This book explores the relationship between personal spirituality and pastoral ministry, extolling the pastor's primary role as spiritual instructor to the parish. Leech shares with pastors and spiritual directors the important insights that counseling and psychotherapy lend to the process of spiritual direction. Leech amkes concrete his advice in spiritual formation by holding up the lives of four parish priests who were a great influence on his own spiritual development, and of whom the Church Times writes, All were gospel radicals. Insistent on the need to unite theology to spirituality; and it unceasingly calls for the recovery of the social dimension of Christianity. --Richard Holloway Readers . . . could not have a more acceptable writer on spirituality than Kenneth Leech. --William J. Broderick, SJ Kenneth Leech currently serves as a Community Theologian at St. Botolph's Church, Aldgate, East London. He is an Anglican priest well known as a lecturer on prayer and spirituality and is also the author of 'Soul Friend' and 'True Prayer'.