Prayerful devotional meditations on The Way of the Cross.The Way of the Cross at Jerusalem, known as the Via Dolorosa or Via Crucis, marks Jesus path to his crucifixion. It has been the destination of pilgrims since the early days of the Church, and saints throughout the ages confirm that meditating on the Passion of the Christ is most fruitful. Fourteen significant moments along the way are marked by a "station," and meditating upon the stations enables you to make a pilgrimage to the moment of Jesus' Passion. Erecting stations in other places made the fulfillment of this devotion possible for those who could not travel to the Holy Land.One such Way of the Cross is located just outside Catherine Doherty's poustinia--her cabin, her desert. From the earliest days of her apostolic life, Catherine daily made this pilgrimage with Jesus Christ and his mother, walking with them, suffering with them, taking up the cross on the way to crucifixion and resurrection. Catherine's diaries, writings, and life brim with meditations, lessons, and insights gained from her spiritual pilgrimages to Golgotha.We offer to you some of these personal meditations from Catherine's heart during her pilgrimage along the Way, to guide you through your own pilgrimage to crucifixion and resurrection. This devotion begins with some of Catherine s meditations that you can pray to prepare your heart and focus your mind before you make your Way, or to deepen your resolve after making your Way. Each station includes Scripture reflections, a meditation and prayer from Catherine, and common public prayers--accompanied by the wood carvings of the Stations that appear in the Madonna House chapel in Combermere. (We have also included an English translation of the Stabat Mater; its verses can be sung between the stations.)"When it received the Lord of Life lifeless, dead, the tomb became a manger again, the birthplace of life. Its silence sang a requiem of alleluias. Its coldness became all flame and fire of joy--joy beyond desire. Jesus slept within the cradle of its depths the sleep of the One who conquered death. Alone the tomb became witness to the mystery of victory." -- from Station XIV

The Stations of the Cross: In the Footsteps of The Passion

Catherine Doherty

Madonna House Pubns

Love... love... love... never counting the cost. This new addition to the Little Mandate Book series, Marriage, offers fresh insight into the grace-filled Sacrament of Marriage. Both married and single people will find essential wisdom within, as Rosalie McPhee explores explores Scripture, the teachings of the Church, and the writings of Catherine Doherty on the institution of marriage, as well as offering practical and down-to-earth guidance for couples seeking to deepen their commitment to each other. She offers her own candid experiences of the joys and struggles of Christian Marriage. "The Sacrament of Marriage is a fountain of grace which, together with the grace of your Baptism and Confirmation, and the strength which comes from the Eucharist, will enable you, day by day, to accept sacrifices for each other s sake, to remain faithful in the face of every difficulty, trial and temptation, and in all ways to fulfill the demands of your calling as Christian married people." -- Pope John Paul II Today, as secularism conspires to crumble this noble edifice, we need to stand firm on this foundation that God himself created and ordained when he fashioned the first man and woman. The timeless wisdom of the Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, and Catherine Doherty, foundress of Madonna House, is featured prominently in this new series of books. The theme of Catherine's Little Mandate--a beautiful distillation of the Gospel of Jesus--weaves throughout and serves as an important foundation. Each book also gives an abundance of brief and profound quotations from Holy Scripture, and quotations from some of the great Catholic saints. These books are small enough to carry anywhere--and their wisdom is arranged in bite-size segments that you can read on the run, whenever you can spare time. Other titles in this series include Mothering Vol. 2 and Fathering Vol. 3.

