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John 1-10

I Am the Bread of Life

By: Kevin Perrotta,Gerald Darring

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John 1-10

I Am the Bread of Life

By: Kevin Perrotta,Gerald Darring

John 1-10: I Am the Bread of Life "is an excellent way to introduce young adults to the book of John and the life-changing message of Jesus in this Gospel. As John sees it, we human beings need God. We need God's light in our lives, his power to energize us. But for the most part we are not very aware of this need because we spend our lives running around looking for one thing after another, preoccupied with meeting our material and social needs. We tend to see God as the provider of earthly blessings rather than the source of something much more important. And of course, we also tend to ignore God and instead work to satisfy our own desires. John tells us how God tries to break through the barrier of our earthly thinking by entering into our world personally. Designed as a guided discovery, Six Weeks with the Bible for Catholic Teens introduces high school students to different books of the Bible by integrating the biblical text with insightful questions to help youth discern what Scripture means for their lives today. The series provides students with a clear explanation of Biblical text, opportunities for prayer, and a means to enter into conversation with God.

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John 11-21

My Peace I Give You

By: Kevin Perrotta,Gerald Darring

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John 11-21

My Peace I Give You

By: Kevin Perrotta,Gerald Darring

This youth Bible study, John 11-21: My Peace I Give You, is a wonderful way to get teens to think more deeply about the message and mission of Jesus.Designed as a guided discovery, Six Weeks with the Bible for Catholic Teens introduces high school students to books of the Bible by integrating the biblical text with insightful questions to help youth discern what Scripture means for their lives today. The series provides students with a clear explanation of Biblical text, opportunities for prayer, and a means to enter into conversation with God.

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Genesis 1-11 God Makes a Start

By: Kevin Perrotta,Gerald Darring

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Genesis 1-11 God Makes a Start

By: Kevin Perrotta,Gerald Darring

Genesis 1-11: God Makes a Start is an excellent Bible study resource for teens wanting a better understanding of how and why God created the world, and why the earliest events of the Bible should matter to us today. The stories of Adam and Eve, of their sons Cain and Abel, of the people who provoked the flood and those who built the tower of Babel: all of these stories display our human tendency to overstep our limits as creatures, to take control of our lives apart from God, to treat one another unjustly. The Genesis accounts tell us that our unhappiness stems from our failure to trust and obey our creator. Against this background, Jesus' life and death emerge as a deliberate reversal of the deep-rooted human tendency to distrust and disobey God. Designed as a guided discovery, Six Weeks with the Bible for Catholic Teens introduces high school students to books of the Bible by integrating the biblical text with insightful questions to help youth discern what Scripture means for their lives today. The series provides students with a clear explanation of Biblical text, opportunities for prayer, and a means to enter into conversation with God.

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0829431098

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Exodus: God to the Rescue

By: Kevin Perrotta,Gerald Darring

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Exodus: God to the Rescue

By: Kevin Perrotta,Gerald Darring

This young adult Bible study, Exodus: God to the Rescue, helps teens to see how God revealed himself as savior in the Old Testament--and how that salvation story continued and culminated in the person of Jesus. Exodus not just about God's actions for Israel long ago; it is also about God's activity in our lives as followers of Christ. In reading about the rescue of the Israelite slaves, we can learn about God's saving love for us in Christ. The way God sustained the Israelites in the wilderness reminds us of some of the sacraments of the Church. For example, our immersion into Christ's death and life through the water of Baptism harkens back to the Israelites' passing through the water of the Red Sea. God's provision of manna offers us an image of the Eucharist, the heavenly bread by which we are nourished--Christ's body and blood. Thus, as we read about God's rescue of his people Israel, we can ask the Holy Spirit to help us understand better our own personal salvation history. We can ask ourselves how we have experienced being rescued from the grip of sin, how we have discovered the personal presence of Jesus as he lives with us in the new covenant he has made through his death and resurrection. Designed as a guided discovery, Six Weeks with the Bible for Catholic Teens introduces high school students to books of the Bible by integrating the biblical text with insightful questions to help youth discern what Scripture means for their lives today. The series provides students with a clear explanation of Biblical text, opportunities for prayer, and a means to enter into conversation with God.

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Luke

The Good News of God's Mercy

By: Kevin Perrotta,Gerald Darring

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Luke

The Good News of God's Mercy

By: Kevin Perrotta,Gerald Darring

The book of Luke has been described as one of the most beautiful books ever written, and Luke: The Good News of God's Mercy brings this beauty to life for teens as they study the life of Jesus and what Jesus can mean for their lives. Luke's Gospel deals with the issue of being open to God's work through Jesus. Luke shows us that God has made salvation available through Jesus' birth, life, death, and resurrection. In many ways, God's action through Jesus was unexpected, even for the Jewish people of the time. The salvation Jesus brings goes far beyond what people were looking for. It also makes demands on those who accept it. So we meet people in Luke's Gospel who are astonished by Jesus. They are struggling to understand what Jesus was offering them and how they should respond. In the Gospel of Luke, we make contact with a will other than our own. God shows that he is not a spectator-god who made a DVD of the universe billions of years ago and now sits back to watch. God has a loving plan; God makes things happen. It is this active, involved God who comes to Mary and tells her about his plan for her in Luke's Gospel. As we begin reading the Gospel of Luke, are we prepared to meet this God? Designed as a guided discovery, Six Weeks with the Bible for Catholic Teens introduces high school students to books of the Bible by integrating the biblical text with insightful questions to help youth discern what Scripture means for their lives today. The series provides students with a clear explanation of Biblical text, opportunities for prayer, and a means to enter into conversation with God.

