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Show Me The Way: Readings for Each Day of Lent 4 reviews
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Crossroad Classic, 1992
It challenges me to find the 'descending way' to God.
I've used this book for the last three Lenten seasons, and it just gets better each year. Each day's text is very short, usually less than 2 pages, so I don't ever feel that I just don't have time to read it. Even though the meditations are short, every day's reading is filled with challenges for me to become closer to God, and to find, as Nouwen puts it, the 'descending way'. This year I ...
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The Shattered Lantern: Rediscovering a Felt Presence of God4 reviews
Ronald Rolheiser
Crossroad Classic, 2001
Spiritual reading at its best
In this first book by Father Rolheiser he writes a clear and concise guide for those of us walking the contemporary and contemplative path. He contends that "today we, the children of Western culture, post-modern, adult children of the enlightenment, struggle with practical atheism. Our consciousness is clouded with narcissism, pragmatism, and unbridled restlessness so much so, that we are ...
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The Passion of Therese of Lisieux4 reviews
Guy Gaucher
Crossroad Classic, 1998
astonishing
Most books gloss over the last months of St. Therese, possibly because up until the last 40 years TB was so common that nobody really needed to hear an in depth discussion of it. After reading this book you will be deeply moved. St. Therese went through a long dark night of the soul and body and although physically crushed she spiritually soared above it. I would definitely say that this book ...
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Doctors Of The Church: Thirty-Three Men and Women Who Shaped Christianity4 reviews
Bernard McGinn
Crossroad Classic, 1999
ILLUMINATING TEACHERS
Like most protestants the term "doctor of the church" meant little to me. If anything it may have referred to those ministers in the church who had conferred upon them an honorary doctory of divinity degree. As the years went by I encountered the term in one of my college religion classes but its origins were never explained to me until the advent of this book. Bernard McGinn profiles the ...
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Five Great Catholic Ideas3 reviews
Edward Clark
Crossroad Classic, 1998
5 Great Stars...
These ideas are great not because they are good, but also they serve as general tools for working on other ideas in the Catholic Community. What is the Immaculate Conception? A structural and solid explanation is given here. That which is foundational is also novel. The author offers a "net" that readers can use to gather many Catholic topics together.
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Your Sorrow Is My Sorrow: Hope and Strength in Times of Suffering4 reviews
Joyce Rupp
Crossroad Classic, 1999
For The Heavy of Heart
Your Sorrow is My Sorrow is one of those once in a lifetime books. I happened to pick this up by accident, or should I say by divine Providence. The words are comforting whether you have lost a loved one, to death, drugs or mistrust...this book will carry you through. The words of Mary come striking through to the heart and lay to rest in the lap of comfort and solace. The prayers are simple ...
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God's Ecstasy: The Creation of a Self-Creating World3 reviews
Beatrice Bruteau
Crossroad Classic, 1997
A fine description of the self-organized basis for creation.
Rarely have I read so captivating a dicussion of the evolution of life, indeed of the universe, in terms of self organization. Bruteau shows that the natural selection of random mutations by themselves cannot explain evolution; the improbabillities are too high. But an inherent capacity for self organization gets around the improbabillities. Self organization is apparent from the Big Bang ...
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Starlight: Beholding the Christmas Miracle all Year Long4 reviews
John Shea
Crossroad Classic, 1993
Starlight Is The Definative Advent Book
I pick it up each year as Advent rolls around. It gets me really ready for Christmas. I never get tired of reading it year after year. It is especially good, I would feel, for folks not of a religious bent. It gives fresh insight to the Christmas season.
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On Becoming A Counselor, Revised Edition: A Basic Guide for Nonprofessional Counselors and Other Helpers4 reviews
Eugene Kennedy
Crossroad Classic, 2001
Compassionate, Wise, Remarkable
Have you ever been drawn into a book because you felt like the author was writing especially for you? *On Becoming A Counselor* is warm, human and engaging. It is written for ANYONE who, without extensive psychological training, comes in contact with troubled or anxious people. This contact may be in a work setting, or across the back yard fence: the confused, the suffering, the immature who so ...
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I Asked For Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology6 reviews
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Crossroad Classic, 1983
A wise man indeed
There are few authors that one is even tempted to call "wise" - with Heschel one wishes to say "very wise". This anthology of short excerpts should be read in a meditational manner - he gives one much to think about - to not think about it is to miss the point of the book. An example: "Life passes on in proximity to the sacred, and it is this proximity that endows existence with ultimate ...
