Beautiful prayers for all occasions from Thomas a' Kempis, Saint Francis of Assisi, Thomas Aquinas, Anselm, Michelangelo, and many others. Prayers for holy days and every day, this essential collection of prayers will touch your soul and refresh your spirit. Among the best prayerbooks of all time, this book contains prayers for all occasions. Prayers by Thomas Aquinas for daily prayer; prayers by Saint Francis of Assisi for peace, guidance, and thanksgiving; ancient prayers by Anselm for our own heartfelt concerns today: concerns in our world, friendships, and how to live as a blessing to others. The prayers by Thomas a' Kempis for trust in God and comfort in times of affliction are timeless and perfect for both personal devotion and public worship. A Prayer For Consolation - one of Thomas a' Kempis' prayers in modern language: Sweet and loving Lord, You know the ways I fail, and the incessant needs I worry about. You know the evils that surround me and how often I feel weighed down, tempted, and disturbed. I need your consolation. I need you to hold me up under the weight of all that is crushing me. I'm talking to you, O God! You are the One who knows everything. You know everything about me - my thoughts, hopes, and dreams. It's only You who can comfort me now. You know what I really need the most. So I stand here, naked, poor, in need of your grace and mercy to lift me up. I hunger for Your answers. I thirst for your kindness. Warm all that is cold and lost within me. Let Your light show me the way. Let me nestle close to you always. In the beautiful name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.The prayers by Saint Francis of Assisi are well known. Francis of Assisi, born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, informally named as Francesco (1181/1182 - 3 October 1226), was an Italian Catholic friar, deacon and preacher. He founded the men's Order of Friars Minor, the women's Order of Saint Clare, the Third Order of Saint Francis and the Custody of the Holy Land. Francis is one of the most venerated religious figures in Christianity.Saint Anselm, whose prayers are also included in this volume, was one of the most important Christian thinkers of the eleventh century. He is most famous in philosophy for having discovered and articulated the so-called "ontological argument;" and in theology for his doctrine of the atonement. However, his work extends to many other important philosophical and theological matters, among which are: understanding the aspects and the unity of the divine nature; the extent of our possible knowledge and understanding of the divine nature; the complex nature of the will and its involvement in free choice; the interworkings of human willing and action and divine grace; the natures of truth and justice; the natures and origins of virtues and vices; the nature of evil as negation or privation; and the condition and implications of original sin. Read more about Anselm here: https: //www.iep.utm.edu/anselm/;The prayers of Thomas Aquinas have been important to the church for centuries. Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. An immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, he is also known within the latter as the Doctor Angelicus and the Doctor Communis. The name Aquinas identifies his ancestral origins in the county of Aquino in present-day Lazio, Italy. He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology and the father of Thomism; of which he argued that reason is found in God. His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy developed or opposed his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law, metaphysics, and political theory. Learn more at: https: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas. If you are looking for the classic book of prayers of the middle ages, this is it!