Lenten Healing: 40 Days to Set You Free from Sin

by Ken Kniepmann, Bob Schuchts (Foreword by)

Overview

Based on the popular spiritual healing program designed by Bob Schuchts and the John Paul II Healing Center, Lenten Healing offers a twist to traditional Lenten fasting: instead of giving up chocolate, give up your sin. This daily Lenten devotional offers a unique approach to fasting, helping you reexamine the psychological and spiritual roots of sin in your life while sharing reflections and prayer exercises for overcoming sinful habits and acquiring virtuous ones.

Lent is the ideal time to identify and address "spiritual blind spots"—unacknowledged emotional wounds and false ideas that hinder your prayer life and worship.

During each week of Lent, Ken Kniepmann of the John Paul II Healing Center breaks open one of the seven deadly sins (pride, lust, gluttony, sloth, anger, envy, and greed) and its corresponding virtue (humility, chastity, abstinence, diligence, patience, kindness, and liberality). You'll start by learning about the sin and how it manifests itself in daily life and thought patterns. Then you'll move into reflection and prayer exercises that guide you through the process of renouncing that week's sin and resolving to adopt that week's virtue.

Fasting, the practice of giving up pleasures or comforts, allows us to grow in holiness by putting our desires to a kind of death. Obvious examples include giving up a habit such as a favorite food, sleeping in, or late-night TV—but what happens when you try to give up your sins while recognizing the deeper reasons you commit them in the first place? By seeing those connections and praying specifically for God's insight, healing, and revelation, you’ll be able to experience God’s mercy and love to a greater capacity.

Kniepmann helps you see how the depth of Catholic teaching is connected to your daily life. Sin isn't just an activity; it is a place of the heart (the interior life) and the movement of the heart (toward or away from sin) as related to thoughts, beliefs, and emotions. By the time Easter arrives, you'll possess a deeper understanding of sin and emotional wounds as impediments to intimacy with God and come away with tangible, practical tools for addressing those impediments in your life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594717963
Publisher:	Ave Maria Press
Publication date:	01/05/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	916,017
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Ken Kniepmann is a Catholic speaker, writer and former executive director of the John Paul II Healing Center in Tallahassee, Florida. He serves as associate for health with the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops. His extensive ministry experience includes teaching apologetics and serving as a retreat leader and youth ministry volunteer.

Kniepmann served on the board of directors of the John Paul II center and at Capital City High School, Return to Glory Ministries, and FRATERNUS. He earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in counselor education from St. Louis University. He blogs for Catholic Stand.

He and his wife, Sharon, live in Tallahassee with their children.

Bob Schuchts is the bestselling author of Be Healed and Be Transformed and founder of the John Paul II Healing Center in Tallahassee, Florida.

Bob Schuchts is the bestselling author of Be Healed, Be Transformed, Be Devoted, and Be Restored. He is the founder of the John Paul II Healing Center in Tallahassee, Florida, and cohost of the Restore the Glory podcast with Jake Khym.

After receiving his doctorate in family relations from Florida State University in 1981, Schuchts became a teacher and counselor. While in private practice, he also taught graduate and undergraduate courses at Florida State and Tallahassee Community College. Schuchts later served on faculty at the Theology of the Body Institute and at the Center for Biblical Studies—where he taught courses on healing, sexuality, and marriage—and was a guest instructor for the Augustine Institute. He volunteered in parish ministry for more than thirty years.

He retired as a marriage and family therapist in December 2014.

Schuchts has two daughters and ten grandchildren. His wife, Margie, died in 2017.

