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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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Readings, Cases, Materials in Canon Law: A Textbook for Ministerial Students
Jordan F. Hite and Daniel J. Ward OSB
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The Holy Way: Sunday and Weekday Meditations on the Masses for Ordinary Time
Emeric Anthony Lawrence OSB
Church year meditations
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Why You Can Disagree-- and Remain a Faithful Catholic
Philip S. Kaufman OSB
This popular bestseller has been greatly revised and expanded to include new insights on conscience, infallibility, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
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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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At Worship with Mary: A Pastoral and Theological Study
Christopher O'Donnell O.Carm. and Placid Stuckenschneider OSB
With historical and liturgical finesse, the author approaches fifteen celebrations of the Mother of God in the prayer life of the Church. He elucidates the scriptural texts of each feast, analyzes the prayers of the faithful, and presents pertinent Church documents, all helping us enter more deeply into the theological, spiritual and pastoral implications of the Marian feasts.
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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. -
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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Risen and with You Always
Emeric Anthony Lawrence OSB
This is the third book in a series of meditations on the daily Masses of the three seasons of the Church year -- Advent, Lent, and now the Easter Season.[...]Hopefully these books have given their readers a deeper insight into Jesus and his Word and work that a greater intimacy with him will have resulted. [from "The Easter Season" (the author's forward to this book)]
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A Handbook on Canons 573-746: Religious Institutes, Secular Institutes, Societies of the Apostolic Life
Jordan F. Hite, Sharon Holland, and Daniel J. Ward OSB
Contents:
Introduction / Francis G. Morrisey --
Norms common to all institutes of consecrated life : canons 573-606 / Ellen O'Hara --
Religious houses and governance : canons 607-633 / Margaret Mary Modde --
Temporal goods : canons 634-640 / Joan de Lourdes Leonard --
Admission of candidates and formation of members : canons 641-661 / Jordan Hite --
Obligations and rights : canons 662-672, 277, 285-287, 289, 279, [Section] 2 / David F. O'Connor --
The apostolate of institutes : canons 673-683 / Richard A. Hill --
Separation of members from the institute : canons 684-709 / Elizabeth McDonough --
Secular institutes : canons 710-730 / Thomas E. Molloy --
Societies of apostolic life : canons 731-746 / Cecil L. Parres --
Monastic life under the rule of St. Benedict and the new Code / Daniel J. Ward --
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The Liturgical Ministry of Deacons
Michael Kwatera OSB
Fr. Michael Kwatera, O.S.B., helps deacons comprehend, share, and effectively perform their ministry by providing both spiritual and functional support. This short work is directed to all deacons, both permanent and transitional, in the hope that it will promote their formation for service within the church's Eucharist, other sacramental rites, and communal prayer. Contents include explanations of the deacon's role in various church situations and liturgies-such as confirmation and marriage-as well as outside of the Mass setting, such as ministering to the sick. With "Petitions for Deacons from Ancient Liturgies" and historical background this book provides an interesting and informative look at the deacon's role in the Catholic Church.
