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Free Download The Art of Loving God By Francis de Sales
2004 | 150 Pages | ISBN: 0918477433 | EPUB | 1 MB
Discover the secrets to growing holier through the simple things in life work, play, and rest. Learn to avoid the distractions that trouble and weary your soul, and you’ll soon be able to focus your energy simply on loving God!

Free Download Staying Faithful Today: To God, Ourselves, One Another By Alfred McBride
2011 | 96 Pages | ISBN: 0867169893 | EPUB | 1 MB
The crisis of fidelity has reached dangerous levels both for the Church and our culture, believes Fr. Alfred McBride. The signs of the impact of the breakdown of fidelity to God, self, friendships, country, marriage, and celibacy surround us. What is a Catholic to think, believe, and do to stay faithful today? The author, an internationally known Catholic spiritual writer, catechetical expert, speaker and teacher, offers wisdom on a hot topic in daily news headlines. This clear explanation of Catholic teaching on the virtue of fidelity uses stories, studies, help from people’s human experiences, and examples for popular and classical culture to offer encouragement and inspiration for anyone seeking to stay faithful in every aspect of life.

Free Download Hakon Sunde Pedersen, "The Retributive and Suffering God of the Book of Jeremiah: A Study of Yhwh’s ‘Azab-Complaints"
English | ISBN: 3161623312 | 2023 | 219 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Portraits of YHWH as a retributive and a suffering God appear side by side in the book of Jeremiah. Not surprisingly, scholars usually emphasize the contrast and conflict between them. In addition to obvious differences, they also tend to feature in different types of literary material in the book; that is, in prose and poetry. Hakon Sunde Pedersen’s study challenges the common view by offering a new interpretation of some of the portraits in which not only radical differences but points of unity and connection between them come to light. Based on these observations, the author suggests that the portraits’ juxtaposition in the book may ultimately contribute to highlighting central theological concerns in the book in its present (MT) form.

Free Download The Pedagogy of God: Its Centrality in Catechesis and Catechist Formation By Caroline Farey
2011 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 1931018723 | EPUB | 1 MB
A restoration, a recovery, is currently advancing in the area of religious education and catechesis, a restoration in which the concept of the "pedagogy of God" has a pivotal role to play. According to the General Directory for Catechesis, the primary difficulty facing catechesis today is that catechists do not yet have a full understanding of "the conception of catechesis as a school of faith, an initiation and apprenticeship in the entireChristian life." The pivotal truth is that God himself is the pedagogue. He has the central role in every catechetical event. Catechists and those being catechized are invited to co-operate with him in learning under his grace. Catechetical leaders will be happy to find within these pages scholars and practitioners of catechesis, who address many aspects of communicating the Faith, yet with the unified purpose of answering the primary question of catechesis as a "school of faith" embracing the entire Christian life. It is here that we find the crucial place of The Pedagogy of God: Its Centrality in Catechesis and Catechist Formation.

Free Download Philip Yancey, "Meet the Bible: A Panorama of God’s Word in 366 Daily Readings and Reflections"
English | ISBN: 0310243033 | 2001 | 704 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
An inspiring mix of timeless wisdom and contemporary insight especially designed to acquaint postmodern men and women with the God of the Bible. This unique one-year reading tour of the Bible introduces readers to the full, epic sweep of the Bible ― its characters, places, times, stories, and meanings-and shows that even the most obscure passage can hold relevance for our lives today once we understand what to look for. Each day’s reading includes Scripture, contemporary commentary, and questions for contemplation-all designed to offer insight into how the passage fits into the overall story of the Bible, and how it speaks to life today.

