Following Vatican II, convents all over the country suffered loss in their sisterhood. Often secretive, neither those leaving nor those remaining had time to deal with the situation. In 1993, St. Benedict Convent, St. Joseph, MN, invited former sisters to visit. Out of this came these twenty-two stories.

Forever Your Sister

Biographies & Memoirs

Janice Wedl

Leaders & Notable People

North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc.

The continuing history of the Convent of the Sisters of the Order of St. Benedict at St. Joseph, Minnesota, from 1957 to the present. Includes some history of the College of St. Benedict, as well.

With Hearts Expanded: Transformations in the Lives of Benedictine Women, St. Joseph, Minnesota, 1957 to 2001

History

Carol Berg

Olivia Forster

Evin Rademacher

Emmanuel Renner

Americas

In this detailed and provocative study, Francis Bethel examines the life and thought of cultural critic, university professor, and sometime cowboy, John Senior (1923 1999). A privileged young man who studied the occult but became a leading proponent of traditional wisdom and arts (eventually converting to the Catholic Faith), Senior, unlike many of even his conservative peers, argued for something more than mere book learning. He championed the full restoration of realism, in which would be brought together the whole man senses, imagination, emotion, will, intellect, and body. Bethel uncovers the roots of Senior's thought, traces its provocative application, and reveals the possibilities it offers today to an academy wounded by pervasive moral and intellectual relativism, the loss of public credibility, and spiraling costs.

John Senior and the Restoration of Realism

Father Francis Bethel

Thomas More College Press

At Home with the Word® is your guide to a deeper understanding of the Sunday Scriptures. It provides the readings for this liturgical year, along with insights from Scripture scholars, and action steps. (Additional questions for reflection and discussion, as well as action steps are available for families with children, RCIA, and small faith groups, downloadable from the LTP Website.) Also includes prayers, citations for weekday readings, and other resources for Scripture study.

At Home with the Word 2014

Mary M. McGlone

james-campbell

Lisa M. Orchen

Marielle Frigge

Liturgy Training Publications

Foundations for Preaching and Teaching(TM) provides scripture backgrounds for each Sunday and Holyday of Obligation of the liturgical year. These backgrounds contain commentaries on all of the Lectionary readings, including the Responsorial Psalm. Written in a pastoral tone, these commentaries offer historical-critical background on the readings and underscore their relevance to life today. Each scripture background page includes an overlying theme that is drawn through the readings, providing homilists and catechists with a lens through which to prepare for Sunday. The scripture backgrounds are written by a diverse team of writers including Jean Marie Hiesberger, Biagio Mazza, Mary M. McGlone, Abbot Gregory J. Polan, Denise Simeone, and Paul Turner.

Foundations for Preaching and Teaching (TM): Scripture Backgrounds for 2014

PAUL TURNER

Mary A. Ehle

Biagio Mazza

Jean Marie Hiesberger

PHD.

Abbot Gregory J. Polan

Denise Simeone

Formerly published as Foundations for Preaching and Teaching, this resource is a compilation of selected Scripture backgrounds for Year A. Commentaries offer historical-critical backgrounds, identify recurring themes, and underscore the relevance of the readings to life today. A gem of a resource for all who teach and preach; this book will provide homilists with a lens through which to prepare each week.

Scripture Backgrounds for the Sunday Lectionary, Year A: A Resource for Homilists

Peg Ekerdt

George Smiga

And MORE

Workbook for Lectors, Gospel Readers, and Proclaimers of the Word® provides the ongoing instruction and advice that readers need. Not only does it assist them in preparing their assigned reading on a specific occasion, but when ministers of the Word read this resource every week as a way of reflecting on and learning about the Scriptures, it strengthens their proclamation skills and deepens their spiritual lives so that they can touch the hearts of the assembly with their reading. Workbook contains the readings in large print for practice, with words in bold indicating suggestions for emphasis, commentaries that give background and explain the meaning of the reading, margin notes with pronunciation guides and tips for proclamation, and the psalms for meditation and context. Workbook's introduction offers orientation to the ministry, catechesis about the place of the readings in the Mass, and for those parishes that want to adopt the practice on special occasions, links to audio files demonstrating chanted introductions and closings for the readings.

