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Guide to the Revised Lectionary
Martin Connell
Description of series: The Basics of Ministry series explores parish ministries that are vital to an active and meaningful eucharistic celebration. Each book provides useful material for the recruitment and training of new ministers, as well as insights to revitalize those who have been involved in ministry for years. The series includes introductions to specific ministries, brief histories, spirituality and instructions. You also will find a list of other resources, along with prayers and questions for discussion and reflection.
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Traditions and Transitions
Martin Connell and Eleanor Bernstein
A collection of presentations from the 1996 annual conference of the Notre Dame Center for Pastoral Liturgy. This conference considered our liturgical heritage in terms of what has changed over time and what has remained constant. The progress of reform during the three decades from the end of the Second Vatican Council until today was measured by the major scholars and speakers on liturgy that gathered to share insights, perspectives and experiences of the past, present and future of liturgy.
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The Changing Face of the Church
Martin Connell and Timothy Fitzgerald
For a generation since Vatican II we have been engaged in the diverse challenges of renewal. This collection of papers seeks to understand how the changing face of the church influences the liturgies we celebrate. Its contributors envision how the church of the future will embrace the church of the past. The authors deal with topics like initiation, eucharist, preaching, inculturation, music, liturgical space and design, conversion and the formation of the assembly and its ministers.
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Cassian the Monk
Columba Stewart OSB
This book is a study of the life, monastic writings, and spiritual theology of John Cassian (c., 360-435). His Institutes and Conferences are a remarkable synthesis of earlier monastic traditions, especially those of fourth-century Egypt, informed throughout by Cassian's awareness of the particular needs of the Latin monastic movement he was helping to shape. Sometimes portrayed as simply an advocate of the sophisticated spiritual theology of Evagrius of Ponticus (360-435), Cassian was actually a theologian of keen insight, realism, and creativity. His teaching on sexuality is unique in early monastic literature in both its breadth and its depth, and his integration of biblical interpretation with the ways of prayer and teaching on ecstatic prayer are of fundamental importance for the western monastic tradition. The only Latin writer included in the classic Greek collections of monastic sayings, Cassian was the major spiritual influence on both the Rule of the Master and the Rule of Benedict, as well as the source for Gregory the Great's teaching on capital sins and compunction. Columba Stewart's book is the first major study of Cassian to be published in twenty years. It begins by establishing Cassian's credibility as a teacher on the basis of his own experience as a monk and his familiarity with the fundamental literary sources. Stewart then turns to Cassian's spiritual theology, paying particular attention to Cassian's view of the monastic journey in eschatological perspective, his teaching on continence and chastity, the Christological basis of biblical interpretation and prayer, his method of unceasing prayer, and his integration of ecstatic experience with an Evagrian theology of prayer.
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Prayer and Community : the Benedictine Tradition
Columba Stewart OSB
This exploration of Benedictine spirituality provides the perfect introduction to St. Benedict and his Rule. The book places Benedict and his Rule within the extraordinary world of early Christian monasticism and explores his key insights about awareness of the presence of God and meeting Christ in other people.
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An Introduction to the Church's Liturgical Year
Martin Connell
Why is Christmas always on December 25, but Easter is on different Sundays? What are the origins of Advent? The Church keeps time based on the life of Christ, with its most important seasons corresponding to the major events in the life of Jesus. The liturgical year is also strongly linked to the Church's early rites of initiation. This handbook guides you through the history and nuances of the Church year. Especially helpful in planning school liturgies and prayer services.
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The Renewal That Awaits Us
Martin Connell and Eleanor Bernstein
Presentations from the 1995 Notre Dame Center for Pastoral Liturgy conference.
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The Rule of St. Benedict: Latin & English
Luke Dysinger OSB
The Rule of Saint Benedict is a book of precepts written by 6th-century Saint Benedict of Nursia for monks living communally under the authority of an abbot.
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The Catechetical Documents: A Parish Resource
Martin Connell
Gathered in this one book, you'll find the major teachings about catechesis from the Second Vatican Council until the present. This is an essential reference tool for teachers, catechists, clergy, pastoral leaders and students of catechesis. Includes General Catechetical Directory (1971), Basic Teachings for Catholic Religious Education, Sharing the Light of Faith, Guidelines for Doctrinally Sound Catechetical Materials and many others. Each document is preceded by a general overview that describes the origin, context and contribution of the document.
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The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan : The Trinitarian and Cosmic Order of Salvation
Kilian McDonnell OSB
The feast of the baptism of Jesus is the second most ancient liturgical celebration and is among the major mysteries of Christ. The synoptics mention Jesus' baptism in the Jordan, and John's Gospel gives a report of it, indicating its importance.
