Radical Love

About this book

Recovering the Saint We Actually Need.A contemporary spiritual guide for anyone hungry for a deeper walk with God, released for the 800th anniversary of the death of Francis of Assisi (1226-2026).You can feel that something is off.Not catastrophically. Just persistently. The pace, the pressure, the noise of a life that looks fine from the outside and feels emptier than it should. The sense that something in your spiritual life is asking for more than the surface answers you have been given.Eight hundred years ago, a young man in Assisi felt the same fracture. Francis had everything his world said should be enough: wealth, charm, status, admiration. Then he encountered something that changed him completely. He walked away from the life he was expected to live and built a new one around a love so radical it broke every category his world had for it.Not love as sentiment. Not love as self-help. Love as the kind of daily, transformative fidelity that kissed lepers, crossed enemy lines unarmed, and gave birth to one of the great spiritual movements in human history.In Radical Love, contemplative teacher Anthony Profeta recovers the Francis we actually need. Not the garden-statue saint, but the barefoot revolutionary whose life shows us what a soul on fire with God actually looks like.How This Book Will Transform Your Spiritual Life: Across eleven principles drawn directly from Francis's life, and tested across Profeta's own decades of contemplative practice in the Christian, Buddhist, and Hindu traditions, Radical Love offers a proven path through the spiritual exhaustion of modern life.Through these pages, you will: Deepen your walk with God through contemplative practices Discover a lasting joy that does not depend on your circumstances Face fear with the peace only genuine spiritual practice can give Release the need for approval that keeps you small and afraid See the sacred in every person, including those you find hardest to love Move through grief, guilt, and shame into the freedom that grace makes possible Build a life organized entirely around radical, generous, transforming love Each chapter pairs Francis's teaching with practical application, guided contemplative meditation, and prayer. This gives you not just wisdom to admire but tools you can use in the life you are actually living.Whether you are a seasoned contemplative, a spiritually curious seeker, or someone quietly hungry for a more meaningful walk with God, this book meets you where you are and invites you into the deeper spiritual life you have been longing for.For readers of Richard Rohr, Henri Nouwen, Thomas Merton, and the contemporary contemplative renewal, this is the book Francis of Assisi has been waiting for.If you are tired of spirituality that asks nothing and changes nothing, Radical Love is your invitation.Begin here. Walk forward. Let love become the organizing force of everything.