Sacred Fire

Author : Ronald Rolheiser
Publisher : Image
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780804139441

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Sacred Fire by Ronald Rolheiser Pdf

When one reaches the highest degree of human maturity, one has only one question left: How can I be helpful?—TERESA OF ÁVILA Beloved author Ronald Rolheiser continues his search for an accessible and penetrating Christian spirituality in this highly anticipated follow-up to the contemporary classic, The Holy Longing. With his trademark acuity, wit, and thoughtfulness, Rolheiser shows how identifying and embracing discipleship will lead to new heights of spiritual awareness and maturity. In this new book, Rolheiser takes us on a journey through the dark night of the senses and of the spirit. Here, we experience the full gamut of human life, pleasure and fervor, disillusionment and boredom. But, as Rolheiser explains, when we embrace the struggle and yearning to know God we can experience too a profound re-understanding to our daily lives. “What lies beyond the essentials, the basics?” Rolheiser writes. “Where do we go once some of the basic questions in our lives have been answered, or at least brought to enough peace that our focus can shift away from ourselves to others? Where do we go once the basic questions in our lives are no longer the restless questions of youthful insecurity and loneliness? Who am I? Who loves me? How will my life turn out? Where do we go once the basic question in life becomes: How can I give my life away more purely, and more meaningfully? How do I live beyond my own heartaches, headaches, and obsessions so as to help make other peoples’ lives more meaningful? The intent of this book is to try to address exactly those questions: How can we live less self- centered, more mature lives? What constitutes deep maturity and how do we reach that place? And, not unimportantly, what constitutes a more adult, Christian discipleship? What constitutes a truly mature following of Jesus?” As the poet Rainer Maria Rilke suggests, “Live the questions now.” In Sacred Fire, Rolheiser’s deeply affecting prose urges us on in pursuit of the most holy of all passions—a deep and lasting intimacy with God.

Author : Chantal Fiola
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780887554803

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Rekindling the Sacred Fire by Chantal Fiola Pdf

Why don’t more Métis people go to traditional ceremonies? How does going to ceremonies impact Métis identity? In Rekindling the Sacred Fire, Chantal Fiola investigates the relationship between Red River Métis ancestry, Anishinaabe spirituality, and identity, bringing into focus the ongoing historical impacts of colonization upon Métis relationships with spirituality on the Canadian prairies. Using a methodology rooted in an Indigenous world view, Fiola interviews eighteen people with Métis ancestry, or an historic familial connection to the Red River Métis, who participate in Anishinaabe ceremonies, sharing stories about family history, self-identification, and their relationships with Aboriginal and Eurocanadian cultures and spiritualities.

Author : Ronald Rolheiser
Publisher : Image
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307886361

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The Holy Longing by Ronald Rolheiser Pdf

Ronald Rolheiser makes sense of what is frequently a misunderstood word: spirituality. In posing the question "What is spirituality?" Father Rolheiser gets quickly to the heart of common difficulties with the subject, and shows through compelling anecdotes and personal examples how to channel that restlessness, that deep desire, into a healthy spirituality. This book is for those searching to understand what Christian spirituality means and how to apply it to their own lives. Rolheiser explains the nonnegotiables--the importance of community worship, the imperatives surrounding social action, the centrality of the Incarnation, the sustenance of the spiritual life--and how spirituality necessarily impacts every aspect of human experience. At the core of this readable, deeply revealing book is an explanation of God and the Church in a world that more often than not doubts the credibility of both.

Author : Kalonymus Kalmish Shapira
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781461630562

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Sacred Fire by Kalonymus Kalmish Shapira Pdf

Sacred Fire: Torah from the Years of Fury (1939-1942) consists of commentaries on each weekly Torah portion. It also includes a number of lengthy sermons delivered on the major Jewish Festivals as well as a few discourses alluding to people loved and lost. Because writing is not permitted on the Sabbath, these "words of Torah" were transcribed from memory, after the Sabbath or festival had ended. Although the pages of Sacred Fire are not stained with the names of its author's tormentors, there are numerous references to historical events through which parallels can be drawn. Rabbi Shapira often refers, for example, to the binding of Isaac and the martyrdom of Rabbi Akiba. Sacred Fire forms a religious, spiritual response to the Holocaust that speaks from the heart of the darkness. In doing so, it may well form the basis for what could one day become Judaism's formal liturgical response to the events that occurred during those years of fury.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781620457726

