{"product_id":"st-augustine-answers-101-questions-on-prayer-9781933184609","title":"St. Augustine Answers 101 Questions: On Prayer","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow can I pray better? \u003cbr\u003eHow do I know God hears my prayers? \u003cbr\u003eHow can I 'pray always, ' as Jesus commands? \u003cbr\u003eWhy must I ask for things God already knows I need?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuch were the questions that perplexed a young North African man, Augustine Aurelius (354-430), whose intense yearning for God led him into a profound and lifelong encounter with Christ in prayer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere Augustine found answers to these questions and to countless more - answers not grounded in his own brilliance, but in prayer itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn time, Augustine became a bishop and a Father of the Church, and has long been numbered among her saints. Yet of all the Church's saints, not one expresses the longing for God more beautifully, or explores the nature of prayer more helpfully, than St. Augustine. His words speak to us today as freshly as they did to his contemporaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSt. Augustine wrote many books, but never one devoted to prayer alone. Indeed, his teachings on prayer are scattered in many places. So from over 200 works, Fr. Cliff Ermatinger has gathered and translated Augustine's teachings on prayer, and now presents them here in a simple question-and-answer format. What emerges is nothing less than a rich new \"catechism on prayer\" by one of the Church's greatest saints.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSt. Augustine (354-430) was Bishop of Hippo from 396 until his death. His greatest works include his autobiographical Confessions and The City of God, on Christianity in history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sophia Institute Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50545235460370,"sku":"9781933184609","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0801a410-3732-4ac4-8b47-fe01d170f505.jpg?v=1731543407","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/st-augustine-answers-101-questions-on-prayer-9781933184609","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}