spiritual life

In this book Father Green explores the dryness and finds there a spot where both mature-prayers and active contemplatives "can be at home" and can learn to live gracefully "drinking from the dry well of prayer.".

Experience the same Spirit-filled words that Mother Teresa shares with the poor, the dying, the hurting, and the skeptical. The quotes, stories, and prayers in this book are hers.

A perceptive observer of American culture, Dr. Cooper writes to make the world of the occult better known to people who live outside it, and better understood to those within. He takes a look at such cults as those surrounding Bishp Pike, Charles Manson, and the movie Rosemary's Baby - and draws an intriguing connection between politics and mysticism, between sex and witchcraft, between escapism and involvement.

"Over forty years ago," writes Father Kelsey, "I began my own attempt to be open to God and allow the Holy One to take part in my life. Over thirty years ago I came in touch with some guides on this journey and found some ways of opening myself to God's incredible love ... It takes courage to set out on the spiritual journey, but it takes even more courage to accept the responsibility of walking along with another once we have really known the dangers ourselves.".

"In the spiritual life it is important to be in touch with one's capacity for evil as it is to be in touch with one's capacity for good," says author James McNamara. In the Power of Compassion he describes how this insight leads to true compassion he describes how this insight leads to true compassion and to personal conversion. McNamara examines the experiences of powerlessness and meaninglessness, and the tendency toward a pseudo-innocence which is characterized by naivete and seeking excuses rather than taking responsibility for oneself.

Written in the light of Vatican II, especially the Dogmatic Constitution of the Church, the author clarifies the Christian dogma of the Redemption as the world's liberation, that is, man's salvation in Jesus Christ. The Greek word for redemption (latrosis) means "to liberate". Earthly liberation can only be accomplished through faith in Jesus Christ who alone frees man from sin and its consequences. Under the action of the Holy Spirit Christ directs us to realize total liberation.

A book like this has to be read with the heart and not with the eyes. Intended for those readers, versed in contemplative prayer, who wish to go beyond.

Father van Kaam demonstrates that faithfulness to daily events leads to a vibrant life filled with peace and joy, that fidelity to God's epiphany allows us to hear "the music of eternity.".

Presents twenty-two conversations with Huston Smith, an American religious scholar from more than thirty years of interviews, in which he describes his first meeting with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and discusses religious violence, his grief over the loss of his eldest daughter to cancer, and other topics.