Contains the Bible readings for each day of the liturgical year with reflections by spiritual writers. Designed to help you keep the word of God close to your heart in daily life. A companion to nourish your faith, help make God's Word the foundation of your life, and empower you to pray, to live and to share your faith with others.
- Scripture readings from the Jerusalem Bible - Liturgical information of the day, including feasts and memorials of saints. - Space to note down personal reflections, and important events. - Produced in flexi-cover format with attractive colour designs.
Edition prepared for Australia and New Zealand; an ideal companion for the Holy Year 2025!
Full of warmth and insight this is an inspiring story of a young man whose wisdom and strength can teach us how to live life to the fullest.
Sixteen-year-old Alex Noble was a high school rugby star with a promising sporting career ahead of him when an on-field injury left him fighting for his life in the ICU.
Young scientists, sisters, and theologians of the "green generation" reflect on "saints", canonised and not, who offer hope and inspire us towards ecological action.
"In the community of saints, all together are companions in memory and hope. Together, all together, they are becoming something strange and growing and great, instruments of change. Green Saints for a Green Generation taps beautifully into this dynamic for the sake of our suffering Earth, which cries out for no less."--From the Foreword by Elizabeth A. Johnson, CSJ
In this declaration, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith reiterates and strengthens the Church?s perennial teaching on the universal and infinite dignity of every human person, emphasising its origin in God, the loving creator who formed us in His own image.
In light of this, the DDF condemns the grave violations of human dignity that arise in today?s world from a number of contemporary evils including: violence against women, abortion, surrogacy, euthanasia, gender theory, sex change operations, and digital violence.
Wen Zhou is the only child of Chinese immigrants whose move to the lucky country has proven to be not so lucky.
Wen and her friend, Henry Xiao - whose mum and dad are also struggling immigrants - both dream of escape from their unhappy circumstances, and form a plan to sit an entrance exam to a selective high school far from home.
'An unforgettable story of family, friendship and finding your voice. I adore this book.' - Nova Weetman
The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings provides the definitive anthology of early Christian texts from ca. 100 CE to ca. 650 CE. Its volumes reflect the cultural, intellectual, and linguistic diversity of early Christianity, and are organized thematically on the topics of God, Practice, Christ, Community, Reading, and Creation. The series expands the pool of source material to include not only Greek and Latin writings, but also Syriac and Coptic texts. Additionally, the series rejects a theologically normative view by juxtaposing texts that were important in antiquity but later deemed 'heretical' with orthodox texts. The translations are accompanied by introductions, notes, suggestions for further reading, and scriptural indices.
The third volume focuses on early Christian reflection on Christ as God incarnate from the first century to ca. 450 CE. It will be an invaluable resource for students and academic researchers in early Christian studies, history of Christianity, theology and religious studies, and late antique Roman history.
Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas
Author/Artist:
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER, ANNIE DILLARD (CONTR)
ISBN-10:
087486917X
ISBN-13:
9780874869170
Publisher:
Plough Publishing
Binding:
HARDBACK
Price:
AU$42.99
Description:
What is the 'real' meaning of Christmas; this volume steps back to examine vital questions: What does it mean that God took on human form? That Mary believed? That Christ came down to earth, and will one day come again?
Whether dipped into at leisure or used for formal daily devotions, this collection gives the phrase 'Christmas preparations' new depth and meaning. Includes writing from Kathleen Norris, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Annie Dillard, John Donne, Meister Eckhart, Dorothy Day, T. S. Eliot, Gustavo Gutierrez, Eberhard Arnold, G. M. Hopkins, C. S. Lewis, Thomas Merton, Martin Luther, Henri Nouwen, Edith Stein, Thomas Aquinas, Dorotee Soelle, Philip Yancey, and others.
Since the beginning of the quest for the historical Jesus, scholars have dismissed the idea that Jesus could have identified himself as God. Such high Christology is frequently depicted as an invention of the councils of Nicaea and Chalcedon, centuries later. Yet recent research has shown that the earliest Jewish followers of Jesus already regarded him as divine.
Brant Pitre tackles this paradox by challenging this widespread assumption. He makes a robust case that Jesus did consider himself divine. Carefully explicating the Gospels in the context of Second Temple Judaism, Pitre shows how Jesus used riddles, questions, and scriptural allusions to reveal the apocalyptic secret of his divinity. Moreover, Pitre explains how Jesus acts as if he is divine in both the Synoptics and the Gospel of John. Carefully weighing the historical evidence, Pitre argues that the origins of early high Christology can be traced to the historical Jesus's words and actions.
Jesus and Divine Christology sheds light on key evidence that the historical Jesus saw himself as divine. Scholars and students of the New Testament will find Pitre's argument a necessary and provocative study.
Matthew Ichihashi Potts explores the complex moral terrain of forgiveness, which he claims has too often served as a salve to the conscience of power rather than as an instrument of healing or justice. Though forgiveness is often linked with reconciliation or the abatement of anger, Potts resists these associations, asserting instead that forgiveness is simply the refusal of retaliatory violence through practices of penitence and grief. It is an act of mourning irrevocable wrong, of refusing the false promises of violent redemption, and of living in and with the losses we cannot recover.
Drawing on novels by Kazuo Ishiguro, Marilynne Robinson, Louise Erdrich, and Toni Morrison, and on texts from the early Christian to the postmodern, Potts diagnoses the real dangers of forgiveness yet insists upon its enduring promise.
Sensitive to the twenty-first-century realities of economic inequality, colonial devastation, and racial strife, and considering the role of forgiveness in the New Testament, the Christian tradition, philosophy, and contemporary literature, this book heralds the arrival of a new and creative theological voice.
Michael Joncas's new Simple Psalter synthesizes elements of previous styles of psalm-singing into a new pattern of engaging these sacred texts. Using the new Abbey Psalms and Canticles, Joncas sets every responsorial psalm in the three-year Lectionary in settings that work equally well a cappella or with keyboard accompaniment.
The antiphon for each setting may be sung in unison or enhanced with optional voice or instrument parts, and the verses are set to a Gelineau-inspired "pulsed" psalm tone, notated in proposed speech-rhythm. Additionally, the tones of the Simple Psalter respect form-critical studies of psalms, assigning them to particular categories (e.g., different tones for hymns of praise, songs of thanksgiving, communal laments, etc.).
The Simple Psalter is divided into four volumes: one for solemnities, feasts, and other celebrations, and one each for years A, B and C.
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