Jesus, Friend of My Soul
Reflections for the Lenten Journey
by Joyce Rupp
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Pub Date 24 Jan 2020 | Archive Date 26 Feb 2020
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Description
Bestselling author and beloved retreat leader Joyce Rupp has offered companionship and gentle guidance throughout the seasons in such books as May I Have This Dance? and Anchors for the Soul. In Jesus, Friend of My Soul—Rupp’s only meditation book for Lent and Holy Week—each two-page daily reflection brings our attention to the Lenten season, providing reflections for growth and inviting us to follow Jesus and become more like him.
Because our lives are filled to the brim with activity, it is easy to drift away from trying to live as Jesus did, and we find ourselves in need of time to focus on drawing close to him again and learning from his example. In Jesus, Our Mentor, Rupp guides us from Ash Wednesday through Easter Sunday illustrating both how Jesus called his followers to change and how his actions provide us a blueprint for growth.
Rupp helps us learn from the qualities of Jesus and the actions and teachings that marked his time on earth, including:
• how Jesus extended mercy after Peter’s denials
• how Jesus trusted in his Father, even as he experienced other emotions when troubling events occurred
• how Jesus spoke and acted with integrity, which made him a valuable and trustworthy person for others to listen to and follow
Each day’s reflection begins with a verse from scripture and a meditation centered on Jesus’ life, actions, and teachings that are applied to our lives. We are then offered a prayer and an intention to carry with us throughout the day. Each brief reflection gently leads us to new growth in our lives and invites us to reach new depths in our faith. Questions for individual or group study are included.
A Note From the Publisher
Advance Praise
“Rich and enriching, Jesus, Friend of My Soul provides us with a beautiful companion for our journey through Lent: Jesus himself. With a generous heart and a keen eye, Joyce Rupp finds ways of connecting Christ to our own lives, reminding us of his humanity and message of boundless hope. Insightful, inspiring, and lit by joy, Jesus, Friend of My Soul offers us a new way to mark the days leading up to Easter and leaves our hearts uplifted for the days that follow.”
Deacon Greg Kandra
Award-winning journalist and blogger at The Deacon's Bench
“Lent has never been my favorite time of year, but Joyce Rupp makes the season a joyful adventure. She has reintroduced me to Jesus—a longtime friend whom I am able to see now with new eyes—and identifies simple yet profound ways I can model qualities of his life in my own. I love who I might become this Lent with this book in hand.”
Ann M. Garrido
Associate Professor of Homiletics at the Aquinas Institute of Theology
“In Jesus, Friend of My Soul, Joyce Rupp invites us to walk with Jesus as our soulmate. Each day we reflect on a quality of Jesus that is illustrated by scripture and pray on that quality with Rupp’s poetic and beautiful, image-filled prayers. These daily Lenten reflections and their call to act on Jesus’ qualities will help you embrace Christ-like virtues and live in a grace-filled way.”
Sr. Terry Rickard, O.P.
President of RENEW International
“Joyce Rupp has given us a treasure not just for the days of Lent but for all our days. The treasure is right in the title: Friend. As we walk her reflections, we meet Jesus as our friend, and day by day, as we fall more in love with his tender compassion, we begin to realize that he is calling us to be a friend as he was a friend to the whole world.”
Janet Conner
Creator of the Praying at the Speed of Love podcast
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781594719653 |
| PRICE | US$13.95 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Deborah M, Reviewer
This reader for Lent can be used alone or in a small group. There are questions at the end of the book to encourage you.
The book encourages Christians to become more like Christ with attributes such as One who promotes Justice and One who chooses Wisely.
Quick to read but with a challenge for each day such as 'I make decisions that you come from my best self'.
I was given this book by Netgalley and the publisher. This is my voluntary and impartial review.
Melike E, Reviewer
When we read the Gospels attentively, we understand who Jesus is and how he lived his sinless life. Joyce Rupp writes, “The traits of Jesus’s divinity reside within his human existence." We can look to Jesus to learn how to live a grace-filled life. Rupp guides us to do that in Jesus, Friend of My Soul. Each day during Lent an inspiring attribute from the teachings of Jesus is presented with an opening verse from the Bible about that attribute and ending with a beautiful and heartfelt prayer. In the introduction of the book, Rupp gives the readers reflection questions that can be discussed in a group or individually each week of Lent. This is a wonderful contemplative book for the season of Lent.
Loretta R, Reviewer
Beautiful, loved it. I read this daily for each day of Lent. The questions for reflection were perfect to take me deeper into the daily readings and prayer.
Anna J, Bookseller
Joyce Rupp has written more than thirty spiritual books, several of which have won Catholic Press Association awards; her writing is very accessible and inspiring. Her new Lenten daily reflection book is a great tool for individual or group reflection. The book begins with Ash Wednesday and ends with Easter Sunday and focuses on the qualities of Jesus throughout his life. Each day includes a very short piece from Scripture, a reflection that relates the Scripture passage to today’s world, and then a beautiful prayer pertaining to the reflection. An intention or act that will help readers grow personally and spiritually completes each day. Rupp states in the book’s introduction that her goal is to help Christians achieve the most difficult task of being a living exemplar of Jesus and his virtues. This book offers readers some guidance to carry out that task.
