Pastoral leaders, ministers, and teams will welcome this invitation to become more sensitive to the sacredness and importance of transition times in the lives of parishioners and to help them respond through prayer and ritual. Through stories, examples, and personal witness, Father Hater emphasizes the importance of giving parishioners a deeper experience of the sacramental life of faith through their ordinary, daily journeys of discovery.
Finally, a practical, step-by-step guide to the new evangelization! Father Robert J. Hater takes the New Evangelization from concept and theory to practical application, and shows pastoral leaders and ministers exactly how to implement it parish-wide. In A Parish Guide to the New Evangelization you will learn: How to overcome challenges to the new evangelization How to motivate parishioners to evangelize How to coordinate efforts at the parish level How to effectively reach inactive Catholics How to use the web and other media to promote your evangelization efforts What sets Catholic evangelization apart from Protestant evangelization How to jump start parish evangelization And much more! Father Robert J. Hater encourages all pastoral leaders to renew their commitment to the new evangelization, and subsequently take pride in developing an evangelizing parish.
Gateways to God explores the nature and meaning of sacraments. Using scripture, history, and pastoral practice, Fr. Hater shows you how to approach the seven sacraments of the Church as gateways to divine life, how to receive them with expectant faith, and how to let them strengthen you for daily Christian living."--Back cover.
Father Robert Hater strongly believes that ?story without basic belief lacks direction, and basic belief without story is lifeless.? He illustrates this relationship between story and Catholic belief with sensitive and powerful narratives, including the account of his own mother's death and its impact on him. This is an invaluable resource for anyone involved in conveying the story of Jesus and the church: pastors, homilists, catechetical leaders, catechists and teachers, parish ministers, and families, as well as all who wish to find God in their own stories.
With an engaging and personal style, Fr. Bob Hater considers both the future and the past in this one-of-a-kind bridge building book about catechesis in America.
What is hate and why is there so much of it? How does it originate, and what can we do about it? This book opens with a discussion of how hate makes its presence felt in the real world, discussing various definitions and theories of hate. Next it describes a duplex - two-part - theory of hate. According to the first part of the theory, hate has three components: negation of intimacy, passion, and commitment. According to the second part of the theory, this structure of hate originates from stories people create about the target - that, say, a group comprises enemies of God, or monsters, or vermin, or power-crazy tyrants, or any of a number of other stories. The authors discuss hate in the context of interpersonal relationships, survey the role of propaganda in inciting hate and analyze the role of hate in instigating terrorism, massacres, and genocides.
The Catholic family is a domestic church, rooted in God’s love and challenged to hope. Yet Catholic families today are beset with attacks from within and without, as were early Christian house churches. The latter faced persecution and rejection from society and even their own family members. Today’s domestic churches face challenges of materialism, individualism, and secularism, coming through technology, media, and the contemporary culture. The Church must respond to these challenges by seeking new ways to minister directly to families. The future of parish life will depend largely on how a parish supports family life. Drawing on the experience of the early Church, Evangelizing Today’s Domestic Churches invites pastors and those engaged in pastoral ministry to take the lead in helping families recognize their responsibility before God to become vibrant domestic churches.
A compelling celebration of Robert A. Heinlein and his vision, this book contains many works by the Grand Master of science fiction, including two major novellas, "Destination Moon" and "Tenderfoot in Space".
Any time is a good time to examine the meaning of our lives. A new millennium offers a special invitation. This book lays bare the basic blueprint of our timeless search. Filled with autobiographical stories that link the author's search to our own, the book synthesizes the principles that link all archetypes together. As such, it transcends religious affiliation; it is like a DNA of our shared spiritual quest.
Famous Old West Murder Mysteries contains some of the most celebrated, dreadful, savage, and brutal killings in history during the early eighteen hundreds. Some cases were solved and justice was rendered at the end of a gun or a vigilante rope. Many cases went unsolved, unreported, and were unknown due to the lack of slow law enforcements, unobtainable information, and inability to carry out a true investigation. Before witnesses could be found, if there were any, the criminals were long gone and never apprehended or arrested.
This edition makes available in a single edition all of Hunt's major works, fully annotated and with a consolidated index. The set will include all of Hunt's poetry, and an extensive selection of his periodical essays.
We're mad as Heaven, and we're not going to take it anymore!" declares historian Robert McElvaine in this passionate and often hilarious rallying cry for sincere Jesus followers. He lets us know that the extreme right wing won't be allowed to speak for all Christians any longer. This polemic blends outrage and humor to expose the televangelists and the leaders of megachurches as the people Jesus warned us about. The religion McElvaine calls ChristianityLite promises, "Be saved without sacrifice or good works!" Run by a crew of politicians, megachurch preachers, televangelists, hypocrites, and snake-oil salesmen, it has hijacked true Christianity and distorted it into something Jesus wouldn't recognize, a religion that advocates war and intolerance, values money above charity, preaches hatred instead of brotherhood, and promises "true" believers the keys to the gates of the kingdom of God--and to the bank.--From publisher description.
Dont Kill This Child focuses on the importance of us delivering that eternal purpose for which God brought us here on earth. It stresses that in an attempt to birth that purpose, there must be many tough challenges to overcome, but in the midst of those struggles and challenges, we must not let that child in us die. The child here speaks of the gift, transformative ideas, or talent that God deposited in every individual that only that individual can exploit, develop, or nurture for the benefit of others. The book tells us that God has finished His work here on earth and has commissioned ushumanityto represent Him here to see that His purpose and plan for the universe is actualized. So dont kill that God-deposited child in you.
Wind In The Attic is one of the most moving and compelling personal accounts of growing up Pagan. This book helps people discover new social and magickal systems coined by the author, systems like the wheel of truths, social evolutionism and more. With detailed personal accounts, practical understanding of Chaos and Elven High Magick, and with easy to follow instructions, Wind In The Attic is one of the most revealing books on the Market.
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