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A companion to the four-volume publication of ‘Francis of Assisi: Early Documents’ and a resource for all studying early Franciscanism. The book especially helps the reader appreciate St Clare in the context of her culture and time. It provides new translations of St Clare’s writings and related primary sources, as well as previously unpublished documents chronicling her life. It is a treasure for all who are attracted by the Franciscan tradition. VIEW IN HARDBACK EDITION
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A companion to the four-volume publication of ‘Francis of Assisi: Early Documents’ and a resource for all studying early Franciscanism. The book especially helps the reader appreciate St Clare in the context of her culture and time. It provides new translations of St Clare’s writings and related primary sources, as well as previously unpublished documents chronicling her life. It is a treasure for all who are attracted by the Franciscan tradition. VIEW IN PAPERBACK EDITION
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The present volume contains ninety-four letters, the last sixty-three of the previously known letters and the thirty-one more recently discovered and edited by Johannes Divjak in the final quarter of the last century. There are eighty-one letters of which Augustine is the author. Each letter is preceded by its own introduction in which the translator offers valuable information about the persons, content, and background pertinent to the letter.
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This little book really does take the reader to the heart of Therese’s message. Simple, yet profound, and illustrated with the author’s own drawings, this is a book to treasure, to read and re-read, each time discovering something new about Therese of Lisieux.
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The seven works of Saint Augustine that are contained in this volume all deal with the problem of faith in God. VIEW IN HARDBACK EDITION
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The sixty-two letters contained in this volume were written between 414 and 422 or 423, though a number of them are virtually impossible to date with any certainty. During these years Augustine became deeply involved in the controversy on grace with Pelagius and his ally, Caelestius, both of whom had passed through North Africa shortly after the fall of Rome.
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This work is composed of essays by significant scholars in Franciscan theology, history, and hagiography.
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This is the third in Elizabeth Obbard’s popular series of spiritual biographies with a difference. She is able to communicate the amazing depth of St John of the Cross’ spiritual experience in the simplest of ways in this book, beautifully illustrated by the author herself.
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Commentaries on Psalms 9 to 120 by Saint Augustine. A translation for the 21st Century. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Library Edition VIEW IN PAPERBACK EDITION
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This little book gives insights on peace from some of the greatest writers and thinkers of all times.
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Knowing wealth but no stranger to poverty, devoted spouse and mother, committed religious, generous heart – Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton has become a model of sanctity to people in all walks of life in America and throughout the world.
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This volume, 15 Days of Prayer With Saint Katharine Drexel, introduces readers to the Philadelphia socialite who became a nun and a missionary to the poor and oppressed.
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Commentaries on Psalms 73 to 98 by Saint Augustine. A translation for the 21st Century. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Library Edition VIEW IN PAPERBACK EDITION
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The fifty-six letters contained in this volume were, with a few possible exceptions, written between 408 and 414. During these years the Donatist schism came to a head and was in principle healed by the Conference of Carthage in June of 411.
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This series, now published in three volumes, is a new and more complete presentation of Franciscan critical texts than has ever been available before. It also offers fresh translations in the light of the latest scholarship – some of the texts are published for the first time in English.
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The author of the ever popular Introducing Julian of Norwich has come up with another gem in this simple but profound guide to the spirituality of St Teresa of Avila. She takes the reader right to the heart of the great Spanish mystic’s way to union with God.
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This series, now published in three volumes, is a new and more complete presentation of Franciscan critical texts than has ever been available before. It also offers fresh translations in the light of the latest scholarship – some of the texts are published for the first time in English.
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This volume contains three works on the Book of Genesis: On Genesis: A Refutation of the Manichees, Unfinished Literal Commentary on Genesis, and the third and longest, The Literal Meaning of Genesis. VIEW IN PAPERBACK EDITION
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This series, now published in three volumes, is a new and more complete presentation of Franciscan critical texts than has ever been available before. It also offers fresh translations in the light of the latest scholarship – some of the texts are published for the first time in English.
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Commentaries on Psalms 51 to 72 by Saint Augustine. A translation for the 21st Century. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Library Edition VIEW IN PAPERBACK EDITION
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Commentaries on Psalms 51 to 72 by Saint Augustine. A translation for the 21st Century. As the psalms are a microcosm of the Old Testament, so the Expositions of the Psalms can be seen as a microcosm of Augustinian thought. VIEW IN HARDBACK EDITION
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The first volume of the Letters of Saint Augustine covers the period from his retreat at Cassiciacum in Italy in the fall of 386 (or the spring of 387) to the height of the Donatist controversy in 408 (or 409).
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This series, now published in three volumes, is a new and more complete presentation of Franciscan critical texts than has ever been available before. It also offers fresh translations in the light of the latest scholarship – some of the texts are published for the first time in English.
