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A Year of Sundays
Gospel Reflections 2010
Cackie Upchurch, Editor; Clifford M. Yeary, Associate Editor
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Luke’s gospel tells us a good seed needs good soil to produce fruit (8:8). An effective way of ensuring that our hearts are that good soil is to ponder and cherish the word God plants there. By stimulating attention, touching our imagination, and enc...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-3632-9
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A Year of Sundays
Gospel Reflections 2011
Cackie Upchurch, Editor; Clifford M. Yeary, Associate Editor
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Perhaps no other evangelist better depicts the teaching aspect of Jesus' ministry than Matthew. In this gospel, Jesus is a master at pulling from his own Jewish tradition while at the same time offering new insights. And he seems to do this best when...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-3643-5
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American Magnificat
Protestants on Mary of Guadalupe
Maxwell E. Johnson, Editor
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When Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, she sent him to the bishop with the message that she desired a hermitage where all people would be welcomed and would experience her love. And yet, until recently, the message of Guadalupe...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-3919-1
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Awakening Vocation
A Theology of Christian Call
Edward P. Hahnenberg
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Does God have a specific plan for each of us, or is it more like general guidelines for all of us? How do my gifts and abilities, my personality and particular circumstances, impact my vocation? What is the role of the church in this process? What ar...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5733-1
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Building a New Church
A Process Manual for Pastors and Lay Leaders
James E. Healy, STL; Foreword by Nathan D. Mitchell
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The task of building a new worship space for a community is both overwhelming and sacred. It is a time of change that presents the opportunity for enrichment and catechesis. Using his experience of working with a steering committee to build a new chu...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-3907-8
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Catholics on Call
Discerning a Life of Service in the Church
Edited by Robin Ryan
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What do you really want to do with your life? Who do you want to be in your life? How does God speak to you about your life? This volume, like the Catholics on Call program at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, raises these important questions. T...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-3923-8
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Celibacy in the Ancient World
Its Ideal and Practice in Pre-Hellenistic Israel, Mesopotamia, and Greece
Dale Launderville, OSB
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Celibacy is a commitment to remain unmarried and to renounce sexual relations, for a limited period or for a lifetime. Such a commitment places an individual outside human society in its usual form, and thus questions arise: What significance does su...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5734-8
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Church
Living Communion
Paul Lakeland
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Drawing on the wisdom and teaching experience of highly respected theologians, the Engaging Theology series builds a firm foundation for graduate study and other ministry formation programs. Each of the six volumes—Scripture, Jesus, God, Discipleship...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5709-6
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Cultivating Soil and Soul
Twentieth-Century Catholic Agrarians Embrace the Liturgical Movement
Michael Woods, SJ
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Even before Vatican Council II, individuals like Virgil Michel and Catholic social movements like the National Catholic Rural Life Conference attempted to promote greater social justice by reconnecting rural life in the United States with the liturgi...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-6236-6
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The Diocesan Priest
Consecrated and Sent
Monsignor David Bohr; Foreword by Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan
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In a robust and engaging manner, David Bohr offers us a thorough review and timely reanalysis of the Catholic diocesan priesthood. Biblical, historical, and sacramental voices dialogue with the relevant documents of the Second Vatican Council, other ...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-3905-4
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Divine Worship and Human Healing
Liturgical Theology at the Margins of Life and Death
Bruce T. Morrill, SJ
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Would many believers consider a wake or funeral an act of worship? What does it mean to say that in anointing the sick or administering Viaticum to the dying humans are healed? Such questions plumb the biblical and traditional depths of the paschal m...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-6233-5
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The Ecumenical Councils of the Catholic Church
A History
Joseph F. Kelly, PhD
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There have been twenty-one universal gatherings—ecumenical councils—of the Catholic Church. The first opened in 325, the last closed in 1965, and the names of many ring out in the history of the church: Nicea, Chalcedon, Trent, Vatican II. Though cen...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5703-4
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Educating for Faith and Justice
Catholic Higher Education Today
Thomas P. Rausch, SJ
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Catholic colleges and universities play a crucial role in handing on a rich faith tradition to young adults today. As these institutions have become more professional and pluralistic, many are asking how effective they are at carrying out the religio...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5716-4
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Finding Sanctuary
Monastic Steps for Everyday Life
Abbot Christopher Jamison
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In Finding Sanctuary Abbot Christopher Jamison, host of the BBC television series The Monastery, suggests the teachings of St. Benedict are a tool for everyday life—for those who are religious and for those simply searching for spiritual guidance.
