The great spiritual writer Thomas à Kempis, author of The Imitation of Christ, helps us to understand that all Christians are called to some solitude and silence in our lives within our own vocation. Fr. Robert Nixon, translator of Solitude and Silence: The Cloister of the Heart by Thomas à Kempis, talks about just this with Sensus Fidelium. Get the book: https://bit.ly/45YNxll | TAN Books

Over the centuries it’s a book that may be one of the most read after the Bible! Written in the fifteenth century, Thomas à Kempis’s devotional work, “The Imitation of Christ,” was a compilation of four books. Translated into more than ninety languages, including French, German, Spanish, Italian and English, it remains popular to this day! He quoted John 8:12 at the beginning of his work: “'He who follows me, walks not in darkness,' says the Lord." Thomas à Kempis asserted that, “By these words

Continue on the journey to sainthood with the classic book, 'The Imitation of Christ' with the help of Fr. Mike Schmitz! | Ascension