🧵My book, God Love the Autistic Mind is coming out tomorrow with @PBMPublishing.
I hope it helps a lot of autistics and those who love us.
Here's how to order it (print or digital).
This will be a thread of reviews or comments for anyone interested. 1/
https://t.co/5wZOVNBB2J
Indispensable: A Catholic Guide to Welcoming Persons with Disabilities, a book I wrote a chapter on sensory-friendly liturgies for, won the award for the best "Resource for Ministry" at the Association of Catholic Publishers awards. https://t.co/N4ZpK0EiLd
"Mary [like Jesus] answered in silent obedience. Little by little she extended her 'yes' to the point of embracing everything it involved, even the cross." -Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM
We do some things so we can do other things & we do some things just for themselves.
As we grow in the spiritual life, prayer often moves from something we do to live a Christian life & get to heaven to something we do for itself: we live to pray, not just pray to live.
"To try to discover the meaning of the commandments through study & reading without actually living in accordance with them is like mistaking the shadow of something for its reality." -Gregory of Sinai
"Don't put too much emphasis on your longing for God. Think of God longing for you. Because God's desires for us are so much more than our desire for him." -Fr. Bob Wild
@brentsasacerdos Canon 1041.1 refers to types of mental illness where one can't think rationally. This is like uncontrolled DID, Schizophrenia, delusional disorder, etc. It would not exclude autistics.