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The Deacon Reader

Keating James

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Directory On Popular Piety And The Liturgy

N/A

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Extracts from the address of His Holiness Pope John Paul II to the Plenary Meeting of The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments...

John Henry Newman A Developing Spirituality

Cooper Austin OMI

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Analyses various aspects of the historic context in which Newman’s rich spirituality developed: his many and varied networks of family, friends and colleagues who left their imprint on his spiritual growth; the vigorous defence of the Church of his birth in the Tractarian Movement; his increasing knowledge of, and dependence on, the Fathers of the Church; his pastoral experience as a preacher and teacher and, unifying it all, his deep practical faith in the God in whom he lived and moved and had his existence. Not many will walk the path of Newman, but all can be enriched by his experience...

Leadership as a call to service

Cameron Christine

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With a foreword from Suzanne Noffke OP. In Leadership as a call to Service. The lives and works of Teresa of Ávila, Catherine of Siena and Thérèse of Lisieux, Christine Cameron looks at a synthesis of the lives and works of the three women doctors of the Catholic Church as servant leaders. The seminal work of Greenleaf (1970) on servant leadership and Spears (1998) with his identification of the ten core characteristics of servant leadership provided the framework and inspiration for this book. The focus is on how the ten core characteristics of listening, empathy, healing, awareness, persuasion, conceptualisation, foresight, stewardship, commitment to the growth of people and building community are reflected in the leadership practices of Teresa, Catherine and Thérèse. Christine Cameron is married with a grown family. Christine has served in administrative positions in Catholic primary schools in New South Wales Australia as Principal, Assistant Principal and as Religious Education Co..

Suddenley and Unexpectedly

Fahy T. Michael

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"Suddenly and Unexpectedly—Non-Fiction—The End of Our Times" is factual and non-speculative. It is based upon the author's 42 years of accumulated research, discovery, personal encounters, writings, lectures, conferences, and a broad variety of other related experiences. The contents of this book demonstrate with certainty that unprecedented, irreversible events of universal importance are imminent, and some are already in progress. These events will bring a definitive, terrible, and destructive end to our present times, which will be followed by a totally new, peaceful and happy era in human history for those who survive. There are alive today (in late 2012) influential, world leaders, both good and bad, who are already aware of significant aspects of the generally unknown facts described in this book...

Wounded Healer

Nouwen, Henri J.M.

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The Wounded Healer is a hope-filled and profoundly simple book that speaks directly to those men and women who want to be of service in their church or community, but have found the traditional ways often threatening and ineffective. In this book, Henri Nouwen combines creative case studies of ministry with stories from diverse cultures and religious traditions in preparing a new model for ministry. Weaving keen cultural analysis with his psychological and religious insights, Nouwen has come up with a balanced and creative theology of service that begins with the realization of fundamental woundedness in human nature. Emphasizing that which is in humanity common to both minister and believer, this woundedness can serve as a source of strength and healing when counselling others. Nouwen proceeds to develop his approach to ministry with an analysis of sufferings -- a suffering world, a suffering generation, a suffering person, and a suffering minister. It is his contention that ministers..

God and You

Barry William A,S.J

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Different people approach the business of praying in different ways. This book maintains that prayer is first and foremost a personal relationship and that the most fruitful prayer is that which builds upon and enhances relationship. It shows us how we can develop an intimate relationship with God by suggesting various methods of prayer that will deepen and strengthen our friendship with him...

Opening To God A Guide to Prayer

Green, Thomas H.

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Often, people feel drawn to prayer but are timid and unsure about how to pray. For over thirty years, this book has demystified prayer for countless thousands. Friendly and inviting, Opening to God, now available in a revised, updated edition, explains what prayer is all about, then turns to techniques that ready the soul to encounter God. Mining his rich experiences as a Jesuit missionary and spiritual director, Thomas Green, S.J., shakes away the cobwebs and banishes stodgy assumptions about spiritual life that is fed by the practice of prayer. A must-have resource, both for beginners and practiced 'pray-ers' who want to cultivate a more meaningful prayer experience...

Ministers of Your Joy

Ratzinger Joseph Cardinal

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The Pope analyses the crisis that has invested the priestly and religious calls and identifies the main cause for it in the failure on the part of the called to actively witness in their own life to what the Master had laid down for them as disciples. These simple and thought-provoking reflections are meant to encourage and strengthen the desire and determination to follow the Master more closely in accomplishing the Fathers' will as well as in ministering the Good News to the brethren...

Genius Born of Anguish

Higgins Michael W & Burns Kevi

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Henri Nouwen's life in stages, with emphasis on his ideas on spirituality. In this illustrated biography the life and legacy of Henri Nouwen is presented through interviews with his friends and family, including his brother Laurent, L'Arche founder Jean Vanier, author Robers Ellsberg, and writer Ronald Rolheiser...

The Beauty Beyond

Gibson Brother Romauld

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The Beauty Beyond is fiction but with a deep spiritual message. Lemond's life suddenley collapses when Stephanie, his wife, brings to an end their sixteen years of life together. She no longer loves him and wants to end their marriage...

