Historic Victoria

Historic Victoria
Author: Terry Hammonds
Publisher: HPN Books
Total Pages: 105
Release: 1999-05-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1893619028

An illustrated history of Victoria, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.

Letters Out of Africa

Letters Out of Africa
Author: Sister Rebecca Janacek
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781735703312

From the time she was a young girl Sister Rebecca (then known as Phyllis) felt a call to be a missionary in Africa. That opportunity came after she joined a religious Order of Catholic women dedicated to sharing, serving and being Jesus, the Incarnate Word, to the world in which they live. At the age of 33, having armed herself with a degree and experience in nursing, she traveled to Kenya in East Africa in January 1987 to begin a life-long desire to serve the marginalized and under-served in Africa. You are invited into the world of her experience by reading the many letters written to family and friends during her 31 years in Kenya serving among a little known pastoral group of people called the Pokot.

A Little Good

A Little Good
Author: Sister St. John Begnaud
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2012-01-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1630875651

The arrival of three Sisters of St. Mary of Namur at the railroad station of Waco, Texas, on September 23, 1873, brought remarkable change to the state of education in the center and north of the state. Hoping "to do a little good" by living their faith and establishing Catholic schools, Mother Emilie, Sister Mary Angela, and Sister Stanislaus were somewhat appalled to learn that Waco boasted only twenty-five Catholic families, and among them were only six school-age children. But Protestants too appreciated the education that was offered. Other sisters came, and in less than forty years Waco, Corsicana, Ennis, Denison, Sherman, Wichita Falls, Fort Worth, and Dallas boasted flourishing Catholic establishments. Boarding schools offered girls in rural areas as well as towns an opportunity for education. Who were those sisters? Where did they come from, what did they find, and why did they stay? That story, sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, always challenging, is the subject of this book.

The Marian Vow of Unlimited Consecration to the Immaculate

The Marian Vow of Unlimited Consecration to the Immaculate
Author: Fr. Stefano Maria Manelli, FI
Publisher: Academy of the Immaculate
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1601140495

A book that gives a profound explanation of how one can relate with the Immaculate by means of "the Marian Vow" of total consecration to the Immaculate that is transformative and life-changing. This book is a treatise on total consecration to the Immaculate, conceived initially by St. Maximilian M. Kolbe and has developed into the distinctive charism of the Franciscans of the Immaculate. Such charism finds its consummation in the profession of this Marian consecration in the form of a religious vow, known as, "The Marian Vow." Finding its original inspiration in St. Maximilian Kolbe who envisioned of a "fourth vow" of consecration that puts no limit to the missionary work of the religious, Fr. Stefano Manelli, the founder of the Franciscans of the Immaculate continued with the same inspiration and develop it to include both Marian and missionary character. This book is the theological and ascetical explanation of this Marian Vow. The book is not, by all means, exclusive to the Franciscans of the Immaculate. One can find universal insights based on solid spiritual theology of how one can relate in a more personal way with the Immaculate who ceases to be just a mere figure of veneration; she becomes alive and present to one's soul in a unique way that is transformative and life-changing. This book is utterly unique and inspired. As the Founder and Father General of the entire family of the Franciscans of the Immaculate (Friars, Sisters, Poor Clares, Tertiaries, and M.I.M.), Fr. Stefano has distilled, and put into writing for his children, the illumination he has received about the Marian Vow over the past decades. This work is the fruit of his life of prayer, study, and missionary activity. It is the fruit of his profound union with the Immaculate Heart of Mary.