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"Before Margaret met the Pope, she lived on the streets of Rome.
She was a small cat in one of the busiest, most crowded, cities in
all Europe. Rome is the capital of Italy. Rome surrounds Vatican
City, the world's tiniest country, and home to the Pope, the Curia,
and the Swiss Guard." So begins this fifth adventure in the lives
of Margaret and the Pope. A prequel, this episode tells of the
conclave that elected the Pope who would one day meet Margaret on
the Via della Conciliazone. It turns out, Margaret was somehow
there, watching, in the Sistine Chapel as the votes were cast.
Children and adults alike will delight in this behind-the-scenes
story about love and the Church, learning not only about what popes
do, but this time, how popes are chosen.
"Pray with more than just your mind--learn how to use your whole
self"
In this innovative prayer book, readers are invited to do more
than read--they are asked to move in prayer by expressing the
Psalms with motion. This way of praying helps deepen and broaden a
relationship with God. It allows the pray-er to better come to
understand God as "Holy One"--and in other timeless expressions of
the psalmists.
In Praying with the Body readers will find both prayer tools and
companionship. Black and white drawings showing the postures and
expressions of the body, accompany the scripture texts and
explanations by Roy DeLeon. Working together, these elements invite
readers to taste, explore, and discover a new and different way of
knowing God.
This book is for anyone who wants a more integrated and reconciled
approach to prayer. It proposes a way of prayer that, depending on
your level of readiness, could influence both our interior and
daily life. Its meditations and reflections connect readers to
their deepest needs to be with the Beloved, to be reassured of the
divine presence in our midst. They address hunger and longing for
true happiness, for freedom from fear, and for deep peace.
"The four basic ways of praying -oral, mental, affective, and
contemplative--are all contained here." --Father Tom Ryan, author
of Prayer of Heart and Body
Margaret - The Pope's Cat - is back! Illustrated in full color.
Bang! Slam! Boom! Loud sounds in St. Peter's Square had been going
on for nearly an hour already. Margaret was annoyed, because as you
may know, cats like to sleep. A lot. The apartment where Margaret
lives with the Pope, ever since he adopted her off the streets of
Rome, looks out onto St. Peter's Square. And the noises down there
kept waking Margaret up. She rolled over, covering her ears with
her paws. A few minutes later, the sounds began again, as more
trucks arrived to unload even more chairs. Beep, beep, beep, beep
went the trucks as they backed up to where men in yellow jackets
were waiting to unload them. Then came Bang! Slam! Boom! all over
again, as the men arranged the chairs in rows facing the portico of
St. Peter's Basilica. All of this was in preparation for a special
event to take place the following day, Christmas. ____________ In
this delightful new story from their lives, the Pope takes Margaret
on a tour of St. Peter's. But when he's called away to work,
Margaret gets lost in the world's largest church. She meets saints,
children, tourists, and the artist Michelangelo's famous statue,
The Pieta, before being reunited with the Pope as Midnight Mass is
about to begin.
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The Pope's Cat (Paperback)
Jon M Sweeney; Illustrated by Roy DeLeon
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"A heartwarming tale, which gives the papacy a human touch."
-Christopher Lamb, Rome correspondent, The Tablet "I give it one
million stars!" -Luca, Mrs. Gilman's class, St. Margaret Mary
School (Omaha, NE) Meet Margaret - the Pope's cat - in the very
first book in this best-selling series by Jon M. Sweeney! This is
the story of a stray born on the Via della Conciliazione in Rome,
how she's adopted by the Pope, and then "rules" the Vatican from
museum to floorboard! First in a new series. No one has a closer
view of what's happening in the world's tiniest nation, Vatican
City, than Margaret, the Pope's new cat. But she wasn't always
Margaret, and she wasn't always the Pope's cat. She started out as
a stray on the streets of Rome, and there are those in the Vatican
who wish she'd never been allowed inside. This fun, adorable new
character will appeal to all kids! Here is a cat who does what she
likes regardless of what others, even someone like the Pope,
expects of her-even when the Queen of England comes on a state
visit! This new fiction series is intended for Catholic schools,
elementary school teachers, Catholic librarians, superintendents of
schools, reading specialists, educators, catechists, school
principals, Catholic homeschoolers, and parents.
In this fourth installment of "The Pope's Cat" series, Margaret and
the Pope travel for the first time together away from the Vatican
and out of Rome. They go by train to the Umbrian hill town of
Assisi, a place of pilgrimage for Christians all over the world who
want to remember the life of St. Francis of Assisi. Together they
visit the great Basilica named for St. Francis, greet Franciscan
friars at the monastery, attend a World Day of Prayer for Peace,
meet religious leaders (each, it seems, with a very different hat!)
from around the world, and see evidence of the spirit of St.
Francis all over town. Most of all, the Pope shows his love and
care for his vulnerable creature friend, as at the beginning of the
book when someone from the Curia has frightened Margaret and she's
hiding in a closet in the Pope's apartment. "Don't worry, il mio
amore." (Il mio amore means "My love.") "People can be so fussy,
can't they?" the Pope says, picking her up in his arms.
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