Praying With Saints and Sinners

"Prayer is the breath of faith; it is its most**xA0;proper expression. Like a silent cry that**xA0;issues from the hearts of those who believe and entrust themselves to God." - Pope Francis In this fourth of eight booklets on prayer, Fr Paul Brendan**xA0;Murray, OP gives an account of how four great saints of the Church learned to pray - St Augustine of Hippo, St Teresa**xA0;of Avila, St Thomas Aquinas and St Thérèse of Lisieux - with**xA0;the aim "to discover what help the great saints can offer**xA0;those of us who desire to make progress in the life of prayer, but who find ourselves being constantly deflected from our purpose, our tentative efforts undermined perhaps most of all by human weakness.".