Does Prayer Work?
Chapter 6: Talking to God
Chapter 7: Meditation
Chapter 8: Contemplation
Chapter 9: The Sound of Silence
Chapter 10: How to Progress
Chapter 11: To Whom Do We Pray?
Chapter 12: Practically Speaking
Chapter 13: Abandonment

“I invite you to sit down and begin reading a book that will not only inform you but transform you, your prayer life, and your spiritual life in Christ.”

—Dr. Brant Pitre, Renowned Author & Research Professor of Scripture,
Augustine Institute, Graduate School of Theology

"I guarantee you will walk away from this book with a new understanding of prayer and an intense desire to live in deeper communion with the Lord."
— Curtis Mitch, Catholic Author, Professor, & Assoc. Editor of the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible

(PLEASE NOTE: This is the same Prayer Works by Matthew Leonard originally published in 2014. The only thing that has changed are the new foreword and cover.)