Mark G Boyer: 21 books
A Spirituality of Mission
Reflections for Holy Week and Easter
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Mission is an essential part of the vocation of every baptized Christian. In A Spirituality of Mission, Mark G. Boyer draws on a lifetime of priestly ministry to help readers think, reflect, and pray through that call with the aim of integrating it into their very lifestyle.
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The Liturgical Environment
What the Documents Say
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Thousands of readers have found Fr. Mark Boyer’s The Liturgical Environment: What the Documents Say to be a useful compendium of the church’s law and guidelines on the liturgical environment. Rooted in the norm of active participation as the guiding principle for all liturgical celebration, each...
Talk to God and Listen to the Casual Reply
Experiencing the Spirituality of John Denver
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
He was born Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., on December 31, 1943, in Roswell, New Mexico. The general public knows him better as John Denver, trained architect, international performer, a man who sings about his experiences of living, and, in doing so, reveals his spirituality. On October 12, 1997,...
Divine Presence
Elements of Biblical Theophanies
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
"The glory of the LORD," a phrase used over one hundred times in the Bible, describes God's greatness and transcendence. This complex theological concept exhibits several natural elements which describe a theophany, a personification of God in the forces of nature. Thus, a theophany--the...
An Abecedarian of Sacred Trees
Spiritual Growth through Reflections on Woody Plants
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Every person has seen a tree and maybe planted or climbed one! In all world religions, various trees are considered sacred. Trees have the ability to help us reach wholeness if we learn their wisdom and integrate it into our lives. This abecedarian--a book whose contents are in alphabetical order--explores...
Nature Spirituality
Praying with Wind, Water, Earth, Fire
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
The presence of the Divine is everywhere. That is both a comfort and a challenge. We are consoled to know that God is with us, but being human we need a sign, something to touch, see, hear, taste, smell. We need something of the ordinary to name the non-touchable, invisible, unable-to-be-heard, tasteless,...
Rosary Primer
The Prayers, The Mysteries, and The New Testament
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
This book, a primer, serves as an introduction to a devotional practice known as the Rosary: Rosary means garden of flowers or necklace of beads. The word bead comes from an Anglo-Saxon word meaning prayer. Thus, the rosary is a garden of prayer or a necklace of prayer. After explaining how one prays...
Taking Leave of Your Home
Moving in the Peace of Christ
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
We are pilgrims on a journey; that means we will leave our home and move to another one at least once during our lifetime. This book is a resource for taking leave of a home, focusing primarily on the psychological and spiritual tasks of moving.
by Mark G. Boyer, Corbin S. Cole
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
In Greek, the language of the New Testament, there are four words for love--agape, philia, storge, and eros--but no matter what the Greek word is, the English equivalent is always love. The most used Greek word for love in the NT is agape, the noblest word for self-sacrificial love. The second-most...
An Abecedarian of Animal Spirit Guides
Spiritual Growth through Reflections on Creatures
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Almost every person has owned a pet at one time or another in life or known someone who has. In all world religions, animals serve as spirit guides; there is spirituality to animal and human dialogue. Animals have the ability to help us reach wholeness if we learn their wisdom and integrate it into...
Overcome with Paschal Joy
Chanting through Lent and Easter—Daily Reflections with Familiar Hymns
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
The Lent-Easter seasons cover one-fourth of the year, or 25 percent of the liturgical year. One of the many things we do as Roman Catholics is sing Lenten and Easter hymns. During Lent, we express our sorrow for sin as we pray, fast, and give alms. During Easter, we shout Alleluias at the end of many...
by Mark G. Boyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Sometime around the age of fifty--or as early as forty and as late as sixty--most of us come to terms with our age. We recognize that we have lived out at least half of the time allotted to us, and that the second half may be shorter than the first! Coming to terms with our age is a process, one that...
All Things Mary
Honoring the Mother of God—An Anthology of Marian Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
All Things Mary provides reflections on all Scripture texts associated with celebrations in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary during the liturgical year, in addition to biblical texts presented in the Collection of Masses of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It honors the Mother of God as the exemplar of the...
Names for Jesus
Reflections for Advent and Christmas
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
There are multiple names given to Jesus in the Bible. Fifty of them are presented in this book, Names for Jesus. In the ancient world, a name had a meaning; in this book's entries one can discover the meaning of a name for Jesus, which often indicates one of his functions as understood by a biblical...
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