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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
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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The Encyclopedia of American Catholic History
Aaron Raverty OSB, Michael Glazier, and Thomas J. Shelley
The Encyclopedia covers every facet of American Catholic history: the explorers; the pioneering Spanish, French, and English missionaries; the struggles of the colonial and revolutionary eras; the turbulent and transforming nineteenth century with its waves of immigrants; the industrial revolution; and the challenges and crises of this century, down to our day. Moreover, it traces the roots and charts the growth of Catholicism in each of the fifty states. Above all, it brings us, in hundreds of memorable features, the men and women who gave much and did much to build the Church in America. The great personalities - men and women from each decade and era - are perceptively portrayed. All the major events and movements which united or divided Catholics are cogently covered: the revolution, lay trusteeism, slavery and the Civil War, the waves of immigrants, nativism and bigotry, Americanism, Modernism, the labor movement, the Knights of Columbus, wars, anti-Semitism, the New Deal and Prohibition, anti-Communism, McCarthyism, the women's revolution, civil rights, Vietnam, Humanae vitae, liturgy, capital punishment, and a myriad of other topics.
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Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State
Jackie Smith, Charles Chatfield, and Ron Pagnucco
Transnational Social Movements and Global Social Politics examines a cast of global actors left out of the traditional studies of international politics. It generates a theoretically informed view of the relationships between an emerging global civil society - partly manifested in transnational social movements - and international political institutions. This book consists of fifteen essays, all written by experts in the field. The first three parts analyze the rise of transnational social movements in the context of broad twentieth-century trends. A fourth part builds a theoretical framework from which organizations influencing global governance can be viewed.
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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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Gifts of the Spirit & Whispers of God
Thomas Fletcher-Michaels and Placid Stuckenschneider OSB
This collection of thoughtful, frequently prayerful, and always poetic statements by Thomas Fletcher-Michaels[...]distill a wisdom that is at once philosophical and practical. They are accompanied by the woodcuts of Brother Placid Stuckenschneider, O.S.B., which originally appeared on the covers of Celebrating the Eucharist, the Sunday and weekly missalettes. [from the Foreward]
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Ethnic Foodways in Minnesota: Handbook of Food and Wellness Across Cultures
Diane Veale Jones and Mary E. Darling
Short essays discussing food habits and health beliefs of major Minnesota ethnic groups, including African-Americans, Hmong-Americans, Mexican-Americans, and Native Americans, as well as such religious groups as Jewish, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Seventh-day Adventist, and Church of Latter-Day Saints.
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Der Wanderer of St. Paul: The First Decade, 1867-1877: A Mirror of the German-Catholic Immigrant Experience in Minnesota
John S. Kulas OSB
Examines the role, influence, and effectiveness of the German- language newspaper in its goal of preserving among immigrants in frontier Minnesota both a functioning German society and a faithful Catholic Church. Considers the relationship between the newspaper and the community, the experience of immigration, preserving ethnic heritage, literature, music, illustrations, and other aspects of life. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Sunday Mealtime Prayers
Michael Kwatera OSB
Sunday Mealtime Prayers provides families a convenient blend of mealtime prayers (at midday or in the evening) and the Liturgy of the Hours on Sunday. It arranges the traditional elements of the Church's daily prayer (psalms, Scripture readings, and intercessions) around the Sunday brunch or supper and includes selections of these elements within a simple, unchanging format. The eighteen sets of prayers are arranged according to the seasons of the liturgical year.
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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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Monastic Interreligious Dialogue: Notes on Phase VII, 15 June-27 June 1995
Aaron Raverty OSB and Monastic Interreligious Dialogue
Report of Phase VII of the Buddhist/Christian Spiritual Exchange sponsored by the Board of Monastic Interreligious Dialogue.
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The Critical Poem : Borges, Paz, and Other Language-Centered Poets in Latin America
Thorpe Running
In this book, scholar Thorpe Running shows that a skeptical approach to both language and poetry places eight poets from three countries in Latin America within a strain of poetry prefigured by Stephane Mallarme. Octavio Paz, Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Juarroz, Alejandra Pizarnik, Alberto Girri, Juan Luis Martinez, Gonzalo Millan, and David Huerta span three different generations. In addition to their age and geographical differences, their poetry bears no obvious similarities. All eight, however, are poetas pensantes, or thinking poets, and underlying the work of these probing writers is the disturbing question: Does language do what it is supposed to do? The answer is negative for all these poets who see their poems as being made up of words that don't work.
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The Life of the Holy Hildegard
Godefridus 12th cent. monk, Theodoricus 12th cent., Adelgundis Führkkötter OSB, Mary Palmquist, John S. Kulas OSB, and James McGrath
The life of Hildegard of Bingen by two of her contemporaries brings this German mystic to life in excerpts from her own writings. This twelfth-century Benedictine abbess exorcized demons; healed the sick; warned sister convents and monasteries against the dangers of a "soft" life; preached to the laity on her journeys; incurred an interdict against her convent rather than obey an order she knew was wrong; founded a new convent, separated from her original monastery, and then successfully negotiated the transfer of her nuns' dowries from reluctant monks. When Hildegard needed answers or protection, she went to the top - to her archbishop, to Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, to Pope Eugene III, or to St. Bernard of Clairvaux. And then she dared to revile Barbarossa when he continued to back the antipopes, even though he was the protector of her convent. Led to act by her visions, she tried, like Jonah, to ignore God's promptings. She stalled, resisted, and became deathly ill. Each time Hildegard recovered as soon as she obeyed God's hard orders. An authority on medicine, herbal remedies, natural science, music, and theology, Hildegard scolded, instructed, refused, and loved. She was a liberated woman.
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Aristotle in Outline
Timothy A. Robinson
Contents:
Introduction.
I. Wisdom and Science. The Four Causes. The Vocabulary of Science. The Form of Scientific Explanation. What Wisdom Knows: The Soul; The Gods.
II. Aristotle’s Ethics. Appendix: The Virtues and Vices. Narrative Descriptions. Schematic Summary.
III. Politics. The State and the Polis. What the State Is For. The Forms of Government. The Best Form of Government.
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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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