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The Ministry of Communion
Michael Kwatera OSB
The Ministry of Communion offers practical advice and vital theology for Eucharistic ministers. Updated with the latest liturgical laws and norms, and with an expanded section on leading Communion services, this book is an excellent guide for both those who serve God's people and those who help them prepare for the ministry.
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The Ministry of Servers
Michael Kwatera OSB
The Ministry of Servers gives detailed instructions for altar servers, who perform an essential ministry to God and God's people during liturgical celebrations. Pastors, parochial vicars, liturgy directors, and anyone entrusted with the training of servers will welcome these clear, concise, simple, and well-organized directions that are presented in language that children can understand.
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Prayer in All Things : A Saint Benedict's, Saint John's Prayer Book
Kate E. Ritger and Michael Kwatera OSB
Witness and participate in the Benedictine tradition of central Minnesota through prayers by those who share the land of Saint Benedict's (Monastery and College) in Saint Joseph and Saint John's (Abbey, University, Preparatory School, and the Liturgical Press) in Collegeville -- from monastics, students, and professors to oblates and Benedictine friends.
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Piety and Politics: The Dynamics of Royal Authority in Homeric Greece, Biblical Israel, and Old Babylonian Mesopotamia
Dale Launderville OSB
In Homeric Greece, Biblical Israel, and Old Mesopotamia, the king was said to be installed by divine appointment and was regarded as having a special and privileged relationship with God or the gods. This comparative and thematic study assesses the role of the king as a divine messenger and his use of, and reliance on, piety to legitimate his position and ensure the compliance of his subjects. Based on a variety of texts from each of the three regions, including poetry, philosophy, history and theological works, Launderville examines the rhetoric of royal legitimation. He also looks at what the community expected from the king as the centralising symbol of the community, the chief messenger from the divine world and the dispenser of justice, and he explores the means by which the king's power and privileged position could be kept in check.
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Swift, Lord, You Are Not
Kilian McDonnell OSB
Some poets begin very early to write great poetry. Arthur Rimbaud wrote one of his best poems at 15, Percy Shelley published his first book of poetry at 18. But Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B., did not start until he was 75, after decades of writing as a professional theologian. Now 82 he gives us Swift, Lord, You Are Not, poems of the struggle to find God—waiting for the silence of God to break. He does not write pious verse, or inspirational poetry, but of wrestling with the illusive God. His themes are mostly biblical and monastic. He closes with an essay Poet: Can You Start at Seventy-Five? in which he describes the literary decisions he makes within the monastic context—decisions he needs to make with some dispatch. At 75 he does not have decades to mature. He writes with a new language.
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The Other Hand of God : The Holy Spirit as the Universal Touch and Goal
Kilian McDonnell OSB
If the Spirit is not equal to the Father and the Son, can the Trinity survive? Is the role of the Spirit in salvation as important as that of the Son? Why was the divinity of the Spirit problematic in the early Church? If the Son, Jesus Christ, is "the way the truth and the life," what role does the Spirit have in God’s reaching out to touch the Church and the world? Is there any contact with, any experience of God, apart from the Spirit? In what sense is the Spirit the goal of the Christian life? The Other Hand of God addresses these theological queries.
Chapters are "To Do Pneumatology is to Do Trinity," "Struggling with Ambiguity," "The Way of Doxology," "To Do Pneumatology is to Do Eschatology," "Movement Toward Fixity: Holy Spirit in Patristic Eschatology," "To Do Pneumatology Is to Start at the Beginning," "No Unified Vision in the New Testament," "Losing the Battle to Stay with the Imprecision of the Scriptures," "The Mission of the Spirit: Junior Grade?" "God Beyond the Self of God," "The Return: The Highway Back to the Father," "The Spirit Is the Touch of God," "The Tradition of Subordinationism," "Basil: Not Subordination but Communion of Life with the Father and the Son," "Gregory Nazianzus: The Divine Pedagogy in Steps," "The Council of Constantinople: The Triumph of Discretion," "To Do Pneumatology is to Start with Experience," "Experience of the Spirit in the Early Church," "William of St. Thierry: ‘So I May Know by Experience,’" "Bernard of Clairvaux: ‘Today We Read in the Book of Experience,’" "The Role of Pneumatology in an Integral Theology," "The Continuing Quest for a Theology of the Holy Spirit," and "Toward a Theology in the Holy Spirit.