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"QBR's evolving canon is a splendid way to begin honoring black artists." -Charles Johnson, from the Foreword "From critiques of W. E. B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction in America to Alex Haley's Roots to Langston Hughes's The Ways of White Folks, these short, trenchant essays stimulate and challenge."-Booklist "A celebration of black literature. . .insightful commentary."-Ebony "A rich and surprising assortment." -American Legacy "Delving into a book is an entertaining and edifying way to celebrate and reflect on the rich tapestry of African American history. A great way to start is with Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books." -Atlanta Journal-Constitution Capturing the full sweep of writing from the diaspora-from Africa to the Caribbean to America-Sacred Fire is a soul-stirring collection of provocative analysis on 100 works of literature that have shaped and defined black culture for over 200 years.

Author : Bruce Sterling
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504063081

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Holy Fire by Bruce Sterling Pdf

Memory, morality, and immortality merge in this “haunting and lyrical triumph” from the bestselling author of Schismatrix Plus (Time). In the late twenty-first century, technology has lengthened lifespans far beyond what was once medically possible. Existence itself has become relatively easy—if boring. In this futuristic paradise, ninety-four-year-old Mia Ziemann longs for something different and undergoes a radical new treatment that restores both her body and mind to that of a twenty-year-old. After her dramatic transformation, Mia finds herself lost in an avant-garde world of passion, designer drugs, and creative expression . . . “Ideas—big ideas—lurk beneath Mia’s romp through Sterling’s delightfully imagined newly post-human Earth. Art, artifice, the pursuit of immortality, and youth and aging bounce around the story, the characters, and their conversations in imaginative, engaging fashion. . . . In the end, Holy Fire is one of the most interesting, imaginative, and subtly humorous—and relevant for it—novels the cyberpunk/post-human era has produced. . . . Holy Fire may very well be [Sterling’s] best work.” —Speculiction “An intellectual feat, it is also a treat for the spirit and the senses.” —Wired “A patented Sterling extra-special.” —Newsday “The future Sterling traces is plausible and provocative, particularly his consideration of several contrasting cultures, and of the disenfranchised who are unable to become ‘post-human.’ Those interested in serious speculative conversation set within a very strange near-future will find this much to their taste.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Morningstar Mercredi,Fire Keepers
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781039116399

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Sacred Bundles Unborn by Morningstar Mercredi,Fire Keepers Pdf

Sacred Bundles Unborn acknowledges the voices of women who have come forward and recognizes that coerced forced sterilization is happening, while establishing a narrative on this critical issue as it is currently playing out in 2021, while educating people of the dark reality of Canada’s negligence of the human rights of Indigenous women and women of color, whom are at a greater risk within the health system in their most vulnerable state during pregnancy. Each piece takes a unique approach to the many overlapping aspects informing this issue from the individual writer’s perspective, yet there is a thread of synergy between each piece. All are written in an accessible way as each author has eloquently and effectively spoken to the “unspoken” with integrity and grace, granting the reader as much ease as any human being can conceive in order to process this form of inhumane torture. All submissions are in the first person, whether a poem or narrative prose, in lay (non-academic) terms. “The goal of our collective, first and foremost, is the documentation of this ongoing genocide, from our perspective, in order to bring to the forefront of readers’ consciousness this archaic and barbaric atrocity that continues and is not “criminalized” in Canada.” Morningstar Mercredi

Author : Karen Grunst
Publisher : Hunter House Fiction LLC
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798986627601

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Sacred Fire by Karen Grunst Pdf

A dream of belonging. A land seething with malice. Can this budding peacemaker stand strong in the face of darkness? Sarah longs to make a new life for herself in the coveted holy city. When a mysterious widow offers her a job there, she's convinced it's an answer to her prayers. But Sarah finds the city smoldering with ancient hatreds...some directed at her. Jacob is proud of his priestly heritage. Though he steadfastly holds to his learned traditions, the young man yearns to escape an arranged marriage and take control of his destiny. And he believes his moment has come when he rescues a servant girl who wields a sacred language long forgotten. After thwarting a murder, Sarah is plagued by alarming visions of a demon terrorizing the city. And Jacob vows to protect his new friend, even as their leaders pay no heed to their dire warnings. Can this determined teen and her defender banish a ruthless foe and prevent an unholy catastrophe? Sacred Fire is the whirlwind first book in The Sacred Fire Saga YA fantasy series. If you like courageous characters, powerful destinies, and slow-burn romance, then you’ll love Karen Grunst’s sweeping epic.

