Gianfranco Matarazzo

ABRAHAM’S COMPASS 190 Prayer’s Outlines and 719 Questions for a Faith Journey

1st edition September 2021
Series PAROLE PER LO SPIRITO
Size 13,5 x 21 cm

Also available in eBook format

Number of pages 304
CDU 226Q 259
ISBN/EAN 9788892226104

Immersed as we are in a hectic life, invested by an irrepressible flow of knowledge, notions, social practices, meanings, it becomes essential to have a seismograph able to grasp the trends of our life and a compass to orient ourselves. All this is possible taking care of our inner world. We can take a cue from someone who represents a reference model, indicated as such by different religious and cultural traditions: Abraham. A figure capable of entering our life, through a daily path of simple but demanding meditation. In fact, the protagonist is no longer the unknown “other”, distant from us, but we are called to act in the first person. This proposal, which can be used by everybody, is divided into 190 meditation outlines and 719 questions, according to the approach of Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits and author of the Spiritual Exercises.

Fr. Gianfranco Matarazzo sj (Teano – Caserta, 1963). After a law degree and the bar exam, he entered the Jesuit novitiate. He studied philosophy and theology in Padua, Naples, Rome. In 2003 he was ordained a priest. He was destined to the Arrupe Center in Palermo, where he has worked as didactic coordinator, teacher of public ethics and finally director. From 2017 to 2020 he has been provincial of the Euro-Mediterranean province of the Jesuits. His main pastoral focus has been prayer, the first proclamation of faith, and the new evangelization.


SELLING POINTS
• A meditation path starting from the biblical text.
• An ancient and modern method at the same time.
• Excellent tool for personal and community reflection.