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Topic Started: Saturday, 26. May 2007, 17:28 (1,319 Views)
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Finding Sanctuary by Abbot Christopher Jamison

The blurb says "In this inspirational and practical book, Abbot Christopher Jamison, from Worth Abbey, outlines the wisdom of St Benedict and suggests how it can be applied to life outside the monastery. He speaks especially to those who are not sure what they believe but are looking for ways to find spiritual space in the busy, and often confusing , modern world."

For once a blurb which is accurate.

I think this book is readable and thought provoking. Not at all hard going but recommends books and internet sources if you want to go further. It is not just for Catholics, but neither will it browbeat you into becoming one. It does offer ways to cope with the life as it is and to find an oasis of calm and safety.

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Thanks for that Josephine. It sounds to be exactly what I have been looking for as a gift for a particular person I know.

KatyA
PS and it's reduced on Amazon Finding Sanctuary I never could resist a bargain
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In the US, a book written by the Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, is a NY Times bestseller for the 5th week in a row.
According to the blurb,Carl Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, surveys the exciting and history-changing ideas of Pope John Paul II in A Civilization of Love.

By popularizing not only John Paul’s vision but also that of his successor, Benedict XVI, Anderson hopes to inspire Christians to work toward creating a civilization of love. In such a civilization every person is a child of God.

We are all intrinsically valuable. The battle today is between the culture of death (where people are judged by their social or economic value) and the culture of life. Anderson pushes aside religious differences in order to spread a message of hope to those who are weary of the constant turmoil of modern society.

While he does specifically challenge Christians to take an active role in their faith, you do not have to be a Christian to participate in the movement toward a civilization of love.

By embracing the culture of life and standing with those most marginalized and deemed “useless” or a “burden” on modern society, Christians can change the tone and direction of our culture.

Anderson demonstrates that regardless of our differences we can come together on the centrality of loving and caring for others.

He brings a message of inclusion and hope in the midst of a clash of civilizations and provides a road map for helping Christians understand their role in the world.
All author proceeds from the sale of the book will go to Knights of Columbus Charities.
A Civilization of Love

As an aside - I assume the Knights of St Columbus are the same as the Knights of St Columba, does anyone know why the name is different?

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KatyA
May 10 2008, 05:27 AM
As an aside - I assume the Knights of St Columbus are the same as the Knights of St Columba, does anyone know why the name is different?


KatyA,

I'm not sure I 'get' the question.

The author mentioned in this article is Carl Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus.

Columbus is not canonized at this point - apparently that would be a politically incorrect thing to do. :clare:

I know nothing about the Knights of St Columba. Is that a British organization?

The root problem in a lot of bad catechesis is ultimately not ignorance, but pride. ~ Mark Shea

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Here is the official website for the KSC Knights of St Columba
I assumed that "Columbus" was St Columba (aka Columcille) but now I see that I canonised Columbus. :lol:
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May 11 2008, 02:57 AM
I see that I canonised Columbus. :lol:

How lovely . . . I had no idea that we had forum members with such clout. :rofl:

:offtopic: BTW - there are some excellent deceased that I would dearly love to see canonized. Expect a list . . . .

:topicbaack: It looks like the Knights of St Columba are an offshoot of the K of Cs found across North America. Thanks for the info, KatyA

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Begin with the Heart: Recovering a Sacramental Vision by Daniel O'Leary (The Columba Press, £13.99)

