The New Parish

Author : Paul Sparks,Tim Soerens,Dwight J. Friesen
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830895960

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The New Parish by Paul Sparks,Tim Soerens,Dwight J. Friesen Pdf

Christianity Today Award of Merit Readers' Choice Awards Honorable Mention Best Books About the Church from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore "When . . . faith communities begin connecting together, in and for the neighborhood, they learn to depend on God for strength to love, forgive and show grace like never before. . . . The gospel becomes so much more tangible and compelling when the local church is actually a part of the community, connected to the struggles of the people, and even the land itself." Paul Sparks, Tim Soerens and Dwight J. Friesen have seen—in cities, suburbs and small towns all over North America—how powerful the gospel can be when it takes root in the context of a place, at the intersection of geography, demography, economy and culture. This is not a new idea—the concept of a parish is as old as Paul's letters to the various communities of the ancient church. But in an age of dislocation and disengagement, the notion of a church that knows its place and gives itself to where it finds itself is like a breath of fresh air, like a sign of new life.

Author : Sorcha Pollak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : 1848406789

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New to the Parish by Sorcha Pollak Pdf

These are the stories of people who have come to Ireland for work, education, retirement, love and in some cases forced from their homes by death and destruction. New to the Parish: Stories of Love, War and Adventure from Ireland's Immigrants is an important reminder that every migrant is a human being, and that every one of us has a story to tell.

Author : M. J. Kramer
Publisher : Canterbury Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786223050

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The Canterbury Book of New Parish Prayers by M. J. Kramer Pdf

This collection of around 500 original collect-style prayers and biddings covering the life of the Church and the life of the world. Contemporary in focus and language, the prayers are written in a concise style that makes them ideal for public worship but will also appeal to those who wish to pray privately but struggle to find the words. Prayer topics include: • The Church Year and Festivals • The Global and Local Church • The Environment and Social Justice • Politics and the Leaders of the Nations • Life Stages • Spheres of Work, Arts and Education • Suffering and Tragedy Helpful guidance on leading public prayer and writing your own collects is also included.

Author : Fr. James Mallon
Publisher : The Word Among Us Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781593251437

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Divine Renovation Beyond the Parish by Fr. James Mallon Pdf

The world is hungering for the fruit of a dynamic Church that has embraced her missionary identity, but what does it really mean to be a missionary Church? Grounded in Scripture and Sacred Tradition, Fr. Mallon offers an analysis of the challenges the Church is facing, along with practical tools that will support parish and diocesan leaders in bringing about significant renewal. Most importantly, he addresses the critical interface between a missionary parish and its diocese, essential to bearing lasting fruit. "Fr. Mallon understands what it takes to transform a mediocre parish into a dynamic, missionary one, and he understands that parishes need diocesan leadership to transform the Church as a whole. I pray that every bishop in the Church will absorb this message of love, and that, by the movement of the Holy Spirit, it will bring hordes of people to Jesus and his Church." —Patrick Lencioni, cofounder of The Amazing Parish and author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Author : Brett C. Hoover
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479815760

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The Shared Parish by Brett C. Hoover Pdf

As faith communities in the United States grow increasingly more diverse, many churches are turning to the shared parish, a single church facility shared by distinct cultural groups who retain their own worship and ministries. The fastest growing and most common of these are Catholic parishes shared by Latinos and white Catholics. Shared parishes remain one of the few institutions in American society that allows cultural groups to maintain their own language and customs while still engaging in regular intercultural negotiations over the shared space. This book explores the shared parish through an in-depth ethnographic study of a Roman Catholic parish in a small Midwestern city demographically transformed by Mexican immigration in recent decades. Through its depiction of shared parish life, the book argues for new ways of imagining the U.S. Catholic parish as an organization. The parish, argues Brett C. Hoover, must be conceived as both a congregation and part of a centralized system, and as one piece in a complex social ecology. The Shared Parish also posits that the search for identity and adequate intercultural practice in such parishes might call for new approaches to cultural diversity in U.S. society, beyond assimilation or multiculturalism. We must imagine a religious organization that accommodates both the need for safe space within distinct groups and for social networks that connect these groups as they struggle to respectfully co-exist.

