“Out of darkness is born the light.” – St. Catherine of Sienna The Way of the Cross with the Saints is a fruitful way for parishioners to walk the dark steps to Calvary with Jesus – toward the light of our redemption. At each of the stations we are accompanied by a saint whose thoughts illuminate the way, revealing the light-filled moment behind the darkness. Saints include: St. John Paul II St. Pio of Pietrelcina St. Thomas More St. Bernard of Clairvaux St. Leo the Great St. Thérèse of...
As followers of Christ, we are among those souls walking the steep slope to Calvary with Jesus ó to his death, but to our life. At each of the 15 stations we are accompanied by a saint whose thoughts illuminate the way, revealing the light-filled moment behind the darkness of each moment. Some of the saints include: St. John Paul II St. Pio of Pietrelcina St. Thomas More St. ThÈrËse of Lisieux St. Faustina St. Teresa of Calcutta Every Step with Jesus is a new and fruitful way to consider the...
Remembering Fr. Benedict Groeschel, CFR</p><p>Defender of the outcast, acclaimed teacher and spiritual director, insightful psychologist, and founding member of a thriving religious community, Father Benedict J. Groeschel was not merely a man of uncommon talents but one of extraordinary achievements.</p><p>Yet at heart he was a simple friar, a humble priest; and his goal in life was very modest: to follow as best he could the path God had chosen for...
Occupied by Memory explores the memories of the first Palestinian intifada. Based on extensive interviews with members of the «intifada generation,» those who were between 10 and 18 years old when the intifada began in 1987, the book provides a detailed look at the intifada memories of ordinary Palestinians. These personal stories are presented as part of a complex and politically charged discursive field through which young Palestinians are invested with meaning by scholars, politicians,...
Back Cover Isaac Collins is a young boy from the hills of East Kentucky. He and his father, Will, leave home to go to the bluegrass to buy horses. But as fate will have it, they are conscripted into Morgan’s raiders of the CSA. There, his life changes from a peaceful young man to a trail of gunsmoke and cattle drives and to becoming a deputy US marshal and falling in love with a beautiful young schoolteacher. He also begins a lifelong friendship with the Indians of the Oklahoman...
<P>Fela: Kalakuta Notes is an evocative account of Fela Kuti—the Afrobeat superstar who took African music into the arena of direct action. With his antiestablishment songs, he dedicated himself to Pan-Africanism and the down-trodden Nigerian masses, or «sufferheads.» In the 1970s, the British/Ghanaian musician and author John Collins met and worked with Fela in Ghana and Nigeria. Kalakuta Notes includes a diary that Collins kept in 1977 when he acted in Fela's...