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0829430229

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Revelation: God's Gift of Hope

By: Kevin Perrota,Gerald Darring

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Revelation: God's Gift of Hope

By: Kevin Perrota,Gerald Darring

Understanding the book of Revelation is difficult enough for most adults, so it can be virtually overwhelming for most teens. In Revelation: God's Gift of Hope, authors Kevin Perrotta and Gerald Darring provide teens with the background information and key points they need to know to properly interpret and understand the book of Revelation, and to find in this book a message of hope and love.Designed as a guided discovery, Six Weeks with the Bible for Catholic Teens introduces high school students to books of the Bible by integrating the biblical text with insightful questions to help youth discern what Scripture means for their lives today. The series provides students with a clear explanation of Biblical text, opportunities for prayer, and a means to enter into conversation with God.

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Celebrating the Mass

By: Gerald Darring

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Celebrating the Mass

By: Gerald Darring

The Mass is not a private service but rather the community celebration of God's work in a world that is broken through tragedy and injustice. Darring takes the reader on a journey through the Mass, using personal encounters which have impacted his life. The result is a unique experience of the social justice impact of celebrating the Mass.

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0557428742

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The Good News Of The Holy Spirit

Acts

By: Kevin Perrotta,Gerald Darring

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The Good News Of The Holy Spirit

Acts

By: Kevin Perrotta,Gerald Darring

This Bible study for teens, Acts: The Good News of the Holy Spirit, is an excellent way to introduce young adults to how the Church began. Like the early Jewish followers of Jesus, the Spirit leads us also into drama and conflict. God challenges us to change. He challenges us to move beyond a simplistic childhood understanding of him and develop a mature adult faith. He wishes us to serve him in new ways, and summons us to go beyond our limited expectations of how much we might love, how selflessly we might serve, what suffering we might endure. He wishes us to experience his powerful help as we grow up. He wishes to work through us to make Jesus known. He wishes us to have an influence on the people around us. In all these respects, reading Acts leads us to question our lives and open our hearts to a new cooperation with the Spirit of God. Designed as a guided discovery, Six Weeks with the Bible for Catholic Teens introduces high school students to different books of the Bible by integrating the biblical text with insightful questions to help youth discern what Scripture means for their lives today. The series provides students with a clear explanation of Biblical text, opportunities for prayer, and a means to enter into conversation with God.

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To Love and Serve

Lectionary Based Meditations, Year A

By: Gerald Darring

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To Love and Serve

Lectionary Based Meditations, Year A

By: Gerald Darring

To Love and Serve provides a prayerful response in the light of both Christ's gospel and the Church's teachings for the personal and social challenges of life in our time. Useful for personal meditation or homily preparation.

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1556127014

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Mark

Getting to Know Jesus

By: Kevin Perrotta,Gerald Darring

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Mark

Getting to Know Jesus

By: Kevin Perrotta,Gerald Darring

In Mark: Getting to Know Jesus, one of eight guided studies in the series, young adults come to understand more deeply the message and mission of Jesus.For busy adults who want to study the Bible but don't know where to begin, Six Weeks with the Bible provides an inviting starting point. Each guide is divided into six concise, 90-minute segments that introduce one book of the Bible. All biblical text is printed in the guides, which means no additional study aids are required.

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To Love and Serve

Lectionary Based Meditations, Year A

By: Gerald Darring

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Lectionary Based Meditations, Year A

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Revelation: God's Gift of Hope

By: Kevin Perrotta,Gerald Darring

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By: Kevin Perrotta,Gerald Darring

In Revelation: God's Gift of Hope, authors Kevin Perrotta and Gerald Darring provide teens with the background information and key points they need to know to properly interpret and understand the book of Revelation, and to find in this book a message of hope and love.

