Spiritual Direction from Dante, Volume 2

Ascending Mount Purgatory

Paul Pearson

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Saint Benedict Press
14 July 2020

Literature: history & criticism; Religion & beliefs; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; Christian life & practice; Reincarnation & past lives

"Join Father Paul Pearson of the Oratory as he guides you on a spiritual journey through one of the great classics of Christian literature, Dante's Purgatorio. Purgatory is the least understood of the three possible ""destinations"" when we die (though unlike heaven or hell it is not an eternal one) and is mysterious to many Christians and even to many Catholics today. As he did in his first volume in the Spiritual Direction from Dante trilogy, Avoiding the Inferno, Father Pearson adroitly draws out the great spiritual insights hidden in The Divine Comedy. Learn how and why:

Dante's presentation of Purgatory is something beautifully hopeful. Freedom is the dominant theme here and the rejoicing of captives delivered from their prisons the dominant tone.

Purgatory is filled with good people, people well on their way to becoming saints. They are increasingly concerned for one another and generous, the more so the higher on the mountain they climb. They are interested in one another's well-being and rejoice in one another's victories as though they were their own. The sufferings on Mount Purgatory are not something that happens to the souls there; they happen for them. This has all been designed for their benefit, and they are grateful to God for making it possible.

Purgatory is God's merciful plan for allowing us to rediscover the joy and freedom of being human, the joy for which we were created but which sin has smothered and distorted.

This is what we can be. This is what we can begin to be, even now, if only we will separate ourselves from sin. What are we waiting for? Join Father Pearson in Ascending Mount Purgatory."

By: Paul Pearson
Imprint: Saint Benedict Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 145mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9781505117530
ISBN 10: 1505117534
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 14 July 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Father Paul Pearson converted to Catholicism during his university days, entered the Toronto Oratory in 1985, was ordained to the priesthood in 1989, and began serving as Dean of Saint Philip's, the seminary run by the Oratorians, in 1992. This series of books has arisen out of classes he has given to seminarians there for many years. This volume, Ascending Mount Purgatory, and his previous and forthcoming ones on Inferno and Paradiso have been written so that a wider audience may benefit from spiritual direction from Dante.

Reviews for Spiritual Direction from Dante, Volume 2: Ascending Mount Purgatory

Praise for Spiritual Direction from Dante Vol. I: Avoiding the Inferno Fusing practical advice about how to live one's Christian vocation with a piece of high art from the Middle Ages is not an easy thing to do. Father Pearson carries it off superbly, and while doing so, he gives the reader a fresh appreciation of Divina Commedia. - K.V. Turley, National Catholic Register Pearson treats the Inferno -- volumes on the Purgatorio and Paradiso are forthcoming -- as a repository of spiritual wisdom for the life of disciples. Dante's guided tour of hell is meant to help his readers avoid it. Rev. Raymond J. De Souza, Grandin Media . . . an authentic and original view of one of the great works of the Renaissance is difficult to come by. However, in the first installment of an expected trilogy on the spiritual lessons of the Divine Comedy, the Oratorian Fr Paul Pearson has provided just that. Patrick Cusworth, Catholic Herald