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Alessandro Serenelli

Author : Charles D. Engel
Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor
ISBN 13 : 1681925591
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Alessandro Serenelli written by Charles D. Engel and published by Our Sunday Visitor. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Maria Goretti, now a Saint, was my good Angel, sent to me through Providence to guide and save me. I still have impressed upon my heart her words of rebuke and pardon. She prayed for me, she interceded for her murderer.” — Alessandro Serenelli Many people are familiar with the story of Saint Maria Goretti and her grisly murder at the age of eleven. On her deathbed, she said of her killer, “I forgive him, and I want him to be with me in heaven.” But how did her incredible forgiveness affect her murderer? While it took years, Maria’s offer of mercy eventually transformed Alessandro’s life. Alessandro’s story has never been fully told — until now. Alessandro Serenelli: A Story of Forgiveness is a captivating story of mercy and forgiveness, both given and accepted. Learn about Alessandro’s difficult childhood, the murder of Maria, his prison sentence, his conversion as a result of Maria’s intercession, and the final years of his life with a Capuchin community. Through his life story, you’ll gain a new understanding of the nature of repentance and of God’s patience and unfailing love.

St. Maria Goretti

Author : Godfrey Robert Poage C.P.
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787201228
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book St. Maria Goretti written by Godfrey Robert Poage C.P. and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MARIA GORETTI was not yet 12 years old when she was faced with that momentous decision in July of 1902: Sin or death. Maria’s answer to her assailant was clear: “No! No! It is a sin! God does not want this!” Alessandro stabbed Maria 14 times, and little Maria became another virgin martyr in the line of St. Agnes and St. Cecilia. Here is the beautiful true story of Maria’s virtuous life that led to her heroic choice, of the Goretti family’s terrible poverty, Maria’s First Holy Communion, her great maturity in shouldering adult responsibilities, her forgiveness of her murderer, her lingering death, then finally her public elevation to sainthood in 1950—in the presence of her mother, her family and the largest crowd ever before seen at a canonization—over half a million people. A contemporary classic, this is truly a book for all—because people of any age will be inspired by St. Maria Goretti’s purity and love of God—which triumphed over her love for life and even over the anonymity of death.

The Life and Witness of Saint Maria Goretti

Author : Rev. Fr. Jeffrey Kirby, S.T.L.
Publisher : TAN Books
ISBN 13 : 1618907557
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Witness of Saint Maria Goretti written by Rev. Fr. Jeffrey Kirby, S.T.L. and published by TAN Books. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Maria Goretti was only a child when she died a martyr’s death. Yet today, she inspires millions who find in her a perfect model of purity and holiness. Read here about her great holiness in the midst of tremendous suffering , how she died at the hands of a vicious murderer who tried to defile her purity, and how she visited this very same murderer years later in his jail cell to forgive him. Fr. Jeffrey Kirby examines the life of this little saint as he reflects on the Beatitudes and how she, along with her family, lived them each day. In a world where purity is corrupted in the darkness of the night and mercy is abandoned in the name of vengeance, let us turn to St. Maria Goretti and see her as the dawn of a new day, where the light of Christ shines on each of us and guides us into His Kingdom.

Butler's Lives of the Saints

Author : Alban Butler
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780860122562
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Butler's Lives of the Saints written by Alban Butler and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than two centuries, "Butler's" has been one of the best known, most widely consulted hagiographies. In its brief and authoritative entries, readers can find a wealth of knowledge on the lives and deeds of the saints, as well as their ecclesiastical and historical importance since canonization.

Holy People of the World [3 volumes]

Author : Phyllis G. Jestice
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851096493
Total Pages : 1044 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Holy People of the World [3 volumes] written by Phyllis G. Jestice and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cross-cultural encyclopedia of the most significant holy people in history, examining why people in a wide range of religious traditions throughout the world have been regarded as divinely inspired. The first reference on the subject to span all the world's major religions, Holy People of the World: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia examines the impact of individuals who, through personal charisma and inspirational deeds, served both as glorious examples of human potential and as envoys for the divine. Holy People of the World contains nearly 1,100 biographical sketches of venerated men and women. Written by religious studies experts and historians, each article focuses on the basic question: How did this person come to be regarded as holy? In addition, the encyclopedia features 20 survey articles on views of holy people in the major religious traditions such as Islam, Buddhism, and African religions, as well as 64 comparative articles on aspects of holiness and veneration across cultures such as awakening and conversion experiences, heredity, gender, asceticism, and persecution. Whether exploring by religion, culture, or historic period, this extensively cross-referenced resource offers a wealth of insights into one of the most revealing—and least explored—common denominators of spiritual traditions.