Author : Michael White,Tom Corcoran
Publisher : Ave Maria Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781594713873

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Rebuilt by Michael White,Tom Corcoran Pdf

Drawing on the wisdom gleaned from thriving mega-churches and innovative business leaders while anchoring their vision in the Eucharistic center of Catholic faith, Fr. Michael White and lay associate Tom Corcoran present the compelling and inspiring story to how they brought their parish back to life. Rebuilt: Awakening the Faithful, Reaching the Lost, and Making Church Matter is a story of stopping everything and changing focus. When their parish reached a breaking point, White and Corcoran asked themselves how they could make the Church matter to Catholics, and they realized the answer was at the heart of the Gospel. Their faithful response not only tripled their weekend mass attendance, but also yielded increased giving, flourishing ministries, and a vibrant, solidly Catholic spiritual revival. White and Corcoran invite all Catholic leaders to share the vision, borrow their strategies, and rebuild their own parishes. They offer a wealth of guidance for anyone with the courage to hear them.

Author : C. Christopher Smith,John Pattison
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830841141

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Slow Church by C. Christopher Smith,John Pattison Pdf

In today's fast-food world, Christianity can seem outdated or archaic. The temptation becomes to pick up the pace and play the game. But Chris Smith and John Pattison invites us to leave franchise faith behind and enter the kingdom of God, where people know each other well and love one another as Christ loves the church.

Author : Richard Lennan
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814667439

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Tilling the Church by Richard Lennan Pdf

Tilling the Church is a theology for the pilgrim church. In this book, Richard Lennan shows how the ecclesial community looks toward the fullness of God’s reign but lives within the flux of history, the site of its relationship to the trinitarian God. In this way, God’s grace “tills” the church, constantly refreshing the tradition of faith and prompting the discipleship that embodies the gospel. Tilling the Church explores the possibilities for a more faithful, just, and creative church, one responsive to the movement of grace. Fruitful engagement with grace requires the church’s conversion, the ongoing formation of a community whose words and actions reflect the hope that grace engenders.

Author : Richard Rice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1087902029

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Parish Book of Chant by Richard Rice Pdf

Author : Andrew Spicer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351912761

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Parish Churches in the Early Modern World by Andrew Spicer Pdf

Across Europe, the parish church has stood for centuries at the centre of local communities; it was the focal point of its religious life, the rituals performed there marked the stages of life from the cradle to the grave. Nonetheless the church itself artistically and architecturally stood apart from the parish community. It was often the largest and only stone-built building in a village; it was legally distinct being subject to canon law, as well as consecrated for the celebration of religious rites. The buildings associated with the "cure of souls" were sacred sites or holy places, where humanity interacted with the divine. In spite of the importance of the parish church, these buildings have generally not received the same attention from historians as non-parochial places of worship. This collection of essays redresses this balance and reflects on the parish church across a number of confessions - Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed and Anti-Trinitarian - during the early modern period. Rather than providing a series of case studies of individual buildings, each essay looks at the evolution of parish churches in response to religious reform as well as confessional change and upheaval. They examine aspects of their design and construction; furnishings and material culture; liturgy and the use of the parish church. While these essays range widely across Europe, the volume also considers how religious provision and the parish church were translated into a global context with colonial and commercial expansion in the Americas and Asia. This interdisciplinary volume seeks to identify what was distinctive about the parish church for the congregations that gathered in them for worship and for communities across the early modern world.

