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The Gift of Spiritual Intimacy
Following the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
A timeless and invaluable tool for anyone seeking to develop a deeper sense of self and God. In this book, Monty Williams presents a step-by-step guide to working with one of the Christian world’s first self-help books: The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. By guiding the reader through each...
Remembering Oscar Romero and the Martyrs of El Salvador
A Cloud of Witnesses
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
With the Beatification of Monseñor Oscar Romero, our current Pope Francis has asked theologians to consider how we might allow for an expanded definition for martyrdom in the 21st century. Remembering Oscar Romero and the Martyrs of El Salvador responds to that challenge. How do we name Oscar Romero,...
Living God's Word
Reflections on the Sunday Readings for Year A
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
This new series of reflections on the Sunday readings by a noted Scripture scholar offers fresh insight into the land and people of the Bible. The first of three books, Living God's Word: Reflections on the Sunday Readings for Year A updates columns from The Catholic Register, Canada's national Catholic...
Living God's Word
Reflections on the Sunday Readings for Year B
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
This new series of reflections on the Sunday readings by a noted Scripture scholar offers fresh insight into the land and people of the Bible. The first of three books, Living God's Word: Reflections on the Sunday Readings for Year A updates columns from The Catholic Register, Canada's national Catholic...
by Jan Sjåvik
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
One of the smallest countries in Europe, Norway has created for itself a position in the world community, which is completely out of proportion to the size of its population. Originally the home of sub-Arctic hunters and gatherers, then of ferocious Vikings, it lost perhaps half of its population...
Echoes of the Mind
A Collection of Poetry on Life, Loss and Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
This book is a collection of poetry about life, loss, and love. It is dedicated to all those who inspired and provided the opportunity and challenges to always reach for the highest star. Writing is all about the expression of the inner soul. Each poem put to paper in this collection of poems reflects...
Praying Naked
The Spirituality of Anthony de Mello
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In his books Awareness and The Way to Love, among others,theinternationally acclaimed spiritual guide Anthony de Mello presented an approach to spirituality that integrated the ancient traditions of the East with the psychological and philosophical perspectives of the West. Twenty years after his...
by Maria Boulding OSB, Bruno Webb OSB, Jean Cardinal Daniélou SJ
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Maria Boulding was a highly-respected spiritual writer and translator, notably of St Augustine. Her testimony, as a contemplative nun, is eloquent and forceful: “love is the mightiest source of power in the world, and because of the solidarity of mankind contemplatives believe that lives handed...
How Not to Say Mass, Third Edition
A Guidebook on Liturgical Principles and the Roman Missal
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Revised in accord with the 2002 General Instruction of the Roman Missal and the new translation of the liturgy, this book encourages the authentic celebration of the renewed eucharistic liturgy.
The Creative Retrieval of Saint Thomas Aquinas
Essays in Thomistic Philosophy, New and Old
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
W. Norris Clarke has chosen the fifteen essays in this collection, five of which appear here for the first time, as the most significant of the more than seventy he has written over the course of a long career.
Clarke is known for his development of a Thomistic personalism. To be a person,...
Ways of Forgiveness
How to let forgiveness set you free
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This inspiring and practical guide opens us up to the spiritual gift of forgiveness. The author considers what sin is and how it affects our lives, and then shows how the Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) can heal us from the effects of sin. What is more, in seeking God's Forgiveness, granted...
The Humanity of Warfare
Social Science Capabilities and the Evolution of Armed Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
ABSTRACT The Humanity of Warfare: Social Science Capabilities and the Evolution of Warfare addressees the changing nature of conflict and the new focus represented in the Counter-insurgency (COIN) doctrine. Now that the population’s welfare is placed at the center, understanding the populations...
by Patrick Kelly, SJ
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A provocative look at how Catholics have engaged in play and sports from the medieval period to the 20th century in the United States, and how this engagement has been related to theological and spiritual sensibilities.
Displaying the Ideals of Antiquity
The Petrified Gaze
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Displaying the Ideals of Antiquity investigates the study and display of ancient sculpture from archaeological, art historical, and museum studies perspectives. Ancient sculptures not only give us knowledge about ancient Greek and Roman pasts, but they also mediate ideals that inform modern perceptions...