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Living the Christian life requires a strategy. Most of us won’t get to heaven through heroic feats of sanctity, but by learning to live the devout life through our everyday activities. St. Francis de Sales has developed for you a spiritual plan of action — a plan that will help you acquire holiness despite the many responsibilities and mundane realities that take up all your time and effort. In these pages, Fr. Thomas Dailey — an Oblate of St. Francis de Sales — gently guides you through St. Francis de Sales’s spiritual plan, showing how you can balance time devoted to God with the time needed to complete your many tasks each day. You’ll learn St. Francis de Sales’s technique o...
The members of a poor rural church on the Dingle Peninsula in a remote corner of southwest Ireland are stunned to learn that their tiny parish has been bequeathed Moore's Point, the historic estate of a wealthy, eccentric land owner, only to discover that there is an intriguing specification to the will that has the potential to pit the local church and its pastor against his bishop and the diocese in which the church exists. As an assessment of the estate's manorial great house and its surrounding land holdings are beginning, a series of surprising incidents, personal involvements, interesting local characters, and a few mysterious happenings begin to occur, many of these serving to further complicate the efforts of the young pastor, his pastoral council and the parish barrister to resolve the growing conflict with the diocese.
Were two men, each lost at sea more than a decade apart, connected by the same fishing boat that each may have been piloting? This claim, by a close friend of the long-lost man sets in motion a string of incidents that serve to affect families and friends of the two lost men in a fast moving novel that leads to a number of surprising conclusions.
Youth ministry succeeds because it directly reflects Jesus Christ’s approach. It’s not overvalued today; it’s undervalued. The hard work required for its success has been misunderstood and misrepresented. The first part of the book establishes that case and analyzes the pros and cons of current, varying philosophies and approaches, merging their best aspects into the holistic approach demonstrated by Christ. Part 2 introduces Attachment Relationship Ministry (ARM), a lens distinguishing four primary adolescent relational styles depending on how secure or insecure teens are with God and parents. Part 3 encourages strategic relational ministry sensitive to those styles, explaining why yo...
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A rumor surfaces of a possible gold discovery on land outside of the village of Carack on the Dingle. The surprising purchase of the apothecary building left vacant for a decade follows shortly thereafter followed by offers to purchase two sheep farms by a European mining conglomerate. These events serve to fuel wild speculation among the local inhabitants of the isolated rural community. When a visiting American geologist finds some interesting rock formations on some of the farm lands the speculation reaches a fever pitch. Father O'Reilly, young pastor of Saint Agnes is suddenly called back from his leave of absence when his replacement is hospitalized to find himself thrust into the midst of the happenings in his small parish. A surprising mystical event involving the American geologists wife adds to the many subplots and happenings in Carack that serve to keep the reader's interest to the end of this tale.