Made for Heaven: A Guided Lent Journal for Prayer and Meditation - Paperback

by Agustino Cfr Torres (Author), Valerie Delgado (Illustrator)

Join Fr. Agustino Torres, CFR--founder of Corazón Puro--on a multimedia Lenten journey inspired by St. Francis. Begin the season with a vow of poverty and end at Easter with a heart free from the desert of sin and open to love, serve, and care for others.

Made for Heaven features stunning original art by Valerie Delgado of Pax. Valerie, along with daily meditations on a passage from scripture, reflection questions, prayer, and space for journaling and notetaking.

A life of simplicity and poverty orients you toward God's love and reminds you that you are made for heaven. Torres says the best way to prepare yourself for that final destination is to live as true pilgrims who need to "travel lightly" and detach from earthly pleasures.

In six transformative weeks, you will learn how to allow the Holy Spirit to move in your heart through a new theme each week:

• Week one: commit yourself to a Lenten vow of poverty and reflect on the story of Jesus being cast into the desert as you learn to make your life entirely about Christ;
• Week two: be a witness to the Transfiguration and allow yourself to become transformed, letting your spiritual gifts shine forth;
• Week three: accept the call to conversion and say yes to a life of simplicity and poverty as St. Joseph did;
• Week four: let the healing power of God challenge you to become a vessel of mercy and a source of loving compassion to others;
• Week five: learn how to pray with confidence and look beyond ourselves; and
• Holy Week: experience a deep encounter with God through the ancient liturgy of the Church.

Made for Heaven is perfect for both individual and group use. Free companion videos and a downloadable leader's guide are available at avemariapress.com. The book and other resources are also available in Spanish.

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Jesus longs to free your heart.

"Forty days from now, we will enter Jerusalem with Jesus on Palm Sunday. We will enter in a mystical way the place where he shed his blood on the Cross, died, and rose again so that we can come to eternal life. What happened in history on a Sunday is to be lived within each Christian's heart every day." --From the week of Ash Wednesday

Author Biography

Fr. Agustino Torres, CFR, is a priest with the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, where he serves on the community's council. He is the founder of Corazón Puro. He is the author of Prepare Your Heart and serves as a retreat guide, spiritual director, and an international youth and young adult speaker.

Torres hosts the EWTN TV shows ICONS and Clic con Corazón Puro (in both English and Spanish) and the National Eucharistic Revival podcast Revive.

https: //www.corazonpuro.org/
Facebook: The Community of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal
Instagram: @oralecp
YouTube: @CorazonPuroNyc

Valerie Delgado is a Catholic painter and digital artist. She illustrated the books Prepare Your Heart and Made for Heaven by Fr. Agustino Torres, CFR; Adore by Fr. John Burns; Restore by Sr. Miriam James Heidland, SOLT; and ABC Get to Know the Saints with Me by Caroline Perkins.

She lives in the Houston, Texas, area.

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