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An Uncommon Mission: Father Jerome Tupa Paints the California Missions
Jerome Tupa OSB and Holly Rarick Witchey
California's 21 missions have long fascinated scholars and tourists alike. Their role in California history and their striking similarities and colorful contrasts have inspired artists and historians throughout the ages. Father Jerome Tupa is not the first to paint these missions, and he won't be the last. But his vision is unique. Through his eyes - those of both an artist and a Benedictine monk - we can see the missions as spiritual icons left standing from the 18th- and 19th-century efforts of Franciscan missionaries to spread Catholicism to the New World. An Uncommon Mission presents for the first time the results of Father Tupa's physical and spiritual pilgrimage these historic and religious sites. In the 61 vibrant works from this stunningly talented priest, in Ruscin's 21 beautiful black-and-white photographs, and in Holly Witchey's considered text, California's past is brought back to life.
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The Life of High Countess Gritta von Ratsinourhouse
Bettine von Arnim, Gisela von Arnim Grimm, and Anna Lisa Ohm
By Bettine von Arnim and Gisela von Arnim Grimm. Translated and with an introduction by Lisa Ohm.
Appearing for the first time in English, this delightful story of the adventures of twelve young girls will appeal to readers of all ages. Gritta, neglected by her father, is uprooted when her new stepmother insists she enter a convent school. Strictly supervised by the nun Sequestra, Gritta slips into melancholy. A mishandled bird, however, awakens Gritta to the realization that she and her friends must flee their walled-in life. Following her heart and employing her wits, Gritta leads the escape. The runaway girls are eventually shipwrecked near the principality of Sumbona. They establish a Robinson Crusoe–like existence and later found their own cloister. Their community is sustained by the industry and talents of each of the girls. Mayeli paints, Harmony composes, and Wildberry, an herbalist, learns nature’s secrets and gains access to supernatural powers that will guarantee the future of the community. Gritta chooses to marry Prince Bonus of Sumbona, but when she sees the twelve cells in the cloister, she realizes with a pang of longing that she will never occupy the one meant for her. This enchanting tale, coauthored in the early 1840s by Gisela von Arnim Grimm and her mother, Bettine von Arnim, lay undiscovered in an archive for nearly a century. Through humor and delicate satire, the authors criticize the place of women and children in nineteenth-century German society. (from the publisher's web site)
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Spherical Models
Magnus J. Wenninger OSB
Well-illustrated, practical approach to creating star-faced spherical forms that can serve as basic structures for geodesic domes. Complete instructions for making models from circular bands of paper with just a ruler and compass. Discusses tessellation, or tiling, and the relationship of polyhedra to geodesic domes and directions for building models of domes. Reprint of the 1979 edition.
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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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A History of St. Francis Xavier Parish, Sartell, Minnesota : 1948-1998
John J. Dominik, Willis Weinand, and Placid Stuckenschneider OSB
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Family Violence : Studies from the Social Sciences and Professions. Vol. 1, Child Maltreatment
James Michael Makepeace
A collection of readings from interdisciplinary materials. The material is geared toward advanced undergraduate courses as well as graduate courses in sociology, social work, or other courses where the study of family violence is a major component. Major scholars, both academic and practitioners, are included and interested instructors will recognize well known names and research. Now in a second edition, these readers contain recently published articles and selections concerned with family violence in other cultures.
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The Gospel and the Law in Galatia: Paul's Response to Jewish-Christian Separatism and the Threat of Galatian Apostasy
Vincent M. Smiles
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Among Paul's letters, Galatians is outstanding for the depths of its emotion, for its unrelenting attack on the law of Israel (while appealing to that law as the sacred witness of the Gospel's truth) and for the historical information it provides about Paul's conversion, his opponents and his relationship with the "pillar" apostles. It offers a penetrating view into some of early Christianity's important personalities and difficult controversies. In The Gospel and the Law in Galatia, Vincent Smiles delves into the Galatian situation to understand it from Paul's perspective. Why was he being attacked? Why were the Galatians being persuaded by his opponents? What part, if any, did the leading apostles have in the controversy? And, above all, how could Paul persuade the Galatians that they were not bound by the dictates of Jewish law? Smiles examines these questions by detailed analysis of the text of the letter. After an initial chapter introducing the method and debate with some modern scholarship, chapter two examines Paul's response to the attack on his apostolate. Chapter three tackles the issue of "the other gospel" which Paul combatted in Galatia and which had also made its presence felt in Jerusalem and Antioch. Chapter four is a detailed examination of Galatians 2:15-21 in light of recent scholarship. The final chapter summarizes the major insights of the study and applies them in a comparison of Galatians with Romans. The Gospel and the Law in Galatia is for a scholarly as well as a professional audience and for those with an interest in the earliest history of the Church. Most of the finer points of scholarly debate are confined to the footnotes; the major line of argument can be followed in the text without recourse to the notes. Chapters are "Introduction," "Paul's Defense of His Apostolate," "The Gospel Versus the Other Gospel in Galatia, Jerusalem and Antioch," "Paul's Response to Jewish Christian Separatism and the Threat of Galatian Apostasy," and "Summation and Further Issues." Students and scholars alike will find much to discover by revisiting the epistle under tutelage. Stephen Westerholm Chair Department of Religious Studies McMaster University" Dr. Smiles combines an expository style of unusual clarity and elegance with penetrating exegetical insight into the circumstance and argument of the Galatian letter. . . . His work will be a beacon for future Pauline and Galatians scholarship." Richard J. Dillon, S.S.D. Ordinary Professor of Theology Fordham University
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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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On the Social Origins of Medieval Institutions : Essays in Honor of Joseph F. O'Callaghan
Theresa Vann and Donald J. Kagay
A collection of essays celebrating the career of Joseph F. O'Callaghan, a noted historian of Spanish history. Written by his students and colleagues, they explore the relationship between human society and the institutions it produces.