Free Download Zimzum
by Schulte, Christoph;Twitchell, Assistant Professor of German;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1512824356 | 425 pages | True PDF EPUB | 69.26 MB

Free Download Who needs God? Barbara Stöckl in Conversation with Christoph Cardinal Schönborn By Christoph Schönborn; Barbara Stöckl
2009 | 193 Pages | ISBN: 1586172840 | EPUB | 1 MB
We are experiencing a dramatic social upheaval in today’s world, a breakdown of our living conditions and values. A non-stop world: No one can stop it, and we find no place to stop in it. Political boundaries become less important; social structures seem to disintegrate?all is subordinated to cash flow and profit maximization. With growing individualism, the concept of the good and proper life has been lost. Whether one is faithful or unfaithful, fair or unfair, honest or dishonest seems to have less importance. Freedom and prosperity are the magic words. We live flexibly and without commitment, go where we wish, when we wish. This does not produce living conditions that facilitate belief in God and contact with God, as one perhaps had during childhood. The longing for old values such as faith and deeper spiritual meaning has consequently been reawakened.What repercussions does this development have on society, children, the elderly, the ill? Whom do people allow first to be God? Who is our pilot? Is it the coach, the psychologist, the investment counselor? Who is supposed to support man in the future through his crisis, whether public or private? Who needs God? What does God provide? Can we truly live without faith or the Church? Why does the Church so often seem not to understand us and our needs?These and many other questions posed to Christoph Cardinal Sch?nborn in this book are the questions asked today by many people who are searching for God and want to live the experience of faith.

Free Download How to Listen When God Is Speaking: A Guide for Modern-Day Catholics By Mitch Pacwa
2011 | 173 Pages | ISBN: 1593251831 | EPUB | 1 MB
How do we listen to God speak to our hearts, minds, and wills especially above the noise and stress of the modern world? What is the process of discerning God’s will? Best-selling author and popular EWTN host Fr. Mitch Pacwa, SJ, tackles these and other questions in this comprehensive book on discernment. He says that first we need to believe in God and his moral laws and make a commitment to please him in all that we do. Then we need to pray so that we can experience the peace that can come only from God. Fr. Pacwa draws from St. Ignatius’ Spiritual Exercises, using plenty of everyday examples as well as stories from Scripture to help clarify his points. He encourages readers to develop a rich prayer life and says we can learn to listen to God’s powerful voice and hear him speaking lovingly to us even when we are suffering in some way.Confronts modern-day assumptions that can prevent us from being open to God’s will for our lives.Emphasizes the many ways we can develop our prayer life to nourish an authentic relationship with the Lord.

Free Download How to Find God…and Discover Your True Self in the Process: A Handbook for Christians By Hubert Van Zeller
1998 | 244 Pages | ISBN: 0918477883 | EPUB | 1 MB
Here is a storehouse of practical help for believers who dare to look honestly at themselves — and to do what it takes to attain the deepest desire of every sincere Catholic: union with God Himself. Dom Hubert van Zeller wrote these pages to help modern souls who are striving for holiness to spot dangerous distractions and stay on the path to true knowledge of themselves . . . and of God.

Free Download A Man Cleansed by God: A Novel Based on the Life of Saint Patrick By John E. Beahn
2013 | 230 Pages | ISBN: 0967597889 | EPUB | 1 MB
The story of St. Patrick’s life is a dynamic tale of high drama and intense spiritual force. A generation ago, the American Catholic novelist John Edward Beahn retold that story as a biographical novel based onThe Confession, Patrick s famous autobiographical work.A Man Cleansed by God: A Novel on St. Patrick's Confessionwas published in 1959, a vivid narrative with intriguing speculations about the details of Patrick s experience that have been lost to history.St. Patrick s life was a series of heroic adventures: Captured as a young teen by pirates and taken from his comfortable life in ancient Roman Britain, he was sold as a slave in Ireland. Six years later he escaped and, after a long, arduous journey, he returned to his family-only to receive a call from God to go back to Ireland as a Christian missionary.Trained and ordained as a priest, and ultimately consecrated a bishop, he returned at last to Ireland. There, his bold preaching brought many thousands into the Christian fold and led to the establishment of numerous churches and religious communities.Yet even with such remarkable success, Patrick faced stiff opposition and persecution: He had to defend himself against the intrigues and false charges of both religious and political enemies, who on one occasion even went so far as to rob him of all he possessed, beat him severely, and put him in chains.A second generation of readers are sure to be delighted by this TAN Legend edition ofA Man Cleansed by God: A Novel Based on the Life of St. Patrick, an unforgettable portrait of the fifth-century saint who changed Ireland forever.