Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko

Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko
Author: Bernard Brien
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2018-02-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1621641686

"Listen, Father Jerzy, today is September 14, your birthday. So if you are supposed to do something, this is the day!" So prayed Father Bernard Brien beside the bed of a dying man. As soon as the priest left the hospital room, the comatose patient opened his eyes and asked his wife what had happened. A few days later his medical team, after many tests, observed that his widespread cancer had completely disappeared. The doctors were astounded. The miracle moved Father Brien to write this book about Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko, to make the twentieth-century martyr better known. He presents an intimate portrait of the courageous Polish priest who changed his life and that of countless others. As the young and ardent chaplain of the Solidarity labor union, Father Popieluszko embodied the Polish people's resistance to Communism, and for this he was murdered in 1984, at the age of thirty-seven, by the Communist regime's security forces. Soon afterward Father Popieluszko was hailed as a martyr and a national hero, and his example inspired the Polish people to persevere in their struggle for political and religious freedom. Father Popieluszko's witness of spiritual resistance, deeply rooted in the life of Christ, retains its relevance and urgency in the twenty-first century. The young Polish priest who stood up to Communist totalitarianism at the cost of his life will embolden those who resist tyranny and defend human dignity.

A Martyr for the Truth

A Martyr for the Truth
Author: Grazyna Sikorska
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1985
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Just Call Me Jerzy

Just Call Me Jerzy
Author: Judith Kelly
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2015-07-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9780996520805

History of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko in Poland, including his support of the Solidarity movement, and a summary of his travels in the United States and Canada.

Blessed Are the Peacemakers

Blessed Are the Peacemakers
Author: Daniel L. Buttry
Publisher: Read the Spirit Books
Total Pages: 375
Release:
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1939880653

In the pages of this book, you will meet more than 100 heroes, but most of them are not the kind of heroes our culture celebrates for muscle, beauty and wealth. These are peacemakers. They circle the planet. A few are famous like Gandhi and Bono of U2. But most of them you will discover for the first time in these stories. Watch out! Reading about their lives may inspire you to step up into their courageous circle.

The Happy Body

The Happy Body
Author: Aniela & Jerzy Gregorek
Publisher: The Happy Body Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2015-07-15
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0982403828

THE HAPPY BODY HOTLINE: If you have questions or you need support you can ask Jerzy for help. He is available on ZOOM everyday at noon PST. To join his meeting use 4594418282 numbers. Jerzy is happy to help you to become more youthful and create for yourself happier living. SECOND EDITION NOTE:Welcome to the new, updated The Happy Body. This second edition includes new inspiring testimonials and some useful tools, including a Quick Guide summary of The Happy Body experience (page 70), an extensive list of resources (page 280) and an outline to deepen your understanding of how The Happy Body can support you through every decade (page xv). The exercise instruction has been enhanced with greater detail regarding correct execution and the food plan material now includes links to new recipes and simple strategies that streamline your cooking to support your ideal body weight, leanness, and health. We’ve also written many books that offer additional support for those who need it; a list of these resources appears in the back of the book. Finding enough is a constant interaction between doing too much and doing too little. It is a part of any craft and ensures the fastest and safest progress. Making mistakes is part of the learning process. Equally important is maintaining trust that you will succeed just like others before you.This book is designed as a manual. Our clients find reading testimonies and highlighting meaningful passages in the book is inspiring—it keeps them motivated and positive. You can use the The Happy Body Self Mastery Workbook or The Happy Body Journal, or any diary to record your daily thoughts, feelings, challenges and solutions. By re-reading what you marked and wrote you will discover how you are changing. Page by page, mark by mark, The Happy Body will gradually find a home in you. And when it settles, you will be a master of your choices. You will know how much is enough—enough food, enough exercise, and enough meditation—for you to become a Happy Body, a body that is strong, flexible, fast, and lean. As we live longer and face more challenges in an ever-changing world, our quality of life is at stake. The strength and immunity of our bodies are correlated. Wellness is built over time by making conscious choices that are hard—resisting packaged products and inflammatory foods, minimizing consumption of animal proteins as we age, choosing strength over endurance training that overtires and injures the body. We have worked with these health topics for over 30 years now and have seen how the hard choices make up an easy life in the long run. Even more so, in the face of adversity.We created The Happy Body Program as a proactive, holistic approach to health and fitness, to thrive in harmony with nature. There is overwhelming gracefulness in living without overconsumption and finding the middle ground of enough.

