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The Sacred Space website, an inspiration of the Irish
Jesuits, continues to be one of the most popular prayer sites
worldwide. Twenty years ago a group of Jesuits saw the potential of
the "new" world wide web as a way of helping and encouraging people
to pray. The books followed soon after and have been consistent
bestsellers. Sacred Space Lent 2024Â continues the tradition
of Scripture reading, points of reflection, a weekly topic and six
steps of prayer and meditation. The handy format makes this an idea
book for pocket, brief case, handbag or even the glove compartment
of the car!
The Sacred Space website, an inspiration of the Irish Jesuits,
continues to be one of the most popular prayer sites worldwide.
Twenty years ago a group of Jesuits saw the potential of the "new"
world wide web as a way of helping and encouraging people to pray.
The books followed soon after and have been consistent bestsellers.
Sacred Space Lent 2023Â continues the tradition of Scripture
reading, points of reflection, a weekly topic and six steps of
prayer and meditation. The handy format makes this an idea book for
pocket, brief case, handbag or even the glove compartment of the
car!
It is the dream of every publisher to hit upon a project that will
win praise for contributing to the intellectual and cultural life.
Theology Today Ignatius of Loyola: Spiritual Exercises and Selected
Works edited by George E. Ganss, S.J. with the collaboration of
Parmananda R. Divarkar, S.J., Edward J. Malatesta, S.J., and Martin
E. Palmer, S.J. preface by John W. Padberg, S.J. I close by asking
God through his infinite goodness to give us the perfect grace to
know his most holy will and fulfill it completely. May it please
the Sovereign Goodness that everything be ordered to his holy
service and continual praise. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
September 27, 1990 marks the 450th anniversary of the foundation of
the Society of Jesus in 1540, and the year 1991 brings the 500th
anniversary of the birth of its founder, St. Ignatius of Loyola. In
these circumstances the present volume will contribute to the study
of Ignatius' charism and of the ministries he initiated-in
Christian education, foreign missions, and other fields. It
presents his four major writings: the Autobiography and Spiritual
Exercises in their entirety, and his Spiritual Diary and
Constitutions of the Society of Jesus in selections so chosen as to
give an overview of each work. It also offers ten samples of his
almost 7,000 letters. Ample explanations are given in the
introductions and commentaries by way of notes. The General
Introduction is an intellectual and spiritual biography that
sketches the fascinating steps by which, largely through mystical
favors from God, Ignatius reached his inspiring worldview, with
everything in it ordered to the greater glory of God. In his
Exercises we find a synthesis of his chief spiritual principles,
and in his Constitutions an example of his organizational ability.
The Autobiography tells of his mystical illuminations and gifts,
and the Spiritual Diary lets us peer deeply into his heart in his
most intimate dealings with God. His writing reveals many facets of
the warm personality of this influential saint.
Although collaborations for local and regional economic development
have been popular in recent years, it is not yet wholly clear when
or how such efforts bring successful outcomes. Using an integrative
conceptual framework for collaborative governance, this innovative
collection provides a systematic and interdisciplinary analysis of
real-world collaborative networks for local and regional economic
development. Focusing on a wide range collaborative economic
development in diverse cities and regions in USA, Canada, Germany,
India, Italy, and South Korea, the chapters explore what forces
motivate the emergence of collaborative economic development
efforts. Each chapter explores the factors which contribute to or
hinder collaborative governance efforts for economic development
and identifies lessons for overcoming challenges to creating
communities that are economically resilient, environmentally
sustainable and politically engaged in the era of globalization. By
focusing on collaborative governance and its implications for the
ability of policies to meet the challenges of the 21st century, it
provides lessons for researchers in public management, urban
planning/development, public policy, and political science, as well
as practitioners interested in promoting local economic
development.
