The Revealing Retreat

Author : J. R. Mathis,Susan Mathis
Publisher : Mercy and Justice Mysteries
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Revealing Retreat by J. R. Mathis,Susan Mathis Pdf

Enjoy this Contemporary Mountain Lodge Murder Mystery Featuring A Unique Sleuthing Couple After almost two months away, I’m so glad to be back to work at Saint Clare’s. True, I’m not back to celebrating Mass on a regular basis. But I’m in the office and able to help the people of my parish. I was expecting them to come to me with their problems. But I wasn’t expecting them to come offering to help me. So when Martin Maycord proposes a weekend retreat at a mountain lodge owned by a friend of his as a way to help Steve and Bridget Austin get caught up with preparations to have their marriage sacramentalized in the Church, I’m more than eager to accept. Helen and I go off with our friends, expecting a nice weekend in the mountains. We don’t expect having to investigate a murder. What’s worse, one of our friends is the prime suspect. But what’s even worse, I know something about the whole thing, and I can’t tell Helen . . . After almost two months away, I’m so glad to be back to work as Chief of Police. It’s been rough being away from my people, and I know I have a long way to go to rebuild their trust, but I’m committed to doing just that. But when the opportunity comes up for me to accompany Tom on the retreat organized by Martin Maycord, I just can’t turn it down. Especially since it gives me the opportunity to help one of my favorite officers. So Tom and I go off with our friends, expecting to relax while Tom helps Steve and Bridget prepare for their marriage in the church. I didn’t expect to wind up investigating a murder. What’s worse, one of our friends is the prime suspect. But what’s even worse, Tom knows something about the whole thing, and can’t tell me . . . The Revealing Retreat is the eighth novel in the Mercy and Justice Mysteries, a contemporary small town mystery series. The series is a sequel to the Father Tom Mysteries that began with The Penitent Priest and includes the same cast of characters. It features Father Tom Greer, a Catholic Priest who is also an amateur sleuth in the tradition of Father Brown, and his wife Helen Greer, female Chief of Police and detective in the tradition of Kinsey Millhone.

Author : Kirsteen MacLeod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1770414738

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In Praise of Retreat by Kirsteen MacLeod Pdf

For readers of Walden, Wild, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, A Book of Silence, A Gift from the Sea and other celebrations of the inner adventure. An utterly engaging dive into our modern ways of retreat -- where we go, why we're drawn, and how it's urgent From pilgrim paths to forest cabins, and from rented hermitages to arts temples and quiet havens for yoga and meditation, In Praise of Retreat explores the pleasures and powers of this ancient practice for modern people. Kirsteen MacLeod draws on the history of retreat and personal experiences to reveal the many ways readers can step back from society to reconnect with their deepest selves -- and to their loftiest aspirations in life. In the 21st century, disengaging, even briefly, is seen by many as self-indulgent, unproductive, and antisocial. Yet to retreat is as basic a human need as being social, and everyone can benefit, whether it's for a weekend, a month, or a lifetime. Retreat is an uncertain adventure with as many peaks and valleys as any mountain expedition, except we head inward, to recharge and find fresh energy and brave new ideas to bring back into our everyday lives.

Author : Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614291497

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The Way of Tenderness by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Pdf

“What does liberation mean when I have incarnated in a particular body, with a particular shape, color, and sex?” In The Way of Tenderness, Zen priest Zenju Earthlyn Manuel brings Buddhist philosophies of emptiness and appearance to bear on race, sexuality, and gender, using wisdom forged through personal experience and practice to rethink problems of identity and privilege. Manuel brings her own experiences as a bisexual black woman into conversation with Buddhism to square our ultimately empty nature with superficial perspectives of everyday life. Her hard-won insights reveal that dry wisdom alone is not sufficient to heal the wounds of the marginalized; an effective practice must embrace the tenderness found where conventional reality and emptiness intersect. Only warmth and compassion can cure hatred and heal the damage it wreaks within us. This is a book that will teach us all.

Author : Peter Stuckings
Publisher : Aeon Books
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781801520942

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The Meditation Retreat Manual by Peter Stuckings Pdf

Embark on the most rewarding and illuminating journey of your life, with this step by step guide to mastering internal reflection Meditation can be a long, and for beginners, often an intimidating process to embark on as the landmarks on the meditative journey can be mind-blowing, mind-numbing, heavenly, disturbing, transformative and more. However, in his fascinating book, Peter Stuckings provides a wealth of advice on the questions people might encounter when starting on the practice of intensive meditation. In an elegant and witty prose, The Meditation Retreat Manual covers everything from basics, such as what you need to bring on a retreat and how to sit well, to the more intensive mental and conceptual challenges commonly faced. The book works as a reference text, so readers can dip in and out of topics that interest them most. There is also a selection of meditation instructions to pique the interest of beginner readers, as well as a special focus on meditation methods with roots in Buddhist teachings.

