A Light Undimmed tells the story of one of the oldest Irish convents in the world. Nuns, monks, and friars were expelled from their homes, their property and assets taken over by the State and given to favorites of the monarch.
Like Father, Like Son sets out to indicate how, when we try to express the truth of who God is and how God acts, we need to think the unthinkable – that God is fully revealed in a human life. In Jesus of Nazareth God has come to walk with us. In him God has suffered among us and at our hands. It is always the same God, the one God, from the first page of the Bible to the last.
Specially designed for those leading weekday Liturgies of the Word, this focused Advent resource helps make each day of the season one of joyful expectation and reflection.
What’s Inside: ✅ an introduction ✅ a Scripture note ✅ a reflection which can be the foundation for a homily ✅ prayer of the faithful ✅ a brief concluding prayer / reflection ✅ reflections on the lives of those saints whose feasts occur in Advent
Deeply rooted in Scripture and tradition, this accessible volume supports meaningful weekday celebrations throughout the Advent season.
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.