Advent, a joyful time of preparation for the birth of Jesus, can be
further enriched with Sacred Space for Advent and the
Christmas Season 2023-2024, a daily prayer experience
from Sacred Space, the internationally known online prayer
guide. Sacred Space—Advent invites readers to develop
a closer relationship with God during this season of preparation
and anticipation. What we know and trust about the Sacred
Space online prayer experience is now available in a compact,
portable print format to heighten our Advent prayer practice in a
way that is accessible, engaging, and meaningful to daily life.
Throughout the Advent season, each day includes a Scripture reading
and points of reflection, as well as a weekly topic enhanced by six
steps of prayer and reflection. With its small size and meaningful
message, Sacred Space—Advent is a simple way to build a richer
relationship with God and embrace the Advent season as a sacred
space.
The key difference between success and failure for most governance
systems is adaptation, specifically the ability to resolve the
existing social, cultural, economic and environmental challenges
that constrain adaptation. Local, regional and national systems
differ in how they are designed to organize effective participation
and create innovative ideas for missions, goals, strategies and
actions. They also differ in how they build the effective
coalitions needed to adopt, guide and protect strategies and
actions during implementation, and how to build competence and
knowledge to sustain implementation. This book presents the
strategic foundations for government's role in fostering and
adapting to societal transformation in a volatile world. It shifts
the focus of the discipline from an overtly retrospective analysis
to a prospective analysis, incorporating the role of foresight
techniques and instruments. Above all, it stimulates debate about
the practical implications of governance as an emergent
future-oriented framework of public management. This challenging
book aims to facilitate dialogue and discussion between academics
and practitioners, and encourage advanced students to take a new
perspective on Public Management during these volatile times.
Public management increasingly takes place in multilevel settings,
since most countries are decentralized to one degree or another and
most problems transcend and cut across administrative and
geographical borders. A collaboration of scholars in the
Transnational Initiative on Governance Research and Education
(TIGRE Net), Making Multilevel Public Management Work: Stories of
Success and Failure from Europe and North America brings together
two strands of literature-multilevel governance and public
management-and draws conclusions on practices of public management
in multilevel governance settings. The book focuses on how to make
multilevel public management work. Using an inductive logic, the
editors study a particular case or a few selected cases, highlight
lessons learned and implications, and identify trends and concerns.
The book underscores factors essential to making multilevel public
management work, namely coordination and collaboration, and new
skills and leadership capacities. It discusses the pitfalls of
creating networks instead of managing them and the importance of
finding the right leadership skills, institutional design, and
network management mechanisms to avoid deadlock and manage conflict
effectively. Multilevel public management creates multiple
opportunities and their accompanying challenges. By bringing
together case studies in Europe and North America, this book
identifies conditions for success and those under which such
governance arrangements fail. Demonstrating the insights gained by
the cross-fertilization of ideas, the book has also been
strengthened by the participation of researchers from various
disciplines, including public management, political science and
international relations, economics, as well as administrative law.
The interdisciplinary nature of the scholarship provides a complete
and compelling portrait of multilevel public management as
practiced and studied on two continents. The book opens the debate
on what is needed to make it work
Polarization is widely diagnosed as a major cause of the decline of
evidence-based policy making and public engagement-based styles of
policy making. It creates an environment where hardened partisan
viewpoints on major policy questions are less amenable to
negotiation, compromise or change. Polarization is not a temporary
situation - it is the "new normal." Public Policy, Governance and
Polarization seeks to provide a theoretical foundation for scholars
and policy makers who need to understand the powerful and often
disruptive forces that have arisen in Europe and North America over
the past decade. Academics and practitioners need to better
understand this growing trend and to find ways in which it may be
managed so that policy solutions to these threats may be developed
and implemented. Researchers and future policymakers in fields such
as public administration, public management and public policy need
to recognise how institutional design, corporatist interest group
systems and different pedagogical approaches may help them
understand, discuss and work beyond policy polarization. Edited by
two leading political science scholars, this book aims to begin
that process.
