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. This book, gathers some of Hecker’s early, as yet unpublished reflections, and shows Hecker’s spirituality to be as relevant to our times as to his own.