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In the brief 16 years of his priesthood, Saint Louis de Montfort fulfilled a career of founder, missionary, and prolific writer. Two years after ordination he organized the nursing and teaching congregation of the Daughters of Wisdom and in 1705 founded his missionary congregation of men, the Missionaries of the Company of Mary (Montfort Fathers).
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This series, now published in three volumes, is a new and more complete presentation of Franciscan critical texts than has ever been available before. It also offers fresh translations in the light of the latest scholarship – some of the texts are published for the first time in English.
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This mini-series comprises four titles. Basil the Great is one of the outstanding figures of the Eastern Church, an expert on spirituality. His writings have a universal appeal.
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This mini-series comprises four titles. Augustine lived at the time of the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West, when, as in our present day, many of the old certainties were challenged by events. A man of massive intellect and towering spirituality.
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This mini-series comprises four titles. Cyprian of Carthage lived in troubled times. His freshness and topicality are in part due to this, because his world, as ours, was characterized by restlessness, insecurity and injustice.
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Commentaries on Psalms 33 to 50 by Saint Augustine. A translation for the 21st Century. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Sale!‘A new song of Francis for our time!’ This series, now published in three volumes, is a new and more complete presentation of Franciscan critical texts than has ever been available before. It also offers fresh translations in the light of the latest scholarship – some of the texts are published for the first time in English.
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Johannes Tauler invites us to prepare the ‘ground of the soul’ to receive God, so that the Word of God may be born in us as it is in Mary. Focusing on themes such as God in Creation and the return of all things to God, Tauler nevertheless insists that the union of the human soul with God is by grace, and not by nature.
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Bernard of Clairvaux was a twelfth-century Cistercian monk whose influence extended into many areas of Church life. His monastic reforms emphasized mystical prayer as the foundation of daily observance, bringing the Cistercian order into a position of unprecedented expansion and renown.
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This mini-series comprises four titles. The writings of the Apostolic Fathers were seen as almost equal to Scripture by the early Church. They can be seen as an authoritative source for the beliefs and traditions of Christian experience in its earliest and freshest form.
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This series, now published in three volumes, is a new and more complete presentation of Franciscan critical texts than has ever been available before. It also offers fresh translations in the light of the latest scholarship – some of the texts are published for the first time in English.
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This volume includes four works: Grace and Free Choice (De gratia et libero arbitrio), Rebuke and Grace (De correptione et gratia), The Predestination of the Saints (De praedestinatione sanctorum), and The Gift of Perseverance (De dono perseverantiae).
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This volume presents new translations of five of Augustine’s works: The Excellence of Marriage, Holy Virginity, The Excellence of Widowhood, Adulterous Marriages, and Continence. These works discuss marriage, sexuality, procreation, and virginity (or celibacy) and their place in Christian life and salvation. VIEW IN PAPERBACK EDITION
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This volume presents new translations of five of Augustine’s works: The Excellence of Marriage, Holy Virginity, The Excellence of Widowhood, Adulterous Marriages, and Continence. These works discuss marriage, sexuality, procreation, and virginity (or celibacy) and their place in Christian life and salvation. VIEW IN HARDBACK EDITION
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This volume includes the work: Unfinished Work in Answer to Julian (Contra Julianum opus imperfectum).
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This volume, 15 Days of Prayer With Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, will lead you, over a period of fifteen prayer sessions, to a place of prayer where a stronger relationship with God is possible.
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This volume contains three works of Saint Augustine of Hippo: Marriage and Desire (De nuptiis et concupiscentia); Answer to the Two Letters of the Pelagians (Contra duas epistulas Pelagianorum); and Answer to Julian (Contra Julianum).
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This volume includes the following works: The Punishment and Forgiveness of Sins and the Baptism of Little Ones (De peccatorum meritis et remissione et de baptismo parvulorum), The Spirit and the Letter (De spiritu et littera), Nature and Grace (De natura et gratia), The Perfection of Human Righteousness (De perfectione justitiae hominis), The Deeds of Pelagius (De gestis Pelagii), The Grace of Christ and Original Sin (De gratia Christi et peccato originali), and The Nature and Origin of the Human Soul (De anima et ejus origine).
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This work is intended to help preachers present biblical teachings in an effective manner. VIEW IN HARDBACK EDITION
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This work is intended to help preachers present biblical teachings in an effective manner. VIEW IN PAPERBACK EDITION
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Sermons 341-400 are on Various Themes including our pilgrimage, peace and charity, and the clerical life.
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Includes: Heresies, Memorandum to Augustine, To Orosius in Refutation of the Priscillianists and Origenists, Arian Sermon, Answer to an Arian Sermon, Debate with Maximinus, Answer to Maximinus, Answer to an Enemy of the Law and the Prophets.
