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View book details for A Pastor's Toolbox 2
More Management Skills for Parish Leadership
Liturgical Press
The remarkable success of the book A Pastors Toolbox: Management Skills for Parish Leadership has demonstrated that the demands of time and financial challenges continue to impact the work of todays parish leaders. The need has become even greater for …
Liturgical Press
In the era in which the Chronicler writes, the pressing question is: How will Judeans reestablish themselves after the Babylonian exile? The Chronicler's answer is to encourage the people of Israel to live out of their memory of God's mercy …
View book details for Wealth, Wages, and the Wealthy
New Testament Insight for Preachers and Teachers
Liturgical Press
Fulfilling what he has called a grave responsibility, Pope Francis has often addressed the issue of economic inequality and the use of personal, corporate, and national wealth. Franciss teaching is rooted in the teaching of Jesus, preserved in the pages …
View book details for The Mystery We Celebrate, the Song We Sing
A Theology of Liturgical Music
Liturgical Press
Music and liturgy seem inseparable, yet we seldom pause to ponder their relationship in depth. In this volume, Kathleen Harmon offers her own insights by creatively exploring the complex interplay between congregational singing and the liturgical celebration of the paschal …
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Questing for God
Liturgical Press
Who is God? That is the question Elizabeth A. Johnson has spent her life exploring. As a Catholic theologian, writer, teacher, and religious woman, Johnson has searched for the Living God and ways to understand God that make sense for …
View book details for Pillars Of Community
Four Rules of Pre-Benedictine Monastic Life
Liturgical Press
Anyone who has explored a great Romanesque church has been impressed, even awed, by the mighty stone foundations supporting the great central tower. As four pillars give a firm base to these soaring structures, so four ancient Rules stand beneath …
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What the Bible's Outsiders Can Teach Christians
Liturgical Press
The Bible is laced with stories in which strangers behave better than believers. What do these encounters with otherspeople from different cultures, religions, genders, economic and social classesteach us about our own spiritual values, about the faith and God behind …
View book details for Awakening Vocation
A Theology of Christian Call
Liturgical Press
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 …
View book details for The Way of Discipleship
Women, Men, and Today's Call to Mission
Liturgical Press
Vatican IIs famous declaration that "the church on earth is by its very nature missionary has often been taken out of context and used to support all manner of church initiatives. But, the conclusion of the statement"since . . . …
View book details for Illuminating Justice
The Ethical Imagination of The Saint John's Bible
Liturgical Press
Illuminating Justice explores the call to social ethics in The Saint Johns Bible, the first major handwritten and hand-illuminated Christian Bible since the invention of the printing press. Situating his close analysis of The Saint Johns Bibles illuminations in the …
View book details for Apocalyptic Ecology
The Book of Revelation, the Earth, and the Future
Liturgical Press
The author of the book of Revelation struggled, as we do today, to live out a Christian faith in the context of an empire that trampled and destroyed the earth and its creatures. In this book, Micah D. Kiel will …
View book details for Following The Footsteps Of The Invisible
The Complete Works of Diadochus of Photike
Liturgical Press
Fifth-century Christianity was a theological battlefield. With the Messalian heretics and their experientialist spirituality on the one side and the intellectualist school on the other, representatives of both extremes found themselves condemned by the Church. In this milieu of subjectivist …
View book details for The Diocesan Priest
Consecrated and Sent
Liturgical Press
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 papal pronouncements, and …
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Words and Gestures in the Liturgy is a call to attentiveness. What do the various movements in the liturgy mean? How do words affect and effect liturgical actions? Antonio Donghi explains that these gestures emerge from the experience of prayer; …
View book details for The Eucharist in the West
History and Theology
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In the light of its own history, the Catholic theology of the Eucharist, as it is generally understood today, is revealed as a splinter tradition whose deficiencies call for fundamental reformulation. The valid aspects of that theology (for example, the …
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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. …
View book details for The God of Freedom and Life
A Commentary on the Book of Exodus
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Uses the New American Bible, Revised Edition!The epic story of liberation and covenant-making flowers in the pages of the book of Exodus, making this study the perfect choice for the holy season of Lent. Exodus provides a deeper understanding of …
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A Catholic Guide to Studying Scripture
Liturgical Press
Catholics are often reluctant to begin reading the Bible, this is for various reasons. Perhaps we hang on to the notion that the Bible is a book meant for display, for recording the dates of family members ' births, baptisms, …
View book details for Seminary Formation
Recent History-Current Circumstances-New Directions
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The past thirty years have witnessed tremendous societal and ecclesial changes that continue to inform ministry education in the 21st century. In Seminary Formation, Katarina Schuth, OSF, examines the many aspects of theologate-level schools including their structures and missions, organization …
View book details for The Problem of Evil in the Western Tradition
From the Book of Job to Modern Genetics
Liturgical Press
The question of evil presents a profound challenge to humanitywhy do we do what we know to be wrong? This is especially a challenge to religious believers. Why doesn't an all-good and omnipotent God step in and put an end …
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A Theological Reading of Mark's Gospel
Liturgical Press
With this study of the Gospel of Mark, Brendan Byrne completes his trilogy of works on the Synoptic Gospels. Mark, the Cinderella gospel, as Byrne says, languished for millennia in the shadow of Matthew ("the first gospel") and Luke. Beginning …
View book details for Desert Banquet
A Year of Wisdom from the Desert Mothers and Fathers
Liturgical Press
The wisdom of the desert fathers and mothers lies in their experiences of solitude, prayer, community life, work, and care for their neighbors. Their goal was transformation of their lives through openness to the presence and energy of God in …
View book details for Whose Mass Is It?
Why People Care So Much about the Catholic Liturgy
Liturgical Press
When changes happen to the Catholic Mass, opinions are strong and diverse. Everyone feels in some way that the Mass is theirs. It is. Or is it? Whose Mass is it? And what should people do to claim it? Whether …
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More than an updated second edition, this book combines the best information from the popular first edition with new insights to help you turn your travels into pilgrimages. In this edition of The Pilgrim's New Guide to the Holy Land, …
Liturgical Press
Thomas Merton's lectures to the young monastics at the Abbey of Gethsemani provide a good look at Merton the scholar. A Course in Christian Mysticism gathers together, for the first time, the best of these talks into a spiritual, historical, …
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