Download or read book Reflections of an Uncommon Monk written by Brother Emmanuel Labrise and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections of an Uncommon Monk is composed of twenty-seven spiritual reflections useful for daily living, and includes a spiritual primer which conveys basic Christian teaching on the spiritual life. This book can be read on its own or as the first book and moral and spiritual foundation of the series A Hero is Chosen. Beginning with the second book, Mission of the Maiden, all of the stories build on the topics and themes introduced in Reflections of an Uncommon Monk. The primary aim of this series is to transmit Christian spiritual principles and to teach moral virtue in the context of a hero-saint story. Part one of Mission of the Maiden: The Hero Story of Joan of Arc includes a brief history of fourteenth and fifteenth century Europe; part two discusses Joan of Arc's hero-saint story focusing on her public mission (hero-event) from the time she left Domrémy until her burning at the stake (hero-moment). Book Three, entitled God's Good Servant and the King's: The Hero Story of Thomas More, includes a brief history of fifteenth and sixteenth century Europe (part one) and covers Thomas More's hero-saint story (part two) focusing on his public dissent from King Henry VIII (hero-event) until his execution (hero-moment). Book Four, entitled King of Kings: The Hero Story of Jesus of Nazareth includes Old and New Testament history highlighting the first century AD Roman occupation of Judea and Jesus of Nazareth's hero-saint story from his public mission (hero-event) until his crucifixion at Calvary (hero-moment). Book Five, entitled Friar, Priest, and Martyr: The Hero Story of Maximillian Kolbe, incorporates nineteenth and twentieth century European history highlighting Nazism and World War II; part two covers Maximillian's hero-saint story focusing on his public mission as a priest (hero-event) until his imprisonment and death at Auschwitz (hero-moment). Book Six is a short fiction novella entitled A Vocation Story Never Told: A Hero Story of Future Saints that takes place in the late twenty-first century and early twenty-second century. Book Seven, Hero Bible Verses: Meditations of a Saint, offers inspiring Bible quotes from Genesis to Revelation.
Download or read book Monk s Reflections written by Edward A Malloy and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the president of Notre Dame since 1986, Father Edward Malloy (affectionately known as Monk) holds a unique position in American society: He is at once a priest, a scholar, and the leader of the most high-profile Catholic institution in the country. In this edition of Monk's Reflections, he shares his views on the world of higher education and provides insight into his own place in that world. The book falls into three parts: "The University President," in which Father Malloy explains the president's role; "Academia and the Life of the Mind," in which he examines the practices of teaching and scholarship in the contemporary university setting; and "The Collegiate World," in which he comments on the nonacademic facets of college life, including athletics, residentiality, and religion. Father Malloy writes in a warm, personable tone, often touching on his own life experiences. He is not afraid to voice strong opinions, but he does so in a compassionate manner that speaks well of him both as a priest and a president, and that makes for an eminently readable book. Notre Dame alumni are among the most dedicated and loyal in America, and will certainly be eager to read about Father Malloy's experiences.
Download or read book Stepping Stones written by Tolbert McCarroll and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We, each of us, will never take a breath more or less important than the one we are taking now. We will never be in a day or year more or less important than the one we are in now." In this compilation of his writings, well-known spiritual writer and guide Tolbert McCarroll does indeed encourage us to approach each step, each moment, deliberately and thoughtfully. In a world where 'living in the now' is treated as some sort of mystical, hard-to-achieve concept, Brother Toby reassures us, in a year of daily reflections, that simply being is possible.He reminds us to cherish the little things, to stop and look down, to be "violet-seekers" in all that we do. This thought-provoking volume reminds readers that it is the small, oft-ignored aspects of life that make it so beautiful. Each of Brother Toby's "Stepping Stones" is a much-needed dose of inner nourishment for his readers, gentle folk on many different personal and spiritual paths.
Download or read book Coenobium written by Michael Casey and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After sixty years of living in a Cistercian community, Michael Casey combines his down-to-earth observations about the joys and challenges of living in community with an appreciation of the deeper meanings of cenobitic life, taking into account the changes in both theory and practice that have occurred in his lifetime. He invites his readers, especially monks and nuns, to reflect on their own experiences of community as a means of seeing a path forward into the future. Many of the key components of monastic community have kept the same names for more than a millennium. In an age of paradigm shift, Michael Casey invites readers to examine these essential practices of community life and to ask how they might be envisioned in a way that speaks to our contemporaries.
Download or read book Educating Monks written by Thomas A. Borchert and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most studies of Buddhist communities tend to be limited to villages, individual temple communities, or a single national community. Buddhist monastics, however, cross a number of these different framings: They are part of local communities, are governed through national legal frameworks, and participate in both national and transnational Buddhist networks. Educating Monks makes visible the ways Buddhist communities are shaped by all of the above—collectively and often simultaneously. Educating Monks examines a minority Buddhist community in Sipsongpannā, a region located on China’s southwest border with Myanmar and Laos. Its people, the Dai-lue, are “double minorities”: They are recognized by the Chinese state as part of a minority group, and they practice Theravāda Buddhism, a minority form within China, where Mahāyāna Buddhism is the norm. Theravāda has long been the primary training ground for Dai-lue men, and since the return of Buddhism to the area in the years following Mao Zedong’s death, the Dai-lue have put many of their resources into providing monastic education for their sons. However, the author’s analysis of institutional organization within Sipsongpannā, the governance of religion there, and the movements of monks (revealing the “ethnoscapes” that the monks of Sipsongpannā participate in) points to educational contexts that depend not just on local villagers, but also resources from the local (Communist) government and aid form Chinese Mahāyāna monks and Theravāda monks from Thailand and Myanmar. While the Dai-lue monks draw on these various resources for the development of the sangha, they do not share the same agenda and must continually engage in a careful political dance between villagers who want to revive traditional forms of Buddhism, a Chinese state that is at best indifferent to the continuation of Buddhism, and transnational monks that want to import their own modern forms of Buddhism into the region. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with Dai-lue monks in China, Thailand, and Singapore, this ambitious and sophisticated study will find a ready audience among students and scholars of the anthropology of Buddhism, and religion, education, and transnationalism in Southeast and East Asia.