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-3908-5
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From the Beginning to Baptism
Scientific and Sacred Stories of Water, Oil, and Fire
Linda Gibler, OP; Foreword by David N. Power
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In From the Beginning to Baptism, Linda Gibler takes readers on a journey—from the depths of space and the beginning of time through sacred Scripture and church history—to discover the origins and creative power of water, oil, and fire. She traces th...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5719-5
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From the Pews in the Back
Young Women and Catholicism
Edited by Kate Dugan and Jennifer Owens; Foreword by Mary Ann Hinsdale; Afterword by Donna Freitas
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From the Pews in the Back is a book filled with questions about Catholic identity. How do young Catholic women see or define themselves? What is their relationship to the church? What are their struggles and joys? In a church that often consigns them...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-3902-3
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Fundamentalism: A Pastoral Concern
Eugene LaVerdiere, SSS
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Fundamentalism is a a serious and growing problem for Catholics. Its strict interpretation of every passage of the Bible creates a pastoral challenge to make the scriptural Word alive in every age, culture, and social situation. In Fundamentalism: A ...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-3900-9
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The Gospels of the Weekday Lectionary
Commentary and Reflections
John F. Craghan
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"Seize the text," John Craghan tells readers in his introduction to this volume. Though he states the seemingly obvious—it is imperative to read the biblical texts in order to begin to mine their depths—his commentary on the gospels of the weekday Le...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-3933-7
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Homilies for Weekdays
Solemnities, Feasts, and Memorials
Don Talafous, OSB, PhD
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Homilies for Weekdays: Solemnities, Feasts, and Memorials is a requested and welcome addition to the first two volumes of weekday homilies by Father Don Talafous, OSB. Here, he offers creative homily suggestions for solemnities, feasts, and obligator...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-3909-2
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I Was and I Am Dust
Penitente Practices as a Way of Knowing
David M. Mellott
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There are a variety of people, practices, and celebrations in the Catholic Church. At times some of these can be dismissed too easily as extreme, superstitious, or uninformed. Such is the case with the Penitentes of New Mexico. In I Was and I Am Dust...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-6232-8
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The Ignatian Tradition
Eileen Burke-Sullivan, PhD, and Kevin F. Burke, SJ; Phyllis Zagano, Series Editor
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The Ignatian tradition sprang up in the sixteenth century, the fruit of graces bestowed on a Basque nobleman, Ignatius of Loyola. Guided by a passion to find God in all things, Ignatius and his first companions founded the Society of Jesus and inspir...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-3910-8
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Introducing the Practice of Ministry
Kathleen A. Cahalan
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Ministry is often examined in terms of who the minister is, not what the minister does. But the vocation to ministry must be understood as a call to identity as well as to practice, one that is rooted in Jesus' life and ministry as well as the Spirit...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-3928-3
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Jesus Began To Preach
The Mystery of God’s Word
Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap
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In this volume, a thoroughly revised and expanded version of The Mystery of God’s Word, Father Raniero Cantalamessa engages the profound idea of the Eternal Word that becomes Life. The main and constant focus of the book is to show how the word of Go...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-3924-5
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The Long Dark Winter's Night
Reflections of a Priest in a Time of Pain and Privilege
Patrick Bergquist
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Before Father Patrick Bergquist moved to Alaska, he imagined himself spending his free evenings wrapped in a warm quilt, reading novel after novel during the long arctic winters. Those idealized expectations were met with the unavoidable reality of w...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-3916-0
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A Lyrical Vision
The Music Documents of the US Bishops
Edward Foley, Capuchin
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The publication of the US Bishops' document on music in the liturgy, Sing to the Lord (2007), has prompted Edward Foley to review the overall contribution of the Bishops to liturgical music since Vatican Council II. He explores the history and conten...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-3904-7
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