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We Learn About Our Parish Church

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With this teaching edition of We Learn About Our Parish Church, teachers, catechists, and parents can help children learn about the liturgical spaces and furnishing in their parish home.....

The Full Catastrophe

Leonard, Tracey

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At the age of twenty, Tracey Leonard went to Calcutta to work as a volunteer in Mother Teresa's home for a the dying and destitute. This story endeavors to bring the reader along on the journey from the poorest of the poor and realities of daily life in Calcutta to the dizzying heights of a thriving expat nightlife. At the age of twenty-four, Tracey began another adventure in a remote Australian aboriginal community―a world away from India but with problems equally challenging and urgent. She learned to love the place and its people and had come to think of it as "home" when her life was radically altered by a car accident. Tracey's recollections are at once hilarious and shocking, filled with a mordant humor that cuts through piety and cherishes the absurd. ..

Little Nellie of Holy God

Sr Mary Dominic RGS

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Little Nellie was not yet four and a half when God took her to Heaven, but she had already made her First Holy Communion. Nellie received five of the seven Sacraments. Before she died, she received Our Lord 32 times. She knew that in Holy Communion she was receiving God and she always called Him "Holy God." When the Holy Father, Pope St. Pius X, heard about Little Nellie he cried: "There! That is the sign for which I was waiting!" Then, the Holy Father said that children could receive Holy Communion when they were little. They would no longer have to wait till age 12. Little Nellie is called the Little Violet of the Blessed Sacrament. Perfect to teach children love and reverence for Our Lord in the Holy Eucharist! 31 Pg. PB. Eccl. Approb...

Liturgical Resources for Luke's Year Yr C

O'Loughlin Thomas

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A treasure trove of extra resources, insights and practical suggestions for the liturgy of ever Sunday and major feastday in Ordinary Time in Year C...

Like Them That Dream

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The arrival of European missionaries in New Zealand had an immeasurable impact on Māori society. Like Them That Dream tells the intriguing story of early interaction between Māori and missionary, leading to the many distinctive responses to the arrival of Christianity. The book’s first two parts consider how the Christian word was spread and how Māori responded, explaining the identification they felt with the Israelites of the Old Testament. The third part relates the rise of indigenous religious movements, from the early Papahurihia through Pai Marire, Ringatu and the Parihaka Movement, and the later incarnations of the Arowhenua Movement in the South Island and what remains today’s leading Māori church, Ratana...

After Vatican 11 Trajectories and Hermeneutics

Heft James L w O'Malley John

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Since the closing of Vatican II (1962-1965) nearly fifty years ago, several multivolume studies have detailed how the bishops at the council debated successive drafts and finally approved the sixteen documents published as the proceedings of the council. However, opinions vary, sometimes sharply, about the implications of Vatican II. This volume explores the major flashpoints...

The Deacon Reader

Keating James

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Directory On Popular Piety And The Liturgy

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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...

Jesus Calling Teen Edition - H/c

Young Sarah

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Each day offers encouragement and hope from a Savior who is closer than you can imagine and who will never leave you. Grow in a deep personal faith while reading a message that everyone needs to hear and embrace deep within the soul. Jesus Calling® is a devotional that is read daily by millions of people. This version includes the beloved original content, but with a modern cover that will appeal to a younger audience. After many years of writing in her prayer journal, missionary Sarah Young decided to listen to God with pen in hand, writing down whatever she believed He was saying to her. It was awkward at first, but gradually her journaling changed from monologue to dialogue. She knew her writings were not inspired as Scripture is, but journaling helped her grow closer to God, and from that experience Jesus Calling® came to be. It is Sarah’s fervent prayer that our Savior may bless every reader with His presence and His peace in ever deeper measure. Meets national education stan..

Celebrating You for Primary Graduates

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John Henry Newman A Developing Spirituality

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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...

50 Years Receiving Vatican 11: a personal odyssey

Kelly Kevin T

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This collection of his writings, old and new, tells the story of Liverpool priest Kevin Kelly's struggle to be faithful to the teachings of Vatican II, learning from experience and discerning the call of God's Spirit in people's lives. Many today are concerned that the Church is losing touch with the Vatican II agenda. This book reminds us that the task of receiving Vatican II is far from complete...

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...