The first part of the book, The Influence of Law on Society, contains essays exploring the laws and customs regarding such social institutions as marriage, the care of the sick, and Jews. The second part, The Relationship between Government and War, focuses on the institutional and technological innovations that the crown and parliament in Spain and England developed to wage war. -
The Lord's Song in a Foreign Land: The Psalms as Prayer
Thomas Peter Wahl OSB
How can contemporary Christians use poems written half a millennium before Christ as the basis of their prayer? Wahl offers Christians a method for applying the psalms to their lives in a way that recognizes the cultural, intellectual, and moral gap between Israel and the Western world. The result is a meaningful, personal, and prayerful connection to the Psalms.
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Monastics: Life and Law Reflections of Benedictine Canonist
Daniel J. Ward OSB, Renee Branigan OSB, and Mary Forman OSB
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Forever Your Sister: Reflections on Leaving Convent Life
Janice Wedl OSB and Eileen Maas Nalevanko
Following Vatican II, convents all over the country suffered loss in their sisterhood. Often secretive, neither those leaving nor those remaining had time to deal with the situation. In 1993, St. Benedict's Monastery, in St. Joseph, Minnesota, invited former sisters to visit. Out of this came these twenty-two stories.
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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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Born of Common Hungers: Benedictine Women in Search of Connections
Mara Faulkner OSB and Annette Brophy
Born of Common Hungers celebrates the simplicity and complexity of six communities of Benedictine women. From Germany to England, across America and Brazil, each woman and community profiled has adapted to political, social, and cultural changes both local and global in order to be of practical and spiritual use. This book reveals that sisters have as much in common with lay women everywhere as they do with each other. Anything but isolated or stagnated, they are as dynamic today as through their long history.
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Just Trading: On the Ethics and Economics of International Trade
Daniel K. Finn
Recent debates over an alphabet soup of trade agreements -- GATT, GUSFTA, WTO, NAFTA, and others -- are remarkably confusing to the ordinary citizen. They are also marked by strident disagreements, with experts on both sides marshaling economic data and moral arguments and charging that their opponents are driven predominantly by ideological conviction.
Daniel Finn, an economist and Christian ethicist, helpfully and clearly sorts through the conflicting claims about international trade and analyzes the three policy areas most controverted in debates about trade: agriculture, the environment, and employment. His straightforward explanations of complicated and controversial issues will be appreciated by readers at many levels of familiarity with the topic.
304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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The Loaf That Became a Legend: A History of Saint John's Bread
Kenneth M. Jones and Diane Veale Jones
The aroma, the flavor, the memories -- Saint John's Bread has delighted students, alumni and visitors of the Saint John's community for generations. Based on a robust Old World recipe, the bread has been a staple in the diets of the Benedictine monks since they established their community in Collegeville. This is a history of how that crusty loaf became a favorite of a much larger community.
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The Strange Sad War Revolving: Walt Whitman, Reconstruction, and the Emergence of Black Citizenship, 1865-1876
Luke Mancuso OSB
Walt Whitman's prolific Reconstruction project has remained the most uncultivated decade in Whitman studies for over a century. This first book-length analysis seeks to point the way for a needed recovery of Whitman's 1865-1876 publications by embedding them in the legislative discourse of black emancipation and its stormy aftermath. The supposed absence of race relations in Whitman's post-war texts has recently become a source of curiosity and denunciation. However, from 1865 to 1876, the Congressional 'workshop' was seeking to forge interracial civil rights legislation through surveillance of the implementation of such egalitarianism, as manifested in the Civil War Amendments, the Enforcement Acts of 1870-71, and the Civil Rights Act of 1875. The analysis of the hegemonic shift in Whitman's implementation of his democratic poetics constitutes the innovative contribution in these pages. By welcoming ex-slaves into the Union, as well as ex-Rebel states, Whitman's Reconstruction texts enlisted his representations in the federalizing rhetoric of civil rights protection that would lapse for almost a century, before recovery in the Second Reconstruction of the 1950s and 1960s.
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