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"""David Fagerberg's chosen theme of the soul's desire--of such fundamental, perennial importance--is all the more crucial in our own day, when so many suffer either from a numbing loss of desire and sense of purpose or from an addictive enslavement to worldly desires."" --ANN W. ASTELL, University of Notre Dame ""To read this work is to drink at the wells of the classic Catholic mysticism of abnegation that blossomed between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. In beguiling, simple language accessible to the ordinary reader, the author has woven a spiritual and mystical classic in its own right."" --JAMES OKOYE, former Director of the Center for Spiritan Studies, Duquesne University ""David Fagerberg offers a fresh look at the essential role desire plays in deepening a life of faith or re-igniting a faith grown cold. With apt quotations drawn from his vast knowledge of classical spiritual writers, he convincingly demonstrates that, even when suffering the greatest spiritual darkness, we can grow closer to God simply by choosing to desire to desire God."" --REV. MOTHER LUCIA KUPPENS, OSB, Abbey of Regina Laudis"

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DAVID W. FAGERBERG is professor emeritus in the department of theology at the University of Notre Dame, where he taught for twenty years. His books include Theologia Prima (2003), On Liturgical Asceticism (2013), Consecrating the World (2016), Liturgical Mysticism (2019), Liturgical Dogmatics (2021), and The Liturgical Cosmos (2023).

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