Forget what you've read about romantic, peaceful love. The way we really love each other, and the way God loves us, is messy, chaotic, and unpredictable. The author traces this crazy love through literature, popular culture, and religious history in this reflective, wise book.

Love Impatient, Love Unkind: Eros Human and Divine

Self-Help

Hederman, Mark Patrick

Relationships

Crossroad

Life is a mystery quite beyond the comprehension of our normal ways of understanding. Having lived as a Benedictine monk for over fifty years, Mark Patrick Hederman has learned how to engage with mystery. Here, he explains how to bring a new sense of the sacred into your life. Despite clamorous reports to the contrary, he argues that religion is alive and well in our world. Those who say that secularization has taken over are imposing their own `dogmas' on an unsuspecting and gullible public. In this fascinating book he contends that most of us are religious and can't help it: being human means being `religious', otherwise we would die of despair. The idea that science and religion are opposing forces is false, but he maintains that the arts are the only way we can convey the sacred to today's world. A mytho-poetic language could provide a `middle voice,' a `third language' that bridges that gap between science and religion in our society.

Living the Mystery: What lies between Science and Religion

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Columba Books

Since the moment he met 'God' in the 1950's on Knockfierna [Hill of Truth], Mark Patrick Hederman has spent a lifetime trying to square this epiphany with the theology he has been privileged to study from the age of twenty.Now a Benedictine Monk of Glenstal Abbey, Hederman continues to explore how we as Irish Roman Catholics can hone in on the most precious aspects of our faith and cancel the surrounding noise. More pressingly, the author invites us to ask where 'God' is to be found in the Ireland of today.

Crimson and Gold: Life as a Limerick

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Mark Patrick Hederman, former headmaster of Glenstal Abbey School, and now Abbot there, looks at the flaws in the Irish education system and how it should be doing more to develop the imagination of our children to help them meet the challenges that lie ahead.

The Boy in the Bubble: Education as Personal Relationship

Veritas

Kissing The Dark: Connecting With The Unconscious

Veritas Pubns

Manikon Eros: Mad, Crazy Love

Bestselling author Mark Patrick Hederman traces the history of dialogue in the Roman Catholic church since its introduction in the 1960s by Pope John XXIII. Providing a philosophical analysis of this idea in Martin Buber, he compares the uses made of it in Catholicism using that role model. He also suggests that we have only begun to understand the implications of this reality in our religious lives; that it was the Holy Spirit who must have inserted the idea into an otherwise unlikely constituency; that Christianity in the twenty-first century - which is becoming a minority interest - had better take this notion of Dialogue fully on board if it is to survive and to accomplish the unity which was the unambiguous precept of its founder.

I Must be Talking to Myself: Dialogue in the Roman Catholic Church since Vatican II

Symbolism: The Glory of Escutcheoned Doors is about experiencing this world symbolically. The energy of God takes over as the operating fuel in human personality. This happens and perdures through a life of symbols. From such a perspective the most impor

Symbolism: Glory of Escutcheoned Doors

Coupled with very incisive and honest comments on the current state of the church in Ireland, and with a reflective meditation on the Murphy Report on the Dublin Archdiocese, Abbot Hederman offers a visionary and very stimulating image of how things might be if only we all listen to the voices of artists in our midst. ""In `Underground Cathedrals,' Mark Patrick Hederman...has written a brave and timely book.""-Commonweal.

Underground Cathedrals

A guide to connecting with our neglected unconscious through the Tarot cards. Getting in touch with the unconscious can be difficult and dangerous. Our ordinary approach to life, our trained and cultivated ways of thinking, are allergic to this swampy unknown. We lose our bearings, we panic. The Tarot cards are like 'an idiots guide' to the unconscious, an easy way to subvert the rational and allow the energies beneath to creep up through the floorboards. If you learn to shuffle and to deal the twenty-two major cards of this ancient museum of the unconscious, it will help you to familiarise yourself with a symbolic way of thinking and domesticate an underworld of otherwise meaningless shadows and shapes. This book gives an introduction to the Tarot, a history of its uses and abuses, a practical guide to its value as an underground map. It also provides a meditation on each one of the twenty-two major arcana which can help the reader to undertake their own spiritual journey. Mark Patrick Hederman is a philosopher and monk.

Tarot; Talisman or Taboo?: Reading the World As Symbol

Occult & Paranormal

Currach Pr

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