Author:Father Tadros Yacoub MalatyPublisher:Friends of the Clerical
College CommitteePublish Year:1970Pages:82Categories:Spiritual Life and VirtuesDescription:The book Contemplations on the Prayer of Thanksgiving and a Lecture on the Life of Thanksgiving by Bishop Shenouda offers a complete spiritual framework.
The contemplations on the prayer of thanksgiving were not standalone but a collection spanning seven weeks, and the life of thanksgiving leads a person to a life of peace and joy. The text includes main chapters on Life of Thanksgiving, Faith, Patience, Personal Desires, Trials, Divine Dispensation, reasons for thanks like senses, repentance, religious environment, and redemption, Humility, Application of Prayer, Covering, Protection, Acceptance, Ruler of All, Fear of God, and rejecting envy and trials.