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This attractive FIRST MASS BOOK for girls was carefully written to
enable children to take a more active part in the Mass. It features
beautiful, full-color illustrations of the Mass and the Life of
Christ as well as a complete Prayer Section.
George Weigel's bestselling biography of Pope John Paul II, Witness
to Hope, set the standard by which all portraits of the modern
papacy are now measured. With God's Choice, he gives us an
extraordinary chronicle of the rise of Pope Benedict XVI as well as
an unflinching view of the Catholic Church at the dawn of a new
era.When John Paul II lapsed into illness for the last time, people
flocked from all over the world to pray outside his apartment. He
had become a father figure to millions in a world bereft of strong
paternal examples, and those millions now felt orphaned. After more
than twenty-six years of John Paul II's guidance, the Catholic
Church is entering a new age, with its bedrock traditions intact
but with pressing questions to address in a rapidly changing world.
Beginning with the story of John Paul's final months, God's Choice
offers a remarkable inside account of the conclave that produced
Benedict XVI as the next pope, drawing on George Weigel's unrivaled
access to this complex event.Weigel also incisively surveys the
current state of the Church around the world: its thriving
populations in Africa, Latin America, and parts of the
post-communist world; its collapse in western Europe; its continued
struggles in Asia; and the vibrancy of many aspects of Catholic
life in the United States, even as the Church in America struggles
to overcome its recent experience of scandal.Reflecting on John
Paul II's greatness, drawing on firsthand interviews to paint an
intimate portrait of the new Pope, and boldly assessing the
Church's current condition, God's Choice is an invaluable book for
anyone seeking to understand the Catholic future and the larger
human future the Church will help to shape.
The first book that analyses faith-based development action in the
Philippines that examines cultural production and community
resilience amid poverty and structural restraint. A unique study of
Catholic social movements and development studies in Southeast Asia
that helps better understand the strengths and weaknesses of the
social movements. A significant contribution to opening up
interdisciplinary approaches to religion, faith and social
development.
In dramatic stories and sweeping panoramas, distinguished historian
John T. McGreevy tells the mesmerising story of a Church torn
between the forces of reform and reaction for the past 250 years.
Anti-monarchist French clerics celebrated the Revolution, but the
murder of priests and destruction of churches in the Terror
galvanised a powerful conservative reaction that reverberates to
this day. Missionaries around the world greatly expanded the
Church's influence while bringing new tensions between a culturally
diverse syncretism and the ultimate authority of Rome. The
aspirations of the faithful for justice in this world-African
Catholics fighting for independence, Latin Americans developing a
theology of liberation, Polish and South Korean Catholics demanding
democratic governments-challenged the politically cautious. The
cataclysms of the Second World War, decolonisation, the Second
Vatican Council and clerical sexual abuse have each remade the
Church, leaving Pope Francis with the superhuman task of charting a
path for over one billion Catholics worldwide.
Introduces and develops new concepts of general sociological value
for the study of interpersonal relations Develops the understanding
of the role of intentions, ideals and hope in organizations
Explores love and intimacy in a new and unexpected organizational
context Provides a novel analytical framing to explore core
features of monastic life Offers unique insights into the social
relations of a closed world with great historical importance
Explains in remarkable detail all about Confession--its nature,
fruits, and how to make a worthy one. Includes a wonderful
examination of conscience. (5-1.50 ea.; 10-1.25 ea.; 25-1.00
ea.;50-.80ea.; 100-.70 ea.).
The mass is an extraordinary musical form. Whereas other Western
art music genres from medieval times have fallen out of favour, the
mass has not merely survived but flourished. A variety of
historical forces within religious, secular, and musical arenas saw
the mass expand well beyond its origins as a cycle of medieval
chants, become concertised and ultimately bifurcate. Even as
Western societies moved away from their Christian origins to become
the religiously plural and politically secular societies of today,
and the Church itself moved in favour of congregational singing,
composers continued to compose masses. By the early twentieth
century two forms of mass existed: the liturgical mass composed for
church services, and the concert mass composed for secular venues.
Spanning two millennia, The Origins and Ascendancy of the Concert
Mass outlines the origins and meanings of the liturgical texts,
defines the concert mass, explains how and why the split occurred,
and provides examples that demonstrate composers' gradual
appropriation of the genre as a vehicle for personal expression on
serious issues. By the end of the twentieth century the concert
mass had become a repository for an eclectic range of theological
and political ideas.
Explains the Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost and how to obtain them,
how He works in our souls, and what the soul is like with the Holy
Spirit and also without Him. Contains many prayers. (5-2.00 ea.;
10-1.75 ea.; 25-1.25 ea.; 50-1.00 ea.; 100-.75 ea.).
A translation of Luther's Small Catechism written in contemporary
language with Bible references from the New International Version.
This book focuses on the Philippines as a powerhouse in the
Catholic and global migration landscape. It offers a wide-ranging
look at the roles, dynamics, character, and trajectories of
Catholic faith and practice in the age of migration through an
interdisciplinary, religious, and theological approach to Filipino
Catholics' experience of migration and diaspora both at home and
overseas. In so doing, the book introduces the reader to the
hallmarks and characteristics of a contextual model of world
Christianity and global Catholicism in the twenty-first century.
This book asks what theological messages theologically educated
Catholics in late-eighteenth-century Prague might have perceived in
Mozart's late opera seria La clemenza di Tito. The book's thesis is
two-fold: first, that Catholics might have heard the opera's
advocacy of enlightened absolutism as a celebration of a distinctly
Catholic understanding of political governance; and second, that
they might have found in the opera a metaphor for the relationship
between a gracious God and humanity caught up in sin, expressed as
sexual concupiscence, pride, and lust for power. The book develops
its interpretation of the opera through narrative character
analyses of the main protagonists, an examination of their dramatic
development, and by paying attention to the biblical and
theological associations they may have evoked in a Catholic
audience. The book is geared towards academic readers interested in
opera, theologians, historians, and those who work at the
intersection of theology and the arts. It contributes to a better
understanding of the theological implications of Mozart's operatic
work.
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