Dominican Spirituality

Dominican Spirituality
Author: Erik Borgman
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Monastic and religious life
ISBN: 9780826456847

Dominicans believe that the world - turbulent and restless, often violent and terrifying - is also the place where the holy comes to light, the place where we encounter God. Eric Borgman shows how the Dominican Way has something to offer people coping with the exigencies of the modern world.

American Catholic Women Religious

American Catholic Women Religious
Author: Donna Maria Moses
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2017-08-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3319604651

This book depicts the significant role played by American Catholic Women Religious in the broader narratives of modern American history and the history of the Catholic Church. The book is a guide to fifty foreign missions founded by Dominican and Maryknoll Sisters in the twentieth century. Sister Donna Moses examines root causes for the radical political stances taken by American Catholic Women Religious in the latter half of the century and for the conservative backlash that followed. The book identifies key events that contributed to the present state of division within the American Catholic Church and describes current efforts to engage in dynamic dialogue.

The Red Skirt

The Red Skirt
Author: Patricia O'Donnell-Gibson
Publisher: Self Publisher
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2011-07-29
Genre: Christian life
ISBN: 9780983611202

Impressionistic and dreamy, a nine-year-old girl immediately feels that she might be called by God when a Catholic missionary speaks to her third grade class at a Catholic school. The idea of this calling embeds itself into her, haunting her through elementary and high school, after which she chooses to enter the convent. Her story follows the five years she spent as an Adrian Dominican nun struggling to balance her desire for a secular life with her great fear of turning her back on God's call. Her stories are sad as well as joyous, inspiring as well as unsettling.

Having Our Say

Having Our Say
Author: Sarah L. Delany
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2023-01-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Warm, feisty, and intelligent, the Delany sisters speak their mind in a book that is at once a vital historical record and a moving portrait of two remarkable women who continued to love, laugh, and embrace life after over a hundred years of living side by side. Their sharp memories tell us about the post-Reconstruction South and Booker T. Washington, Harlem’s Golden Age and Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson. Bessie Delany breaks barriers to become a dentist; Sadie Delany quietly integrates the New York City system as a high school teacher. Their extraordinary story makes an important contribution to our nation’s heritage—and an indelible impression on our lives.

Transforming the Faiths of Our Fathers

Transforming the Faiths of Our Fathers
Author: Ann Braude
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2015-04-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1250083125

Pundits on both the right and the left often portray religion and feminism as inherently incompatible, as opposing forces in American culture. Transforming the Faiths of Our Fathers seeks to dispel that notion by asking sixteen well-known religious figures to tell the story of how they became involved in the women's movement. Their work-much of it ongoing-has helped transform the way religion is practiced in this country. They have worked for the ordination of women, for inclusive language and liturgy, for new interpretations of scripture, theology, and religious law, and for an end to religious teachings that contributed to destructive gender stereotypes. Authors include Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Mormon, Evangelical, and goddess feminists. The personal stories of the fascinating contributors include watershed events in American religion and society over the last forty years. Each one of the women inTransforming the Faiths of Our Fathers has made history and seen it made, and gives her own version of what she has witnessed and experienced. They demonstrate the roots of their feminist activism in religious commitments, and the significance of struggles within religious arenas for expanding women's possibilities in society and culture.

Sister Jaguar’S Journey

Sister Jaguar’S Journey
Author: Sister Judy Bisignano
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2018-02-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1504376242

Sister Jaguars Journey is the fiercely honest story of Sister Judy Bisignanoa Dominican nun who, after spending sixty-eight years looking for God in all the wrong places, finally found the peace and divine connection she was looking for in Ecuadors Amazon rainforest. It all starts with a simple invitation to visit the Achuar community in the Amazon jungle. Here, in this place, with these special people, using the plant medicine ayahuasca, she was propelled onto a new path. Guided by the indigenous wisdom of Pachamama (Mother Earth) and the sacred rituals of the Achuar people, she confronts and lets go of her turbulent, abusive, and angry past, ultimately discovering that her lifes purpose was not to become an American educator, author, and nun but rather, a compassionate human being. In many ways, Sister Jaguars Journey is the story of one nuns transformational passage from self-rejection to self-acceptance and from self-blame to self-love. It is, perhaps, the journey of each of us as we search for peace in this life and beyond. The Achuar call her Hermana OtorangoSister Jaguar, and so will you.

Trinity

Trinity
Author: Anne Marie Mongoven
Publisher: Columba Press (IE)
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2018-08-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781782183495

This book explores the living font of all love, the Holy Trinity. The author writes about a passionate and fruitful God whose creativity in loving brings all that is into existence. It examines the nature of Trinitarian relationships and the loving relationship of the Trinity with humankind and with all of creation. The book is designed to be read by anybody who seeks a fresh contemporary understanding of this central Mystery of Christianity.

Liturgy and Ministry in Times of Need

Liturgy and Ministry in Times of Need
Author: Wendy Cichanski Caduff
Publisher: Liturgy Training Publications
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2020-07-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1616715685

When our local, national, and global communities face difficult situations, it can be challenging for pastoral ministers to respond appropriately. Liturgy and Ministry in Times of Need provides practical recommendations for incorporating these important needs into liturgical prayer. It eases the burden of preparing liturgy during difficult times and offers guidance for compassionately ministering to those in need.

Why I Am a Catholic

Why I Am a Catholic
Author: Garry Wills
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780618380480

In this provocative work, which could not be timelier, Garry Wills, one of our country's most noted writers and historians, offers a powerful statement of his Catholic faith. Beginning with a reflection on his early experience of that faith as a child and later as a Jesuit seminarian, Wills reveals the importance of Catholicism in his own life. He goes on to challenge, in clear and forceful terms, the claim that criticism or reform of the papacy is an assault on the faith itself. For Wills, a Catholic can be both loyal and critical, a loving child who stays with his father even if the parent is wrong. Wills turns outward from his personal experiences to present a sweeping narrative covering two thousand years of church history, revealing that the papacy, far from being an unchanging institution, has been transformed dramatically over the millennia -- and can be reimagined in the future. At a time when the church faces one of its most difficult crises, Garry Wills offers an important and compelling entrée into the discussion of the church's past -- and its future. Intellectually brisk and spiritually moving, Why I Am a Catholic poses urgent questions for Catholic and non-Catholic readers alike.

Early Dominicans

Early Dominicans
Author: Simon Tugwell
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 532
Release: 1982
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780809124145

The spirituality of St. Dominic and his early followers was a force in 13th-century Europe. Here is a selection of works that represent the simplicity, ruggedness and clarity of the Dominicans' biblically-based, Christ-centered spirituality.