As a liturgical season marked by its own urgency and intensity, Lent lends itself to reflection. Bishop Robert Morneau offers such reflections in this day-by-day volume, which also includes meditations for Easter and feast days that often fall in Lent. With themes as varied as Humility: The Divine Achilles Tendon and Health Care Plan, Moses: The Lawyer and The Jesus Question, Morneau anchors his reflections in Scripture from the daily Mass. Drawn into the church's multiyear calendar of readings, readers will enhance their participation in the Eucharist and appreciate more fully the deeper meaning of this special season. Bishop Robert F. Morneau is pastor of Resurrection Parish in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and also the auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Green Bay. He is a regular columnist for the diocesan paper, The Compass.
As a liturgical season marked by its own urgency and intensity, Lent lends itself to reflection. Bishop Robert Morneau offers such reflections in this day-by-day volume, which also includes meditations for Easter and feast days that often fall in Lent. With themes as varied as Humility: The Divine Achilles Tendon and Health Care Plan, Moses: The Lawyer and The Jesus Question, Morneau anchors his reflections in Scripture from the daily Mass. Drawn into the church's multiyear calendar of readings, readers will enhance their participation in the Eucharist and appreciate more fully the deeper meaning of this special season. Bishop Robert F. Morneau is pastor of Resurrection Parish in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and also the auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Green Bay. He is a regular columnist for the diocesan paper, The Compass.
Well-known author Robert F. Morneau helps readers to focus on their relationships to others and thereby build up a better society. He offers a month worth of daily reflections on simplicity, gentleness, humility and friendship. Each week opens with a song or hymn, followed by passages for meditation from a variety of poets, novelists, philosophers and theologians. Each day’s entry concludes with a question and short prayer. In the words of Raissa Maritain, “Tomorrow will bring a good morning if today we strive to live virtuously!” Morneau provides reflections on a diverse range of authors, including Henri Nouwen, Francis de Sales, Mohandas Gandhi, Thomas Merton, Thomas Keating, Jessica Powers, Evelyn Underhill, Albert Schweitzer and many others.
In a parable destined to be a classic for all ages, The Gift tells a story about two friends, a rabbit and a pumpkin. The language is simple and the story spare yet within it lie profound lessons about life, love, death, and renewal.Angela the pumpkin, moved by the beauty of the world around her, willingly sacrifices herself to provide light, love, and life to others. Sammy the rabbit watches as his friend becomes first a lantern to help people who are afraid of the dark, then pumpkin pie to provide nourishment, and finally seeds to give birth to new life.
In Pathways to Community, well-known author Robert F. Morneau helps readers to focus on their relationships to others and to the larger society by offering a month worth of daily reflections on prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance. Each week opens with a song or hymn, followed by passages for meditation from a variety of poets, novelists, philosophers and theologians. Each dayÂ’s entry concludes with a question and short prayer. Morneau provides reflections on a diverse range of authors, including William Blake, Jessica Powers, C.S. Lewis, Evelyn Underhill, John Milton, Francis de Sales and others.
Gleaning key experiences from 21 diverse spiritual guides (including Saint John of the Cross, Teilhard de Chardin, Dag Hammarskjold, Mother Teresa, Saint Peter Julian Eymard, Dietrich Bonhoeffer...), Morneau reveals how each helps teach us something about love of God and neighbor " "[summary]"--
Not by Bread Alone offers daily reflections and meditations that focus on the Lenten themes of repentance and redemption, sacrifice and salvationas well as the Easter message of resurrection and new life.
In this seven-day retreat, Yielding to a Pursuing God, your director is one of the most significant Christian apologists of the twentieth century, C. S. Lewis. Through his thoughtful and deeply personal writing, Lewis explores his lifelong conversion, his constant grappling with the mysteries of faith. Robert F. Morneau weaves excerpts from Lewis's allegories, letters and poems into a week of prayer and deepening acquaintance, ending with a list of resources to help you continue this relationship.
Bishop Morneau takes us inside the Sacrament of Reconciliation and shows us how the power of Jesus' mercy can transform our lives. He also inspires us to express forgiveness and mercy to those weknow and those we don't know. Readers come to know the compassion of Jesus in their daily life. Here is wonderful spiritual reading that is also useful for group discussion.
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