Every now and again a book comes along that seems to encapsulate something that has been niggling at you but you've not been able to quite put your finger on. Daniel O'Leary has done just this in his latest book in which he says that the sacraments of the Church only really begin to make sense when they are connected to the nitty-gritty of our everyday lives.
O'Leary, a priest based in the Leeds diocese, has built up a reputation as a thought-provoking author and inspirational speaker. His other books include Travelling Light and Already Within, which scooped the Irish Reality/Veritas award in 2007.
In Begin with the Heart he presents a powerful argument for the need to rediscover what he calls 'the sacramental vision'. This is about seeing God primarily in our relationships, our work, the highs and lows of everyday life. This is where God is to be primarily encountered, he says. As he points out, the implications of this sacramental imagination for RE and catechesis are huge.
This sacramental vision was built into the documents of Vatican II, he explains, but along the way seems to have got lost. Key to the sacramental vision is the idea that grace builds on nature.
'The recovery of this neglected perspective requires a profound shift in focus for the average Catholic,' claims O'Leary.
He says this because he thinks many Catholics have unwittingly adopted a form of dualism in their approach to faith. Things to do with church are sacred; things not to do with church are secular.
But O'Leary suggests that if we haven't glimpsed God in our visit to the supermarket, on the bus ride to work, or in the chat with that annoying neighbour, then we probably won't glimpse him at Mass.
He believes that very often in the Church we have got things back to front. Our focus on the sacraments, on certain ways of celebrating the liturgy, on defending doctrines, all of this is pretty meaningless if God hasn't already been encountered if the ordinariness of our lives.
'One of the reasons for our difficulties with dogma and doctrines is their loss of relevance for our lives. Beliefs are not ends in themselves. Once theology or belief loses contact with experience they become empty formulas with no personal meaning,' he says.
It's clear from the declining Mass going statistics each year that many Catholics do not find much spiritual nourishment at Mass. That's why most stop going. We shouldn't be surprised, says O'Leary, for people only go to where they get spiritually fed.
And for some people, he maintains, it's music, painting, and dance, not liturgy, that provide them with spiritual food, with glimpses of the divine.
O'Leary has drawn insights from on a wide range of thinkers, including Karl Rahner, Richard McBrien and Thomas Aquinas, along with poets such as W.B.Yates and T.S.Eliot.
If he sounds like he might be launching an attack on the Church, he's not. In fact, Begin with the Heart, as he makes clear, is picking up where the bishops' own document on the Way to Life, published in 2005, left off.
This is a book that leaves you with much to ponder after you have put it down. If the price seems a bit high, that's because it comes with a DVD, which could be useful resource for parish groups wanting to explore Begin with the Heart's far-reaching, profound and stimulating ideas.

Independent Catholic News

I wouldn't be encouraged to seek out the book on the basis of this review, it does not sound as if he is promoting greater reverence in the liturgy. Has anyone read of Fr.O'Leary's other work?

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I stumbled a cross a book I had been looking for, and never mind all the stuff that needs packing before we move. One more book can't hurt, can it?

Sun and Wind

The Legend of Joseph of Arimathea

William Boardman

Publisher: Garth Publications in Manchester, Scepter in North America

. . . to be read when I'm in a "new" house without an internet connection and such. :bravo:


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As this relates to a book review, I'm posting here, but it may be equally at home in the priesthood section.
I came across a review of a new book by Basil Cole, OP, The Hidden Enemies of the Priesthood: The Contributions of St. Thomas Aquinas
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Following a general discussion of the lengths to which the Devil will go to lead priests astray, Fr. Cole surveys nine vices through which priests most commonly fall: pride, vainglory, ambition, envy, avarice, gluttony, lust, anger and acedia (spiritual apathy). Drawing heavily on the chief mentor of both his Order and the Church—the book’s subtitle is “The Contributions of Thomas Aquinas”—Fr. Cole clarifies the nature and operation of each of these vices and shows how each one can ensnare the unwary priest, destroying both his spiritual life and his work.

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To think of study as a mere game of the mind and having no bearing on the life of prayer is an illusion…. The key to opening up the treasure of divine truth is…to acquire this virtue of studiousness and integrate it with the theological virtues, and prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. When this happens, then a true spirituality of study is alive and active not only in an individual priest but also in religious communities and seminaries, dioceses, and even university faculties.

For the full review see Catholic Culture
A gift for a seminarian or newly ordained perhaps

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I wasn't sure whether to post this here, or in the Pauline Year thread, but since it concerns a book I decided here was more appropriate.
Fr Finigan has drawn attention to a book published by Family Publications, "A St.Paul Prayer Book"
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Pope Benedict XVI has decreed that the year from June 2008 to June 2009 will be a year focusing on the contribution made to the Church by St Paul. Through prayers, scriptural passages and beautiful illustrations in full colour, this booklet serves as an ideal introduction to this, one of the Church’s most important saints. The texts include litanies and prayers by and to St Paul, as well as inspiring scriptural passages from St Paul’s letters. The pictures include both artistic representations of St Paul – including stained glass windows, statues and drawings – and also photographs of the most important places associated with his life, such as Tarsus, the city of his birth, and the Basilica of St Paul in Rome, where he was buried. An ideal way to follow Pope Benedict’s exhortation to renewed devotion to St Paul. The prayer book can be used by individuals or in parishes, prayer groups and schools.

