Saints of the Church
Title | Saints of the Church PDF eBook |
Author | Michael G. Allen |
Publisher | Ignatius Press |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2010-08-24 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1681494205 |
The Vision Books are one of the most popular and well-written series of saints' lives ever produced for young people. This Teachers' Guide now offers teachers and parents a practical means to stimulate both the spiritual growth and intellectual development of students through an organized, systematic study of seventeen biographies of holy men and women in the Vision Books series. This guide facilitates student interaction with the spiritual insights, moral lessons, and sound academic content found in each book. It is divided into sections, each of which contains an overview of the saint's life and activities that illustrate the person's impact on the Church and his time. These activities are destined to challenge student thinking, to promote the application of spiritual insights to the reader's personal life, and to expand the reader's understanding and appreciation of the holiness of the saints. Teachers can select any combination of activities for individual students, for small groups, or for class-wide discussion. The activities include chapter vocabulary, language in context, time line, outline maps, topics for written reports, biographical sketches, using Scripture and the Catechism, and discussion questions.
A Vision of All Saints, and Other Poems
Title | A Vision of All Saints, and Other Poems PDF eBook |
Author | William Chatterton Dix |
Publisher | |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1871 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN |
Saint Philip of the Joyous Heart
Title | Saint Philip of the Joyous Heart PDF eBook |
Author | Francis X. Connolly |
Publisher | Ignatius Press |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780898704310 |
This book tells the story of one of the Catholic Church's most lovable and loving saints, St. Philip Neri. Despite his wisdom and learning, he was a simple, childlike soul who never ceased, even in his old age, to make jokes and play with his many pets.
First Vision
Title | First Vision PDF eBook |
Author | Steven C. Harper |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2019-07-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0199329494 |
This is the biography of a contested memory, how it was born, grew, changed the world, and was changed by it. It's the story of the story of how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began. Joseph Smith, the church's founder, remembered that his first audible prayer, uttered in spring of 1820 when he was about fourteen, was answered with a vision of heavenly beings. Appearing to the boy in the woods near his parents' home in western New York State, they told Smith that he was forgiven and warned him that Christianity had gone astray. Smith created a rich and controversial historical record by narrating and documenting this event repeatedly. In First Vision, Steven C. Harper shows how Latter-day Saints (beginning with Joseph Smith) and others have remembered this experience and rendered it meaningful. When and why and how did Joseph Smith's first vision, as saints know the event, become their seminal story? What challenges did it face along the way? What changes did it undergo as a result? Can it possibly hold its privileged position against the tides of doubt and disbelief, memory studies, and source criticism-all in the information age? Steven C. Harper tells the story of how Latter-day Saints forgot and then remembered accounts of Smith's experience and how Smith's 1838 account was redacted and canonized. He explores the dissonance many saints experienced after discovering multiple accounts of Smith's experience. He describes how, for many, the dissonance has been resolved by a reshaped collective memory.
Visions of Glory
Title | Visions of Glory PDF eBook |
Author | John M. Pontius |
Publisher | CFI |
Pages | |
Release | |
Genre | RELIGION |
ISBN | 9781462128433 |
Book of All Saints
Title | Book of All Saints PDF eBook |
Author | Adrienne Von Speyr |
Publisher | Ignatius Press |
Pages | 612 |
Release | 2011-04-04 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1681490579 |
Adrienne von Speyr, a renowned mystic and spiritual writer from Switzerland, was received into the Catholic Church at the age of 38 on the Feast of All Saints, 1940, by one of the theological giants of the 20th century, Fr. Hans Urs von Balthasar. He became her spiritual director and confessor until her death in 1967 during which time Adrienne was favored with many gifts of authentic mystical prayer. Balthasar considered one of the central characteristics of Adrienne's prayer to be her transparency to the inspirations she received from God, along with a deep personal communion with the saints. Over a period of many years, Adrienne would see the saints (and other devout people) at prayer, and she would dictate what she saw to Fr.von Balthasar - while she was in a state of mystical prayer. Through a unique charism, she was able to put herself in the place of various individuals to see and describe their prayer, their whole attitude before God. Not all of her subjects are saints in the strict sense of the word, but all struggled, with varying degrees of success, to place their lives at the disposal of their Creator. This book presents these unique mystical insights into the prayer lives of many saints taken from Adrienne's direct visions of them in prayer. Among the long list of saints in this book are St. John the Apostle, St. Augustine, St. Francis, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, St. John Bosco, St. Bernadette, St. Dominic, St. Edith Stein and many, many more. In this powerful spiritual work, the reader is able to participate in the devotional and spiritual life of the Church throughout the centuries by learning how numerous saints and devout people prayed, thus reflecting on the timelessness and beauty of the prayer of the Church.
Revelations in Context [Chinese]
Title | Revelations in Context [Chinese] PDF eBook |
Author | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2016-08 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781629726342 |