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The Church Year and the Art of Clemens Schmidt
Clemens Schmidt and Placid Stuckenschneider OSB
The Church Year and the Art of Clemens Schmidt provides selections from the work of Clemens Schmidt in a convenient book/CD-ROM format that illustrate themes organized according to the liturgical year. The variety of line drawings and calligraphy offers a wealth of opportunities for illustrating bulletins, programs, church, school, or personal documents with clip art. The Church Year and the Art of Clemens Schmidt CD-ROM lists over 105 clip art images, each saved in three formats: TIFF, BMP, and JPEG. Average image size is 2 x 2 inches at 100%. A set of contact sheets on the CD displays thumbnail black-and-white images. The indexed, searchable contact sheets can be viewed in Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is included on this CD. The clip art images are stored in folders labeled according to the image format (TIFF, BMP, or JPG). They can be inserted into a document using the normal graphic import functions of the word processing or page layout program. This application is designed to be completely self-contained. Nothing will be loaded onto your computer system; everything needed to run the application software is on the CD-ROM. The CD is an "autoload" CD. Insert the CD into your CD reader and Adobe Acrobat Reader will start and display a catalog of images.
The 105 clip art images in the book are recorded on the CD in four formats, TIFF, BMP, JPEG, and PDF, and stored in folders by format. Image size is 2 x 2 inches at 100%.
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Procedures and Documents for Canonical Separations and Other Canonical Processes: Religious Institutes ; Societies of Apostolic Life
Jane Mitchell and Daniel J. Ward OSB
Each article in the manual consists of a brief explanation (e.g. Grounds, Procedures, Note) followed by blank forms and documents
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Adam on the Lam : The Uses of Impertinence
Kilian McDonnell OSB
Poetry collection; the Park Press' fifth Christmas book.
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The Art of Biblical Texts and Images : Selections from the Arca Artium Collections
Columba Stewart OSB and Mary F. Schaffer
Exhibition catalogue booklet for the exhibit "What we have heard, what we have seen": The Art of Biblical Texts and Images, January 9-March 2, 2000, in the Alice R. Rogers and Dayton Hudson Galleries, Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota.
About the exhibit: This second major exhibit of holdings from the Arca Artium collections focuses on the Bible as book and as inspiration for artistic creativity. During the years that donor Frank Kacmarcik has formed the collections of Arca Artium, he has shown a particular interest in materials related to the Bible. Central both to Christian experience and to Benedictine monasticism, the Bible has also been the most important focus of artistic meditation in the western world. This exhibit follows its twin themes from the medieval period to the present day, featuring the work of both Christian and Jewish artists inspired by their meditation on the Word of God. The exhibit is designed to highlight the interplay between books and images, word and visual meditation. Many of the finest items in Arca Artium have been chosen, though by no means all of them: limitations of gallery space have compelled the curators to practice the asceticism of selection. -
The Death of Jesus: The Diabolical Force and the Ministering Angel: Luke 23, 44-49
Michael Patella OSB
Beginning with Peter's Pentecost oration, the passion, death, and resurrection of Christ become the object of preaching throughout the remainder of Acts. The Lucan corpus has two volumes, the Gospel and the Acts. Thus, the possibility for detecting the literary strains which went into the Christian kerygma is greater in the third gospel than in Matthew, Mark , or John. It has been demonstrated that the kerygma was transmitted orally before its achieving canonical, written form. The salvific strains contained in the kerygma, and how and why they were redacted into a final Lucan version of the death of Jesus constitute the major examination of this study. [from the Introduction]
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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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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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A History of St. Francis Xavier Parish, Sartell, Minnesota : 1948-1998
John J. Dominik, Willis Weinand, and Placid Stuckenschneider OSB
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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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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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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.
