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Discipleship is a great adventure, but at times we all need to nourish or rejuvenate our spirit. The Heart of a Disciple aims to help uncover the grace that keeps us moving forward in ministry and faith, even as the fire that first burned might become faint. Reflection, discussion prompts, and prayers invite pastoral leaders, faith-sharing groups, or solitary travelers to a renewed life and spirit.Endorsements"This is much more than a book abo...

In Missionary Priest, Fr. Tom Ryan shares the richness of the ministerial life that has taken him throughout the world, engaging with people of all faiths and backgrounds. His work has encompassed campus ministry, founding a center for spirituality, leading retreats, preaching parish missions, engaging in ecumenical and interreligious dialogues, and writing books and articles. His educational journey included Europe and the Middle East. After ...

A concise introduction to the Catholic faith based on the Apostles Creed, the Second Vatican Council, and the challenges of a global church"--

Popular best-selling author and therapist David Richo provides in this live presentation of a retreat a detailed and straightforward vision of what faith and spirituality can look like in adult consciousness.

This volume introduces readers to the prophets of ancient Israel by focusing on the variety of roles they played in ancient Israelite society. Starting from the basic definition of prophets as mediators between God and the community, the author explores the activities and messages of prophets in their various social, historical, political, economic, and religious contexts. The basic question always before us is: What did prophets do in ancient...

The Prophet: For a New Generation is a contemporary edition of the prose-poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. The original book, The Prophet, is undoubtedly Gibran's best-known work. It has been translated into over a hundred languages, making it one of the most translated books in history and one of the bestselling books of all time. The story focuses on the prophet Almustafa who has lived i...

In this book, Fr. René Micallef, a Maltese Jesuit, reflects on biblical hospitality and kinship building with strangers. Acts 28:1-10 speaks of the hospitality of the Maltese, but also of their fear and suspicions regarding Paul, the stranger. Such biblical stories of hospitality may become part of a national identity: welcoming tourists and rich investors strengthens that narrative, but welcoming poor, black and non-Christian asylum seekers a...

For Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, since his formation as a Jesuit and throughout his life and scientific work, the practice of the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius represented the core of his spiritual life. Very early, however, he felt the need to integrate into his spirituality a new vision of an evolutionary universe presented by the modern sciences, which he came across in his scientific education, a fact that could not but also influen...

These books focus on the sayings of Jesus.

In the first through the sixth centuries of the common era, successive circles of rabbis in the Holy Land and Babylonia developed Rabbinic Judaism. Transforming the biblical Temple-oriented form of Judaism, they shaped a vision of Judaism centered around the piety of following and studying the Torah to achieve a sense of the divine in this world. This piety entailed both an intellectual and emotional dimension that spoke to individuals and tha...

This book is not only for Maronite Catholics but for all people who want to know more about one of the rich Traditions of the Catholic Church. There are many ways to be a Catholic. When people think of Catholicism, they too often think that the Tradition of Roman Catholicism is the only way that Catholics live out their faith commitment. However, this couldn't be further from the truth. There are in fact many Catholics whose spiritual, liturgi...

The Symposium for a Fundamental Theology of the Priesthood, held at the Vatican from February 17 to 19, 2022, inaugurated a new phase of theological and pastoral reflection in the context of contemporary questions regarding the ministry of priests and the priesthood of the baptized. The deepening of the relationship between the two participations--baptismal and ministerial--in the one priesthood of Christ is fundamental for renewing the missio...

Based on the poem by Saint Augustine "The Beauty of Creation Bears Witness to God, " this is a story about how the author's son, Nick, sees the wonderful presence of God in nature, and how the wonder of Nick himself shines through the story of his wonder watching"--

To walk together is the constitutive way of the Church, the figure that enables us to interpret reality with the eyes and heart of God, the condition for following the Lord Jesus and being servants of life in this wounded time." --Pope Francis "Today, making an option for synodality one's own means thinking systemically about the renewal and life of the ecclesial body, in the local churches, without limiting oneself to certain sectors or ind...

The book considers the ongoing adventure of God acting through the randomness and chance of the evolutionary process"--

Although Katharine Drexel has been the subject of several biographies, they have tended to treat her as a perfect human being whom the Church later transformed into a saint. Katherine and the Sisters Who Shared Her Vision moves beyond the story of the heiress's individual life devoted to God and shines a light on the work she did, assisted by the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. Drexel could have lived comfortably, wealthy and privileged, as ...

The book follows the structure of the Spiritual Exercises, commenting on major themes in what Ignatius calls the First Week, the Second Week, the Third Week, and the Fourth Week, ending with the Contemplation for Attaining Love. It engages the audience by introducing fresh reflections on the Principle and Foundation (to be read in the context of late medieval marriage vows), and by using, at length, several episodes in the Gospel stories (e.g....

Night can be an experience of both disorientation and loss, but also of new life and direction. Through reflections that are sensitive to the psychological and spiritual needs of the human person as well as relevant stories, this book invites readers to embrace the hope that is present at night. It journeys through some of the fundamental questions that people grapple with at night--questions that have to do with identity, relationships, and m...

This book shares the unfiltered experience of Catholic women as they find their voices in a Church that limits them and seeks a way forward through collaboration between lay women and women religious"--

On occasion of the 500 years anniversary of the conversion of Ignatius of Loyola, this book examines the socio-spiritual development of Jesuit history and the ongoing challenges of globalization"--