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Love
Grow closer to God through six weeks of prayer focused on a specific spiritual topic. Since their original release in the late 1980s, the Take and Receive prayer-book series has sold more than 150,000 copies, and its five themed books are hailed as classics in the Ignatian prayer tradition. The first two books in the series are being repackaged and reprinted by Loyola Press. Love: A Guide for Prayer and Forgiveness: A Guide for Prayer provide topic-based opportunities for people to grow deeper in their relationship with God through prayer. The theme of each volume directly correlates with a segment of the Spiritual Exercises, though no previous experience with the Exercises is needed to bene...
Forgiveness
Since its original release in the late 1980s, the Forgiveness book in the Take and Receive prayer-book series has been helping people re-imagine what it means to pray and see with new eyes God’s presence and activity in their daily lives. Forgiveness: A Guide for Prayer have now been repackaged and reprinted by Loyola Press.Hailed as a classic in the Ignatian prayer tradition, this book by Jacqueline Syrup Bergan and Sister Marie Schwan provides a topic-based opportunity for people to grow deeper in their relationship with God through prayer. The topic of forgiveness directly correlates with a segment of the Spiritual Exercises, though no previous experience with the Exercises is needed to benefit from the book.Covering 36 days over a six-week period, each day offers scriptural passages with commentary, followed by a suggested approach to prayer for that day. Especially helpful is a section at the beginning of the book that explains the different types of solitary prayer that readers will be asked to engage in throughout the six weeks, such as meditation, contemplation, and centering prayer.
Are You Really Ready for Love?
Singles who have never been married and those who have suffered a divorce or the loss of their mate through death are faced with a challenge: When love comes their way, will they be ready? What does that readiness look like? Clinical psychologist and counselor Dr. David Hawkins prescribes a practical and biblical approach for preparing for love. Dr. Hawkins encourages singles to spend less energy looking for the perfect mate and more energy in becoming people who can enter wholeheartedly into an intimate relationship. He demonstrates how readers can increase their capacity to... practice the sacrificial love Paul describes in 1 Corinthians 13 get to know others for who they really are and respect their uniqueness express love through appropriate love languages receive love without fear or feelings of unworthiness take risks for the sake of personal and mutual growth practice healthy boundaries humbly recognize their own weaknesses and turn them into strengths This user-friendly guide will give singles of any age a positive and constructive plan for becoming ready for love.
Prayer in Practice
Drawing on insights from Scripture, tradition, psychology, and experience, this book offers a comprehensive guide to Prayer in Practice, an essential resource for students and seekers alike. Applying ancient wisdom to contemporary questions, Prayer in Practice responds to the perennial request, "Teach us to pray."
Small Christian Communities
This revised and updated edition of Small Christian Communities: A Vision of Hope for the 21st Century is a rich source of practical information about how to make the vision of the parish as "a community of many small communities" come alive.y
Spiritual Exercises Reclaimed, 2nd Edition, The
This companion to the Spiritual Exercises, in an anniversary edition does justice to women’s experience across contexts and social locations. While acknowledging obstacles that the Exercises hold for women in various contexts, the authors provide fresh interpretations of every aspect of this spiritual classic. They bring together feminist consciousness, a broad knowledge of psychology and theology, and the compassionate insight of experienced spiritual guides. The situation of women making and giving the Spiritual Exercises has changed radically in the past two decades since the publication of the previous edition, which highlights the variety women’s experience of the Spiritual Exercises from different cultural contexts. It also draws from new and younger women's voices, thus extending the reach of the original text to another generation over wider geographic and cultural spread. The revised book opens up new ways in which the Exercises may offer liberating possibilities for women world-wide.
Praying with Ignatius of Loyola
Meet Ignatius of Loyola. A ladies’ man of the court turned prayerful man of faith, Ignatius devoted his adult life to developing a way to build and deepen our personal relationship with God. He created the Spiritual Exercises to help others develop a fulfilling life of prayer and faith. Praying with Ignatius of Loyola integrates the life of Ignatius with principles of spirituality and offers an entry point for the reader through quotations, reflection questions, poetry, and prayer inspired by the spirituality of St. Ignatius. In this new edition of a classic book, Praying with Ignatius of Loyola makes Ignatian spirituality available to everyone and enriches an active, contemporary life with support and direction. Wedding mind and heart, Bergan and Schwan’s unique approach to a 500-year-old practice will inform you, inspire you, and, with the grace of God, transform you.
Prayer in Nursing
Prayer in Nursing: The Spirituality of Compassionate Caregiving examines the role of prayer in the life of a nurse from a variety of perspectives, including: the history of prayer in nursing, the importance of prayer in contemporary caregiving, caring nurse-patient relationships, and the connection between prayer and a healing ministry. To encourage the practice of prayer, each chapter begins with a meditation and ends with a prayer reflective of a nurse's spirituality.
National Union Catalog
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