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In our frenzied culture, the possibility of living in balanced
rhythms of work and rest often feels elusive. This rings especially
true for pastors and leaders who carry the weight of nonstop
responsibility. Most know they need rest but might be surprised to
find within themselves a deep resistance to letting go and resting
in God one day a week, let alone for longer seasons of sabbatical.
The journey to a meaningful sabbath practice is slow and gradual,
and it is a journey we need to take in community. Sharing her own
story of practicing sabbath for the past twenty years, Ruth Haley
Barton offers hard-won wisdom regarding the rhythms of sabbath,
exploring both weekly sabbath keeping as well as extended periods
of sabbatical time. Embracing Rhythms of Work and Rest grounds us
in God's intentions in giving us the gift of sabbath, providing
practical steps for embedding sabbath rhythms in churches and
organizations. Each chapter concludes with "What Your Soul Wants to
Say to God," an opportunity to reflect and engage God around your
own journey with the material. Sabbath is more than a practice-it
is a way of life ordered around God's invitation to regular rhythms
of work, rest, and replenishment that will sustain us for the long
haul of life in leadership. Includes a conversation guide for small
groups and communities.
For most religious people, the words God and sex never go together.
God is conceived of as holy, pure, sexless, and as morally above
the raw desires that so powerfully beset us. Sex, on the other
hand, is conceived of as earthy and unholy, something we must
snatch, and not without guilt, from the gods. Christianity has
struggled mightily with sex; so too have most other religions. And
yet when we look at sexual desire and ask where it comes from,
there can be only one answer. It comes from God. This is a book on
desire, its experience, its origins, its meaning, and how it might
be generatively channeled. Sexuality is inside us to help lure us
back to God, but dealing with this fire inside us is a lifelong
struggle. Ron Rolheiser sheds light on this mystery and the journey
it takes us on in these tantalizing fragments that help give us
permission to feel what we feel and know that God is still smiling
on us.
Our home, our duties and routines, our relationships, and the way
we use our time, are the monasteries of our lives. It is through
these practices that we build our relationship with God, that we
find opportunities for contemplation, and deserts for reflection.
In this beautiful little book Ronald Rolheiser turns on its head
the idea that religious life is the preserve of monks and nuns. Our
cloisters are the walls of our home and our work, the streets we
walk, and the people with whom we share our lives. The domestic is
the monastic. Chapters include: Monasticism and Family Life; The
Domestic Monastery; Real Friendship; Lessons from the Monastic
Cell; Ritual for Sustaining Prayer; Tensions within Spirituality; A
Spirituality of Parenting; Spirituality and the Seasons of Our
Lives; The Sacredness of Time; Life's Key Question.
Recent events have shown again how suicide touches all of us -
often when we least expect it. But how to unpack the grief that
follows such a painful, and often stigmatized, death? Ron Rolheiser
can help. When someone is stricken with cancer, one of three things
can happen: Doctors treat the disease and cure it; professionals
can't cure the disease but can control it so that the person
suffering can live with the disease for the rest of his or her
life; or the cancer can be of a kind that cannot be treated and all
the medicine and treatments in the world are powerless - the person
dies. Emotional depression leading to suicide can work the same
way. Sometimes a person can be treated so that, in effect, they are
cured; sometimes they can't ever really be cured, but can be
treated in a way that they can live with the disease for their
whole life; and sometimes, just as with certain kinds of cancer,
the disease is untreatable, unstoppable, and no intervention by
anyone or anything can halt its advance - it eventually kills the
person and there is nothing anyone can do. Thus, Ronald Rolheiser
begins this small, powerful book. With chapters also on "Removing
the Taboo," "Despair as Weakness Rather than Sin," "Reclaiming the
Memory of Our Loved One," and "The Pain of the Ones Left Behind,"
Fr. Rolheiser offers hope and a new way of understanding death by
suicide.