Saint Mary MacKillop Friend of Jesus

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A delightful, illustrated book for children aged 7-11. It tells the story of Australia's first saint who always tried to help people in trouble, especially the children. She set up a new family, the Sisters of St Joseph, to teach in schools and to help the poor and those who had no one to care for them. Saint Mary MacKillop was a true friend of Jesus all her life..

Saint Therese of Lisieux:Doctor of the Universal Church (F)

Payne Steven, OCD

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On World Mission Sunday, October 19, 1997, Pope John Paul II declared St. Thérèse of Lisieux a "Doctor of the Universal Church." This event marked not only the culmination of an unprecedented series of honors bestowed on "the greatest saint of modern times," as St. Pius X called her, but it also represented a watershed in the evolution of the understanding of this ecclesiastical title bestowed on only 33 saints in the history of the Church. Certainly, at the time of her death in 1897, no one would have guessed that this 24-year-old Carmelite nun, with such a limited education and imperfect literary style, who never wrote a treatise or published an article and who died virtually unknown in an obscure French Carmel, would one day come to be ranked alongside such eminent personalities as St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, as a doctor ecclesiae. Her selection did not come about in a vacuum, nor did it happen easily. The story behind the title and her reception of it as documented in t..

Eucharistic Prayers for Concelebration (4 concelebrants)

Various

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Eucharistic Prayers for Concelebration - for up to four concelebrants with musical settings..

Aspects of Therese

Stewart Bruce

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"Aspects of Thérèse" is a study of Thérèse of LIsieux, but not a straight biography. It considers this most popular of modern saints from a number of specific angles...

The Ordinary Path to Holiness

Richard R. Thomas,PHD

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How do we work out our salvation? What are we to expect, and anticipate, on this journey through life? When our earthly sojourn has ended, what will we have to account for before God? If we know the goal of our life, is there a map to guide us around the obstacles and pitfalls we may encounter? Centuries of following Jesus -- who is the Way, the Truth and the Life -- have provided the Church with a number of tried-and-true routes to our ultimate goal. This work provides an overview of this traditional Catholic spirituality which has been tested and proven in the crucible of the lives of the saints. Understanding this traditional Catholic spirituality will give the reader powerful insights into his or her personal pilgrimage. This book is an invaluable aid to that understanding...

Order of Christian Funerals English/Spanish

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This bilingual edition of the Order of Christian Funerals contains the basic texts in English and Spanish for vigil services, funeral liturgies, committal services, prayers and texts for particular circumstances, and Holy Communion outside of Mass. Large, easy to read type is printed in two colors and ribbon markers assure easy use. ..

My Peace I Give You- Healing Sexual Wounds

Eden Dawn

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Dawn Eden, internationally known speaker and author of the bestselling The Thrill of the Chaste, shows how the lives of the saints have given her hope and aided her journey of spiritual healing after childhood sexual abuse. One in four American women and one in six American men report having been sexually abused during childhood and My Peace I Give You: Healing Sexual Wounds with the Help of the Saints provides a much-needed resource for spiritual healing from the isolating effects of these wounds. Eden uses her own story as a backdrop to introduce numerous holy people--like Laura Vicuna, Thomas Aquinas and Bernard of Clairvaux--who suffered sexual abuse or sexual inappropriateness, as well as saints such as Ignatius of Loyola who suffered other forms of mistreatment and abandonment. Readers seeking wholeness will discover saints with wounds like their own, whose stories bear witness to the transforming power of grace. Eden explores different dimensions of divine love--sheltering, c..

Proclaim With Wonders

Rea Fr. John

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Recounting more than one hundred stories of healings and miracles that the author has witnessed or heard about first hand. These stories will build faith and hope and leave no doubt that Jesus Christ is alive and active in the world today. About the Author: Born of Irish/Scottish descent in Wellington, NZ. At age 17 Fr John entered the society of Mary, an international religious congregation and was ordained a priest in 1955. After some initial hesitancy about healing and Catholic Charismatic renewel, he discovered the power of prayer with faith and gradually grew in the use of the gifts of the holy spirit, and in the healing ministry. His ministry is widely accepted, not only in Catholic but also in ecumenical settings...

Rebuilt: The Story of a Catholic Parish

White / Corcoran

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Drawing on the wisdom gleaned from thriving mega-churches and innovative business leaders while anchoring their vision in the Eucharistic center of Catholic faith, Fr. Michael White and lay associate Tom Corcoran present the compelling and inspiring story to how they brought their parish back to life. Rebuilt is a story of stopping everything and changing focus. When their parish reached a breaking point, Fr. Michael White and lay associate Tom Corcoran asked themselves how they could make the Church matter to Catholics, and they realized the answer was at the heart of the Gospel. Their faithful response not only tripled their weekend mass attendance, but also yielded increased giving, flourishing ministries, and a vibrant, solidly Catholic spiritual revival. White and Corcoran invite all Catholic leaders to share the vision, borrow their strategies, and rebuild their own parishes. They offer a wealth of guidance for anyone with the courage to hear them...