PRACTICE OF MENTAL PRAYER AND OF PERFECTION: VOL.1

O'Connell, Jerome, OCD. A Modern reproduction of the 1910 edition. According to St Teresa and St John of the Cross by Father Alphonsus of the Mother of Sorrows, Discalced Carmelite, Apostolic Missionary. The discursive prayer and the purgative way. Translated from the French by Father Jerome O'Connell, Discalced Carmelite, Ex. Provincial, Apostolic Missionary. 458pp PBK.

Perhaps the best synthesis of the teachings of the great Carmelite Doctors of the Church, St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila. This work represents the culmination of a style of Discalced carmelite synthesis that began in the generation following the deaths of St. John and St. Teresa, but largely abandoned later in the 20th century. First published in 1910. Facsimile reprint.