Table of Contents

Foreword Bob Schuchts ix

Preface xiii

Introducation xvii

Week 1 Sloth and Confusion

Day 1 Ash Wednesday-Sloth 2

Day 2 Thursday-Confusion 5

Day 3 Friday-Double-Mindedness 8

Prayer Meditation on Sloth and Confusion 11

Day 4 Saturday-False-Burden Bearing 14

Feast Day: Sunday-Diligence and Understanding 17

Week 2 Pride and Abandonment

Day 5 Monday-Pride 22

Day 6 Tuesday-Self-Reliance 25

Day 7 Wednesday-Self-Promotion 28

Day 8 Thursday-Narcissism 31

Day 9 Friday-Abandonment 34

Prayer Meditation on Pride and Abandonment 37

Day 10 Saturday-Loneliness 40

Feast Day: Sunday-Humility and Connectedness 43

Week 3 Envy and Shame

Day 11 Monday-Envy 48

Day 12 Tuesday-Judgment 50

Day 13 Wednesday-Shame 52

Day 14 Thursday-Unworthiness 55

Day 15 Friday-Condemnation 58

Prayer Meditation of Envy and Shame 61

Day 16 Saturday-Guilt 64

Feast Day: Sunday-Kindness and Worthiness 67

Week 4 Greed and Hopelessness

Day 17 Monday-Greed 72

Day 18 Tuesday-Hopelessness 75

Day 19 Wednesday-Disappointment 78

Day 20 Thursday-Disappointment 81

Day 21 Friday-Regret 84

Prayer Meditation on Greed and Hopelessness 87

Day 22 Saturday-Deferred Hope 90

Feast Day: Sunday-Liberality and Hope 93

Week 5 Gluttony and Fear

Day 23 Monday-Gluttony 98

Day 24 Tuesday-Fear 100

Day 25 Wednesday-Doubt 103

Day 26 Thursday-Unbelief 106

Day 27 Friday-Mistrust 109

Prayer Meditation on Gluttony and Fear 112

Day 28 Saturday-Insecurity 115

Feast Day: Sunday-Abstinence and Safety/Security 118

Week 6 Anger and Rejection

Day 29 Monday-Anger 122

Day 30 Tuesday-Bitterness 125

Day 31 Wednesday-Resentment 127

Day 32 Thursday-Unforgiveness 129

Day 33 Friday-Rejection 132

Prayer Meditation on Anger and Rejection 134

Day 34 Saturday-Control/Manipulation 137

Feast Day: Sunday-Patience and Acceptance 140

Week 7 Lust and Powerlessness

Day 35 Monday-Lust 144

Day 36 Tuesday-Powerlessness 146

Day 37 Wednesday-Weariness 149

Day 38 Thursday-Self-Pity 152

Day 39 Friday-Self-Neglect 155

Prayer Meditation on Lust and Powerlessness 158

Day 40 Saturday-Final Lenten Reflection 161

Easter Sunday-Chastity and Empowerment 164

Editorial Reviews

"If you desire greater freedom and happiness in your life but haven't known how to find it, this book will be a trustworthy guide." —From the foreword by Bob Schuchts, Author of Be Healed

"A simple and helpful understanding of the human person and the effects of sin and grace in the human heart. Anyone who embarks on this forty-day journey in faith can expect to be led by the Holy Spirit and grow in self-knowledge, healing, and with God’s grace, freedom from sin." —Most Rev. Andrew Cozzens, Auxiliary Bishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis

"I have no doubt that Lenten Healing will be of great help to people desiring freedom and restoration in Jesus Christ. The meditations are inspiring, deep, and healing. This book will lead you to encounter God's personal love for you and give you the courage to face and let go of what holds you back from living the abundant life in him." —Sr. Miriam James Heidland, S.O.L.T., Catholic speaker and author of Loved As I Am

"If you are anything like me you have dealt with some type of repetitive sin or behavior, something you desired to be free from. Ken Kniepmann in Lenten Healing unpacks the roots of sin, the power of grace, and the reality of freedom we have in Christ. This is a devotional we should all journey through." —Paul George, Catholic speaker and author of Rethink Happiness

"Ken Kniepmann does an amazing job of leading us on a guided Lenten retreat into the 'super-structure' of sin—the interior tangled web of past wounds and the complicated response of our hearts toward sin as a medication for all that mess—with illuminating force, accessing God's grace and healing all along the way!" —Jim Beckman, Executive director of evangelization and catechesis, Archdiocese of Oklahoma City

"The integration of prayer, emotional healing, and growth in Christian virtue in Lenten Healing is both brilliant and profound. If you want freedom from the deeper places of your sin and from the hurts and wounds that drive sin, read this book and allow Jesus to heal you and set you free." —Rev. Mathias Thelen, S.T.L., Pastoral Administrator of St. Patrick Parish, Brighton, Michigan

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