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Dead Even Before Death

The Holocaust and the Human Person

By: Gerald Darring

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Dead Even Before Death

The Holocaust and the Human Person

By: Gerald Darring

This is a book about the genocidal attack on the Jews perpetrated by the National Socialist regime in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. The attack was carried out by the Germans and their collaborators, and succeeded in destroying nearly six million Jewish lives, thousands of Jewish communities, and an entire Jewish culture.It has been suggested that the Holocaust was about something deeper than antisemitism or hatred for the Jews. The Jews are always at the center of whatever “explanation” is given for the Holocaust, but some have attempted to probe deeper, looking for an understanding of what might have prompted the Nazis to decide that they had to rid the world of every single Jew.Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer suggests that the National Socialists wanted a clean break with Western civilization, the civilization founded on principles established by the ancient civilizations in Greece, Rome, and Israel. “Athens and Rome, which are the source of modern aesthetics, much of modern law, and much else, are no more…. But the Jews are still here … the symbolic surviving remnant of the values and the heritage the Nazis wanted to destroy.” The destruction of the Jews, Bauer suggests, would be for the Nazis a necessary ingredient in their plan to create a radically new civilization. To simply marginalize the Jews would mean no more than a reform of Western civilization. It would take the extermination of the Jews to make possible a complete break with the past.Holocaust theologian John Pawlikowski has given a different if not totally unrelated explanation, one which focuses on the Nazi conviction that the creator God had not done a good job and should be replaced. Writes Pawlikowski, “Much of Christian theology had tended to accentuate the omnipotence of God which in turn intensified the impotence of the human person and his/her inconsequential role in the governance of the earth. The Nazis were saying 'no' to this traditional relationship and the moral code that was integral to it.” In different ways, Bauer and Pawlikowski were saying that the genocidal attack on the Jews was the result of something much more profound in the Nazi worldview than antisemitism. In this book I would like to make a similar statement from a somewhat different perspective. I suggest that alongside the fundamental aspects indicated by Bauer and Pawlikowski, there was another side to the Nazi worldview, a total denial of human worth. After an initial chapter on the human person, there are chapters on children and the elderly, women, the handicapped, the sick, workers, blacks, Poles and Gypsies, gays, the poor, hungry, and homeless, educators and students, citizens, religious believers. The final three chapters are on the destruction of Jews, Holocaust denial, and the response to the Holocaust. An appendix includes a Yom HaShoah service.

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1466452080

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Jewish Experiences of the Holocaust

In Their Own Words

By: Gerald Darring

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In Their Own Words

By: Gerald Darring

This book tells the story of the Holocaust in the words of Holocausters themselves, Jews who were alive in Europe during the period 1933-1945 and were directly touched by the Holocaust. There are no quotes from contemporary scholars or from any non-Jews living at the time of the Holocaust. There is no attempt to probe the Nazi worldview, unless the topic is raised by a Holocauster. There is also no commentary by the on what the Holocausters have to say. The author fills in blanks so as to help the reader follow the story, but his goal is to allow the Holocausters to tell the reader what it was like to be caught up in the attempt to exterminate the Jews, and the author does not try to tell the reader how to react to what the Holocauster writes. This is not a book that you turn to for in depth analysis of the Holocaust; rather, it is a book that will give you emotional impact as Jewish children tell you what it is like to walk away from your parents forever and Jewish parents describe the agony of watching their children being torn from them; as Jews struggle to survive and maintain their human dignity in hiding, in concentration camps, in miserable ghettos, constantly fighting starvation and disease, and often dodging bullets and bombs. The story is not a pleasant one to read, for it is filled with humiliation, suffering, death, and unbelievable loss. But mixed in with those painful experiences, the reader also encounters a will to survive, stories of love and rescue, examples of enormous sacrifice, enduring faith, defiance and resistance, and simple goodness.

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Christians, Jews, and the Holocaust

Theses for Dialogue

By: Gerald Darring

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Theses for Dialogue

By: Gerald Darring

The Holocaust has been the catalyst for much of the dialogue that has taken place in recent decades between Jews and Catholics. The author seeks to help Jews and Catholics understand what is taking place in the other community. The first two theses concern the history of mistreatment of Jews by the Church and the Church's new approach to Jews and Judaism. The third and fourth theses deal with the New Testament: the harmful effects its reading has had on the lives of Jews, and the Church's unprecedented attempt to confront the most difficult passages in the New Testament. The last two theses concern Pope Pius XII, putting him in the context of both the general indifference to Jewish sufferings during the Holocaust and the internal conflicts taking place within the Catholic Church.

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John 1-10

John 1-10

John 11-21

John 11-21

Genesis 1-11 God Makes a Start

Genesis 1-11 God Makes a Start

Exodus: God to the Rescue

Exodus: God to the Rescue

Luke

Luke

Revelation: God's Gift of Hope

Revelation: God's Gift of Hope

Celebrating the Mass

Celebrating the Mass

The Good News Of The Holy Spirit

The Good News Of The Holy Spirit

To Love and Serve

To Love and Serve

Mark

Mark

To Love and Serve

To Love and Serve

Revelation: God's Gift of Hope

Revelation: God's Gift of Hope

Dead Even Before Death

Dead Even Before Death

Jewish Experiences of the Holocaust

Jewish Experiences of the Holocaust

Christians, Jews, and the Holocaust

Christians, Jews, and the Holocaust

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