Lift Up Your Heart

Lift Up Your Heart: A 10-Day Personal Retreat with SFS

For more than four hundred years, the Introduction to the Devout Life by Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales has been regarded as the essential guide to holiness and loving God. This spiritual classic takes on new life in Lift Up Your Heart, where popular young adult speaker Rev. John Burns interprets ten meditations for the modern reader and distils them into a ten-day mini-retreat that can easily be completed in the midst of a busy life. You’ll learn the basics of forming a daily prayer routine, including how to offer yourself to God, meditate on his love, and maintain peace in the face of suffering and clarity in the midst of temptation.

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“This is an altogether beautiful book filled with wholesome and attractive spiritual wisdom. It presents the spirituality of SFS in a lively, accessible style that is utterly sincere. Highly recommended.” –John C. Cavadini (McGrath-Cavadini Director, McGrath Institute for Church Life, University of Notre Dame)

“This book is for all who take their faith seriously but somewhere along the way dismissed the notions of heaven and hell. Through his commentary on SFS’s themes of judgement and death, heaven and hell, Fr. John Burns reminds us of their centrality to our eternal life and implications for our time here on earth.” - Carolyn Woo. (Former president and CEO of Catholic Relief Services)

“Reading this book is a true retreat – it quickly drew my prayer life to new depths! Fr. John takes us through the timeless wisdom of SFS in a way that is accessible and applicable for anyone at any age. A must-read and a real gift!” -Sara Swafford (Author of Emotional Virtue)