Author : J. R. Mathis,Susan Mathis
Publisher : Mercy and Justice Mysteries
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Cardinal's Clock by J. R. Mathis,Susan Mathis Pdf

Enjoy this Small-Town Murder Mystery Featuring A Unique Sleuthing Couple It’s an eventful October for Father Tom and Helen. It begins with the wedding of Father Tom’s mother Nola to her fiance, former strip club owner Stu Landry. The two septuagenarian newlyweds have no sooner embarked on their honeymoon than Saint Clare’s Parish plays host to the Cardinal Archbishop of Baltimore Walter Knowland, making his periodic visit. It should be a welcome homecoming for the Cardinal, who spent his high school years in Myerton. But there’s a cloud hovering over the visit. A special state grand jury issued a report, documenting decades of sexual abuse in the Archdiocese. While the report makes clear that the Archdiocese under Cardinal Knowland has mended its ways, he’s bearing the brunt of the criticism. He’s also received death threats. With this in mind, Helen assigns her newest officer Gwen Tolson–who also happens to be the Cardinal’s granddaughter–to his security detail. During a tour of the Unclaimed Blessings Thrift Store, a large urn falls from a loft, narrowly missing the Cardinal and injuring Gwen. That combined with the firebombing of the Archbishop’s Residence in Baltimore convinces Helen that he’s in danger. She begins to hunt for the person responsible. But then an elderly volunteer at the thrift store, Eliza Ross, is murdered. At first it looks like a robbery gone wrong. But it’s soon clear to Helen that someone staged the scene to make it look like a robbery. This raises two questions: who’d want to kill her, and why? In the midst of all this, Gladys goes into labor early . . . and one of the triplets may not make it . . . The Cardinal’s Clock is the fourteenth novel in the Mercy and Justice Mysteries, a contemporary small town mystery series. The series is a sequel to the Father Tom Mysteries that began with The Penitent Priest and includes the same cast of characters. It features Father Tom Greer, a Catholic Priest who is also an amateur sleuth in the tradition of Father Brown, and his wife Helen Greer, female Chief of Police and detective in the tradition of Kinsey Millhone.

Author : John Macdonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1817
Category : Communications, Military
ISBN : NYPL:33433009342894

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A Treatise Explanatory of a New System of Naval, Military and Political Telegraphic Communication of General Application by John Macdonald Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : UFL:31262071226400

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Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas P. Rausch
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809144999

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An 8 Day Ignatian Retreat for Priests, Religious, and Lay Ministers by Thomas P. Rausch Pdf

For almost five hundred years, the little book The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola has been an important source for Christian prayer-life. However, many Church ministers (priests, deacons, religious, and laypersons) do not have the time to make the full thirty-day Ignatian retreat with a spiritual director. This helpful resource seeks to lead a retreatant prayerfully into the heart of an Ignatian retreat by using contemplations and themes from the Spiritual Exercises as well as other meditations on the life of Jesus-but within an eight-day time frame. With a particular focus on ministry, both ordained and nonordained, the short chapters present mysteries from the life of Jesus and considerations that correspond to the dynamics of the Exercises. They represent a preparation for prayer, not to instruct but to move the imagination and hopefully the heart. An appendix offers additional scriptural texts. An 8 Day Ignatian Retreat for Priests, Religious, Deacons, and Lay Ministers enables busy and hardworking Church ministers to apply the Ignatian insights to their own interior life, which will result in rejuvenation and growth in their pastoral ministry.

Author : ACTS Missions
Publisher : ACTS Missions
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781545752692

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ACTS Retreat Manual by ACTS Missions Pdf

The intent of the ACTS Retreat Manual is to provide all priests, deacons, and lay ACTS Retreat Team leaders and members with the necessary information to facilitate the ACTS Retreat process in a way that grounds the experience in the invitation to encounter Jesus Christ and be His disciple.

