Author : Ernst Burkhart
Publisher : Scepter Press
Page : pages
File Size : 48,94 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 9781594172878
ERNST BURKHART AND JAVIER LÓPEZscholarly work Vol 1
Author : Ernst Burkhart
Publisher : Scepter Press
Page : pages
File Size : 18,23 MB
Release : 2020
Category :
ISBN : 9781594173691
Author : Eric Sammons
Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 37,23 MB
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1612782213
God intends nothing less than sainthood for you! The early Church held that all believers could achieve holiness. Over time, this conviction was largely forgotten. Sainthood seemed to be an honor only intended for a select few among the priests and religious. Eric Sammons tells how twentieth century Spanish priest and canonized saint Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei, recovered the message of the universal call to holiness. Declared the saint of ordinary life by Pope John Paul II, St. Josemaria developed a spirituality directed toward the sanctity of every man and woman. His legacy is the belief that each of us can, by God's grace, achieve holiness through the course of our ordinary life and work. The heart of Sammons' practical guide to the spiritual life is a detailed examination of the steps in St. Josemaria's thoughtful plan for building a saintly life in spite of your hectic work and home life in a world filled with distractions and temptations. Strive for your own personal holiness as you implement your daily plan to: --Be a Contemplative in the Midst of a Busy World --Live a Life of Prayer --Recognize the Presence of God --Make a Plan of Life --Make Your Work a Way to Heaven Holiness for Everyone will inspire you as it sets your feet on the path to sainthood. "Eric Sammons shows that St. Josemaria has recovered the most powerful truth of classic Christianity and restated it in a way that is compelling for men and women of our time." ---From the Foreword by Scott Hahn
Author : José María Escrivá de Balaguer
Publisher : Scepter Publishers
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 27,78 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : 9781889334585
Author : Josemaría Escrivá
Publisher : Scepter Publishers
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 49,45 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781889334721
This keepsake book combines St. Josemaría's three beloved collections of spiritual guidance -- The Way, Furrow, and The Forge -- into one, with an expanded and combined index. This three-in-one edition offers you a starting-point for prayer and for finding Christ in all your life's experiences. It introduces you to St. Josemaría's guiding vision of holiness in everyday life.
Author : Fernando Ocáriz
Publisher : Scepter Publishers
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 20,1 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1594173745
Work is a fundamental element of human life that claims much of our time. Consider Jesus’ 30 years as a carpenter under the tutelage of St. Joseph! Our natural tendency can be to often curse or shirk its presence in life, instead of recognizing its true value as a source of personal development, improvement of society, and means of holiness and apostolate. The core part of the book is a dialogue between numerous scholars and Msgr. Fernando Ocáriz about the message of St. Josemaría Escrivá, one of the great teachers of modern spirituality, who has taught us to sanctify work, to sanctify oneself at work, and to sanctify others through work. Use these words to reflect on the meaning of work in your own life and to learn how to change your perception of work as a burden into work as a source of sanctification.
Author : Sam Guzman
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 13,85 MB
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 162164068X
What it means to be a man or a woman is questioned today like never before. While traditional gender roles have been eroding for decades, now the very categories of male and female are being discarded with reckless abandon. How does one act like a gentleman in such confusing times? The Catholic Gentleman is a solid and practical guide to virtuous manhood. It turns to the timeless wisdom of the Catholic Church to answer the important questions men are currently asking. In short, easy- to-read chapters, the author offers pithy insights on a variety of topics, including • How to know you are an authentic man • Why our bodies matter • The value of tradition • The purpose of courtesy • What real holiness is and how to achieve it • How to deal with failure in the spiritual life
Author : José María Escrivá de Balaguer
Publisher : Scepter Publishers
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 49,82 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 9780933932562
The Forge is the third collection of St. Josemaría's refreshingly brief but profoundly weighty reflections and meditations on how to live the Christian life to its absolute fullest.Like The Way and Furrow, it gives you practical and pointed material for meditation that will help you take your spiritual responsibilities more seriously and move ever closer to the all-consuming forge of God's love.
Author : Juan Luis Lorda
Publisher : Scepter Publishers
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 24,16 MB
Release : 2017-03-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1594171335
The Virtues of Holiness offers a road-map for navigating our everyday activities: work, family, leisure pursuits. It shows how we can reach the heights of Christian life in and through these activities. For many people this is unfamiliar territory, and the author has written this book just for them. Fr. Lorda offers his readers a daily spiritual plan and describes strategies for gaining the virtues needed for following Christ closely. The next steps are familiarity with the life of Christ and developing a deep interior relationship with Him. Although its path is challenging, The Virtues of Holiness leaves no doubt that the struggle to stay close to Christ lies within the reach of every Christian. The author draws on a wide range of Christian apologists from the Church Fathers to St. Thomas Aquinas, as well as the 16th century Spanish mystics, John of Avila, John of the Cross, and Teresa of Avila. The result is a book that is accessible to readers of all ages, and especially young believers.
Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : Colchis Books
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,64 MB
Release :
Category : Religion
ISBN :
This is intended to be a very simple book, an elementary treatment of a few basic ideas in Christian spirituality. Hence it should be useful to any Christian, and indeed to anyone who wants to acquaint himself with some principles of the interior life as it is understood in the Catholic Church. Nothing is here said of such subjects as “contemplation” or even “mental prayer.” And yet the book emphasizes what is at once the most common and the most mysterious aspect in the Christian life: grace, the power and the light of God in us, purifying our hearts, transforming us in Christ, making us true sons of God, enabling us to act in the world as his instruments for the good of all men and for his glory. This is therefore a meditation on some fundamental themes appropriate to the active life. It must be said at once that the active life is essential to every Christian. Clearly the active life must mean more than the life which is led in religious institutes of men and women who teach, care for the sick, and so on. (When one is talking of the “active life” as opposed to the “contemplative life,” this is the usual reference.) Here action is not looked at in opposition to contemplation, but as an expression of charity and as a necessary consequence of union with God by baptism.