Pietro DiDonato, the Master Builder

Author : Matthew Diomede
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838752890
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (528 download)

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Download or read book Pietro DiDonato, the Master Builder written by Matthew Diomede and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Pietro DiDonato, the Master Builder, author Matthew Diomede explores the role of the immigrant Italian-American writer in twentieth-century American letters by examining the life and work of the novelist, dramatist, and essayist Pietro DiDonato. Diomede uses the text of two lengthy interviews with the writer to discover the themes of love, death, women, beauty, rebellion, and the mystery of life that can be found in DiDonato's works. He also touches on DiDonato's writing process." "Diomede then incorporates these concepts into a critical analysis of several of DiDonato's works, including his novels, This Woman, Christ in Concrete, and Three Circles of Light; a play, The Love of Annunziata; two biographies, Immigrant Saint: The Life of Mother Cabrini and The Penitent; and an essay, Christ in Plastic. Central to Diomede's analysis are two concepts of analyst Carl Jung - that dreams can prove valuable in understanding ourselves and that full human realization occurs when a person takes on a father (male) component and a mother (female) component. Diomede also explores the development of DiDonato's autobiographical character, Paul/Paolo, in three novels and a play. He then demonstrates the value of dreams by tracing Paul's dream/nightmare in Christ in Concrete through DiDonato's oeuvre to the character's fullest development in This Woman, the pinnacle of DiDonato's work. Besides exploring the Jungian concepts in DiDonato's biographies, Diomede demonstrates how love is the "concrete" that is central to the author's work."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Not So Sorry

Author : Kaya Oakes
Publisher : Broadleaf Books
ISBN 13 : 1506486975
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Not So Sorry written by Kaya Oakes and published by Broadleaf Books . This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's time for a nuanced discussion about forgiveness. From religious communities to therapeutic spaces, the importance of forgiving those who've wronged us is often enshrined as an unqualified good. But what about horrifying cases of abuse, predatory behavior, or systemic wrong? Too often, when predators or abusers are exposed, the chorus comes immediately: "What about forgiveness?" In these cases, forgiveness places the onus on victims, diminishes real hurt and anger, lets perpetrators off the hook, and prevents justice from being done. In Not So Sorry, journalist and culture critic Kaya Oakes tackles these questions with intelligence, nuance, and a bit of righteous anger. Ranging effortlessly from Christian theology and world history to psychology and pop culture, Oakes takes us on a whirlwind tour of the many abuses of the concept of forgiveness, including the abuse scandals of the Catholic church, the outing of high-profile abusers like Larry Nassar, and white America's obsession with false narratives of marginalized peoples granting forgiveness to oppressors. Ultimately, Oakes dares us to ask the necessary question: Is it ever better not to forgive?

St. Maria Goretti Coloring Book

Author : Mary Fabyan Windeatt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780895553744
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (537 download)

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Download or read book St. Maria Goretti Coloring Book written by Mary Fabyan Windeatt and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beautiful, true story of the 12-year-old girl who in 1902 died a martyr to preserve her purity. Describes her virtuous life, poverty, holiness, valiant resistance, heroic death, conversion of her murderer and canonization. She saw everything through the lens of God's holy will. A wonderful example for the modern world. Impr. 33pgs, PB

United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

Author : Catholic Church. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Publisher : USCCB Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781574554502
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book United States Catholic Catechism for Adults written by Catholic Church. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and published by USCCB Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references (pages 540-542) and indexes.

