Author : Michael L. Russo
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 39,45 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625097033
Deacon Michael L. Russo was ordained to the Diaconate in 2010 in the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown, PA and is the Associate Director of Diaconal Formation and the Ministerial Coordinator of Adult Enrichment and Lay Ecclesial Ministry for the Diocese. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Sacred Scripture and Systematic Theology from St. Vincent Seminary where he serves as a member of the Adjunct Faculty. He and his wife Nancy reside in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
Author : David Hare
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 39,50 MB
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0571301223
'My whole life, it's been assumed, Western civilisation is an old bitch gone in the teeth. And so people say, go to Israel. Because in Israel at least people are fighting. In Israel, they're fighting for something they believe in.' Via DolorosaIn 1997, after many invitations, the 50-year-old British playwright resolved finally to visit the 50-year-old State of Israel. The resulting play, written to be performed by the author himself, offers a meditation on an extraordinary trip to both Israel and the Palestinian territory, which leaves Hare questioning his own values as searchingly as the powerful beliefs of those he met. Accompanying Via Dolorosa is the 1996 lecture When Shall We Live?, which also addresses questions of art and faith. Originally given in Westminster Abbey as the Eric Symes Memorial Lecture, it attracted record correspondence when an abridged version was published in the Daily Telegraph.
Author : Mike Mason
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,18 MB
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1525512218
Jesus: His Story in Stone is a reflection on still-existing stone objects that Jesus would have known, seen, or even touched. Each of the seventy short chapters is accompanied by a photograph taken on location in Israel. Arranged chronologically, the one-page meditations compose a portrait of Christ as seen through the significant stones in His life, from the cave where He was born to the rock of Calvary. While packed with historical and archaeological detail, the book’s main thrust is devotional, leading the reader both spiritually and physically closer to Jesus.
Author : Martin Shannon
Publisher : Paraclete Press
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 47,78 MB
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1640604677
Based on early Christian practice, pilgrims to Jerusalem reconstructed the events of Good Friday along the “Way of Suffering,” the Via Dolorosa. The Spanish nun, Egeria, writes of her own experience with this in her fourth century Holy Week journal. In the Middle Ages, the Franciscans and Dominicans particularly picked up on the ritual, and transported it from Jerusalem to chapels and churches outside the Holy Land. If one could not make the pilgrimage to the place of Jesus’s passion, then the “place” could be brought to the pilgrim . . . even in his or her own home town. Over the centuries, the Stations of the Cross spread across Europe and the British Isles. Eventually, fourteen stations were set, with accompanying books of readings and prayers to guide the Good Friday pilgrims as they walked the way with Christ—going “with him” as he bore his cross from the court of Pilate to the hill of Golgotha, from his judgment and condemnation to his death and deposition from the cross. Allow these scriptures, meditations, and prayers to accompany you as you walk and pray the Stations of the Cross with Christ.
Author : Ronald Malfi
Publisher : Medallion Media Group
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 34,53 MB
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1605424609
Following the success of his latest novel, Travis Glasgow and his wife Jodie buy their first house in the seemingly idyllic western Maryland town of Westlake. At first, everything is picture perfect—from the beautiful lake behind the house to the rebirth of the friendship between Travis and his brother, Adam, who lives nearby. Travis also begins to overcome the darkness of his childhood and the guilt he’s harbored since his younger brother’s death—a tragic drowning veiled in mystery that has plagued Travis since he was 13. Soon, though, the new house begins to lose its allure. Strange noises wake Travis at night, and his dreams are plagued by ghosts. Barely glimpsed shapes flit through the darkened hallways, but strangest of all is the bizarre set of wooden stairs that rises cryptically out of the lake behind the house. Travis becomes drawn to the structure, but the more he investigates, the more he uncovers the house’s violent and tragic past, and the more he learns that some secrets cannot be buried forever.
Author : Bargil Pixner
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 34,97 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0898708656
Gathered into this one volume are the principal fruits of Father Pixner's research: explanations of numerous archeological discoveries in the Holy Land accompanied by photos, illustrations, and maps. Prepared in collaboration with Professor Rainer Riesner, a Scripture scholar from the University of Dortmund, the chapters bring to light not only those details of interest to the man of science but also the connections between these and early Christianity of interest to the man of faith. --
Author : E. Marie Christie
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 19,88 MB
Release : 2011-06-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781734377521
Author : Paul Ciholas
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780865549241
After two millennia, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ remain the foundation of Christian faith. No matter how often the story of Easter is told and how much it is explained, we are awed by the inscrutability of God's incarnation in Christ and find ourselves caught up in an event that transcends our understanding and surrounds us in a sea of divine love that belongs to the realm of mystery. These forty mediations invite the reader to reflect on Christ's walk on the Via Dolorosa, the path of suffering that a bruised and exhausted Jesus had to trudge from the place of his condemnation to the site of his crucifixion. It is a sobering journey. It is also a holy path toward God. With the author the reader can walk from sacred place to sacred place and feel the transforming power of the presence of Christ. In this pilgrimage we encounter a tormented Judas, a bewildered peter, a transformed Thomas, and two startled disciples on the road to Emmaus. The passion story leads believers and readers through the tragic disintegration of moral and spiritual claims to a fresh reaffirmation of the promise of transfiguration and resurrection.
Author : Tamar Shiloh
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 26,58 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Stations of the Cross
ISBN : 9789657009840
Author : William Varner
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 25,17 MB
Release : 2020-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781948048231
The Gospels record Jesus' last days leading up to his crucifixion, but how attentive are we to the details of the account? Varner focuses carefully on the details of the Gospels that we often overlook. This lively and carefully nuanced account of the Passion Week will bring you to a renewed sense of devotion for the Savior.
