Song of the Sparrow: New Poems and Meditations

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I hope these words are still sparrow-song, more ragged at the edges, perhaps, but filled with gratitude. This new Song of the Sparrow tries to sing on like an aging bird whose voice is less insistent, less knowing, a bit intermittent, but still reaching for a full-throated song. —From the Introduction

Thirty years after his groundbreaking and popular Song of the Sparrow, Murray Bodo revisits this prayer journal. With new insights and a seasoned perspective, he highlights the spiritual path for those new to it and those who, like him, are always rediscovering it. His musings, meditations and messages are a font of inspiration for those seeking new ways to pray.

MURRAY BODO, O.F.M., is a Franciscan priest and member of the Franciscan Academy. An award-winning author of numerous books, including Mystics: 10 Who Show Us the Ways of God, Landscape of Prayer and the best-selling Francis: The Journey and the Dream, and three books of poetry, Sing Pilgrimage and Exile, Icarus in Assisi and The Earth Moves at Midnight, Bodo has had his poems, stories and articles published in magazines and literary journals in the United States and Ireland. He resides in Cincinnati, Ohio, and spends summers in Assisi as a staff member of Franciscan Pilgrimage Programs.