The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan, a systematic study, isolates those themes (Trinitarian, cosmic, sinlessness, liturgical, messianic, divinization, orientation to a future paradise, descent into Sheol/hell, institution of the sacrament of baptism) with which the early Church proclaimed and celebrated the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan. Drawing on Latin, Greek, and Syrian sources, Father McDonnell shows the Jordan event as the dominant paradigm of Christian baptism in the earliest centuries, and also presents its relation to growing interest in the Pauline death and resurrection themes in the fourth century.
Because it was widely looked upon as the institution of Christian baptism, this history is relevant to contemporary theology and to the liturgical celebration of Christian baptism. The way the early Church used the baptism of Jesus to communicate the central truths of the faith, especially proclaiming the call to holiness the vocation to participate in the divine life is still valuable today.
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The Little Notebook : The Journal of a Contemporary Woman's Encounters with Jesus
William Skudlarek OSB, Hilary Thimmesh OSB, and Nicole Gausseron
The notebook of a woman living in Chartres, France who had visitations from Jesus during the years 1984-1991. Nicole Gausseron experienced Jesus' presence both in church and the outside world, even entering dialogues with her. These dialogues form the basis of this notebook.
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The World of the Desert Fathers : Stories and Sayings from the Anonymous Series of the Apophthegmata Patrum
Columba Stewart OSB
These stories and sayings of the Desert Fathers, in a translation by Columba Stewart, give insights into a tradition where words have a resonance beyond their surface meaning. They are intended to lead the reader further along the way of Christ. Columba Stewart provides an introduction to each section to help us understand the world of the early monks.
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Worship and Work : Saint John's Abbey and University 1856-1992
Colman J. Barry OSB and David J. Klingeman OSB
A history of Saint John's Abbey and Saint John's University in Collegeville, MN.
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Toward a New Pentecost, for a New Evangelization
Kilian McDonnell OSB
A presentation of the theological basis of the charismatic renewal rooted in the rites of initiation and therefore at the heart of the church's life. The text came out of an international consultation of leaders in the charismatic renewal held in Malines, Belgium, in 1974 under the sponsorship of Cardinal Suenens.
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Catholic Rites Today: Abridged Texts for Students
Allan Bouley OSB
Just as there can be no thorough study of a literary work without first a careful reading of it, so there cannot be an adequate study of the major liturgical rites of the Catholic Church without a knowledge of the texts of the rites.
The purpose of this volume is to provide students with a one-volume abridged yet sufficiently comprehensive edition of the major contemporary rites of the Roman Catholic Church. It is not a commentary but rather a convenient source for the texts of these rites.
The volume includes large excerpts from the Roman Missal: The General Instruction, the complete Order of Mass, prayers from the Sacramentary, and other texts allowing for an adequate study of the Catholic Eucharist. For the other Catholic sacraments - Initiation (for adults and children, including Confirmation), Penance, Anointing of the Sick, Marriage, Orders - at least one complete version of each rite is presented along with its introduction or introductory sections. Texts from the Order of Christian Funerals are also included.
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Christian Initiation and Baptism in the Holy Spirit: Evidence from the First Eight Centuries
Kilian McDonnell OSB and George T. Montague
Up to now the teaching on baptism in the Holy Spirit has been based on a few scriptural texts, whose interpretation was disputed. This doubt cast its shadow on those who promote baptism in the Holy Spirit.
Now new evidence has been found in early post-biblical authors (Tertullian, Hilary of Poitiers, Cyril of Jerusalem, John Chrysostom, Philoxenus, and the Syrians) which demonstrates that what is called baptism in the Holy Spirit was integral to Christian initiation (baptism, confirmation, Eucharist). Because it was part of initiation into the Church, it was not a matter of private piety, but of public worship. Therefore it was and remains normative.
This is an intriguing ground-breaking study of value to RCIA teams, pastors, theology teachers and students, and Church offices.
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Fanning the Flame : What Does Baptism in the Holy Spirit Have to Do with Christian Initiation?
Kilian McDonnell OSB and George T. Montague
"The Heart of the Church Consultation of theologians and pastoral leaders met May 6-11, 1990 in Techny, Illinois, to examine the pastoral implications of the evidence from the early post-biblical authors that baptism in the the Holy Spirit is integral to Christian initiation and is normative."
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"Working the Earth of the Heart" : the Messalian Controversy in History, Texts, and Language to A.D. 431
Columba Stewart OSB
This study provides a complete reassessment of the Messalian controversy of the fourth and fifth centuries AD. The Messalians were an ascetic group, their name (of Syriac derivation) meaning `praying people'. Their extraordinary claims and graphic spiritual vocabulary were considered heretical by the early Christian Church and were condemned at the Council of Ephesus in 431. Dr. Stewart reconstructs the history of the controversy from its beginnings, carefully avoiding all previous suppositions and flawed methodologies. He considers in depth the spiritual vocabulary which lies at the root of the controversy and which can also be found in the Greek pseudo-Macarian writings. He proves that the pseudo-Macarian vocabulary can be traced to a Syriac milieu and demonstrates this by comparisons with such early Syriac texts as the writings of Ephrem, Aphrahat, and especially the anonymous Liber graduum. In this light, the claims of the Messalians are shown to result from the influence upon Greek Christian culture of an equally orthodox tradition, the Semitic Syriac culture of the Christian East. Christian writers of both cultures were determined to show others a way to 'work the earth of the heart', an image favoured by pseudo-Macarius for its evocation of the patient labour of asceticism. The controversy was thus not indeed a question of heresy, but of misperceived differences of culture and of spiritual idiom.