Author : Patrick MacLeamy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781119685302

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Designing a World-Class Architecture Firm by Patrick MacLeamy Pdf

Offers architects and creative services professionals exclusive insights and strategies for success from the former CEO of HOK. Designing a World Class Architecture Firm: The People, Stories and Strategies Behind HOK tells the history of one of the largest design firms in the world and draws lessons from it that can help other architects, interior designers, urban planners and creative services professionals grow bigger or better. Former HOK CEO Patrick MacLeamy shares the revolutionary strategies HOK’s founders deployed to create a brand-new type of architecture firm. He pulls no punches, revealing the triple crisis that almost bankrupted HOK and describes how any firm can survive and thrive. Designing a World Class Architecture Firm tells the inside story of many of HOK’s most iconic buildings, including the National Air and Space Museum, Moscone Convention Center, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the Houston Galleria and the reimagined LaGuardia Airport. Each chapter conveys lessons learned from HOK’s successes —and failures— including: The importance of diversifying to depression-and-recession-proof your firm The benefit of organizing your firm around specialized leaders and project types The difference between leading and managing your people The value of simple financial metrics to ensure your firm’s health and profitability The “run toward trouble” strategy which prevents problems from ballooning MacLeamy delivers his advice via inspirational stories such as how HOK survived when its home office in St. Louis went up in flames and humorous stories, like the time an HOK executive was mistaken for royalty on a trip to Saudi Arabia. In this tell-all guide, the driven architecture or design professional will find the tools needed to evolve or grow any firm.

Author : Fr. John Burns
Publisher : Ave Maria Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781594717215

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Lift Up Your Heart by Fr. John Burns Pdf

Winner of a 2018 Catholic Press Association Award: First-Time Author, Spirituality Softcover (First Place) and a 2018 Association of Catholic Publishers Award: Inspirational (Second Place). For more than four-hundred years, Introduction to the Devout Life by Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales has been regarded as the essential guide to holiness and loving God. This spiritual classic takes on new life in Lift Up Your Heart, where Rev. John Burns has interpreted ten meditations for the modern reader and distilled them into a ten-day mini-retreat that can easily be completed in the midst of a busy life. This practical book goes right to the heart of helping you kick the habit of floating along on your spiritual journey to start actively pursuing holiness and devotion to God. During the course of the retreat, you'll learn the basics of forming a daily prayer routine, including how to offer yourself to God, meditate on his love, and maintain peace in the face of suffering and clarity in the midst of temptation. The meditations will help you: Adopt gratitude as a daily prayer practice. Examine and reorder your priorities and relationships to better reflect your love for God. Discern between good and evil in your life. Desire to love and serve as Jesus did. In a very real sense, Burns helps you take St. Francis de Sales as your spiritual director for ten days. As you do so, you’ll feel God’s fatherly love and restart your faith life, equipped with the tools to connect with God and live for heaven now.

Author : Allan Becher Webb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:601800118

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The unveiling of the eternal Word, notes of meditations by Allan Becher Webb Pdf

Author : Mark L. Prophet,Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Publisher : Summit University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781932890143

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The Path to Attainment by Mark L. Prophet,Elizabeth Clare Prophet Pdf

Attainment is the goal of the spiritual path. It is not the power to perform miracles or to control others, but the ability to give and receive energy in harmony. This volume explains important keys to attainment, including how to connect with the masters; and, how to chart cycles of positive and negative karma.

Author : Linda Schumacher
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030489625

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The Law of Coastal Adaptation by Linda Schumacher Pdf

This work investigates law as an instrument to deal with the challenges of sea level rise. As the two countries chosen as examples differ significantly in their adaptation strategies and the corresponding legal regulations, the author presents general ideas on how any legal framework facing similar challenges could be improved. In particular, (flood) risk assessments, coastal defences and flood-resistant design as well as spatial and land use planning are discussed, including managed retreat. Moreover, conflicts as well as potential synergies of coastal adaptation and nature conservation are examined.Due to the thorough analysis this book is not just an essential read for policymakers and researchers interested in the coastal area but climate change adaptation in general as many general findings are transferrable to other impacts.

Author : Dean Brior
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781638447122

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The Soth Initiative by Dean Brior Pdf

The Soth Initiative Book 2 The Sect of the Heald Chronicles The software has been released, the world now knows the truth, and the world is awakened to a new direction. There is a dark force resisting this awakening, one that will work to wipe out the Sect of the Healed who yearn to share the truth with the world. Come with us on a worldwide journey of intrigue, mystery, and miracles as Professor Lindey Batchelor and the SOTH family share their archaeological treasures with the world. You will see what artifacts and literary treasures the world will experience. Many will embrace the truth, but many will seek to snuff it out along with all those associated with the great awakening. The Soth Initiative is a book about truth, power, resistance to the light, overcoming the darkness, and the power of God living in everyday people. Come with Lindey and his team as they travel the world, rescue the innocent, engage the darkness, and overcome evil to share the truth the world needs to hear.