Book Review: The Lost Art of Sacrifice by Vicki Burbach

               Vicki Burbach has written the new book The Lost Art of Sacrifice through Sophia Institute Press.  The book is a spiritual guide for helping one to deny oneself and to take up the cross of Christ to find joy.  It unpacks ways to help us in the process of learning to become more sacrificial in daily life; what it means to take up the cross daily to experience deeper union with Jesus.  Chapter by chapter, the author does a good job of taking the reader on a journey to learn more about the journey of renunciation, how to better see Christ in everyday life and opportunities to become like Him. 

                In the book the reader will learn the difference between suffering and sacrifice (it is not what you get but what you give); why God has prepared our souls for sacrificial love; conquering desires to experience Christ more fully; how sacrifice is a true act of the will.  It is well-written, interesting, and inviting to the reader in terms of the exploration of the acceptance of suffering and our response as Catholics, Christians, and people of faith.  Learn more about The Lost Art of Sacrifice at Sophia Institute Press. The subtitle is “A Spiritual Guide for Denying Yourself, Embracing the Cross; and Finding Joy”.  The subtitle is a great description of what it to be learned in the book to grow in deeper faith and living it out.