Author : Fr. Simon Lobo
Publisher : The Word Among Us Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781593255114

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Divine Renovation Apprentice by Fr. Simon Lobo Pdf

Transforming a parish is challenging, demanding, and sometimes messy work. Divine Renovation Apprentice, Fr. Simon Lobo breaks open his experience as an associate pastor working on the renewal of St. Benedict Parish in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the birthplace of Divine Renovation. With honesty, humility, and great clarity, Fr. Simon offers his personal reflections on the actual process of renovation with practical wisdom critical to anyone who wants to see their parish experience new life. More than simply a biographical account of the change at St. Benedict, this book contains insights on how to Change Culture, Build a Game Plan, and Develop Leaders for lasting parish change.

Author : Apple Parish Bartlett,Susan Bartlett Crater
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780865653023

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Sister Parish by Apple Parish Bartlett,Susan Bartlett Crater Pdf

This “fast-moving, entertaining biography” of the woman behind the Parish Hadley interior design firm is “like eavesdropping on a lively society lunch” (Publishers Weekly). A New York Times Notable Book Sister—as she was called by family and friends—was born Dorothy May Kinnicutt into a patrician New York family in 1910, and spent her privileged early life at the right schools, yacht clubs, and coming-out parties. Compelled to work during the lean years of the Depression, she combined her innate design ability with her upper-echelon social connections to create an extraordinarily successful interior decorating business. The Parish-Hadley firm’s list of clients reads like an American Who’s Who, including Astors, Paleys, Rockefellers, and Whitneys—and she helped Jacqueline Kennedy transform the White House from a fusty hodge-podge into a historically authentic symbol of American elegance. Cozy, airy, colorful but understated, her style came to be known as “American country,” and its influence continues to this day. Compiled by her daughter and granddaughter from Sister’s own unpublished memoirs, as well as from hundreds of interviews with family members, friends, staff, world-renowned interior designers (Mark Hampton, Mario Buatta, Keith Irvine, Bunny Williams, and her longtime partner Albert Hadley, among many others), and clients including Annette de la Renta, Glenn Bernbaum, and Mrs. Thomas Watson, Sister Parish takes us into the houses—and lives—of some of the most fascinating and famous people of this inimitable woman’s time. Fully updated, the revised edition features a new foreword by Albert Hadley and an appreciation by Bunny Williams, who began her career at Parish-Hadley. “Selections from Mrs. Parish’s own rather wonderful, often moving, reminiscences, intercut with observations from her family, employees, clients and friends.” —The New York Times Book Review “Sister’s delightfully self-deprecating humor illuminates the biography throughout.” —Kirkus Reviews Includes photographs

Author : Alan J. Roxburgh
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780819232113

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Joining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World by Alan J. Roxburgh Pdf

Church has changed-this book shows how to follow the Spirit out into the community, and reimagine our mission for the 21st century. The decline in mainstream religious denominations is palpable. For years, the question has been: How can we "fix" the church' With thirty years of experience pastoring congregations in small towns, suburbs, and urban neighborhoods in renewal, Alan J. Roxburg knows that the answer is to instead, embrace the church, reinvigorate communities with the Holy Spirit, and re-engage our neighbors with the mission of God. In this timely perspective on the role of the church in today's environment, he shows how each one of us can become a leader in that mission. Roxburg distills the best missional wisdom for both clergy and laity alike, and offers concrete steps in transforming individual congregations and society. He sheds light on the troubling history that brought us to this point, and how ecumenically and globally we can implement the simple but necessary steps to build from it. An urgent call for Christians to guide any church-large or small-to becoming a vital center for a new spirituality, Joining God is an invitation "to embark on the journey you always wanted to take" (Philip Clayton, scholar, activist and author of Transforming Christian Theology).

Author : Scot Landry
Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 161278724X

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Transforming Parish Communications by Scot Landry Pdf

""In this book, Scot Landry explains why it is critical for parishes, as hubs of the New Evangelization, to embrace new media. He indicates what the essential new media tools are for parishes today, shares practical strategies for how to implement them, and describes how these tools can transform parish communications." -- from the forward by Cardinal Seán O'Malley.

Author : Joseph Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1753
Category : Constables
ISBN : UOM:39015031332631

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Parish Law by Joseph Shaw Pdf