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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $16.41
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Manufacturer: ACTA Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John P. Kretzmann::John L. McKnight
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Publisher: ACTA Publications
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 200
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Publication Date: 1997-03
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Reading Level: 376
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Description: This guide summarizes lessons learned by studying successful community-building initiatives in hundreds of neighborhoods across the U.S. It outlines what local communities can do to start their own journies down the path of asset-based development.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $8.95
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Manufacturer: The Crossroad Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Sister Joan Chittister OSB
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Publisher: The Crossroad Publishing Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 255.106
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Publication Date: 1992-12-01
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Reading Level: 184
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Description: Benedict of Nursia and his famous "Rule" remain the guiding principles for many religious communities today.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.64
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Manufacturer: Continuum
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mary Margaret Funk
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Publisher: Continuum
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Dewey Decimal Number: 248.482
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Publication Date: 1999-01
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: Sister Mary Margaret Funk explains the theory and practice of dealing with mindless thoughts developed by the great fourth-century monk John Cassian. She interprets the techniques in a contemporary way suitable for lay persons who are serious about the spiritual life.
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Price: $17.00
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Sale: $7.73
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Manufacturer: Morehouse Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jane Tomaine
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Publisher: Morehouse Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 255.106
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Publication Date: 2005-05-30
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Reading Level: 206
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Description: When St. Benedict formed his first small community of monks at Monte Cassino on the hilltop, Italy--and much of Europe--was ravaged by war. The Roman Empire was breaking apart, and politics, cultural life, and even the Church, were all in disarray. In the midst of these tumultuous times, Benedict offered his followers a "little rule," a guide about the size of a checkbook, that showed his monks the way to peace as they learned to prefer Christ above all things. Though it was written nearly 1500 years ago, the Rule of Benedict still offers the practical tools for living a Christ-centered today. Here in St. Benedict’s Toolbox, readers will find a primer on how to use these tools in their own tumultuous lives. Each chapter examines one aspect of the Rule, from ways of praying to ways of embracing humility, and offers suggestions for prayer, reflection, journaling, and action. As they learn to use Benedict’s tools, readers will discover the power--and the timeliness--of this ancient way of life.
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $6.95
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Manufacturer: Image
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Henri Nouwen
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Publisher: Image
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Dewey Decimal Number: 248.4
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Publication Date: 1981-03-20
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery is Henri Nouwen's journal of his seven-month stay in the Abbey of the Genesee in upstate New York. His reflections on daily life with the Trappists are funny, wise, and often profound--resembling Kathleen Norris's The Cloister Walk, but a bit less thematically structured and more down to earth. Nouwen's goal is simply to record what it's like to pass the time in a cloistered community. He spends part of his stay there reading Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which helps awaken a hunger for a richer experience of life that he subsequently satisfies by learning to slow down. In his first week at the monastery, Nouwen writes, "I have so many ideas I want to write about, so many books I want to read, so many skills I want to learn--motorcycle maintenance is now one of them--and so many things I want to say to others now or later, that I do not SEE that God is all around me and that I am always trying to see what is ahead, overlooking him who is so close." Then, looking forward to being planted in one place among the Trappists, he writes, "Maybe I need to get stuck," to learn to see God. He does, and he does. --Michael Joseph Gross
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $15.00
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Manufacturer: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Saint, Bishop of Lyon Irenaeus
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Publisher: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 238.1
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Publication Date: 1997-11
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Reading Level: 121
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Price: $17.00
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Sale: $6.40
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Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Desmond Seward
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 271.791
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Publication Date: 1996-03-01
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Reading Level: 416
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Description: The Templars, the Hospitallers, the Tuetonic Knights and the Knights of the Spanish and Portuguese orders were 'noblemen vowed to poverty, chastity and obedience, living a monastic life in convents which were at the same time barracks, waging war on the enemies of the Cross'. These military religious orders emerged during the Crusades as Christendom's storm troopers in the savage conflict with Islam. Some of them still exist today, now devoted to charitable works. "The Monks of War" is the first general history of these orders to have appeared since the eighteenth century. Writing in "The Times Literary Supplement", Professor David Knowles described it as, 'Undeniably the work of someone who knows and accepts the standards of critical history, but ...who sees the past also as an epic or a colourful spectacle'.
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $7.91
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Manufacturer: Orbis Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Marie Dennis::Cynthia Moe-Lobeda::Joseph Nangle::Stuart Taylor
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Publisher: Orbis Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 271.302
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Publication Date: 1993-09
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Reading Level: 184
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Description: To those who long to do something about inequity and poverty, about consuming consumerism and spiritual emptiness. The mystical and the earthly, liberations and faithfulness, literal poverty as well as the blessed poverty of the spirit.
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Price: $42.67
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Sale: $30.40
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Manufacturer: Longman
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: C.H. Lawrence
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Publisher: Longman
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Edition: 3
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Dewey Decimal Number: 271.00940902
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Publication Date: 2000-11-02
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: For a thousand years the monasteries and religious orders played a major role in the society, economy and culture of the west and this book traces the Western monastic tradition in its social context, from its fourth-century origins in the deserts of Egypt and Syria through to the many and various forms of religious life it assumed during the Middle Ages. Among many topics, the author examines monastic studies and the relationship between the cloister and the schools, the controversy between the Benedictines and the spokesmen of the reformed monasticism of the twelfth century and the social composition of the nunneries and the particular problems that confronted women in the religious life. For readers interested in medieval or religious history.
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $8.95
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Manufacturer: Benbella Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Danielle Schaaf::Michael Prendergast
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Publisher: Benbella Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 271.903073
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Publication Date: 2006-11-01
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: Filled with fond recollections and touching stories, these tales from hundreds of contributors pay tribute to nuns—those monochromatically clad monitors of the right, the wrong, and the holy. Catholic nuns are portrayed as devoted and passionate women who, armed with an arsenal of educational weaponry ranging from creative storytelling to psychological terrorism, had the massive responsibility of molding children into model citizens of God. The brief, descriptive anecdotes cover subjects ranging from religious training, habits, and devotion to discipline, pranks, and the always-dicey sex education. Readers are introduced to such legends-in-the-making as baseball-playing nuns, telepathic nuns, gun-toting nuns, and even skinny-dipping nuns. These nuns have seen it all—the silly or the sad, the frightening or sublime—and always keep their gazes directed upward.
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