Marriage: A Fountain of Grace (Little Mandate Book Vol. 1)

Self-Help

Rosalie McPhee

Relationships

Meditations--when you've lost your answers. Doubts come to everyone--but you are not alone. In her new book, Catherine Doherty walks with us through some of the doubts that trouble us most in this day and age. Doubts are part of the journey of faith. When you're affronted by doubts, when you can t get a handle on the answers that make you feel secure, you are walking in the company of the saints. Doubts come: Does God exist? Where is God s mercy? You wonder about yourself, you wonder if life is even worth living. At these times, you can feel confused, like God is punishing you. Actually, at these moments, Jesus is showing great confidence in you and deep love for you! These are the moments in which Jesus calls you to join him more deeply into love--real love that knows longing and searching and commitment and sacrifice. Nonetheless, it isn't easy doubting. It isn't easy being in the furnace. It's painful. It s scary. It s confusing. It's lonely. But you are not alone. Catherine Doherty knew many of the fears, doubts and anxieties of this life. God often took away her answers when she thought she had him figured out. Catherine lived through the major cataclysms of our time--here she shares meditations written in her poustinia and in the hustle of her life dedicated to the poor. Doubts assailed her inner life at every turn. Out of these experiences over many years came this book--which she fervently hoped would offer consolation to those who have reached the furnace of doubts in their walks of faith. Find rest and companionship in this book. Walk through these meditations and find new ways of seeing faith, hope and love. Find a new way of relating to Jesus.

In the Furnace of Doubts

Revealing the hidden transformational power of The Little Mandate.Father Robert Wild s classic trilogy on the Little Mandate of Jesus Christ given to Catherine Doherty now gathered into one comprehensive volume, including: Volume I: Journey to the Lonely Christ Volume II: Love, Love, Love Volume III: Journey in the Risen ChristIn this extensive work, Father Wild has compiled a simple, straightforward introduction to the spirituality of the Servant of God Catherine Doherty as synthesized in what she liked to call her Little Mandate a personal message to her from the Lord during the course of her lifetime. By making use of Catherine s own words and by quoting extensively from her published and unpublished works, he brings us right to the heart of her unique and life-changing gospel vision.

Journey to the Heart of Christ: The Little Mandate of God to Catherine Doherty

Meditations--when you hear an echo in your heart. The greatest pain of the world today is loneliness. Loneliness is a part of the journey of faith. When loneliness comes upon you, you want to go and hide in some corner--self-pity carries you like a big, huge wave on a beach all full of stones. You see that beach in your mind and you think you are going to be broken up on the rocks... But in the depths of every heart there is a garden enclosed. This garden is Gethsemane, and the enclosure is a meeting place for the Beloved, God. If you enter into this garden, you will hear the incredible sounds that Jesus heard: the heartbeats of God. God put loneliness in your heart so that you would hunger for him, and learn that unity with him brings unity with all. Catherine Doherty experienced what it was like to be alone and abandoned. Now, she shares meditations written in her poustinia and in the hustle of her life dedicated to the poor. Out of these experiences over many years came this book--which she fervently hoped would offer consolation to those who have trod the footprints of loneliness in their walks of faith.

In the Footprints of Loneliness

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Meditations--when your heart is pierced. Rejection can hurt beyond any other state or emotion. Rejection is a part of the journey of faith. To be rejected by friends hurts--being rejected by family even more so. This rejection is a mystery that encompasses you when you choose to follow Jesus Christ. Like him, you will experience that strange feeling of rejection by God himself, when you too cry out, "Father, Father, why have you forsaken me?" But as Catherine Doherty explains in this collection of meditations, if you want to follow Jesus, you must walk with him to a place where you will face the ultimate rejection: Christ occupied one side of the cross--you must be crucified on the other side. From its height, you will get a first glimpse of the land of love. For here, Love himself sets out on the supreme road of suffering. You will know that you must not blame anyone, and what is more, you must both bless them and pray for them, for maybe they knew not what they did. Catherine knew rejection throughout her missionary life. Now, she shares meditations written in her poustinia and in the hustle of her life dedicated to the poor. Out of these experiences over many years came this book--which she fervently hoped would offer consolation to those experiencing the cross of rejection in their walks of faith.