The cost is £4.50 from Family Publications
Family Publications

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This is an excerpt from NRO. I found it interesting enough that I may very well purchase The good father's book


http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NzA2ZDNlZjE0Nzc0YjlmMTE4MGYxZWU3NjY2YzNkYzk=

The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne

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The Lucky Seahorse and Other Stories
A meal for the homeless may not seem the most obvious setting for the launch of a children's book. However, that is the occasion which will see the release of The Lucky Seahorse and Other Stories by Lucy Heathman.
Lucy Heathman is actually a pen name. For the last seventeen years Our Lady Help of Christians Catholic Church in Kentish Town, north London, has offered a service to the homeless. This currently involves providing a hot meal on Sundays and two other days, with tea and sandwiches on the other lunchtimes. On Sundays there is also the opportunity for showers and a change of clothes. The service is run by a team of over eighty volunteers, one of whom is 'Lucy', a member of the Tuesday team.
Lucy's book has just been published by Pen Press Publishers, and is illustrated with line drawings by Alexa Garside. It consists of thirteen short stories, mostly about animals and fish, who have very human ways and, fortunately, a very good command of spoken English. It is aimed principally at four to eight-year-olds with the expectation that parents will read the stories to the younger ones, but that the older ones can read them for themselves. The few who have been granted a sneak preview seem to particularly like The Hairy Giant and Herbie and the Storm. Herbie, incidentally, is the Luck Seahorse of the title.
Michael Fogarty, who is the Welfare Coordinator at the Church said: 'When I heard about Lucy's book, I thought we should all do something to celebrate this achievement by one of our volunteers. Every year we replace one of the normal Sunday meals in July with a barbecue, to which we invite all our volunteers to join our regular guests. That seemed an appropriate time.'
Lucy acknowledges that there will not be too many of the guests who will be buying copies of her book, although she has had a lot of interest from fellow volunteers with children or grandchildren. There will also be the opportunity for other parishioners to obtain signed copies after the meal. Lucy thinks that she probably inherited her love of writing from her father, who has a diary in the library of the Imperial war Museum. She adds that her love of travel has helped her with ideas, for example with her story of Barry Beaver, inspired by a trip to Newfoundland.
Michael Fogarty pointed out that, when the Church's Homeless Project was launched seventeen years ago, most of the guests were rough sleepers. Now only a few actually live on the streets. Many have some sort of a roof over their heads in a hostel or some other type of temporary accommodation. However, there has been a recent increase in the numbers of rough sleepers with some people from Eastern Europe unable to find work or accommodation, and the overall numbers of people coming for meals has almost doubled over the last two years.
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On August 12, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver will release his latest book, "Render unto Caesar" which focuses on a question of undeniable importance for Catholics in the U.S. but also around the world: What is the role of faith in the public square? Fr. Robert Imbelli, a Boston College associate professor of Theology, gives readers an insightful and well-written review of the archbishop’s book, which will be published in L’Osservatore Romano.
Fr.Imbelli's review
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A new book about Padre Pio , titled "Padre Pio Sotto Inchiesta: l''Autobiografia Segreta'" ("Padre Pio Under Investigation: The 'Secret Autobiography'"),detailing the report of a Vatican investigator into Padre Pio, gives new information on the Stigmata the friar suffered. The volume is prefaced by Vittorio Messori and edited by Father Franceso Castelli, historian for the beatification cause of Pope John Paul II and professor of modern and contemporary history of the Church at the Romano Guardini Institute for Religious Sciences in Taranto, Italy.

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The new book, which contains the first complete version of the report penned by Bishop Raffaele Rossi of Volterra, (later cardinal), apostolic visitor sent by the Holy See to secretly investigate Padre Pio, clarifies that on the occasion of the reception of the stigmata the saint had a conversation with the crucified Christ.

The book also contains a number of statements that Padre Pio made under oath, which provide an interpretive key to Bishop Rossi's report.

Asked to swear on the Gospel, Padre Pio for the first time revealed the identity of the one from whom he received the wounds.

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It must be book review day. I came across this interesting little snippet on CNA
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A new science-fiction novel co-authored by Archbishop of Newark John J. Myers and “Roger Rabbit” creator Gary K. Wolf has sold “decently” in the first six months since its publication. The “fast-paced intergalactic tale” is about a space marshal and a con man who team up with a widow and her two children to fight a cosmic villain named Space Vulture.
The two authors, who have been friends since childhood, based the story on the pulp fiction of their youth. They would tease out themes for the book and devise plots over the phone, editing the text via e-mail.
The archbishop said he worked on the book at night, when he didn't have appointments, or at his summer residence.
“Pulp science fiction, just as pulp westerns, are not great art. And we knew that. But it can be fun. ... This won't be a classic. We didn't write it with that in mind,” Bishop Myers told the Star-Ledger.
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"Science fiction tends to be atheistic, or not to refer to creators or higher beings," Myers explained to the Star-Ledger. "I enjoyed getting some lines in there on how Cali prays when she's in trouble, and how the boys knew their dad was in a better place. These are things that indicate a higher being without it being explicitly Catholic."

According to the Star Ledger, Space Vulture publisher Tor Books said the book has sold decently. Though the book’s Amazon.com ranking is low, reader reviews are reportedly positive.
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