Nineteenth-century Spirituality for Our Time

A selection of previously unpublished spiritual reflections by Fr. Isaac Hecker, founder of the Paulist Fathers. Isaac Hecker (1819-1888) was a spiritual seeker from his early days. In 1845 he converted to Catholicism, then joined the Redemptorists before founding the Paulist Fathers with a band of colleagues. While at seminary he began keeping notebooks of spiritual reflections. Nineteenth-Century Spirituality for Our Time, with an introduction by Paulist historian/archivist Fr. Paul Robichaud, gathers some of Hecker s early, as yet unpublished reflections, and shows Hecker s spirituality to be as relevant to our times as to his own.