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This book is to help you know what happens and what to do when someone you love dies...

It's one of the biggest, hardest things that can happen in your life. When someone you love dies, and your whole world changes. What on earth do you do?..

With its snippets of wisdom and delightful illustrations, this book will encourage you to life life fully, always appreciating its beauty. Ideal for teenagers...

By Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (Author) "Responds to new bioethical questions that have been the focus of expectations and concerns in large sectors of society."  ..

This book presents ten texts taken from the letters of Saint Paul. Each text is accompanied by a brief reflection in the style of lectio divina...

Melancholy, Poetry and Soul-Making. Spirituality is about fire and light, purity and will. Melancholy is more about mist and rain, the softness and intimacy of dusk. Melancholy is the middle way, the valley way, to authentic spirituality...

Over the years, Fr Gerard Dowling has helped many people suffering from excessive feelings of guilt and worries about committing sin. In this book, he considers the causes of this condition, known as scruples, and outlines the steps that need to be taken if the sufferer is to be well again...

Taking God to Heart gives a context in which to appreciate our human experience of God. Brian Gallagher finds this context in the tradition of spirituality sometimes referred to as the way of the heart . Calling on his many years experience as a spiritual guide and teacher, and supported by carefully selected classical and contemporary writings on the ways of God, Brian develops a spirituality that is God-focused though very human, relational and quite personal, and outgoing even while contemplative in approach. Readers will readily identify with much in these pages and will find encouragement to take God, who is always present in our experience, to heart...

Sheer Grace shows not just the 'link between' but the indissolubility of the union of theology, liturgy, and spirituality. It does so by grounding it in a radical tradition of liturgy as transformation, which has its roots in the scriptures and the lived liturgical experience of our biblical and ecclesial ancestors. ..

Outlines how the Catholic Church is structured and functions. This reference resource will assist religious, clergy and lay persons. ..

A significant Australian contribution to ongoing discussion about issues and problems which face Catholic agencies in their coming to grips with their mission and identity. The papers in this volume were first presented at a colloquium held in 2007 on the theme of identity and mission in church-based organisations...

1254 Australian boys, aged 15 to 18, talk about how they experience and express spirituality. These boys share their hopes for the future, their ideals and aspirations and describe their relationships with family and friends. They reveal their values and social concerns and their experiences of contemplation and wonder,of joy and exuberance, of sadness and loss...

Belying the assumption that there is nothing more to discover about the similarities between Jesus and the apostle Paul, Jerome Murphy-O'Connor gives us this enticing study. ..

The thoughts contained in this agreed statement challenge us to embrace the church as central to our journey to God in Jesus...

An eminently readable resource for lectors rich in theology, history and liturgy. Practical & full of useful suggestions ..

Through Ecological Eyes, Reflections on Christianity's environmental credentials, the author of this book highlights the ecological wisdom found in the sacred texts, including a consideration of Christ and creation, and concludes with an examination of the ecological insights of three key figures in the Christian tradition Hildegard of Bingen, Francis of Assisi and Albert Schweitzer...