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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...
by Mark G. Boyer
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Prayer, the raising of the heart to God, is the heart of the Christian life. For the author of Luke's Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles, prayer is the habit of being in the presence of God. One of the primary ways Jesus is characterized in Luke's Gospel is that of a pray-er. Likewise in the Acts...
Weekday Saints
Reflections on Their Scriptures
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
The Roman Catholic Church issued its first, modern, one-volume Lectionary--a book of biblical texts assigned for every day of the year--in 1970 in response to the Second Vatican Council's call for a greater fare of Scripture during Mass. By the time the Lectionary was revised and published between...
Human Wholeness
A Spirituality of Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Imagine a rope braided out of seven strands of twine, forming a circle so that even the ends of the rope are woven together. That is an image of human wholeness. This book proposes seven aspects to human wholeness: intellectual, psychological, emotional, physical, sexual, spiritual, and aesthetic....
Fruit of the Vine
A Biblical Spirituality of Wine
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Fruit of the Vine: A Biblical Spirituality of Wine is designed to help the reader grow in spirituality through reflecting on biblical vineyard stores, wine making, and wine as a metaphor for life. A spirituality of wine--categorized as a spirit--connects the spirit in wine to the universal spirit...
by Mark G. Boyer
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Mary, the mother of Jesus, is known in the Catholic Church as Our Lady of Grace, Our Lady of Fatima, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Our Lady of Sorrows, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of the Rosary, Our Mother of Perpetual Help, and more. Her various titles describe her various functions...
Christ Our Passover Has Been Sacrificed
A Guide through Paschal Mystery Spirituality: Mystical Theology in The Roman Missal
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Christ Our Passover Has Been Sacrificed examines the paschal mystery as it is presented throughout the liturgical year in The Roman Missal. After offering an in-depth definition of the paschal mystery the author guides the reader through Lent, Holy Week, Easter, Pentecost, and more, mining the riches...
From Contemplation to Action
The Spiritual Process of Divine Discernment Using Elijah and Elisha as Models
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
Contemplation is a spiritual process involving long, thoughtful, steady, serious, and attentive consideration or observation in order to achieve closer unity with God and to discover and understand God's will for the contemplative. Contemplation gives rise to activity, and activity, in turn, gives...
The Doctrine of Atonement
From Luther to Forde
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Post-Enlightenment theology has frequently rejected the historic Christian doctrine of substitutionary atonement. For theologians standing in the tradition of the Lutheran Confessions, rejection of substitutionary atonement is particularly problematic because it endangers the unconditional nature...