Author : Chris Pierson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0786930365

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Sacred Fire by Chris Pierson Pdf

This final title in the historical Kingpriest trilogy completes the exploration of a key part of Dragonlance history, finely detailed for the first time. In addition, this title features popular characters that appear throughout the Dragonlance Legends trilogy. Original.

Author : Martha Simmons,Frank A. Thomas
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 989 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780393058314

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Preaching with Sacred Fire: An Anthology of African American Sermons, 1750 to the Present by Martha Simmons,Frank A. Thomas Pdf

One hundred sermons that display the victorious, although sometimes painful, historical and spiritual pilgrimage of black people in America. A groundbreaking anthology, Preaching with Sacred Fire is a unique and powerful work. It captures the stunning diversity of the cultural and historical legacy of African American preaching more than three hundred years in the making. Each sermon, as editors Martha Simmons and Frank A. Thomas reveal, is a work of art and a lesson in unmatched rhetoric. The journey through this anthology—which includes selections from Jarena Lee, Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Gardner C. Taylor, Vashti McKenzie, and many others—offers a rare view of the unheralded role of the African American preacher in American history. The collection provides new insights into the underpinnings of the black fight for emancipation and the rise and growth of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. Sermons from the first decade of the twenty-first century point toward the future of African American preaching. Biographies of the preachers put their work in the cultural and homiletic context of their periods. The preachers of these sermons are men and women from a range of faiths, ancestries, and educational backgrounds. They draw on a vast and luminous landscape of poetic language, using metaphor, rhythm, and imagery to communicate with their congregations. What they all have in common is hope, resilience, and sacred fire. “Even during the most difficult and oppressive times,” Simmons and Thomas write in the preface, “the delivery, creativity, charisma, expressivity, fervor, forcefulness, passion, persuasiveness, poise, power, rhetoric, spirit, style, and vision of black preaching gave and gives hope to a community under siege.” This magnificent work beautifully renders the complexity, spiritual richness, and strength of African American life.

Author : Ian Corrigan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Druids and druidism
ISBN : 0976568128

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Sacred Fire, Holy Well by Ian Corrigan Pdf

Sacred Fire, Holy Well is an approach to a modern practice of Celtic Paganism and magical arts. Centered in the lore of the Gaelic Celts it offers a simple summary of Irish mythic lore, and ritual patterns for individual and group worship. It also provides complete instruction in a system of Druidic magical work, trance vision, spellbinding and work with spirits.

Author : Peter A. Lillback
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0978605268

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George Washington's Sacred Fire by Peter A. Lillback Pdf

Published by Providence Forum Press Dr. Peter Lillback's exhaustive fifteen years of research set's "George Washington's Sacred Fire" apart from all previous works Washington's faith. It presents a man driven by the highest of ideals using Washington's own writings, journals, letters, manuscripts, and those of his closest family and confidants to reveal the truth of this awe-inspiring role model for all generations. Dr. Lillback convincingly shows how when faced with unprecedented challenges and circumstances, Washington ultimately drew upon his persistent qualities of character - honesty, justice, equity, perseverence, piety, forgiveness, humility, and servant leadership, to become one of the most revered figures in world history. George Washington set the cornerstone for what would become one of the most prosperous, free nations in the history of civilization.

Author : William Somerset Maugham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Disabled persons
ISBN : UOM:39015019077554

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The Sacred Flame by William Somerset Maugham Pdf

Author : Tiziana De Rovere
Publisher : Celestial Arts
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Angels
ISBN : 0890877602

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Sacred Fire by Tiziana De Rovere Pdf

Author : Storm Constantine
Publisher : Immanion Press/Magalithica Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1904853242

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Stealing Sacred Fire by Storm Constantine Pdf

Through the ancient magic of the Grigori, the rogue Anakim, Peverel Othman, is once again Shemyaza, king of the fallen angels and benefactor of humankind. As the millennium draws to a close, Shemyaza calls his followers to him for the final battle to decide who controls the fate of humanity.