Praying with the Bible: An Ignatian Guide

‘very accessible…should find a wide readership’  The Irish Catholic

Praying with the Bible: An Ignatian Guide is for those looking to deepen their spiritual journey through scripture. It’s a meaningful gift that can nurture faith and provide peace throughout the year.

You can read the Bible. You can study the Bible. You can also pray with the Bible.

Bestselling author, Nikolaas Sintobin SJ is your guide to making your bible a new way of praying.

The Ignatian way of praying with the Bible is simple and subtle at the same time. It is accessible to young and old alike. There are no prerequisites. You can pray with it for five minutes, you can pray with it for an hour or more. This easy to read book gives you fifty tips on all possible aspects of this way of praying with the Bible.

Following on from the fifty tips, is a sequence of fifty Bible texts. With each text you get a short commentary and three suggestions for praying with the passage. Together they form a retreat called Following him. This retreat introduces you, at your own pace, to praying with the Bible, with a special focus on Jesus.

A Flemish Jesuit priest, Nikolaas Sintobin has been a teacher and a chaplain in the Jesuit high schools of Paris and Antwerp,  and has specialised in Ignatian spirituality and pedagogy. He has worked as an internet chaplain for the past 12 years. He is interested in finding ways to understand and share the Gospel in our current secular and multi-religious culture: through humour, podcasts, reality TV, YouTube and blogging. Previous books with Messenger Publications include Did Jesus Really Exist? and 51 other questions (2020), Trust Your Feelings: Learning How to Makes Choices with Ignatius of Loyola (2022) and Living with Ignatius (2023).