Although collaborations for local and regional economic development
have been popular in recent years, it is not yet wholly clear when
or how such efforts bring successful outcomes. Using an integrative
conceptual framework for collaborative governance, this innovative
collection provides a systematic and interdisciplinary analysis of
real-world collaborative networks for local and regional economic
development. Focusing on a wide range collaborative economic
development in diverse cities and regions in USA, Canada, Germany,
India, Italy, and South Korea, the chapters explore what forces
motivate the emergence of collaborative economic development
efforts. Each chapter explores the factors which contribute to or
hinder collaborative governance efforts for economic development
and identifies lessons for overcoming challenges to creating
communities that are economically resilient, environmentally
sustainable and politically engaged in the era of globalization. By
focusing on collaborative governance and its implications for the
ability of policies to meet the challenges of the 21st century, it
provides lessons for researchers in public management, urban
planning/development, public policy, and political science, as well
as practitioners interested in promoting local economic
development.
The key difference between success and failure for most governance
systems is adaptation, specifically the ability to resolve the
existing social, cultural, economic and environmental challenges
that constrain adaptation. Local, regional and national systems
differ in how they are designed to organize effective participation
and create innovative ideas for missions, goals, strategies and
actions. They also differ in how they build the effective
coalitions needed to adopt, guide and protect strategies and
actions during implementation, and how to build competence and
knowledge to sustain implementation. This book presents the
strategic foundations for government's role in fostering and
adapting to societal transformation in a volatile world. It shifts
the focus of the discipline from an overtly retrospective analysis
to a prospective analysis, incorporating the role of foresight
techniques and instruments. Above all, it stimulates debate about
the practical implications of governance as an emergent
future-oriented framework of public management. This challenging
book aims to facilitate dialogue and discussion between academics
and practitioners, and encourage advanced students to take a new
perspective on Public Management during these volatile times.
Polarization is widely diagnosed as a major cause of the decline of
evidence-based policy making and public engagement-based styles of
policy making. It creates an environment where hardened partisan
viewpoints on major policy questions are less amenable to
negotiation, compromise or change. Polarization is not a temporary
situation - it is the "new normal." Public Policy, Governance and
Polarization seeks to provide a theoretical foundation for scholars
and policy makers who need to understand the powerful and often
disruptive forces that have arisen in Europe and North America over
the past decade. Academics and practitioners need to better
understand this growing trend and to find ways in which it may be
managed so that policy solutions to these threats may be developed
and implemented. Researchers and future policymakers in fields such
as public administration, public management and public policy need
to recognise how institutional design, corporatist interest group
systems and different pedagogical approaches may help them
understand, discuss and work beyond policy polarization. Edited by
two leading political science scholars, this book aims to begin
that process.
Our bestselling annual - sales continue to grow year on year! The
Scripture, prayers, and reflections in Sacred Space: The
Prayer Book will inspire you to a richer daily spiritual
experience throughout the liturgical year and invite you to develop
a closer relationship with God. Each day of Sacred Space: The
Prayer Book includes Scripture reading and points of
reflection, as well as a weekly topic enhanced by six steps of
prayer and reflection: The Presence of God, Freedom, Consciousness,
The Word, Conversation, and Conclusion. Sacred Space: The
Prayer Book is designed to help you stay faithful to your
intention to deepen your spiritual journey. It is the perfect gift
for your parish, campus ministry program, small group, friend,
family member, or yourself.
Advent, a joyful time of preparation for the birth of Jesus, can be
further enriched with Sacred Space for Advent and the Christmas
Season 2022-2023, a daily prayer experience from Sacred Space, the
internationally known online prayer guide. Sacred Space—Advent
invites readers to develop a closer relationship with God during
this season of preparation and anticipation. What we know and trust
about the Sacred Space online prayer experience is now available in
a compact, portable print format to heighten our Advent prayer
practice in a way that is accessible, engaging, and meaningful to
daily life. Throughout the Advent season, each day includes a
Scripture reading and points of reflection, as well as a weekly
topic enhanced by six steps of prayer and reflection. With its
small size and meaningful message, Sacred Space—Advent is a
simple way to build a richer relationship with God and embrace the
Advent season as a sacred space.
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