The Sacred Fire

Author : Ronald Rolheiser
Publisher : Image
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780804139441

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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 : 42,6 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 : 47,8 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 : Henry James Borys
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0062502735

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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 : Lance Banning
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 080148524X

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The Sacred Fire of Liberty by Lance Banning Pdf

Lance Banning's powerful and persuasive reexamination of Madison's thought at the critical early and central stages of his career now changes that presumption, and provides a new base from which thinking about Madison and the Founding must start.

Author : Chantal Fiola
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780887559358

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Returning to Ceremony by Chantal Fiola Pdf

Returning to Ceremony is the follow-up to Chantal Fiola’s award-winning Rekindling the Sacred Fire and continues her ground-breaking examination of Métis spirituality, debunking stereotypes such as “all Métis people are Catholic,” and “Métis people do not go to ceremonies.” Fiola finds that, among the Métis, spirituality exists on a continuum of Indigenous and Christian traditions, and that Métis spirituality includes ceremonies. For some Métis, it is a historical continuation of the relationships their ancestral communities have had with ceremonies since time immemorial, and for others, it is a homecoming – a return to ceremony after some time away. Fiola employs a Métis-specific and community-centred methodology to gather evidence from archives, priests’ correspondence, oral history, storytelling, and literature. With assistance from six Métis community researchers, Fiola listened to stories and experiences shared by thirty-two Métis from six Manitoba Métis communities that are at the heart of this book. They offer insight into their families’ relationships with land, community, culture, and religion, including factors that inhibit or nurture connection to ceremonies such as sweat lodge, Sundance, and the Midewiwin. Valuable profiles emerge for six historic Red River Métis communities (Duck Bay, Camperville, St Laurent, St François-Xavier, Ste Anne, and Lorette), providing a clearer understanding of identity, culture, and spirituality that uphold Métis Nation sovereignty.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Peter A. Lillback
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Nancy C. Wood
Publisher : Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Children's poetry, American
ISBN : 0385325150

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Sacred Fire by Nancy C. Wood Pdf

Sacred fire means longevity and hope. It is part of the Four Great Ancestors--Water, Air, Earth, and Fire--necessary for all life. It is the old man's job to keep the sacred fire burning, so that the Indian people can remember the ways of their ancestors. Using the old man as her guide, Nancy Wood chronicles the history, legends, religion, and philosophy of the Pueblo Indians of the Southwest in poetry and prose. Frank Howell's magnificent paintings evoke the pride and nobility of an embattled people whose history has much to teach us and whose wisdom can enrich our lives.

Author : Maril Crabtree
Publisher : Adams Media Corporation
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 159337366X

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Sacred Fire by Maril Crabtree Pdf

Award-winning author Maril Crabtree's stunning celebrations of the spirituality of nature have been a revelation for the New Age market. Now she brings a fourth volume of stories, reflections, meditations, and poems, this time celebrating the power of fire in everyday life. Fans of her other collections and new readers alike will enjoy such stories as: Leslie, who carries the Olympic torch and decides to seek a life that has the enthusiasm and passion she needs Candace, who created a special burning ritual to mark her fortieth birthday-and found the unrestrained middle age she had hoped for Rafe, who tries firewalking and realizes that he can do anything.

Author : William Somerset Maugham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Angels
ISBN : 0890877602

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Sacred Fire by Tiziana De Rovere Pdf

Author : Chris Pierson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : M. Sellers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998-09-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230371811

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The Sacred Fire of Liberty by M. Sellers Pdf

This book describes the origins of the concept of liberty in the legal and political thought of Rome, Italy, England, France and the United States of America. Professor Sellers traces the development of liberty and republican government over two centuries of European history, in association with liberal ideas. This study reveals republicanism as the parent of liberalism in modern law and politics, and demonstrates the continuing value of republican ideas in securing the liberty of contemporary states and their citizens.