Download or read book Grace Revisited written by James Stephen Behrens and published by . This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Trappist monk James Stephen Behrens as we reflects on the people, places, and events that have touched his life. Grace Revisited combines two award-winning books (Grace Is Everywhere and Memories of Grace) into one treasured album. A new introduction and photographs from Behrens complete this unique book.
Download or read book Intercultural Modes of Philosophy Volume One written by Eli Kramer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until rather recently, philosophy, when practiced as a way of life, was, for most, a communal enterprise of mutually reinforced personal cultivation. It is time, yet again, to revitalize this lost, but vital, intercultural mode of philosophy.
Download or read book Sebastian Moore written by Joseph Melling and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sebastian Moore was one of the most brilliant and influential Catholic thinkers during the second half of the twentieth century. His reputation was gained in the context of the liberalization of the Catholic Church in Europe c.1950-1975, when he emerged as a distinctive voice within the wider Benedictine community and as a leading advocate of modernization when serving an inner-city parish in Liverpool. His ideas gained wide currency among the reformers as the impact of the Second Vatican Council was felt. He forged a fresh and broader reputation after his immigration to the United States where he was recognized as an innovative thinker, fusing insights from psychology and psychoanalysis with classical issues in theology to breathe fresh life into well-worn textual debates about the mission of Christ and the deep relevance of his message for the modern, consumerist civilization of the west. His later contributions spoke to the ideas of Girard and his admirers, though Moore also engaged in the controversial issue which had shadowed his own life as a celibate priest, that of sexual freedom and identity within the modern Church.
Download or read book Origines Ecclesiastic written by Joseph Bingham and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Origines Ecclesiasticae written by Joseph Bingham and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reflections of Kauai written by Penny Pence Smith and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Monk written by Matthew Gregory Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Origines Ecclesiastic Or the Antiquities of the Christian Church and Other Works With a Set of Maps of Ecclesiastical Geography to which are Now Added Several Sermons and Other Matter Never Before Published The Whole Revised and Edited Together with a Biographical Account of the Author by His Great Grandson the Rev Richard Bingham written by Joseph BINGHAM (M. A.) and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dark Reflection Heartless Princess written by Daniel Cobb and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Year of Dirt and Water written by Tracy Franz and published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 2004, when her American husband, a recently ordained Zen monk, leaves home to train for a year at a centuries-old Buddhist monastery, Tracy Franz embarks on her own year of Zen. An Alaskan alone—and lonely—in Japan, she begins to pay attention. My Year of Dirt and Water is a record of that journey. Allowed only occasional and formal visits to see her cloistered husband, Tracy teaches English, studies Japanese, and devotes herself to making pottery. Her teacher instructs her to turn cup after cup—creating one failure after another. Past and present, East and West intertwine as Tracy is twice compelled to return home to Alaska to confront her mother’s newly diagnosed cancer and the ghosts of a devastating childhood. Revolving through the days, My Year of Dirt and Water circles hard questions: What is love? What is art? What is practice? What do we do with the burden of suffering? The answers are formed and then unformed—a ceramic bowl born on the wheel and then returned again and again to dirt and water.
Download or read book Private Sociology written by Arthur B. Shostak and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each contributor to this book has used personal experience as the basis from which to frame his individual sociological perspectives. Because they have personalized their work, their accounts are real, and recognizable as having come from 'real' persons, about 'real' experiences. There are no objectively-distanced disembodied third person entities in these accounts. These writers are actual people whose stories will make you laugh, cry, think, and want to know more.
Download or read book In Praise of the Useless Life written by Paul Quenon and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of two 2019 Catholic Press Association Awards: Memoir (First Place) and Cover Design (Second Place). Monastic life and its counter-cultural wisdom come alive in the stories and lessons of Br. Paul Quenon, O.C.S.O., during his more than five decades as a Trappist at the Abbey of Gethsemani. He served as a novice under Thomas Merton and he also welcomed some of the monastery's more well-known visitors, including Sr. Helen Prejean and Seamus Heaney, to Merton's hermitage. In Praise of the Useless Life includes Quenon's quiet reflections on what it means to live each day with careful attentiveness. The humble peace and simplicity of the monastery and of Quenon's daily life are beautifully portrayed in this memoir. Whether it be through the daily routine of the monastery, his love of the outdoors no matter the season, or his lively and interesting conversations with visitors (reciting Emily Dickinson with Pico Iyer, discussing Merton and poetry with Czeslaw Milosz), Quenon's gentle musings display his love for the beauty in his vocation and the people he's encountered along the way. Inspired by his novice master Merton, the poet and photographer's stories remind us that the beauty of life can best be seen in the "uselessness" of daily life--having a quiet chat with a friend, spending time in contemplation--in our vocations, and in the memories we make along the way.