Catholic Saints Prayer Book

Author : Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle
Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor
ISBN 13 : 1612781306
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Catholic Saints Prayer Book written by Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle and published by Our Sunday Visitor. This book was released on 2008-03-18 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moments of inspiration from some of your favorite saints: strive to imitate their virtues, learn from their timeless wisdom, and ask for their intercessions. Dear St. Padre Pio, Pray for me, please, that I may receive the graces I need to deeply participate in the holy sacrifice of the Mass. Please help me to desire humility, simplicity, and the spirit of obedience in my walk of life. Help me to realize the power in suffering united to the will of God. St. Padre Pio, pray for us and all who invoke your aid. If it is in God's holy will, please grant me (here mention your request). Amen.

Choosing Forgiveness

Author : Fr. Thomas Berg
Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor
ISBN 13 : 1681926547
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Choosing Forgiveness written by Fr. Thomas Berg and published by Our Sunday Visitor. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To say that offering forgiveness is a challenge is an understatement. Forgiveness is tough! Forgiveness is often messy. Forgiveness doesn’t feel good to most of us. And when it comes to the biggest, deepest hurts in life, forgiveness can seem impossible. Some hurts are the everyday, garden-variety irritations we endure for having to live in the company of other human beings who lose their tempers, get up on the wrong side of the bed, say nasty things, are ungrateful, selfish, and irritable. Some hurts are of a magnitude that far transcend these — degradation, exploitation, abandonment, rejection, humiliation, racism, bullying, physical, sexual, or emotional abuse. But with God’s grace, even in those most difficult cases, forgiveness is possible. In Choosing Forgiveness, Fr. Thomas Berg and Dr. Timothy G. Lock are your guides on the way toward forgiveness through the grace of God. This book will help you discover the pathway to healing, peace, and interior freedom, releasing you and those who have wronged you from the bondage of unforgiveness.

The Big Hustle

Author : Jim Wahlberg
Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor
ISBN 13 : 1681926040
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book The Big Hustle written by Jim Wahlberg and published by Our Sunday Visitor. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jim Wahlberg went to prison the second time at 22 years old, he was sentenced to six to nine years for breaking and entering, bargained down from life for home invasion. He had staggered into a Boston cop’s apartment, helping himself to the sellable stuff and all the beer in the fridge. The cop came home, found Jim passed out at the kitchen table, beat the hell out of him, and arrested him. But Wahlberg, a 130-pound kid from Dorchester, had learned some things from his life on the street and his first prison sentence. He knew how to survive. And he knew that if he wanted to avoid serving the full sentence, he would have to do something. He did what he was best at: He hustled. He would create the illusion that he was trying to change, that he’d become the model prisoner, not a guy hell-bent on getting out while he was still young enough to drink more, steal more, and do more drugs. He didn’t know, though, that the Catholic priest he was trying to hustle was actually hustling him. The Big Hustle is the story of a redeemed life and a family’s healing. This is the no-holds-barred, unvarnished, and sometimes brutal true story of Jim Wahlberg, the fifth of nine kids growing up in a working-class Irish Catholic neighborhood outside of Boston, hustling for attention any way he could get it, which led him to the biggest hustle of his life. Against all odds he got clean, he got out, and he got the girl. Jim dedicated his new life as a former addict to working with addicts, and for years has spread the word that recovery is possible. But nothing could have prepared him for what came next. His discovery that his own son was an addict threw Jim into a crisis—one that led him deeper into his faith and led to healing he never thought possible. This book is a testament to God’s power and an invitation to all of us to hope in the darkest places. About the Author Jim is the fifth oldest Wahlberg. Like his brothers Donny and Mark, Jim recovered from his tough upbringing in the streets of Dorchester to become producer, writer, and director of films, including The Circle of Addiction, What About the Kids?, and The Lookalike. Jim is the executive director of the Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation, created to improve the quality of life for inner city youth through a working partnership with other youth organizations. Jim and his wife live in South Florida and have three children.

