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Publication Date
2018
Language
English
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Presents a book of reflections for those seeking wisdom, guidance, encouragement, and inspiration on the road to a meaningful life.
Shriver knows just how surprising, unpredictable, and stressful everyday life can be. Here she shares inspiring quotes, prayers, and reflections designed to get readers thinking, get them feeling, get them laughing, and help them in their journey to what she calls The Open Field-- a place of acceptance, purpose, and...
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Publication Date
2026
Language
English
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With his first public appearance before the world, Pope Leo XIV expressed hope for an 'unarmed and disarming' peace. Collected in a beautiful edition are the sermons and speeches Pope Leo XIV has delivered since his May 8, 2025, election. These initial addresses convey some of Pope Leo XIV's priorities: the primacy of God, communion in the Church, and the pursuit of peace. His countless calls for reconciliation are addressed not only to politics,...
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Publisher
Beacon Publishing
Publication Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"What is resistance? It's that sluggish feeling of not wanting to do something that you know is good for you. It's the inclination to do something that you unabashedly know is not good for you. It's the desire and tendency to delay something you should be doing right now. It is resistance that stands between you and happiness. In these pages you will learn not only what it is, but how to recognize and conquer it in your own life"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher
Tiller Press
Publication Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Discover how to engage in a faith-filled life in the era of social media from a group of young, consecrated Catholic sisters"-- Provided by publisher.
More and more people-- especially millennials-- are turning to religion as a source of comfort and solace in our increasingly chaotic world. Rather than live a cloistered life of seclusion, the Daughters of Saint Paul actively embrace social media to evangelize, collectively calling themselves the...
Author
Publisher
Paraclete Press
Publication Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
Are you longing for a deeper relationship with Jesus? Do you struggle with trust, doubt, or understanding how to live as His disciple? Through poignant and relatable essays about interacting with others in everyday life--at the airport, in the grocery store, and on the streets--Shyrock shares the realistic simplicity of being the hands and feet of Christ to those we meet along life's path.
Author
Publisher
Paulist Press
Publication Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Offers a critique of religion as a system that often creates an alternative pious world without really challenging oppression, materialism, and sectarianism in our modern world. Religion, he says, without this contemplative stance is often part of the problem. Drawing from Jesus parable of the rich man, Rohr believes that religion can only rediscover itself as a transformational system if it passes through the eye of a needle, if it overcomes its...
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Publisher
Convergent Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House
Publication Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Beloved nun and social activist Joan Chittister, who appeared on Oprah's Super Soul Sunday, offers a soul-stirring and inspiring guide that speaks to all who feel disillusioned and dissatisfied with the power-hungry institutions and systems of this world. Joan Chittister has been a passionate voice for women's rights for over 50 years. Called "one of the most well-known and trusted contemporary spiritual authors" by Publishers Weekly, this rabble-rousing...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Publication Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A collection of homilies, speeches, and 'messages of the day' that brings together Pope Francis's wisdom on finding happiness in the here and now. For Pope Francis, the appreciation of our everyday lives is a spiritual undertaking. Joy is a divine attribute, and creating joy around us an essential part of faith. Every homily and speech in this book delivers, in warm, engaging language accessible to believers and nonbelievers alike, a key lesson,...
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Publication Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The fiction author and producer of the Cinemax action series Banshee explores his "intense desire to become a Catholic priest and his equally fervent desire for the company of women ... [trying] various obsessions--karate, beer, fiction writing--attempting to duck the mystical God he feels called him to serve as a priest"--Dust jacket flap.
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