Faith, Love, and Mercy is a selection from the weekly homilies of noted moral theologian and pastor Fr. Richard Roach SJ, who retired from university teaching to lead a small island parish in his last decade. His theologically rigorous yet accessible writing reflects decades-long contemplation on the significance of Catholic identity in our modern era. Combining deep-rooted wisdom with vigorous prose, the homilies prompt the reader's own reflection on what it is to live the faith daily in a distracting and uncomprehending world. Prominent themes include God's merciful love, differences between Catholicism and Protestantism, spiritual temptations in the contemporary culture, the sources of authority, faith and reason, the Real Presence, secular ideologies and anti-Catholicism, humility, redemptive suffering, the true meaning of repentance, perseverance, and providence. Over a long ministry devoted to the Jesuit ideal, Fr. Roach strengthened or awakened the faith of many. It is also hoped that this book--combining theological vision with pastoral concern--occasions serious meditation on one's own journey with God. Recommended as a helpful source for students, scholars, clergy, and laypersons interested in Catholic doctrine, homiletics, and liturgy. ""Richard could be described by three passions: his Catholic Faith, Jesuit vocation, and role as a teacher. These homilies are a wonderful synthesis of those passions expressed in his love for the people of St. John Vianney Parish on Vashon Island as a pastor, a father."" --Rees W. Doughty, Pastor, St. Thomas of Canterbury Church, Cornwall on Hudson, NY ""Father Roach's Homilies for Catholic Life are much more than that. They are startlingly expressed, scripturally focused, doctrinally sound theological essays on the mysteries of the Catholic faith. They engage the mind and elicit wonder. I tried to read quickly but was quite simply unable, for I repeatedly found myself far too intrigued to skim. Profound but accessible, these reflections offer a signal service to priests searching for something substantive to help them prepare their own homilies."" --Peter F. Ryan, S.J., Executive Director, Secretariat of Doctrine and Canonical Affairs, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Richard R. Roach, SJ (1934-2008), taught Moral Theology at Marquette University for many years. He retired to his native Seattle in his last decade as Pastor of St. John Vianney Parish. Peter Weigel is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Washington College in Maryland. He is the author of Aquinas on Divine Simplicity (2008) and editor of other works.
Lisa Zuccerelli just wants to be normal. At the end of her senior year in high school, she has the distinction for the most detentions in the history of the school, thanks to an English teachers betrayal. Seemingly left with no other choice after a distressing graduation ceremony, she packs two weeks worth of rations, a canoe, and her broken heart and flees to the Canadian wilderness, where she hopes to piece her life back together and realize happiness. After Lisa paddles her way to a campsite, she is forced to deal with the complex emotions associated with the stigma of a learning disability she can do nothing to change. But as Lisa is about to discover, nature has its own grim way of teaching lessons, and it is not long before she is rescued from the unforgiving wilderness by a kind family who helps her find her way back home. After facing several surprises, Lisa meets Heidi Barton, an Anishinaabe tutor who may just have the healing powers to help release the girl from her strugglesand find her true self. Releasing Lisa shares the tale of a teenagers emotional journey to overcome her learning disability and fears with help from the Canadian wilderness and an Anishinaabe friend.
Rings of Annulment By: Richard R. Roach, MD, FACP Cotton, Minnesota, is a small town. So small, in fact, that no one actually lives there – at least not yet. Becky Jean Gottwald shows up at Lloyd’s Café in Cotton as a hitchhiker desperate for a job and a place to stay. She finds so much more. Given the chance to prove herself as a waitress and a bed to sleep on in the storage shed behind the restaurant, Becky Jean takes the fresh start and makes the most of it. Before long, she is a fixture in the community, a favorite of everyone who makes the drive, many of them daily, into town to eat at Lloyd’s It doesn’t take long, however, for Becky Jean’s past to catch up with her. She’s tight-lipped at first about how she wound up on the road before she blew into Cotton, but soon she can’t avoid telling them about her tumultuous past. Will her new friends still accept her once they learn the truth?
This book integrates class, environmental, and political analysis to uncover the history of clearcutting in the Douglas fir forests of B.C., Washington, and Oregon between 1880 and 1965. Part I focuses on the mode of production, analyzing the technological and managerial structures of worker and resource exploitation from the perspective of current trends in labour process research. Rajala argues that operators sought to neutralize the variable forest environment by emulating the factory model of work organization. The introduction of steam-powered overhead logging methods provided industry with a rudimentary factory regime by 1930, accompanied by productivity gains and diminished workplace autonomy for loggers. After a Depression-inspired turn to selective logging with caterpillar tractors timber capital continued its refinement of clearcutting technologies in the post-war period, achieving complete mechanization of yarding with the automatic grapple. Driviing this process of innovation was a concept of industrial efficiency that responded to changing environmental conditions, product and labour markets, but sought to advance operators' class interests by routinizing production. The managerial component of the factory regime took shape in accordance with the principles of the early 20th century scientific management movement. Requiring expertise in the organization of an expanded, technologically sophisticated exploitation process, operators presided over the establishment of logging engineering programs in the region's universities. Graduates introduced rational planning procedures to coastal logging, contributing to a rate of deforestation that generated a corporate call for technical forestry expertise after 1930. Industrial foresters then emerged from the universities to provide firms with data needed for long-range investment decisions in land acquisition and management. Part II constitutes an environmental and political history of clearcutting. This reconstructs the process of scientific research concenring the factory regime's impact on the ecology of the Douglas fir forest, assessing how knowledge was utitized in the regulation of cutting practices. Analysis of business-government relations in British Columbia, Washington and Oregon suggests that the reliance of those client states on revenues generated by timber capital enouraged a pattern of regulation that served corporate rather than social and ecological ends.
Faith, Love, and Mercy is a selection from the weekly homilies of noted moral theologian and pastor Fr. Richard Roach SJ, who retired from university teaching to lead a small island parish in his last decade. His theologically rigorous yet accessible writing reflects decades-long contemplation on the significance of Catholic identity in our modern era. Combining deep-rooted wisdom with vigorous prose, the homilies prompt the reader's own reflection on what it is to live the faith daily in a distracting and uncomprehending world. Prominent themes include God's merciful love, differences between Catholicism and Protestantism, spiritual temptations in the contemporary culture, the sources of authority, faith and reason, the Real Presence, secular ideologies and anti-Catholicism, humility, redemptive suffering, the true meaning of repentance, perseverance, and providence. Over a long ministry devoted to the Jesuit ideal, Fr. Roach strengthened or awakened the faith of many. It is also hoped that this book--combining theological vision with pastoral concern--occasions serious meditation on one's own journey with God. Recommended as a helpful source for students, scholars, clergy, and laypersons interested in Catholic doctrine, homiletics, and liturgy.
2017 Reprint of 1931 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. The fourteenth-century mystic Richard Rolle is one of the founders of literary English, and his English writings possess not only a devotional but also an artistic value. The text of the material selected in this collection is designed primarily for the student of Middle English literature. The introduction contains a summary of Rolle's life and writing. The frontispiece is of Rolle taken from a book of devotion.
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