Workbook for Lectors, Gospel Readers, and Proclaimers of the Word® 2018

Elaine Park

Konrad Schaefer

Douglas Leal

Formerly published as Foundations for Preaching and Teaching, this resource is a compilation of selected Scripture backgrounds for Year B. Commentaries offer historical-critical backgrounds, identify recurring themes, and underscore the relevance of the readings to life today. A gem of a resource for all who teach and preach; this book will provide homilists with a lens through which to prepare each week.

Scripture Backgrounds for the Sunday Lectionary, Year B: A Resource for Homilists

Background of the Liturgy of the Hours, also known as the Divine Office, and recommendations for implementing this form of prayer in a parish setting.

Guide for Celebrating the Liturgy of the Hours

Christopher J. Ferraro

Anthony Ruff

Product Description Translated by Hope Heaney After the devastation of the French Revolution, the first abbot of Solesmes launched the ecclesial movement which invitedall Christians to experience a spiritual participation in the liturgy, the initial source of the true Christian spirit. Dom Guéranger worked to instill knowledge and love for the origins of Christianity and the Church of the Fathers, thus preparing a fertile and fruitful return to the sources for the entire Church. He defined himself as a man of the spiritual order, opposed in every way to the naturalism of his era. It seemed to him, and rightly so, that God s mystery could not be treated as were the human sciences He transcended them. Throughout his entire life, Dom Guéranger never stopped protesting against the diminished truths mentioned in Psalm 11:2. Review The abbot of Solesmes was a man of a great and single idea. He had from the start the genial intuition of his mission, and he devoted himself entirely to it: that of restoring to our disinherited age all the scattered treasures of the thousand-year tradition of Christianity, and above all the forgotten riches of antiquity that the Church preserves in her liturgy. Such was the luminous star that guided him in all his ways. And he envisaged this ideal in all its aspects: the study and the love of liturgical institutions; the pastoral value of the liturgical year and its ever varied teachings; the doctrinal foundations of this theological locus of first order; the treasures of asceticism and of mysticism which the liturgical seasons and the lives of the Saints bring us every day. In sum, Dom Guéranger placed himself from the beginning at the center of the temple, and he contemplated its every part and all its elements: he is the unequaled liturgist. Thus spoke Dom Lambert Beauduin, a Belgian monk, a main proponent in the early twentieth century of what has been called the liturgical movement. He and others wanted to continue what Dom Guéranger had begun in France in the preceding century. In fact, as a recent historian has pointed out, the very expression liturgical movement was first used by Guéranger, whose influence has proved to be so great even up until our time. Many Catholics know Dom Guéranger as the author of The Liturgical Year, a guide to the Church s liturgy that has helped them understand and appreciate the riches of the Roman Catholic liturgy. Many have also heard of the work accomplished by his monks at the Solesmes abbey in France for the restoration of Gregorian chant. We at Clear Creek Abbey belong to the Congregation of Solesmes and so partake of that rich and living heritage. What some may not know is that this incomparable liturgist was also a saintly monk, whose cause for beatification has begun in the diocese of Le Mans, France, where he lived and died. He is now given the title of Servant of God. Dom Guéranger was the friend of saints and of popes. Pope Blessed Pius IX, in his Letter of April 10, 1876, wrote, along with many other high praises of Dom Guéranger, the following words: By his virtue, piety, zeal, knowledge, and by the work of a lifetime, he showed himself to be a true disciple of Saint Benedict and a perfect monk. --Preface

Dom Gueranger - A Monk at the Heart of the Church

Dom Oury

Loreto Publications

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