You Have Called Me by My Name: Praying with Fr. Joe Tetlow, SJ

by Joseph A. Tetlow SJ

Overview

Prayer is the heartbeat of the Christian life. And the heartbeat of Jesuit prayer is conversation with God through every circumstance and season.

St. Ignatius encouraged people to nurture their relationship with the Creator to the point of speaking “as one friend to another.” In You Have Called Me by My Name, Father Joe Tetlow shares original prayers that have emerged from his decades-long friendship with God. As a teacher, writer, retreat leader, and spiritual director, he beautifully articulates our human doubts and desires, our questions and challenges, presenting them through the poetry of honesty, wonder, and love.

Allow your heart to resonate with the themes in this powerful collection as Fr. Tetlow’s prayers invite you to join the conversation.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780829452709
Publisher:	Loyola Press
Publication date:	10/14/2021
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

JOSEPH A. TETLOW, SJ, has practiced, taught, and written on discernment since before Vatican II. He is a spiritual director and has led numerous retreats for laypeople on the topic of discernment. Often hailed as a “world authority” on Ignatian spirituality, Fr. Tetlow is the author of many books, including Making Choices in Christ and Choosing Christ in the World.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi

1 Preparing What's to Come 1

Like the Sun, Lord, You Cherish Me 3

My Music Is Enough 4

Quiet, All Alone 6

You Do Want My Love 8

In This Place I Know You 10

Send Your Spirit to Me 11

I Open My Heart 12

Embraced Forever 13

2 Who Dwell in Darkness and the Fear of Death 15

Such Insistent Gentle Love 17

How Can You Love Me? 18

A Little Ping of Pure Intent 19

Now I Am in Need 20

I Repent Again 21

Love Wrapped in Fear 22

Call Me to an Agile Love 24

Wanting More and More to Love 25

Turning Away from Sin 26

3 Blinking in Broad Daylight 27

What Do I Bring to You? 29

Remembering the Shepherds 30

He Has Come into My Shrinking Soul 31

Wisdom, Age, and Grace 32

I Trust That You Can Manage Me 33

Thinking of Peter 34

What Is This Hole in Me? 36

Lady Mary, Teach Me to Love 38

What Thomas Said 40

Love and Blunder Both 42

Woman with a Broken Heart 43

Waiting 44

How Can I Know You? 46

I'll Go with You 48

What Do You Want? 49

If Only I Could Hear You Say My Name 50

Holy Potter, Finish This Work 52

Thinking of Joseph 54

4 In the Crimson of the Setting Sun 57

Say the Truth One More Time 59

Now, an Eternity of Dark 60

Son of Holy Silence 62

If You Help Me, I Will Die in Hope 63

May I Hope That Its Enough? 64

We Stumble and Fall 66

I Cling to You with Slipping Hands 68

I Haven't Cared Till Now 69

5 So This Is What It Means 71

Jesus' Wounds and Ours 73

How to Believe Now 74

To Mary of Magdala 76

I Must Wait, Wrapped in Hope 78

Given Your Spirit, We Call You 79

Please, Lord, Want Us Back 80

6 And Then Afterwards 83

Alone but Not Alone 85

A Friend Missed 86

Since I Am Clay 88

I Would Walk Unanxious 89

Now I Go to Rest 90

Together We Weep 92

Unready but Anointed 94

Give Me Today What to Do Today 96

I Would Not Be a Fake 98

From No to Yes 100

What All the Father Means in Me 102

About the Author 105