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As I Have Loved You explores the concept of "clerical unity," which is a way of living out one's vocation to Holy Orders with a sense of oneness, cohesion, and harmony without divisions or fragmentation. Bishops, priests, and deacons form a single, complete brotherhood while maintaining, in whole, each order's distinctive and particular contribution to the mission of the Church.
Sharing the Gospel with Our Lives is an inspiring, informative, and empowering resource for your ministry with Catholic teens. This is the book that helps you realize that Catholic youth ministry is more than putting a meeting together or teaching a class; it's about getting to know teens and sharing Jesus with them.
The document begins with a preface letter addressed directly from the U.S. Bishops to youth and young adults and continues with the three-part framework text for pastoral ministers, families, and young leaders in the Church.
El documento comienza con una carta prefacio dirigida directamente por los obispos estadounidenses a los jóvenes y jóvenes adultos y continúa con el texto marco en tres partes para los ministros de pastoral, las familias y los jóvenes líderes de la Iglesia.
This book is an invitation to joy, an invitation to discover the little-known daily lives of monks to help us understand the peace that dwells within them. Their confined existence, which one might imagine to be monotonous, is in reality extraordinarily rich.
Holding Space for Joy helps women struggling with infertility make this much-needed prayer journey and offers solidarity along the way. This prayer companion presents nine concepts that helped author Mary Bruno find true peace even before she became permanently infertile. With original prayers, song suggestions, and journal prompts, this book can assist in the healing process.
The Spirit of God is active, alive, and present in Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities. Keeping Christ's Sacred Promise, from the Subcommittee on Native American Affairs of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), offers guidance to bishops, pastors, religious, Catholic Native leaders, and others serving Indigenous communities.
Many Catholics view fasting as hard, burdensome, weird, or only for Lent. This little book demonstrates that fasting can be so much more than that! It's an opportunity for prayer, reflection, and solidarity with the suffering of the world. The Handy Little Guide to Fasting is your easy-to-read, down-to-earth introduction to this ancient practice. Author, speaker, and award-winning journalist Deacon Greg Kandra presents a way to blend faith and fortitude to make fasting more spiritually fulfilling.
The Compendium on the Diaconate: A Resource for the Formation, Ministry, and Life of Permanent Deacons explores how bishops, along with their helpers, the priests and deacons, have taken up the service of community, exercising the divinely established ecclesiastical ministry on different levels. -The Church is ministry, service, diaconia, and it is called to be of service to the many aspects and sectors of the Church.
For the Life of the World is an invitation to Eucharistic mission. As part of the National Eucharistic Revival in the U.S. Catholic Church, this book outlines the four pillars of the life of a Eucharistic missionary: 1) Eucharistic encounter, leading to 2) Eucharistic identity, poured out in 3) a Eucharistic life, all on the way to 4) Eucharistic mission.
What good can we find in our cycles, especially when we ponder the fact that both men and women are equally made in the image and likeness of God? The Language of Your Body delves deep into this and other groundbreaking questions, using the wisdom of saints like Hildegard von Bingen, Pope John Paul II and Thomas Aquinas to explore this unique, fundamental aspect of God's design for female bodies.
What you will find in these pages is a summary of the needs and situations, challenges and opportunities, hopes and dreams, gifts and talents, insights, recommendations, strategies, and successful practices for the pastoral care and accompaniment of the Hispanic / Latino people of the United States in our day.
Colaboradores en la viña del Señor ofrece reflexiones pastorales y teológicas sobre la realidad del ministerio eclesial laico, afirmación de los que sirven de este modo y síntesis de lo mejor del pensamiento y de la práctica.
Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord offers pastoral and theological reflections on the reality of lay ecclesial ministry. It affirms lay ministers' service and synthesizes current best thinking and best practice.
Hacia Una Plena Presencia es una reflexión pastoral del Dicasterio para la Comunicación del Vaticano sobre nuestro compromiso en el mundo digital que proporciona directrices claras para el comportamiento cristiano en las redes sociales.
This bilingual English and Spanish guide identifies pastoral responses and proven approaches to intercultural competencies in attitudes, knowledge, and skills. This book helps parishes discern pastoral planning strategies and opportunities that can lead to a higher level of stewardship and engagement.
Towards Full Presence is a pastoral reflection by the Vatican's Dicastery for Communication on our engagement in the digital world that provides clear guidelines for Christian behavior on social media.
In this pastoral letter, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops challenges the faithful to take up the mantles of stewardship and discipleship. Stewardship provides a blueprint based on the Gospels for building good stewards of every age and level. Each section ends with questions for reflection and discussion, ideal for group or individual study.
In this pastoral letter, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops challenges the faithful to take up the mantles of stewardship and discipleship. Stewardship provides a blueprint based on the Gospels for building good stewards of every age and level. Each section ends with questions for reflection and discussion, ideal for group or individual study.
In this third installment of the Arthur the Clumsy Altar Server series, Arthur discovers that Jesus is always with us, including and especially in our weakest moments. Readers will learn with Arthur through this endearing story that God is with us all the time to help us because he loves us — even when we aren't perfect.
Missionary Disciples Going Forth with Joy: National Pastoral Plan for Hispanic/Latino Ministry addresses the entire Church in the United States and seeks to strengthen the Church's response to the Hispanic/Latino presence while embracing and fostering the contributions of Hispanic/Latino Catholics as missionary disciples serving the entire People of God.
Discípulos Misioneros en salida con alegría: El Plan Pastoral Nacional para el Ministerio Hispano / Latino se dirige a toda la Iglesia en los Estados Unidos y busca fortalecer la respuesta de la Iglesia a la presencia hispana/latina, mientras abraza y fomenta las contribuciones de los católicos hispanos / latinos como discípulos misioneros al servicio de todo el Pueblo de Dios.