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Vision God's Gift to Joseph and You
Understanding the Reason for Your Season
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Joseph’s life is proof positive that in a dream or vision, God is giving you a word for your life, showing you your future! He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant: Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron: Until the time that his word came: the word of the...
Centering Prayer
Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
The practice of prayer and meditation in modern Western Christianity is rooted in the Eastern tradition of early Church prayer as well as the wisdom of early Church fathers. In Centering Prayer, M. Basil Pennington, the author of the highly acclaimed Daily We Touch Him, returns to these roots, offering...
The Creed
What Christians Believe and Why it Matters
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
This thoughtful, fully accessible exploration of the creed, the list of beliefs central to the Christian faith, delves into its origins and illuminates the contemporary significance of why it still matters.
During services in Christian communities, the members of the congregation stand together...
by Paul Ferrini
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2000
For Paul Ferrini, there was a time when the very thought of Jesus left him cold. Instead of embodying the truth of Jesus' teaching, Christianity seemed to harbor the fearful thoughts and actions of people who were more committed to self-interest than to unconditional love. So when Ferrini felt Jesus'...
The Nine Commandments
Uncovering the Hidden Pattern of Crime and Punishment in the Hebrew Bible
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
In a book certain to be as controversial as Harold Bloom's The Book of J and Elaine Pagels's The Gnostic Gospels, David Noel Freedman delves into the Old Testament and reveals a pattern of defiance of the Covenant with God that inexorably led to the downfall of the nation of Israel, the destruction...
Home Tonight
Further Reflections on the Parable of the Prodigal Son
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
Home Tonight follows the path of Henri Nouwen’s spiritual homecoming. More than three years prior to writing his great classic, The Return of the Prodigal Son, Nouwen suffered a personal breakdown followed by a time of healing solitude when he encountered Rembrandt’s famous painting. Within his...
Fill These Hearts
God, Sex, and the Universal Longing
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
The bestselling author, speaker, and teacher of John Paul II's Theology of the Body explores the yearning we all have for God and each other.
Fill These Hearts is a book about desire. Not trivial wants or superficial cravings, but the most vital powers of body and soul, sexuality and spirituality,...
Called to Love
Approaching John Paul II's Theology of the Body
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
A thoughtful, accessible work on the beauty of love and the splendor of the body, inspired by Pope John Paul II.
Christianity has long been regarded as viewing the body as a threat to a person's spiritual nature and of denying its sexual dimension. In 1979, Pope John Paul II departed from this...
by Henri J. M. Nouwen
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
According to Henri Nouwen, the bestselling spiritual writer, every Christian is a minister—trying to live his life in the light of the Gospel. Creative Ministry is a thoughtful examination of the various complex tasks that are part of that way of life.Separate chapters treat each of the five areas...
by Megan McKenna
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Renowned Catholic author Megan McKenna celebrates her 50th book with a controversial interpretation of the Gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John and what they mean for the Church and society today.
In many ways, modern audiences have become so familiar with the gospels that we've stopped...
Send My Roots Rain
A Spirituality of Justice and Mercy
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
Megan McKenna has long been well known in the Catholic community as a writer, speaker, and teacher. In her lectures and writings, McKenna focuses on the central place of storytelling in the spiritual life and on the role of the storyteller as a teacher. She explores the illuminating power of stories,...
Five Years in Heaven
The Unlikely Friendship That Answered Life's Greatest Questions
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
What is heaven on earth? The answer lies in this true story of one young man's journey to find hope and purpose with the help of an unlikely teacher--a compassionate and wise old nun, whom the world had long-forgotten.
By the time Harvard-educated John Schlimm turned 31 years old, he had worked...
Ave Maria
The Mystery of a Most Beloved Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Pope Francis celebrates women in the Church and the world, seen through the lens of Mary, the mother of Jesus, in this enlightening new work.
“Mary was not omnipotent, she was a normal woman: full of grace, but normal. The power is that grace of the Holy Spirit. Mary is full of the Holy Spirit,...
Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?
. . . and Other Questions from the Astronomers' In-box at the Vatican Observatory
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Witty and thought provoking, two Vatican astronomers shed provocative light on some of the strange places where religion and science meet.
“Imagine if a Martian showed up, all big ears and big nose like a child’s drawing, and he asked to be baptized. How would you react?” —Pope Francis,...