Download or read book Mortal Blessings written by Angela Alaimo O'Donnell and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2014-09-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a 2015 Catholic Press Award: Family Life Category (First Place) In this lyrical adieu to her mother, renowned Catholic essayist, poet, and professor Angela O'Donnell explores how the mundane tasks of caregiving during her mother's final days--bathing, feeding, taking her for a walk in her wheelchair--became rituals or ordinary sacraments that revealed traces of the divine. With Joan Didion's grasp of grief, the spiritual playfulness of Mary Karr, and the poetic agility of Kathleen Norris, Angela Alaimo O'Donnell narrates the events that followed her mother's fall and the broken hip that led to surgery. As O'Donnell and her sisters cared for their mother's failing body during the last days of her life, they unconsciously observed rituals that began to take on a deeper importance. Bathing her each morning was a kind of baptism, the nightly feeding of pie took on a Eucharistic significance, trimming and polishing nails became a kind of anointing. Beyond the seven there are the myriad sacraments they made up: the sacrament of community via cell phone, the sacrament of wheelchair pilgrimage around the nursing home, and the sacrament of humor and laughter. This deeply human portrait of loss is balanced by the surprising grace found in letting go; it will resonate with any spiritual reader but especially caregivers and those currently in grief.
Download or read book Blessings of Death written by William Jennings Bryan and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blessings of Being Mortal written by Margo Drummond and published by North Star Publications (MA). This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals how to develop a mature understanding of death...allowing us to live wisely & well.
Download or read book Deadly Blessings written by Richard J. Brenneman and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trials involving three types of spiritual healing: Christian Science, psychic surgery, and psychedelic psychotherapy.
Download or read book Discourses and Sayings of Our Lord Jesus Christ written by John Brown and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Journey of Life with Divine Blessings written by GOPENDRA KISHORE ROY and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book, A Journey of Life with Divine Blessings, is an autobiography of Prof. Dr. G.K. Roy, a pioneer teacher, professor and engineer in technology education in Odisha. The biography depicts his life and times, along with his memories and takes on important events in Odisha, India and the global technical space spanning a period of over five decades through the second half of the twentieth century. The book goes beyond the scope of a biography, to a chronicling of events in the building of a technical institute and thus is as much about the author's professional journey as that of the story of the making of technical institution of global repute. An avid traveller the book also offers some personal vignettes on the author's many pilgrimages across India covering almost every major shrine in the Hindu pantheon of religious places.
Download or read book The Life and Death of Llewellynn Jewitt written by William Henry Goss and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The life and death of Llewellynn Jewitt with mem of some of his friends especially of S C Hall written by William Henry Goss and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Wild Blessings written by Hilary Holladay and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, womanhood, spirituality, and mortality, poet Lucille Clifton has published thirteen volumes of poems since 1969 and has received numerous accolades for her work, including the 2000 National Book Award for Blessing the Boats. Her verse is featured in almost every anthology of contemporary poetry, and her readings draw large and enthusiastic audiences. Although Clifton's poetry is a pleasure to read, it is neither as simple nor as blithely celebratory as readers sometimes assume. The bursts of joy found in her polished, elegant lines are frequently set against a backdrop of regret and sorrow. Alternately consoling, stimulating, and emotionally devastating, Clifton's poems are unforgettable. In Wild Blessings, Hilary Holladay offers the first full-length study of Clifton's poetry, drawing on a broad knowledge of the American poetic tradition and African American poetry in particular. Holladay places Clifton's poems in multiple contexts -- personal, political, and literary -- as she explicates major themes and analyzes specific works: Clifton's poems about womanhood, a central concern throughout her career; her fertility poems, which are provocatively compared with Sylvia Plath's poems on the same subject; her relation to the Black Arts Movement and to other black female poets, such as Gwendolyn Brooks and Sonia Sanchez; her biblical poems; her elegies; and her poignant family history, Generations, an extended prose poem. In addition to a new preface written after Clifton's death in 2010, this updated edition includes an epilogue that discusses the poetry collections she published after 2004. Readers encountering Lucille Clifton's poems for the first time and those long familiar with her distinctive voice will benefit from Hilary Holladay's striking insights and her illuminating interview with the influential American poet.
Download or read book Institutes of the Christian Religion written by John Calvin and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an inspiration to a new form of Christian life for many. It was published in 1536 in Latin and revolutionized the Christian world. It became one of the books that laid the basis for the establishment of Protestant churches. In the book, Calvin strongly criticizes what he believes are unorthodox teachings and the policy of the Catholic Church. The book considers the knowledge of God the Creator and the creation of a man. He also speculates on the topic of what humankind is and what people know about The Creator.
Download or read book A Gift the Blessings of St John written by William A. Abrams and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Gift: The Blessings of St. John can be a very valuable gift for you. Good gifts are those which enlarge and enrich our lives and open opportunities of which we were not previously aware. The blessings of St. John can be a truly good gift which has possibilities to open your mind to views of God, others, and yourself that will bring a positive change to your life. Of course, this will only happen if you use this gift in the ways suggested within this book and use your own imagination and abilities to make what is written into an exciting and rewarding gift for you. As you read, ponder, and share what is written, you will discover other ways that will make the blessings of St. John a cherished gift that will not only enrich your life but also the lives of others. Begin today, and use the coming days to receive this gift.
Download or read book History of the Christian Church written by Philip Schaff and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book History of the Christian Church A D 1 311 Modern Christianity The Swiss Reformation written by Philip Schaff and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Christian Church Modern Christianity the Swiss Reformation 3d ed rev written by Philip Schaff and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
