Best Sellers

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Best Sellers

Best Sellers PDF Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Mystics Quarterly

Mystics Quarterly PDF Author:
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Category : Mysticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Grace in Every Season

Grace in Every Season PDF Author: Catherine de Hueck Doherty
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ISBN: 9780892837175
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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This rich seasonal devotional reads like a sampler of the everyday spirituality of Catherine Doherty--a spiritual giant of the 20th-century who counted Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day among her friends, founded the Madonna House Apostolate, and left extensive writings to her spiritual sons and daughters.

Staritsa

Staritsa PDF Author: Donald A. Guglielmi
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 149828941X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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The present book is the first work to highlight Catherine Doherty's vocation to spiritual motherhood. Drawing upon primary archival sources, the author traces Catherine's development as a staritsa, or spiritual mother in the Russian-Eastern tradition. Of particular interest are the chapters dealing with Catherine's exercise of spiritual motherhood for priests and laity alike. Previously unpublished letters of spiritual direction between Catherine and her major spiritual directors offer the reader a privileged glimpse into the soul of this servant of God and her spiritual children, as she grows in her vocation as staritsa. For example, in one striking letter, Catherine describes how she guided a disillusioned young priest who was struggling with a drinking problem and temptations involving young women, and was bordering on despair: "With clenched teeth I sailed into him, first gently, almost caressingly calling him back to Christ he once loved, then more sternly, then quietly. . . . He left full of thanks and some hope . . . ."

Urodivoi

Urodivoi PDF Author: Catherine Doherty
Publisher: Combermere, Ont. : Madonna House Publications
ISBN: 9780921440345
Category : Folly
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Learn to take risks for Christ and his Gospel. Urodivoi is a Russian word meaning "holy foolishness." In this book Catherine Doherty expresses her calling to this aspect of Russian spirituality, and calls us to become fools for Christ. "Anything and everything we do must be approached with the foolishness of God, with an identification with Christ. Can you imagine anything more foolish than hanging on a cross? We are invited to open the doors of our hearts to the Lord of Love, to the foolishness of the Cross, and to become a fool for the sake of Christ, even as he became a fool for our sake. For God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom."

Praying with Visionary Women

Praying with Visionary Women PDF Author: Bridget Mary Meehan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781580510639
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Here is a summons to pray with twenty great women of faith-from Hildegard of Bingen to Dorothy Day. Brief biographies are followed by commentary, prayer experiences, questions for reflection, and suggestions for action. Meehan brings these women to life, allowing their example to inspire, encourage, and empower you. Meet women who will change your life and enrich your spiritual journey with new possibilities of self-discovery, wisdom, creativity, and friendship. Reminding us that abundance is all around us, and challenging us to make a difference, this book is filled with stories of visionary women with whom we can share the longings that lie deep within us for divine love, deep tranquility, and human intimacy.

The Father's Tale

The Father's Tale PDF Author: Michael D. O'Brien
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 089870815X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1077

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"Canadian bookseller Alex Graham is a middle-age widower whose quiet life is turned upside down when his college-age son disappears without any explanation or trace of where he has gone. With minimal resources, the father begins a long journey that takes him for the first time away from his safe and orderly world. As he stumbles across the merest thread of a trail, he follows it in blind desperation, and is led step by step on an odyssey that takes him to fascinating places and sometimes to frightening people and perils. Through the uncertainty and the anguish, the loss and the longing, Graham is pulled into conflicts between nations, as well as the eternal conflict between good and evil. Stretched nearly to the breaking point by the inexplicable suffering he witnesses and experiences, he discovers unexpected sources of strength as he presses onward in the hope of recovering his son--and himself"--Jacket.

Bogoroditza

Bogoroditza PDF Author: Catherine Doherty
Publisher: Combermere, Ont. : Madonna House Publications
ISBN: 9780921440482
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 147

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Mother of God, Model of Love... A remarkable, reader-friendly book about the Blessed Mother as a continuing presence in the lives of every Christian. Twelve chapters compiled from collected writings, some of them establishing the cultural (Russian) background of Catherine Doherty's Marian devotion, but most of them re-examining how people can experience Mary today. Accented with the author's richand original Marian prayers. "This book presents Mary as the model of love sought by all, one who can truly liberate us from selfishly doing our own thing. Catherine draws a portrait of Mary that makes her unselfish service to the Trinity, her simplicity, integrity, silence and fidelity appealing to all." - Prairie Messenger

Strannik

Strannik PDF Author: Catherine Doherty
Publisher: Combermere, Ont. : Madonna House Publications
ISBN: 9780921440246
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 85

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Strannik is the Russian word for "pilgrim," one with a vocation-a unique, holy calling. Pilgrimage is more than something you `do.' `Being a pilgrim' consumes all of you. The pilgrim is to "be the Gospel and to preach it with his words and with his being." In Strannik, Catherine shows that pilgrimage is not just something for a few spiritual ascetics with wanderlust. Even less does it resemble the modern tourist-style `pilgrimages' that try to cover as many holy places as possible in the briefest time possible. Rather, the true strannik begins by looking within the self, where God already is. While the author does tell us about external pilgrimages such as she herself experienced as a child in Russia, the pilgrimages she is writing about are principally interior. Pilgrimage comes out of a quest for God. Catherine speaks of the "nostalgia for paradise" which all human beings have experienced since Adam and Eve. Without Christ we cannot complete our journey. "Christ was the pilgrim who pilgrimed from the bosom of the Father to the hearts of men and women."

The Roman Catholics

The Roman Catholics PDF Author: Patrick W. Carey
Publisher: Greenwood
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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This reference work provides an historical overview of the people and events that have shaped Roman Catholicism in the United States. The first part of the book is a narrative history of Catholicism in America. This section begins with a look at the roots of the American Catholic tradition during the time of Columbus and the arrival of missionaries to the New World. The chapters that follow trace the history of Catholicism from the colonial period to the present day. The second part of the volume is a biographical dictionary of the most important figures in the American Catholic tradition. Each biographical sketch briefly profiles and assesses the career and contributions of a key figure. Each profile closes with a brief bibliography of the most important works by and about the figure, and the volume concludes with an extensive bibliographical essay.