This Saint Will Change Your Life

Author : Thomas J. Craughwell
Publisher : Quirk Books
ISBN 13 : 159474534X
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book This Saint Will Change Your Life written by Thomas J. Craughwell and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heaven Help Us! Your days of worry and frustration are over. Whoever you are, whatever you do, there’s a patron saint who wants to help you—specifically you—with your troubles. This Saint Will Change Your Life features 300 patron saints for every person and situation imaginable. • There are patron saints for travelers, vegetarians, and women in labor. • For gamblers, lawyers, and parents with disappointing children. • For families stressed by houseguests. • For victims of toothaches, appendicitis, and sore throats. • For beekeepers, booksellers, sailors, schoolgirls, and even (we kid you not) vampire hunters! This Saint Will Change Your Life! describes the real-life histories of an amazing variety of holy figures from the Christian faith and reveals how each became associated with particular beneficiaries. Also included are reproductions of 300 full-color holy cards depicting these heavenly helpers in all their glory.

Lay Saints

Author : Joan Carroll Cruz
Publisher : TAN Books
ISBN 13 : 0895558572
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book Lay Saints written by Joan Carroll Cruz and published by TAN Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has dreams and goals that they want to achieve, but the foremost and overarching goal for every catholic, and the only one that brings true happiness, should be to become a saint and enjoy the Beatific Vision. It is a momentous task that can often seem overwhelming and unattainable. Indeed, without the aid of grace it is impossible. But confident hope can be placed in God that He will always provide the grace necessary to accomplish such a feat. The saints in this volume are evidence of this fact and serve as role models for cooperation with the action of God’s grace. Within this volume are fifty eight saints who achieved holiness as husbands, wives, parents, or youth. Some lived in marital bliss with never a quarrel; others suffered greatly at the hands of their spouse, and many became saints while still at a tender young age. Each of these saints have qualities to be emulated in living as a member of a family, whether patience is needed in bearing with the faults of a spouse or temperance is needed to check a natural inclination to anger.

Undocumented Saints

Author : William A. Calvo-Quirós
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197630227
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Undocumented Saints written by William A. Calvo-Quirós and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undocumented Saints follows the migration of popular saints from Mexico into the US and the evolution of their meaning. The book explores how Latinx battles for survival are performed in the worlds of faith, religiosity, and the imaginary, and how the socio-political realities of exploitation and racial segregation frame their popular religious expressions. It also tracks the emergence of inter-religious states, transnational ethnic and cultural enclaves unified by faith. The book looks at five vernacular saints that have emerged in Mexico and whose devotions have migrated into the US in the last one hundred years: Jesús Malverde, a popular bandido turned saint caudillo; Santa Olguita, an emerging feminist saint linked to border women's experiences of sexual violence; Juan Soldado, a murder-rapist soldier who is now a patron for undocumented immigrants and the main suspect in the death of an eight-year-old victim known now as Santa Olguita; Toribio Romo, a Catholic priest whose ghost/spirit has been helping people cross the border into the US since the 1990s; and La Santa Muerte, a controversial personification of death who is particularly popular among LGBTQ migrants. Each chapter contextualizes a particular popular saint within broader discourses about the construction of masculinity and the state, the long history of violence against Latina and migrant women, female erasure from history, discrimination against non-normative sexualities, and as US and Mexican investment in the control of religiosity within the discourses of immigration.

The Seeker's Guide to Saints

Author : Mitch Finley
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498293107
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book The Seeker's Guide to Saints written by Mitch Finley and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who were the saints and what is it about them that causes people all over the world to remember them? What were their stories, motivations, passions--and shortcomings? This informative, delightful, inspiring book reveals the truth behind the misconceptions and the mystique in a survey of saints throughout the history of the Church. The stories included here emphasize that, although the saints were often flawed and quirky individuals, what made them saintly above all else was their dedication to faith. They had a "passionate, extraordinary, pull-out-all-the-stops devotion," writes award-winning Catholic author Mitch Finley, and a desire for truth that is not unlike our own.

Sacraments of Initiation: Intimacy This Side of Heaven

Author : Nicholas H. Kovacs, O.F.S.
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329564839
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Sacraments of Initiation: Intimacy This Side of Heaven written by Nicholas H. Kovacs, O.F.S. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the sacraments of initiation in the Catholic Church and how they are vehicles into entering an intimate relationship with God. The book highlights the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation and the Eucharist.