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"The Book of Catholic Customs and Traditions" explores a wealth of customs and traditions celebrated by Catholic families all over the world, including every liturgical season; Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, and Ordinary Time...

HeartPeace is written with great compassion…While Dick Gilbert shares the national bereavement circuit of lectures and training with a host of national figures, he shares more than just the facts and figures about ‘grief talk.’ He is a modern day disciple of the healing process; he is a believer that there is more power in that which lifts up than anything that could weigh us down. - Dr. Patrick Del Zoppo, clinical thanatologist and national leader in bereavement ministry HeartPeace is like having an open-ended discussion with a compassionate and brilliant clergyperson where we reap a harvest of redemptive insight, solace, and inspiration. What a pilgrimage from suffering to hop and healing! - Earl Grollman, rabbi and author of living When a Loved One Has Died Whether you’re mad at God or not, this gentle book will give you a new perspective on the peace that can soften the pain of grief. A gracious clarification of the difference between “religion” ..

These 30 services offer ministers to the sick, both professional and volunteer, a convenient and simple way to celebrate prayer and ritual experiences for residents in nursing homes and assisted care facilities and for elderly hospital patients. They can be used with two or three people or with thirty, depending on the situation in each facility. Services include prayers, hymns and songs, sung responses, petitions, litanies, scripture readings, and a great variety of ritual responses, including blessings with water and oil, the blessing of throats, and praying the rosary. Service titles include: Festival of Lights; Psalm Prayers for the weeks of Lent; Come, Spirit, Come; New Year’s Day; Feast of St. Blaise; Blessing of St. Joseph’s Table, and memorial Service. Clear directions and materials needed are included with every service. ..

Linda Schubert is a former member of the pastoral advisory board of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in the Diocese of San Jose, California, actively involved in writing, workshops and prayer ministry...

The extraordinary story of how,among the Masai in Tanzania, an American missioner "rediscovers" the gospel message. Dear Bishop,...Suddenley I feel the urgent need to cast aside all theoories and discussions, all efforts at strategy and simply go to these people and do the work among them for whcich I came to Africa...... just go and talk to them about God and the Christian message. Outside of this, I have no theory, or plan, no strategy, no gimmick, no idea of what will come...I feel rather naked. I will begin as soon as possible.. Vincent Donovan, a Spiritan priest, spent seventeen years in Tanzania before returning to ministry in the United States. He died in 2000..

Marriage failure, divorce and remarriage have become ingrained features of western society and affect every person and every marriage. Andrew Cornes draws upon his profound Bible knowledge and wide pastoral experience to tackle 99 Questions About Divorce & Remarriage. They include: -When can it be right for a Christian to separate? -Does God permit me to remarry? -How does God view my second marriage? -How can I learn to forgive? Christ can support marriages that have almost collapsed. He can forge a new fulfilling life for the person devastated by separation and divorce, and can bring positive hope where there seemed only anger and contempt. This book is a popular version of the author’s Divorce and Remarriage, which received wide praise: ‘Indispensable reading for everybody who is anxious to develop a Christian mind on these topics. It is thorough, clear, faithful, realistic and passionate.’ - REV. DR JOHN STOTT ‘The hard questions and difficult cases are not dodged and Scripture i..

Real People, Real Presence: Ordinary Catholics on the Extraordinary Power of the Eucharist..

Nicholas Reid's biography gives a full account of Liston's work within the New Zealand church and his huge contribution to its development...

The word "reconciliation" is not used in the Hebrew scriptures, and appears only thirteen times in the Pauline and Deuteropauline writings. Yet, in popular Christian imagination it has become a key concept for what the church should be doing during - and after - violent and disruptive social change. Schreiter explores the paradoxes in social and religious reflection that reveal the violence inherent in the vocation of peacemaking and meditates masterfully on the contradictions that define our age, bringing to the fore the uniqueness of the challenge bequeathed to the followers of Christ...

"This book is a fine tapestry weaving in and out, and illuminating a way through the great sadness that comes with the death of a child. The words take you gently by the hand, through the poems of growing up, parting and grieving. The stories reveal, with love, how things are when someone very near and very dear, dies." Kathleen Gallagher - Poet and Playwright...

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...

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...

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 Catholic Guide to Studying Scripture. Discover how the Bible came to be, how to choose a Bible translation, how to interpret the Bible, and how to benefit the most from Bible Study...

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...