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Price: $19.00
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Sale: $3.95
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Manufacturer: Anchor
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: George Fowler
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Publisher: Anchor
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291.4092
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Publication Date: 1996-06-01
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Reading Level: 310
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Description: After almost twenty years of strict celibacy and silence as a Trappist monk and priest, George Fowler decided reluctantly to leave the Catholic Church at the age of forty in search of a more meaningful spiritual life. In rejecting the strictures of monastery life, and the constraints imposed on him by the Catholic Church, Fowler came to realize that the inner serenity and spiritual peace he spent his life searching for could only be found "while uproariously ignoring the greater part of what the churches thump their Book about." Now a nationally syndicated columnist on religious issues, George Fowler has written a penetrating and poignant account of how he learned to hear the music of life--and dance to its joyous beat.
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Price: $23.00
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Sale: $5.26
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Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Philip Freeman
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Dewey Decimal Number: 270.2092
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Publication Date: 2004-02-24
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Ireland's patron saint has long been shrouded in legend: he drove the snakes out of Ireland; he triumphed over Druids and their supernatural powers; he used a shamrock to explain the Christian mystery of the Trinity. But his true story is more fascinating than the myths. We have no surviving image of Patrick, but we do have two remarkable letters that he wrote about himself and his beliefs -- letters that tell us more about the heart and soul of this man than we know about almost any of his contemporaries. In St. Patrick of Ireland Philip Freeman brings the historic Patrick and his world vividly to life. Born in Britain late in the fourth century to an aristocratic family, Patrick was raised as a Roman citizen and a nominal Christian, destined for the privileged life of the nobility. But just before his sixteenth birthday, he was kidnapped by Irish pirates and abducted to Ireland, where he spent six lonely years as a slave, tending sheep. Trapped in a foreign land, despondent, and at the mercy of his master, Patrick's ordeal turned him from an atheist to a true believer. After a vision in which God told him he would go home, Patrick escaped captivity and, following a perilous journey, returned to his astonished parents. Even more astonishing was his announcement that he intended to go back to Ireland and devote the rest of his life to ministering to the people who had once enslaved him. One of Patrick's two surviving letters is a declaration written to jealous British bishops in defense of his activities in Ireland; the other is a stinging condemnation of a ruthless warlord who attacked and killed some of Patrick's Irish followers. Both are powerful statements remarkable for their passion and candor. Freeman includes them in full in new translations of his own. Combining Patrick's own heartfelt account of his life as he revealed it himself with the turbulent history of the British Isles in the last years of the Roman Empire, St. Patrick of Ireland brilliantly brings to life the real Patrick, shorn of legend, and shows how he helped to change Irish history and culture.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $37.50
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Manufacturer: Harvest Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael Mott
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Publisher: Harvest Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 271.12502
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Publication Date: 1993-11-18
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Reading Level: 720
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Description: While many biographies and studies of the writer and monk Thomas Merton have been published over the years, The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton remains the official biography sanctioned by the Thomas Merton Legacy Trust. Mott was given access to all of the private journals that, according to Merton's legacy, were not to be made public for 25 years after his death. (These have now been released; see for example The Intimate Merton, which contains a selection of these journal entries.) Mott's goal in this work was to approach the writer in a balanced manner--to correct the record where Merton himself may have had the facts wrong (early childhood material, for example), and to offer a different interpretation at times from the one Merton himself comes to in his own autobiographical writings. Above all Mott is not writing hagiography: this is no life of a saint, at least not in the stereotyped sense. But it is clearly the life of a real 20th-century man who, along with the expected dead ends and blind alleys, did find himself listening to a real call and following it as deeply and as passionately as his life would allow. And who knows? Perhaps that's a good definition of saint. --Doug Thorpe
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $5.49
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Manufacturer: Shambhala
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tessa Bielecki
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Publisher: Shambhala
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 248.22
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Publication Date: 1996-10-01
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Reading Level: 117
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Description: The words of Saint Teresa of Ávila speak to the heart so directly that even four hundred years after her death she seems like our contemporary. Few people have ever written of the spiritual path with such immediacy, down-to-earth wisdom, and humor. Mother Tessa Bielecki has brought together here short selections from Teresa's collected works—including The Way of Perfection, The Interior Castle, her autobiography, poetry, meditations, and letters—to create a living portrait of Teresa and her exuberant spirituality. Teresa's striving for divine union was inseparable from her passionate involvement in the hardships and joys of the everyday—which makes her an eminently worthy model for modern people who seek to integrate spirituality and the rest of life.