Channeling the deep, mysterious desires of our hearts, Ronald
Rolheiser leads readers from restlessness to peace, showing a
contemporary path to authentic and healthy spiritual life.
In "The Holy Longing, "Ronald Rolheiser probes the question "What
is spirituality?," cutting through the misunderstanding and
confusion that can often surround this subject with his trademark
clarity. Using examples and stories relevant for today, and with
great sensitivity to modern challenges to religious faith, he
explains the essentials of spiritual life, including the importance
of community worship, the imperatives surrounding social action,
and the centrality of the Incarnation, to outline a Christian
spirituality that reflects the yearning and search for meaning at
the core of the human experience.
Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand what Christian
spirituality means and how to apply it to their own lives, "The
Holy Longing "translates the universal struggle for love and
integration of spirit into a language accessible to all, explaining
God and the Church for a world that more often than not doubts the
credibility of both.
The author of "The Holy Longing explores the debilitating
obsessions that often dominate our lives and offers down-to-earth
guidance for learning to leave our fears, anxieties, and guilt
"forgotten among the lilies."
"Rarely do we taste the food we eat or the coffee we drink. Instead
we go through our days too preoccupied, too compulsive, and too
dissatisfied to really be able to be present for and celebrate our
own lives," Ronald Rolheiser writes in the introduction to this
powerful collection of essays.
"Forgotten Among the Lilies shows that there is a better way to
find contentment and joy. Only by trusting in God's grace and
providence, Rolheiser argues, can we move beyond our obsessions and
rejoice in what we have and who we are.
With his trademark blend of insight, compassion, and honesty laced
with humor, the author teaches that it is possible to experience
freedom instead of anxiety, solitude instead of loneliness, and a
generosity of spirit that returns to the giver far more than it
costs.
A daily devotional reader to guide lovers of the Word through the
forty days of Lent and Easter, rich with spiritual insight from
leading Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox writers Explore the
meaning of Lent, its importance in spiritual formation, its
significance in the preparation for Easter, and throughout the holy
season of Christ's Resurrection. Leading North American spiritual
writers reflect on what one theologian has called the "bright
sadness" of Lent: that it is not about feeling broken and lost, but
about cleansing the palate so we can taste and live life more
fully. During Lent and Easter, we encounter the God who in all of
life is for us-for our liberation, for our healing, for our
wholeness. Even in death we can find resurrection. In God For Us
readers will find: - Daily readings with scriptures, meditations,
and prayers, beautiful edited by Greg Pennoyer and Gregory Wolfe -
One beloved spiritual writer featured each week Introduction: Fr.
Ronald Rolheiser, OMI Shrove Tuesday and the First Week of Lent:
Richard Rohr, OFM Second Week of Lent: Lauren F. Winner Third Week
of Lent: Scott Cairns Fourth Week of Lent: James Schaap Fifth Week
of Lent: Luci Shaw Holy Week and Easter: Kathleen Norris - Studies
throughout the forty days on "The Feasts and Fasts of Lent" by Beth
Bevis
In this wide-ranging text, Ronald Rolheiser gives information and
practical advice on how to build a spi rituality for today and for
the next century. He also explai ns what Christian spirituality is
and why we struggle with it.
'Full of profound insights ... These meditations on Christ's
Passion culminate in a completely convincing understanding of the
Resurrection. Rolheiser's great gift is to make faith real. This
deserves to become a classic.' - The Tablet Daily readings from
Lent, from one of today's most influential spiritual writers. When
we think of Jesus' passion and crucifixion, we often think of his
physical suffering and death. But the Gospels themselves do not
emphasise Jesus' physical sufferings; instead, the Gospel writers
want us to understand Jesus as a faithful lover of humanity, who
undergoes moral and emotional suffering without resentment or
bitterness. Drawing from Scripture, story, theology, contemporary
culture and his own life, Fr Ronald Rolheiser - one of the most
influential spiritual writers of our day - invites us to a new
understanding of redemption, and offers profound insights into the
meaning of our own loss and suffering.
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