Father Joseph Schryvers, C.SS.R., was a French priest and author who lived in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His book The Gift of Oneself was originally published in 1934 by the Carmelite Nuns of Bettendorf, Iowa. He dedicated his concise work to our Lady, and through it urged the faithful to offer themselves to our Heavenly Father as a gift both fitting and complete. Father Schryvers\' volume received the Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur upon publication, and TAN reprinted it in 2006.