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Passion For Peace: The Social Essays3 reviews
Thomas Merton
Crossroad Classic, 1997
Working for Social Justice
A great book that lists many essays of Merton during the 60's, including some that orignally appeared in the Catholic Worker Newspaper. Many on non-violence, others on important figures of that time. I especially enjoyed the piece on Malcolm X.
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Simply Sane: The Spirituality of Mental Health3 reviews
Gerald May
Crossroad Classic, 1993
Be gentle with yourself
Most of us are "addicted to perfection". Always trying to become whom we imagine others want us to become. This leads to much anxiety, depression and loneliness. "To thy own self be true", we have to care and be gentle with our inner being if we want to go out into the world and love and be loved. Dr. May gives us direction on how to "let go and let be", to get out of our ego, our own way ...
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Eyes on Jesus: A Guide for Contemplation2 reviews
Michael Kennedy
Crossroad Classic, 1999
Growing Closer
Eyes on Jesus is a wonderful book, especially for those looking to deepen their sense of spirituality and relationship with Jesus. The meditations following each Bible passage depict the experiences and miracles of Jesus in a way that allows the reader to relate and enter into the experience themselves. When I pick up the book and read a section, I have a greater sense of the humanity of ...
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Eyes on the Cross: A Guide for Contemplation2 reviews
Michael Kennedy
Crossroad Classic, 2001
Marlon page 92
This book and Mike's methods of meditation continue to help the kids of juvenile hall, the prisoners of death row and prisoners all over the nation. It gives them spiritual healing. Iknow because I am one of those he healed, he was the presence of Jesus in physical form for me. My name is found when you turn to page 92. I was the only lost sheep that was able to leave the concrete and steel cells ...
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Augustine: Major Writings (Crossroad Spiritual Legacy Series)2 reviews
Benedict Groeschel
Crossroad Classic, 1995
A newbie to Augustine loved it!
A great introduction to the writings of St. Augustine. What is also wonderful about the book is he traces different aspects of St. Augustine's personality such as "Augustine as a mystic" and gives excerpts supporting his conclusions.
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Turning Point3 reviews
Robert McClory
Crossroad Classic, 1997
What If?
A fascinating study, written in an easy to follow and understand journalistic study, of the little know Papal Commission on Birth Control which in 1966 recommended to Paul VI by a lopsided majority that the Church reform its position banning all forms of artificial birth control. Not only did the Commission make this recommendation by it was endorsed by a solid majority of a special committee ...
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The Psalms: Meditations for Every Day of the Year3 reviews
Joan D. Chittister
Crossroad Classic, 1996
ONE WHO HAS MEDITATED THE PSALMS EVERY DAY OF HER ADULT BENEDICTINE LIFE SHARES HER INSIGHT GENEROUSLY AND WISELY WITH US
Once more we are fortunate to find the prolific and Catholic Benedictine Sister Joan sharing the depths of her spiritual insight with us, guiding us in prayer and here in meditation of the Psalms, these 150 ancient prayers and praises of the Old Testament read in their entirety each week by the followers of Our Holy Father Saint Benedict.
Knowing well our softness Sister Joan does not oblige ...
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Heaven Begins Within You3 reviews
Anselm Gruen
Crossroad Classic, 1999
Heaven Begins Within You
An Outstanding book, that we can incorporate into our daily lives, even though we are not monks. The practical knowledge is extremely useful in dealing with the human condition. It offers a fascinating perspective that wholeness with God can be obtained by exploring the depths of the human soul, instead of trying to reach the hights of God by our own works. The advice can certainly give us a ...
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Poverty Celibacy & Obedience : A Radical Option for Life2 reviews
Diarmuid O'Murchu
Crossroad Classic, 1999
A refocusing of the reason for people living a vowed life.
A delicious millenial retransformation of the vowed life as a paradigm for oppositiional values in this age of law and order. O'Murchu defines the vows of religion in their pan-global concept as quintessential guideposts for the people of the 21st Century. Explicating Adrian Van Kamm's broad notion of the vows' "value radiating" essence, O'Murchu defines the vows in the context of guidelines ...
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Gospel Light2 reviews
John Shea
Crossroad Classic, 1998
Spiritual Power in the Gospel Stories
A master storyteller explores the gospel stories about Jesus as tools for spiritual transformation. Among the stories examined: Nicodemus (John 2), the baptism of Jesus (Luke 3), the healing of the paralytic (Mark 2), the woman caught in adultery, the road to Emaus.
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