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Let It Shine!
The Emergence of African American Catholic Worship
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Let It Shine! probes the distinctive contribution of black Catholics to the life of the American church, and to the unfolding of lived Christianity in the United States. This important book explores the powerful spiritual renaissance that has marked African American life and selfunderstanding over...
by Matthew Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
On the Study of Celtic Literature
by Matthew Arnold
The following remarks on the study of Celtic Literature formed the substance of four lectures given by me in the chair of poetry at Oxford. They were first published in the Cornhill Magazine, and are now reprinted from thence. Again and again,...
by Michael O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Come explore the miraculous with "Miracle Hunter" Michael O'Neill!O'Neill, a graduate of Stanford University, member of the Mariological Society of America, and host of the television series "Miracle Hunters", takes you on an amazing tour of miracles large and small, and answers some of our most...
by YOUCAT Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
“It simply does not work any other way: When you want to give Jesus room in your life, you cannot do without reconciliation ("confession").” The YOUCAT Confession book is a practical guide created to take away undue anxiety about the Sacrament, and to show how it works. It came about...
The Worship Mall
Contemporary response to contemporary cultures
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Religion is in competition with the leisure and entertainment industries. The postmodern generation is open to spirituality, but young adults have not been born into faith communities that embrace them fully and command their allegiance over a lifetime. Studies suggest that for the young, belief in...
The Power of Music
God's Call to Change the World One Song at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Music can either Connect You to God or Drive You to the Devil.
God created the human race to enjoy music and to make music, and through music the world has been dramatically changed—for good and for evil. In this fascinating book Michael L. Brown takes the reader on a journey through...
Mary and the Art of Prayer
The Hours of the Virgin in Medieval Christian Life and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Would you like to learn to pray like a medieval Christian? In Mary and the Art of Prayer, Rachel Fulton Brown traces the history of the medieval practice of praising Mary through the complex of prayers known as the Hours of the Virgin. More than just a work of comprehensive historical scholarship,...
Majesty
Experiencing Authentic Worship
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How long ago was your last life-changing experience? This morning? Last week? Can't remember? In these pages are scriptural principles to guide you into a genuine worship experience. Of course you know whom to worship, but what about why, how, and when? And what does the Bible have to say about the...
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Aids to Reflection : And the Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit
If then it be our prerogative, as rational beings, and our duty as Christians, to think, as well as to act, rationally,—to see that our convictions of truth rest on the grounds of right reason; and if it be one of the clearest...
The Church in Act
Lutheran Liturgical Theology in Ecumenical Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The Church in Act explores the dynamics of ecclesial and liturgical theology, examining the body of Christ in action. Maxwell E. Johnson, one of the premier liturgical specialists in the field, provides in this volume historical and doctrinal thinking on a diversity of liturgical subjects under the...
by Harold Warwick
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
This book will take you on a journey from what happens the moment you die, to when your body is disposed of. No one can avoid death. It will happen to you, either when you're not expecting it, or you have prior warning, such as an illness or accident.
Death will come to you by biological...
Whose Mass Is It?
Why People Care So Much about the Catholic Liturgy
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
When changes happen to the Catholic Mass, opinions are strong and diverse. Everyone feels in some way that the Mass is theirs. It is. Or is it? Whose Mass is it? And what should people do to claim it?
Whether or not adult Catholics attend Mass regularly, they strongly bond with it. Within a...
by Sharon Swain
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Confirmation Book for Adults is a confirmation course to use with adults, designed to cover a range of learning styles. The content covers the traditional ground of such courses, beginning from the questions adult confirmation candidates bring to faith development. It is organised around 10 sessions,...
Echoing the Word
The Bible in the Eucharist
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This book is an exploration of the biblical and theological themes in the Common Worship Eucharistic texts. The theological formation of many Christians takes place during their weekly celebration of the Eucharist. The language of the Eucharist has a deep impact on the way that people think about...