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A Sense of Place II: The Benedictines of Collegeville
Colman J. Barry OSB
A collection of 31 personal essays by alumni and friends of St. John's Abbey and University.
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Theology of Priesthood and Seminary Formation: Issues of Assembly II
Daniel K. Finn, Zeni Fox, John O'Malley, and Robert Schwartz
Contents:
Introduction, by Rev. Robert J. Wister; Ordained Ministry: Sign of Leadership and Unity in the Great Sacrament of the Church, by Rev. Robert Schwartz; A Response, by Rev. Robert Schreiter, CPPS; A Response, by Msgr. George H. Niederauer; Diocesan and Religious Models of Formation – Historical Perspectives, by Rev. John O’Malley, SJ; Preparing for Collaborative Ministry, by Dr. Zeni Fox; A Response, by Rev. John E. Linnan, CSV; Response, by Rev. Robert J. Cook; Theological Scholarship: Freedom and Responsibility in the Seminary Setting, by Dr. Daniel Finn; A Response, by Rev. Frederick M. Jelly, OP; A Response, by Rev. Thomas D. McGonigle, OP.
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Open the Windows : The Popes and Charismatic Renewal
Kilian McDonnell OSB
Open the Windows contains the popes' public statements of pastoral direction, counsel and encouragement to the charismatic renewal in the Catholic Church. The editor, Fr. Kilian McDonnell, osb, is a consultor to the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity and the founder of the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research. His introductory essay documents the presence of the charismatic gifts in the early church's rites of initiation.
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A Sense of Place: Saint John's of Collegeville
Colman J. Barry OSB and Robert L. Spaeth
A collection of personal essays by alumni and friends of St. John's Abbey and University.
Contributors: Robert M. Anderson, Andre Chaveton, Joan Chittister, William Cofell, Leon F. Cook, Esther de Waal, David Durenberger, C. Jack Eichorst, Albert A. Eisele, John Tracy Ellis, Carmela Virgillo Franklin, Robert M. Gavin, David Gibson, Penny Gill, Andrew Greeley, Benedict Haeg, Jon Hassler, A.A. Heckman, Robert W. Hovda, Fred Hughes, Bob Jensen, Eugene J.McCarthy, Roger J. Nierengarten, James O'Gara, Albert C. Outler, Jaroslav Pelikan, Betty Wahl Powers, john R. Roach, John E. Simonett, George A. Sinner, Anthony Ugolnik. -
Theology of the Land
Bernard F. Evans and Gregory D. Cusack
“Theology of the Land” is an ongoing study of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference and the Virgil Michel Ecumenical Chair in Rural Social Ministries (St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota). This volume contains the papers presented at a 1985 conference on this subject.
Authors and topics: Leonard Weber, “Land Use Ethics: The Social Responsibility of Ownership”; Walter Bruggemann, “Land: Fertility and Justice”; C. Dean Freudenberger, “Implications of a New Land Ethic”; John Hart, “Land, Theology, and the Future”; Richard Cartwright Austin, “Rights for Life: Rebuilding Human Relationships with Land.” -
Q: The Sayings of Jesus
Ivan Havener OSB and Polag Athanasius OSB
Includes selections from the Gospels in the Revised Standard version according to the arrangement in Polag, A. Fragmenta Q., 1982.
For over a century, biblical scholars have agreed that parts of the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) are picked up from a previous source—a lost gospel, which is popularly called Q (from the German word Quelle which means source).The Q-hypothesis rests on very solid grounds and most scholars accept it. This book tells us all about it. It also discusses some unresolved questions (such as: Was Q written in Aramaic or Greek?).
The reconstruction of Q, the lost gospel, is a challenging and formidable task. Using various critical literary methods, leading scholars have undertaken the work, and the reconstruction work of the German scholar Athanasius Polag is a major achievement. The author has enhanced and clarified his book by translating Polag’s reconstruction of Q.
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Living Bread, Saving Cup : Readings on the Eucharist
R. Kevin Seasoltz OSB
The articles on Eucharistic liturgy given here are reprinted from the pages of Worship magazine. This expanded edition of the 1982 printing includes three additional essays: Justice and the Eucharist" by R. Kevin Seasoltz, O.S.B.; "Stipends and Eucharistic Praxis" by M. Francis Mannion; and "Stipends in the New Code of Canon Law" by John M. Huels, O.S.M.
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