Rules for the Spiritual Life

18 Time-honored rules of the spiritual life - Which ones are you breaking? Similar to biological life, spiritual life has its iron laws, ordained by God. Fr. Jos Guadalupe Trevino unfolds those laws and shows how to employ them to make spiritual progress. Fr. Trevino devotes a full chapter to each of the 18 basic rules, and details their corollaries. You'll learn St. Thomas Aquinas's chief duty of beginners in the spiritual life, the single greatest obstacle on everyone's road to perfection, and the common misconceptions about holiness. You'll also learn to know if you are praying enough as well as the common barriers to prayer - and how to get past them. You'll learn your dominant fault, the four steps to rooting out venial sin, and the authentic signs of spiritual progress.