On the Cross of Rejection

"With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again."After sin, can love be rekindled, innocence renewed, joy restored?There is a great miracle in God, a great gift of God what is lost can be restored! Using the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the writings of Catherine Doherty, Beginning Again will show you the healing joy and spiritual restoration that awaits in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. I love confession. When you hear the words of absolution fall on your ears, it is like salve on your wounds. The forgiveness of God envelops you like a mantle, for the confessional is the altar of mercy. Only Love could devise such a wonder. At any hour, our souls can be washed clean and whiter than snow by the most holy sacrament of Penance. We can become little children again, newly baptized. We are like innocent babies again when we leave the confessional. Think of what this sacrament of confession means. Our Lord gives it to us to bathe our souls and make them alive again, resurrecting from sin in a mercy that knows no end until we die. Catherine DohertyWhat torture you feel after you ve uttered an unguarded word or behaved callously toward your beloved! The distance feels like a chasm. You hear the echo in your heart. You're distracted and restless. You feel sick. Your sorrow torments you. You bathe your heart in tears. Can the innocence be recovered? The love rekindled? The joy restored?Jesus is the Bridegroom, and we are his bride. Jesus knows our torment. He knows that we fear we ve broken our relationship with him through sin. He knows our fear of being forgotten, rejected, abandoned. He knows our shame. But Jesus is the most generous of lovers. He established the sacrament of confession so that we do not need to lose one moment of our life with him wallowing in guilt and misery.Catherine tells us, Christ s mercy was too immense to allow innocence to be destroyed without showing a way to restore it. So he gave us the sacraments of Penance and of the Eucharist which restore people to pristine innocence. It is yours for the asking, because he is in love with you. Only Love could create such a generous gift.Catherine s book isn t meant to be an extensive curriculum on confession. Rather, she speaks from her heart as a laywoman longing for reconciliation with her Beloved. Let her tender, passionate recounting of moments from her own love life with God teach you how to return to your Beloved s heart through the sacrament of confession after you ve been distracted and forgotten him who loves you more than you love yourself. The Lord Jesus Christ, physician of our souls and bodies, who forgave the sins of the paralytic and restored him to bodily health, has willed that his Church continue, in the power of the Holy Spirit, his work of healing and salvation, even among her own members. (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1421) Behold, I make all things new. (Revelation 21:5)

Beginning Again: Recovering Your Innocence and Joy Through Confession

Catherine Doherty believed that stories help us to understand the deep truths about life, because they are closer to life than mere ideas . Gathered here are three types of parables, or stories that reveal the mysterious presence of God in the persons and events.
In her "Pilgrim Stories," Catherine brings us around the fireside of her childhood home in the Russia of old, where she sat wide-eyed at the feet of holy pilgrims who had knocked on her parents door asking for food and shelter on their way to and from shrines.
In her "Blue Door Stories," Catherine shows how our very ordinary life witnesses to Christ and changes the world through this witnessing, through stories of faith-building incidents from her years as a pioneer of the lay apostolate.
Finally, her "How Stories" show us the fruits of Catherine s powerful imagination, brought forth in parables which symbolize the eternal truths of the spiritual life.
This new edition includes four new stories and beautiful folk art illustrations.

Not Without Parables: Stories of Yesterday, Today and Eternity

Written in a practical and personal style, Catherine Doherty's popular book brings us to the very heart of prayer. Her words give evidence of deep spirituality and practical wisdom as she draws on her years of reflection on Eastern and Western spiritual masters, tempered by her personal trials and tribulations. Distilling for us the answers to the pressing questions about prayer that dwell in our hearts, Catherine offers encouragment for growing in our prayer life. She gives us a book to meditate on, to open our perceptions, and shows us how to find space in our lives for prayer. "If you want to know what prayer is like," Catherine tells us, "listen to a child of two or three. When we address God in a childlike way, that's prayer." Seeking to live and understand the radical gospel of Jesus Christ, Catherine reveals how prayer has been the soul of her soul, her comfort and her enlightenment. More than just ideas on prayer, this book is about how to develop a personal, intimate life with God. "Thousands of books have been written on prayer. I don t suppose God minds the books, but I think he wants you and me to be the book." -- Catherine Doherty

Soul of My Soul: Coming to the Heart of Prayer

Family Mobility: Reconciling Career Opportunities and Educational Strategy (Changing Mobilities)

Wendy Patton

Paul Shield

Routledge

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