Consecration to St. Joseph

Consecration to St. Joseph
Author: Donald H. Calloway, MIC
Publisher: Marian Press - Association of Marian Helpers
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2019-12-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1596145226

Drawing on the wealth of the Church's living tradition, Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC, calls on all of us to turn to St. Joseph, entrust ourselves, our Church, and our world to our spiritual father's loving care, and then watch for wonders when the Universal Patron of the Church opens the floodgates of Heaven to pour out graces into our lives today. Definitely a book for our time, Consecration to St. Joseph is dedicated to meeting the challenges of the present moment and restoring order to our Church and our world, all through the potent paternal intercession and care of St. Joseph. This book has everything you need to take your love and devotion to St. Joseph to a whole different level: a thorough program of consecration to St. Joseph; information on the 10 wonders of St. Joseph; and prayers and devotions to St. Joseph. Accessible, motivating, this book will kick off a great movement of consecration to our spiritual father and change the world.

To Kill a Priest

To Kill a Priest
Author: Kevin Ruane
Publisher: Virago Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2004
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

To Kill a Priest captures the wide ramifications of the story of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, a popular young parish priest in a Warsaw suburb who steadfastly spoke out from his pulpit against the abuses of communism and supported the then-banned Solidarity trade union. Abducted by the Polish secret police on 19th October 1984, his savagely beaten body was found 11 days later in an icy reservoir.Kevin Ruane documents how, for the first time, a communist government was forced to try and condemn the repressive actions of its own security agents and admit its own wrong-doing. It proved to be the decisive crack in the fortress of Eastern Block Communism, forcing it - for the first time within its own boundaries - to share power with a non-Communist organisation: the Solidarity trade union.

Married Saints and Blesseds

Married Saints and Blesseds
Author: Ferdinand Holbock
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2017-06-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1681497530

Countless saints have been priests or religious, living out lives of penance and sacrifice for the good of the Church. But many Catholics don't realize that married couples are called to holiness as well. Fr. Holböck's tells the inspiring stories of over 200 married saints and blesseds from the Virgin Mary and St. Joseph to Margaret of Scotland, King Louis of France, Thomas More, and modern examples like Gianna Molla and Louis and Zélie Martin, parents of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. The example of these holy men and women is essential to living a truly Catholic married life. Important Church documents and scripture passages are also included to further guide and enlighten the reader. Many illustrations.

A Pope and a President

A Pope and a President
Author: Paul Kengor
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 549
Release: 2023-07-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1684516358

Even as historians credit Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II with hastening the end of the Cold War, they have failed to recognize the depth or significance of the bond that developed between the two leaders. Acclaimed scholar and bestselling author Paul Kengor changes that. In this fascinating book, he reveals a singular bond—which included a spiritual connection between the Catholic pope and the Protestant president—that drove the two men to confront what they knew to be the great evil of the twentieth century: Soviet communism. Reagan and John Paul II almost didn't have the opportunity to forge this relationship: just six weeks apart in the spring of 1981, they took bullets from would-be assassins. But their strikingly similar near-death experiences brought them close together—to Moscow's dismay.Based on Kengor's tireless archival digging and his unique access to Reagan insiders, A Pope and a President is full of revelations. It takes you inside private meetings between Reagan and John Paul II and into the Oval Office, the Vatican, the CIA, the Kremlin, and many points beyond. Nancy Reagan called John Paul II her husband's "closest friend"; Reagan himself told Polish visitors that the pope was his "best friend." When you read this book, you will understand why. As kindred spirits, Ronald Reagan and John Paul II united in pursuit of a supreme objective—and in doing so they changed history.

The Blessing of Christmas

The Blessing of Christmas
Author: Joseph Ratzinger
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2010-06-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1681494655

This lovely little book, lavishly illustrated, is ideal for the Christmas and Advent season with its inspiring, profound, yet popular meditations on the blessings of the season by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. Taken from his sermons as well as his writings, these beautiful meditations by the acclaimed spiritual teacher and writer give his usual fresh insights into the deeper meaning of this most wondrous event, and they show him to be a man who knows how to address both the mind and the heart.