A delightful retelling of the legends of St. Nicholas and the facinating story how, in the context of America, St. Nick became Santa Claus, the embodiment of jollyness and gift giving. The author weaves it in such a way that the sacred and the secular join to provide a strong symbol of God's presence in everyday life.

Saint Nicholas in America: Christmas Holy Day and Holiday

Religion & Spirituality

Nicholas Ayo

Christian Books & Bibles

Corby Books

CSI MasterFormat, 2011 Edition

Construction Specifications Institute (CSI)

The God Father Nicholas Ayo describes here is not the God that many have made in our image. Flawed images of God cause people to doubt God or limit Him. If there is a loving God who loves each and every one of us, everything changes. We are in the hands of an Infinite God and this book is an extended meditation on who God is not, and an exciting probe into who God really is.

Your God May Be Too Small

ACTA Publications

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common diagnosis in daily clinical practice, occuring in virtually all fields of medicine. Critically ill patients are especially prone to the development of AKI due to frequent haemodynamic instability, multiple risk factors and, diagnostic and/or treatment complications. Severe AKI substantially prolongs the intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay, with increased risk of death. AKI is also a predisposing factor for multiple organ dysfunction syndrome and is usually a part of it. For these and other reasons, critical care nephrology plays an irreplaceable role in treating critically ill patients in ICUs. The current trend in medicine generally not only in critical care nephrology is to gather as much scientific knowledge as possible and in medicine, everything is interrelated. Further, knowledge of pathophysiology and understanding the causes of illness come in an era of increasing polypharmacy and the escalating side effects of drugs. The latter can cause conditions with the same clinical picture as immune system disorders, viruses and bacteria. Another issue is poisonings and drug intoxications, which are a daily issue in ICU settings. In short, the aetiological spectrum of disease has expanded. This book presents the basic principles in critical care nephrology and covers the epidemiology, pathophysiology, the most frequent syndromes, poisonings and conservative or invasive treatment options. The aim is to present an easily understandable overview using relevant scientific research results, along with the authors own practical clinical experience from the University Hospital of Ostrava in the Czech Republic. The authors believe that this textbook will be useful to physicians who have to make rapid diagnoses and decision making in daily ICU practice.

The Basic Principles of Critical Care Nephrology

Medical Books

Nadezda Petejova

Arnost Martinek

PH.D.

Medicine

Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

The process of preparing a Catholic funeral can be a healing and life-giving experience for all who are involved. This resource provides parish staffs with a thorough treatment of the various funeral rites from the first meeting with families after death through the burial. It offers pastoral guidance for collaborating with families, preparing the liturgical environment and music, selecting prayer texts, scheduling liturgical ministers, and ways for your parish to be a source of comfort, hope, and strength for mourners.

Guide for Celebrating® Funerals

Joseph DeGrocco

Bruce T. Morrill SJ

H. Richard Rutherford

Liturgy Training Publications

The Role of the Priest in Christian Initiation

Stephen S. Wilbricht

The homily is a primary way that pastors and deacons can communicate how the whole parish community forms the catechumens. Many parishioners are not aware of their role in the Christian initiation process. In Preaching Discipleship: Preparing Homilies for Christian Initiation, Michael E. Connors, CSC, provides homilists and catechists with the tools to evangelize not only the catechumens present, but also to capture the imagination of the parish community so that they too realize their own role in the Christian Initiation process.

Preaching for Discipleship: Preparing Homilies for Christian Initiation

Michael E. Connors

Effective Preaching: Bringing People into an Encounter with God is a practical collection of essays, featuring leading preachers, homilists and homily instructors. Compiled by Michael E. Connors, CSC, the Director of the John Marten Program in Homiletics and Liturgics at the University of Notre Dame, this imaginative book focuses entirely on the practical side of Catholic preaching. It will provide imaginative, hands-on, tested advice to help homilists develop preaching effectiveness, using techniques that will turn satisfactory preaching into exceptional preaching. This practical resource will be essential for priests, permanent deacons, seminarians in homiletics classes; retreat leaders, RCIA catechists; all who preach.

Effective Preaching: Bringing People into an Encounter with God

Edited by Michael E. Connors

In this time of social distancing, effective practice and proclamation of Scripture is essential. As assembly members continue to experience Mass in a variety of ways, they still encounter the Lord through the Word proclaimed at home through live streaming, or in a church while socially distanced. Whether preparing readings for live-streamed or in-person Masses, Workbook for Lectors, Gospel Readers, and Proclaimers of the Word® continues to help and inspire readers and gives them tools they need to proclaim the Word at Mass, or simply reflect at home with a greater understanding of the readings. Workbook provides: -The Sunday readings in large print for practice 
-Proclamation suggestions for emphasis in bold text 
-Commentaries that provide background and explain the meaning of the reading 
-The Responsorial Psalms for meditation and context

Workbook for Lectors, Gospel Readers, and Proclaimers of the Word 2021

Catherine Cory

Elizabeth Nagel

Peter O’Leary

This enduring classic, reprinted as an heirloom Catholic Answers Classics Series, is beautifully bound with hard cloth covers,heavy paper,gold embossing, and red silk ribbon bookmark. Little more than a generation ago, apologetics was not a niche pursuit for extra-zealous Catholics it was an integral part of instruction in the Faith. Fr. Joseph Cavanaugh s Evidence for Our Faith is a particular standout from that golden age. First published in the late 1950s, right before ecumenism replaced apologetics and comparative religion crowded out catechesis in too many Catholic institutions, Evidence for Our Faith presents an uncommonly clear and systematic case for the truth of the claims made by Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church. Originally written as an introductory text for Fr. Cavanaugh s undergraduates, Evidence returns as an invaluable and enduring resource for Catholics today who want to deepen their understanding of and ability to explain with confidence the Church s divinely ordained identity and authority.

Evidence for Our Faith- Catholic Answers Classics Edition

Joseph Cavanaugh

Catholic Answers Press

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