With Reflections for Saints' Days, by Vincent Ryan, O.S.B.
Liturgies for Weekdays: Lent is designed to help towards celebrating Lent fruitfully.
Liturgies for Weekdays: Lent provides for each weekday Mass of Lent The book includes an introduction, a Scripture note, reflections which can be the foundation for a homily, prayer of the faithful and a a brief concluding prayer/reflection.
Living Ethos explores what makes for a vibrant and meaningful Catholic school ethos. It examines how values, leadership, faith, inclusion, community outreach, and personal development shape the culture of a school. Twenty research-based and class-room tested analyses of what contributes to an authentic caring ethos in Catholic schools.
Contributions helpfully arranged under three headings: ‘Ethos from the inside out’; ‘Ethos Is for Life’; ‘Ethos and the Wider Community’.
All contributions based on research
All contributors have worked in the class-room, and some in school leadership
KEY AREAS
Styles of leadership
Outreach to the community
Faith as both vision and practice
Inter-religious dialogue, inclusion, and diversity
Adolescent faith formation
Relationship and sexuality education
Whole-school approach
Parents as partners
Extra-curricular activities
After-school support
Leaders taking responsibility for the role models they
Taking the Our Father, the prayer that is shared by all the followers of Christ, Fr O'Flynn guides the reader through the various petitions of this great Christian prayer and offers reflections that will help to deepen the understanding and faith of the reader.
Born at the dawn of the nineteenth century, Dominican Margaret Mary Hallahan enriched Catholic Church in England in the fields of education of the young and care of the infirm, in the years following Catholic Emancipation. These pages provide evidence of Margaret's staunch faith as well as pointing to the energetic drive she brought to different ministries.
Theologian Yves Congar op, silenced and exiled in 1955, was in 1960 made a theological advisor to the preparatory commission for Vatican II.
His daily journal provides a window into the Council’s workings and into the development of what would become a series of historical documents and declarations.
**Of interest to lay presiders as well as to clergy
This new revision of New Sunday & Holy Day Liturgies contains a lot of new material, including new homilies. There are two additional major improvements.
The first of these is a better Scripture Note focussed on ensuring that they convey the essence of the readings.
The second improvement concerns parts of the Mass such as the Introduction, the Confiteor, the Prayer of the Faithful, which are now more closely related to the particular feast (or Sunday) that is being celebrated.
**Of interest to lay presiders as well as to clergy.
This new revision of New Sunday & Holy Day Liturgies contains a lot of new material, including new homilies. There are two additional major improvements.
The first of these is a better Scripture Note focussed on ensuring that they convey the essence of the readings.
The second improvement concerns parts of the Mass such as the Introduction, the Confiteor, the Prayer of the Faithful, which are now more closely related to the particular feast (or Sunday) that is being celebrated.
**Of interest to lay presiders as well as to clergy.
This new revision of New Sunday & Holy Day Liturgies contains a lot of new material, including new homilies. There are two additional major improvements.
The first of these is a better Scripture Note focussed on ensuring that they convey the essence of the readings.
The second improvement concerns parts of the Mass such as the Introduction, the Confiteor, the Prayer of the Faithful, which are now more closely related to the particular feast (or Sunday) that is being celebrated.
A lifelong student and teacher of Scripture responds to the Year of Mercy and to the document by Pope Francis, The Face of Mercy, by looking closely at the theme of mercy in the Bible.
