2023 Catholic Media Association First Place Award, Faith and Science Building on the work of Teilhard de Chardin, the New Cosmology integrates scientific facts and theories, including discoveries about the expanding universe and evolution, and proposes that creation is developing into greater complexity. But how are we to understand concepts like “original sin” and “redemption” if creation isn’t complete and humanity is still in process? How does one “retrofit” religious tradition and Scripture into this scenario? Is there room for the historical Jesus in the New Cosmology? While a ready concern for all Christians, this question has unique implications for women religious whose lives are centered on the person and mission of Jesus Christ. How is a Catholic sister to understand her vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in light of a cosmology in which the need for redemption and the role of Jesus are significantly redefined? The Heavens Are Telling the Glory of God probes these questions and offers possible answers. Beginning with the experiences of women religious and their encounter with the New Cosmology or Universe Story, this bookseeks to mediate among the various perspectives and proposes how informed and reflective engagement with science, tradition, and theology can bridge the generational divides and foster a spirituality that is both emergent and incarnational. Access to online discussion and reflection questions is included.

Building on the work of Teilhard de Chardin, the New Cosmology integrates scientific facts and theories, including discoveries about the expanding universe and evolution, and proposes that creation is developing into greater complexity. But how are we to understand concepts like “original sin” and “redemption” if creation isn’t complete and humanity is still in process? How does one “retrofit” religious tradition and Scripture into this scenario? Is there room for the historical Jesus in the New Cosmology? While a ready concern for all Christians, this question has unique implications for women religious whose lives are centered on the person and mission of Jesus Christ. How is a Catholic sister to understand her vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in light of a cosmology in which the need for redemption and the role of Jesus are significantly redefined? The Heavens Are Telling the Glory of God probes these questions and offers possible answers. Beginning with the experiences of women religious and their encounter with the New Cosmology or Universe Story, this book seeks to mediate among the various perspectives and proposes how informed and reflective engagement with science, tradition, and theology can bridge the generational divides and foster a spirituality that is both emergent and incarnational. Access to online discussion and reflection questions is included.

In a world that is changing at such a dizzying rate we as Christians and as people who sometimes cling with such a feeble grip to whatever and whomever may still give us hope are so often confronted with so many difficult questions and a testing of our faith. Questions for which, at least to our earthbound minds, there seems to be no answers. We are faced with the question, firstly, of why it is that good people so often have to endure what seems to be an inordinate and unfair share of suffering. We are faced with a myriad of faith options in our search for the truth. If we are really sincere in our service to our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, we cannot help but to be grieved and perplexed by the never ending and always painful question of why our Savior had to pay the price that he did for such ungrateful children as we so often prove to be. These are but some of the questions that I battle with on a daily basis, and I hopeno, I praythat somewhere within the pages of this book, your searching heart may find that hope that so often seems so tantalizingly illusive. Having read through Mr De Klerks book twice, I was astounded at the simplicity of his message. I was encouraged deeply in my walk with God. Whether you are a new believer or youve been on this journey forever, this book will take you to the next level of your faith. Blessings Bongani Njamini It's an easy and honest read. Stimulating a personal conversation and evaluation of one's own response to our individual journey's. The writting style is personable in it's approach and direct in it's purpose. Evoking a personal response to Truth,as life unfolds and demands of us. I would recommend this read,to anyone searching. Salome de Klerk I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the writer, Lionel De Klerk, on a book well written and every word, worth reading. It was a book that once you picked it up and started reading, you just wanted to carry on to see what the next and next page said. It made me understand Gods deep and unending love for me and reading certain passages gave me answers to questions. I would recommend anybody to read this book and maybe like me, you will find answers to questions. Debra Sa Joe

Satan, the fallen archangel, desires nothing more than to win the loyalty, hearts, and minds of the entire human race-and he won't quit in his attempt to win you over! BREAK ANY CURSE THROUGH WORSHIP, an awesome and powerful book reveals these shocking facts: . How to take back what the enemy has stolen from you . We are called to worship . Worship only Yahweh . How important is sincerity for a worshipper . Importance of obedience In this book, Pastor Anderson Salvador teaches on one of Christianity's greatest weapon in breaking all and any of the curses that demons can attempt to put on you. He Also exposes Satan's attempts to seduce Christians from raising to their full potential and to distract every human being from following God.

Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity - Elizabeth Catez, who died in 1906 at the age of 26 in the Carmel of Dijon, is a mystic for our times, with a profound spirituality rooted not in visions and voices but in attention to the indwelling Trinity and in the call to become a praise of glory for God. This first volume of her Complete Works contains her major spiritual writings, including two sets of retreat notes (Heaven in Faith and Last Retreat) and her famous prayer - O My God, Trinity Whom I Adore. A comprehensive introduction to Elizabeth's life and spirituality by the editor, Conrad De Meester, is also included, along with detailed notes and 5 pages of photos.

In any commentary on a portion of the Old Testament by a writer unacquainted with Hebrew, exact criticism, and freedom from mistake, must not be expected. But the Psalms have been so in the mouth and in the heart of God's people in all languages, that it has been necessary often to find an explanation suitable to imperfect translations. And no doubt it is intended that we should use such explanations for the purpose of edification, when we are unable to be more accurate, though in proving doctrine it is necessary always to remember and allow for any want of acquaintance with the original, or uncertainty with respect to its actual meaning. However, the main scope and bearing of the text is rarely affected by such points as vary in different translations, and the analogy of the faith is sufficient to prevent a Catholic mind from adopting any error in consequence of a text seeming to bear a heterodox meaning. Perhaps the errors of translation in the existing versions may have led the Fathers to adopt rules of interpretation ranging too far from the simple and literal; but having such translations, they could hardly use them otherwise. Meanwhile St. Augustin will be found to excel in the intense apprehension of those great truths which pervade the whole of Sacred Writ, and in the vivid and powerful exposition of what bears upon them. It is hardly possible to read his practical and forcible applications of Holy Scripture, without feeling those truths by the faith of which we ought to live brought home to the heart in a wonderful manner. His was a mind that strove earnestly to solve the great problems of human life, and after exhausting the resources, and discovering the emptiness, of erroneous systems, found truth and rest at last in Catholic Christianity, in the religion of the Bible as expounded by St. Ambrose. This is volume one out of two, covering the Psalms I through LXXIII.

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