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Price: $6.95
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Sale: $3.58
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Manufacturer: Loyola Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: William J. O'Malley::James Martin
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Publisher: Loyola Press
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 271.53022
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Publication Date: 1996-11
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Reading Level: 218
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Description: This second edition of Father Bill O'Malley's minor classic in Jesuit vocation, The Fifth Week, contains a new chapter by Jim Martin, S.J.. In the last twenty years, the Society of Jesus has seen enough experiment and adaptation to warrant an update. At the same time, Father O'Malley's original text has held up remarkably well as an account of the Jesuit calling today.
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Price: $33.95
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Sale: $15.76
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Sabina Flanagan
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 282.092
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Publication Date: 1998-06
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: Until recently, Hildegard of Bingen has been known only to a handful of scholars. Now available in a paperback edition, Sabina Flanagan's book makes her remarkable life accessible to the general reader. Drawing on contemporary sources, the text unfolds Hildegard's life from the time of her entrance into an anchoress's cell--where a woman would remain in pious isolation--to her death as a famed visionary and writer, abbess and confidante of popes and kings, more than seventy years later. Against this background the author explores Hildegard's vast creative work, encompassing theology, medicine, natural history, poetry, and music.
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Price: $19.00
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Sale: $9.95
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Manufacturer: HarperOne
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: John Matthews
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Publisher: HarperOne
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 270.0923916
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Publication Date: 1998-12-01
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: The Celtic saints offered a crucial model for spiritual awareness, according to renowned Celtic scholar John Matthews. They held a profoundly intimate relationship with the natural and ethereal worlds, always recognizing their purpose within the context of creation. "By cutting ourselves off from nature, by telling ourselves we are separate, unique, powerful in our own right, we are doing the equivalent of cutting off our limbs," he explains. In his profiles of famous Celtic saints, Matthews illustrates how the mystical pagan worship of nature overlaps with Christian faith to create fantastic stories of animal guides, princes, chieftains, angels, and druidic fire--always heightened by the rich and poetic imagery of Ireland's landscape. After each story, Matthews offers a list of "Meditation Points." For example, after the story of Senan of Scattery, Matthews asks, "Do you offer hospitality of the spirit to those around you? If not, consider how you might do so." --Gail Hudson
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Manufacturer: Saint Anthony Messenger Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Arthur R. Baranowski::Kathleen M. O'Reilly::Carrie M. Piro
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Publisher: Saint Anthony Messenger Press
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Edition: 3
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Dewey Decimal Number: 250
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Publication Date: 1996-10
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Reading Level: 109
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $2.12
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Manufacturer: Element Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Navin Chawla
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Publisher: Element Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 271.97
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Publication Date: 1996-10
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Reading Level: 231
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Description: First published in Great Britain in 1992, this biography--"hagiography" is a more appropriate term--includes many letters and rare photographs which provide a graphic and moving portrait of the Albanian nun whose work among the poorest of the poor in Calcutta has earned her worldwide acclaim, along with the Nobel Peace Prize. The order founded by Mother Teresa, the Missionaries of Charity, now operates 456 centers in more than 100 countries, feeding half a million families each year. The book does not probe Mother Teresa's theology or question the order's priorities, but it does provide a full account of this remarkable woman's devotion.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $19.94
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Manufacturer: Paulist Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Marie Brinkman::SCL
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Publisher: Paulist Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 271.91073
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Publication Date: 2008-09-02
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Reading Level: 624
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