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A Time to Die
Behind monastery walls, men of God spend their lives preparing for the passage of death. Best-selling French author Nicolas Diat set out to find what their deaths can reveal about the greatest mystery faced by everyone—the end of life. How to die? How to respond to our fear of death? To answer these and other questions, Diat travelled to eight European monasteries including Solesmes Abbey and the Grande Chartreuse. Through extraordinary interviews with monks, he learned that their death experiences are varied and unique, with elements of peace, pain, humility, sorrow, and joy. These monks have the same fears, torments, and sorrows as everyone else, Diat discovered. What is exemplary about them is their humility and simplicity. When death approaches, and its hand reveals its strength, they are like happy and naïve children who wait with impatience to open a gift. They have complete confidence in the mercy of God.
The Day is Now Far Spent
Robert Cardinal Sarah calls The Day Is Now Far Spent his most important book. He analyzes the spiritual, moral, and political collapse of the Western world and concludes that "the decadence of our time has all the faces of mortal peril." A cultural identity crisis, he writes, is at the root of the problems facing Western societies. "The West no longer knows who it is, because it no longer knows and does not want to know who made it, who established it, as it was and as it is. Many countries today ignore their own history. This self-suffocation naturally leads to a decadence that opens the path to new, barbaric civilizations." While making clear the gravity of the present situation, the cardinal demonstrates that it is possible to avoid the hell of a world without God, a world without hope. He calls for a renewal of devotion to Christ through prayer and the practice of virtue.
Summary of Cardinal Robert Sarah & Nicolas Diat's The Day Is Now Far Spent
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The modern world is afraid of God, afraid of becoming his disciple, and has said, I do not want to know God. It fears what others might think. It does not want to see its image reflected in the kindly eyes of Jesus. #2 Faith is a Yes to God. It requires a person to leave his gods, his culture, and all human assurances in order to enter the land, culture, and inheritance of God. Faith consists of letting oneself be guided by God. #3 Faith is a strong relationship between God and his people Israel. It is a loving response to a loving, covenantal initiative. It grows in an intense life of prayer and contemplative silence. It is nourished and strengthened in a daily face-to-face meeting with God and in an attitude of adoration and silent contemplation. #4 The light of faith is a supernatural gift that comes from God. It is a light for our way that guides us throughout life. It is a break with our life of sin and the idols we have created, and a return to the living, true God through an encounter with him.
Couples, Awaken Your Love
With the luminous insight that we have come to expect from his writings, Robert Cardinal Sarah helps spouses rediscover the deep source of their love—God Himself—and the means for letting love between them grow. This book presents the essentials of a retreat that the cardinal preached to married couples in Lourdes, France. It is meant for all couples, including those who are struggling. There is a path to renewal for everyone, and couples in every situation can find again the preciousness of the love that binds them, no matter how hidden it may be. We are all, without exception, called to joy, and Christ alone can give it to us. He works through his Church, through the sacraments, and through his saints—especially Mary, the Mother of God, who heals couples.
The Power of Silence
Now with a new afterword by Pope emeritus Benedict XVI! In a time when technology penetrates our lives in so many ways and materialism exerts such a powerful influence over us, Cardinal Robert Sarah presents a bold book about the strength of silence. The modern world generates so much noise, he says, that seeking moments of silence has become both harder and more necessary than ever before. Silence is the indispensable doorway to the divine, explains the cardinal in this profound conversation with Nicolas Diat. Within the hushed and hallowed walls of the La Grande Chartreux, the famous Carthusian monastery in the French Alps, Cardinal Sarah addresses the following questions: Can those who do...
The Power of Silence
In a time when technology penetrates our lives in so many ways and materialism exerts such a powerful influence over us, Cardinal Robert Sarah presents a bold book about the strength of silence. The modern world generates so much noise, he says, that seeking moments of silence has become both harder and more necessary than ever before. Silence is the indispensable doorway to the divine, explains the cardinal in this profound conversation with Nicolas Diat. Within the hushed and hallowed walls of the La Grande Chartreux, the famous Carthusian monastery in the French Alps, Cardinal Sarah addresses the following questions: Can those who do not know silence ever attain truth, beauty, or love? Do not wisdom, artistic vision, and devotion spring from silence, where the voice of God is heard in the depths of the human heart? After the international success of God or Nothing, Cardinal Sarah seeks to restore to silence its place of honor and importance. "Silence is more important than any other human work," he says, "for it expresses God. The true revolution comes from silence; it leads us toward God and others so as to place ourselves humbly and generously at their service."
God or Nothing
"The idea of putting Magisterial teaching in a beautiful display case while separating it from pastoral practice, which then could evolve along with circumstances, fashions, and passions, is a sort of heresy, a dangerous schizophrenic pathology. I therefore solemnly state that the Church in Africa is staunchly opposed to any rebellion against the teaching of Jesus and of the Magisterium. . . . The Church of Africa is committed in the name of the Lord Jesus to keeping unchanged the teaching of God and of the Church." — Robert Cardinal Sarah In this fascinating autobiographical interview, one of the most prominent and outspoken Catholic Cardinals gives witness to his Christian faith and comm...
God or Nothing
"The idea of putting Magisterial teaching in a beautiful display case while separating it from pastoral practice, which then could evolve along with circumstances, fashions, and passions, is a sort of heresy, a dangerous schizophrenic pathology. I therefore solemnly state that the Church in Africa is staunchly opposed to any rebellion against the teaching of Jesus and of the Magisterium. . . . The Church of Africa is committed in the name of the Lord Jesus to keeping unchanged the teaching of God and of the Church." — Robert Cardinal Sarah In this fascinating autobiographical interview, one of the most prominent and outspoken Catholic Cardinals gives witness to his Christian faith and comm...
La Force du silence
Dans une époque de plus en plus bruyante, alors que la technique et les biens matériels ne cessent d’étendre leur emprise, c’est certainement une gageure que de vouloir écrire un livre consacré au silence. Pourtant, le monde émet tant de bruits que la recherche de quelques gouttes de silence n’en devient que plus nécessaire. Pour le cardinal Robert Sarah, à force de repousser le divin, l’homme moderne se retrouve dans un grand silence, une épreuve angoissante et oppressante. Le cardinal veut rappeler que la vie est une relation silencieuse entre le plus intime de l’homme et Dieu. Le silence est indispensable pour l’écoute de la musique de Dieu : la prière naît du sile...
Le soir approche et déjà le jour baisse
« À la racine de l’effondrement de l’Occident, il y a une crise culturelle et identitaire. L’Occident ne sait plus qui il est, parce qu’il ne sait plus et ne veut pas savoir qui l’a façonné, qui l’a constitué, tel qu’il a été et tel qu’il est. De nombreux pays ignorent aujourd’hui leur histoire. Cette autoasphyxie conduit naturellement à une décadence qui ouvre la voie à de nouvelles civilisations barbares. » Cette affirmation du cardinal Robert Sarah résume le propos de son troisième livre d’entretiens avec Nicolas Diat. Son constat est simple : notre monde est au bord du gouffre. Crise de la foi et de l’Église, déclin de l’Occident, trahison de ses é...
