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Early Modern · published 1692
The Practice of the Presence of God
Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection · c. 1614–1691
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What it is
Conversations and letters collected after the death of a lay brother who worked in a monastery kitchen and claimed to possess God as peacefully among his pots and pans as on his knees.
Why it lasted
The classic argument that ordinary work is not an interruption of the spiritual life — loved across every confessional line since the seventeenth century.
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Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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