Spirituality category: 222996 books
A Nun on the Bus
How All of Us Can Create Hope, Change, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In the summer of 2012, Sister Simone Campbell and a group of fellow Roman Catholic nuns toured parts of the country to rally support against Congressman Paul Ryan's budget, a plan that cut vital social programs for the hurting poor and the struggling middle class. Prayer groups turned into rallies,...
Don’T Call Me out of My Name Spirituality for the 21St Century a Member of the Christian Left Speaks Out
Some Insights into Social Analysis for Ordinary People
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
This book challenges the unwritten laws that dominate U.S. society, creating great wealth and even greater poverty. Social (Structural) Analysis uncovers the hidden agenda behind this system of political economy that exploit the majority while enriching the few. Modern liberal economics holds the...
by Rabbi Jamie S. Korngold
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
For people who dont believe that God can intervene in our lives, and why Judaism is still important.Judaism has so much to teach us about how we treat ourselves, each other, and our planet…. Of course, you can learn these values elsewhere. But as a people, Jews have thousands of years of experience...
Lifted by Angels
The Presence and Power of Our Heavenly Guides and Guardians
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Explores the relationship between people and angels, through the eyes of the early church.
Heaven is closer than we realize. Its boundaries overlap our own, and angels move in and out of our porous present, this moment that seems to us so solid and concrete. If that reality seems dim to us...
The Holy Workshop Of Virtue
The Life of John the Little by Zacharias of Sakha
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Saint John the Little was a monk and hegumen of Scetis (Wadi Natrun) during the first great period of early Egyptian monasticism. The Apophthegmata preserve some fifty sayings by or about him (see CS 59, 85 '96). In addition, Zacharias, eighth-century Bishop of Sakha, wrote his Life, more than seventy...
by St. Louis de Montfort
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
"It was through the Blessed Virgin Mary that Jesus came into the world, and it is also through her that he must reign in the world…" With this uncompromising declaration, St. Louis-Marie de Montfort launched TRUE DEVOTION TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN, his widely-influential 17th Century Magnum Opus of Marian...
A Deeper Faith
A Journey into Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
In the tradition of Madeleine L’Engle, Frederick Buechner, and Thomas Merton comes a brilliant new voice—Jeffrey Mark Golliher—whose life, teachings, and writings will inspire and instruct a new generation.
The spiritual journey is an adventure that has few road maps. Filled with amazing highs...
Starting Over
Your Life Beyond Regrets
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
I wish I had loved more.
I wish I had been smarter about money.
I wish I had thought about God more.
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We all have regrets about the past. Many of them come from our attempts to fulfill unmet longings. Dave and Jon Ferguson call this back and forth between longing and regret the Sorry Cycle—and...
Elizabeth of the Trinity Complete Works, Volume I
I Have Found God, General Introduction and Major Spiritual Writings
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity - Elizabeth Catez, who died in 1906 at the age of 26 in the Carmel of Dijon, is a mystic for our times, with a profound spirituality rooted not in visions and voices but in attention to the indwelling Trinity and in the call to become a praise of glory for God. This...
by Raniero Cantalamessa OFM CAP
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Unity, joy, simplicity, beauty, truth-these are the hallmarks of the three Persons in one God, the Trinity. In Contemplating the Trinity, Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, the preacher to the papal household, invites readers to turn to the Trinity so that they can enter into and experience the relationship...
Letters to Marc About Jesus
Living a Spiritual Life in a Material World
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“[We] read Nouwen…to discover new possibilities in our faith.”
—New Review of Books and Religion
A profound and beautiful collection of intimate writings, Henry J.M. Nouwen’s Letters to Marc About Jesus recalls the author’s correspondences with his teenage nephew, a boy struggling...
Reading To Live
The Evolving Practice of Lectio Divina
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Lectio divina, the ancient practice of prayerful reading, is a font whose waters are waiting to quench the thirst of spiritual seekers, both beginners on the spiritual journey and experienced travelers. The art of holy reading transforms lives. Through the practice of lectio individuals and communities...
Memoirs of Jesus
A Study from the Book of Matthew
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
This book is based on the writings found in the gospel of Matthew with use of the King James Version. It is not intended to interpret the scriptures. If we were spiritually able to sit on the shoulders of Jesus as He walked this earth, we might understand the scriptures more clearly than we do today....
Light in the Dark Ages
The Friendship of Francisand Clare of Assisi
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
The Middle Ages were not so very dark, as the old textbooks say. As you will discover in this intriguing portrait of the first Franciscans, we live in dark ages whenever we become preoccupied with power. In this popular history, Jon Sweeney reveals the timeless temptations that come with being human---greed,...