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Building Bridges, Not Walls - Construyamos puentes, no muros
Nourishing Diverse Cultures in Faith – Alimentar a las diversas culturas en la fe
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Are you a leader, clergy or lay, in a Catholic parish wrestling with how to bridge the multiple ethnic, linguistic, and racial communities that increasingly comprise your parish? With these cultural backgrounds frequently come diverse perspectives on everything from how to communicate with each other...
The Road to Eternal Life
Reflections on the Prologue of Benedict's Rule
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In the Prologue of his Rule, St. Benedict maps out the road that leads to heaven; he lays the foundation for life in a community that seeks God. The themes that are present throughout the Rule - obedience, humility, prayer, fear of the Lord, eternal life - are grounded in the Prologue.
By reflecting...
Spirit, Soul, Body
Toward an Integral Christian Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
A perennial problem for spiritual traditions of all sorts is dualism—either a positing of a false distance between the Divine and the created or a rejection of creation and the human body. Many contemporary spiritual seekers have sensed this problem and sought to remedy it through myriad solutions...
At Play in Creation
Merton's Awakening to the Feminine Divine
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
In this series of deeply meditative retreat conferences, Christopher Pramuk leads the reader through a sustained meditation on Wisdom-Sophia, the feminine face of God’s presence alive in the world, who speaks and sings in the writings of Thomas Merton. With the sensitivity of a poet and the intellectual...
Courage and Conviction
Unpretentious Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Today, many Christians, concerned and challenged by contemporary trends in society and religion, are bewildered and perhaps tempted to leave the Church and manage on their own. Courage and Conviction is addressed to discerning adult Christians who seek something between high theology and pious platitudes....
Field Hospital Catechesis
The Core Content for RCIA Formation
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
If, as Pope Francis says, the church is a field hospital, then what does it mean to care for the wounded and heal the wounds? What would we do first? Indeed, God sends all of us—especially catechists and teachers—to heal the world. And the first thing we have to do is this: proclaim that Jesus...
Not by Bread Alone
Daily Reflections for Lent 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Prayerfully journey through Lent with Mary DeTurris Poust’s fresh and meaningful reflections on the daily Mass readings. In just minutes per day, the insightful meditations of Not by Bread Alone can deepen your experience of this solemn season of prayer and penance and prepare you to participate more fully in the joy of the great Easter mystery.
Waiting in Joyful Hope
Daily Reflections for Advent and Christmas 2017-18
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Prepare spiritually for the coming of Christ with this popular, easy-to-use annual guide. During the especially busy Advent and Christmas seasons, this book offers brief, down-to-earth reflections that bring prayer and Scripture into everyday life in a thought-provoking and lasting way. Through Mary...
A New Friendship
The Spirituality and Ministry of the Deacon
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
What is a deacon?" "What does a deacon do?" These are two questions pastors, parishioners, and even deacons themselves often ask.
In A New Friendship Monsignor Edward Buelt answers these questions through an engaging conversation with the Scriptures, the eucharistic liturgy,...
After Emmaus
Biblical Models for the New Evangelization
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
The New Evangelization calls Christians to return to the New Testament to understand its essential content but also to discover different ways of proclaiming the Good News. By exploring the witness and different missionary approaches of Jesus and the apostles Marcel Dumais, OMI, offers foundational...
by John J. Pilch
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
The fifty-six essays in this book present cultural reflections on the gospel reading assigned for each Sunday in Cycle B of the Roman Lectionary. Each essay highlights aspects of the first-century, Eastern Mediterranean cultural world in which Jesus lived and suggests across-cultural comparison with...
Seek the Living God
Five RCIA Inquiry Questions for Making Disciples
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
We all know that a one-size-fits-all approach to RCIA catechumenate formation doesn’t work. But until now, many of us were stumped trying to find a viable alternative*. Seek the Living God: Five RCIA Inquiry Questions for Making Disciples* is the answer to your prayers. After just a few meetings...
Come, Creator Spirit
Meditations on the Veni Creator
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Written particularly for the Charismatic Renewal in the English-speaking world, Come, Creator Spirit is a helpful guide for a better understanding of the Holy Spirit. In this detailed commentary on the famous hymn Veni Creator, sung at the beginning of every new year, ecumenical council, and priestly...
Icons in the Western Church
Toward a More Sacramental Encounter
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Within the Eastern tradition of Christianity, the eikon, or religious image, has long held a place of honor. In the greater part of Western Christianity, however, discomfort with images in worship, both statues and panel icons, has been a relatively common current, particularly since the Reformation....