His Way: An Everyday Plan for Following Jesus
Fr. David M. Knight is an internationally recognized authority  on both religious life and the spirituality of the laity. He has been a  pastor three times and diocesan Spiritual Director of Cursillos. He has  given more than four hundred workshops missions and retreats on lay  spirituality and on the religious vows throughout the United States and  Canada, England, Ireland, Australia, Peru and Guatemala. He holds a  Master's Degree in philosophy and a Doctorate in Theology. He has taught  spirituality at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., at Loyola  University in New Orleans, Christian Brothers University in Memphis, and  at the Memphis Theological Seminary (Presbyterian). Currently he is  pastor of Sacred Heart Church and spiritual director of the Hispanic  Community of Memphis. He has written thirty-two books.Fr. Knight's books are the fruit of his experience.  After his  ordination in 1961 he spent three years as a bush pastor in Chad  (Africa). He then earned a Doctorate in Theology at Catholic University  and was made pastor two parishes - one black, one white - with the  mission of integrating them. He has been a pastor three times, has taught  in both boys' and girls' high schools, including a rural black high  school and school of girls under the care of the Sisters of the Good  Shepherd. He spent four years as a campus minister at Christian Brothers  University, and has been chaplain to five different communities of women  religious, both active and contemplative. He has given priests' retreats  or performed other ministry in over half the dioceses of the United  States and in forty states, including Hawaii and Alaska.For the ten years after Vatican II Fr. Knight gave workshops and  retreats on the religious vows based on his bookCloud by Day, Fire by  Night. He then wrote the landmark book on the spirituality of the laity,His Way, which has sold over 150,00 copies and been used in renewal  programs in dioceses throughout the country.  Since then his focus has  been on pastoral plans and programs of spiritual growth among the laity.  He believes there is a hunger for spiritual growth today and that  dioceses and parishes should respond to this hunger with long-term,  consistent programs of spiritual formation which build on each other in a  progressively challenging way. The development of such programs, and  their integration into parish life and ministry, is the goal of his life.