Reclaiming Our Priestly Character

Reclaiming Our Priestly Character offers a review of the present crisis surrounding priestly identity through careful theological scholarship and a wise and practical spirituality, providing a clear path toward the renewal of the priestly character.

Father David L. Toups

Institute For Priestly Formation

Reclaiming Our Priestly Character offers a review of the present crisis surrounding priestly identity through careful theological scholarship and a wise and practical spirituality, providing a clear path toward the renewal of the priestly character. An essential guide for every priest and seminarian.

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Graduate study is difficult, but for the seminarian, it ought not to be void of spiritual growth. Such growth has long been hallowed in the processes of study but spiritual growth can also be developed and encouraged in the actual practices of attending to theological content. As Pope Benedict once noted, "The faithful expect only one thing from priests: that they be specialists in promoting the encounter between man and God... [The priest] is expected to be an expert in the spiritual life. Seminarians want to encounter God in study so as to draw their future parishioners into His Truth which is love. The question for seminary theologians is this: How can we serve this longing while also calling seminarians into the ascetics of study? Resting on the Heart of Christ answers this question by integrating the best of theological research with the rich, intellectual tradition of the Church and the wisdom of the saints, ensuring conversion of both mind and heart.

Resting on the Heart of Christ: The Vocation and Spirituality of the Seminary Theologian

PHD.

Deacon James Keating

Bishop David Ricken leads priests on a contemplative journey to the core of priesthood in his new book. Be Thou My Vision: Meditations on the Priesthood will deepen and renew a priest's love of his own vocation. In a series of short meditations, Bishop Ricken invites the reader not only into a clearer image of priesthood but into a deeper perception of how these images open the mind to healing and prayer. All priests will benefit from prayerfully spending time with Bishop Ricken's spiritual and practical insights on priestly commitment, prayer, and parish life. At a time when Pope Benedict XVI has called upon all priests to become contemplative pastors, Be Thou My Vision shows how this call can be fulfilled.

Be Thou My Vision: Meditations on the Priesthood

Bishop David L. Ricken

We live in a culture of distraction, making it very difficult to hear God's voice and respond with courage. Fr. Michael Najim's book, Radical Surrender: Letters to Seminarians, will assist vocation directors and seminary formators in helping seminarians recognize the true voice of God and rightfully discern their vocation. Seminary formation must be interiorly appropriated; in other words, formation will be fruitful only if the seminarian allows Christ to transform his heart. Radical Surrender: Letters to Seminarians is a unique resource for all interested in the spiritual and human formation of the next generation of priests. Every vocation director will want to give Radical Surrender to the men under his care, and every seminarian will want to have a copy with him while praying in chapel or in the quiet of his room. Radical Surrender will also be of great assistance to the seminarian's experience of ongoing spiritual direction.

Radical Surrender: Letters to Seminarians

Fr. Michael J. Najim

Heart Speaks to Heart is a dynamic and challenging tool for all Catholics desiring a deeper and more sustained intimacy with Jesus Christ. In this workbook, Father John Horn, SJ, invites his readers into the depths of their life history, thoughts, and feelings, so that they can be led into prayerful communion with Christ. Through the tools found in this workbook, all believers will find the truth about themselves and their calling to give all and surrender to Christ who desires only the happiness of his followers.

Heart Speaks to Heart

Fr. John Horn

In a day and age in which permanent commitments are devalued by our society and in a particular way the priesthood is under attack for the sins of a small percentage, it is of utmost importance to re-emphasize both the permanence and the dignity of the calling to the ministerial priesthood. Reclaiming Our Priestly Character offers a review of the present crisis surrounding priestly identity through careful theological scholarship and a wise and practical spirituality, providing a clear path toward the renewal of the priestly character. An essential guide for every priest and seminarian.

Reclaiming Our Priestly Character - Revised Edition

Fr. David L. Toups

Together, the father and the priest can meet an urgent need in the family and Church today: presenting the spiritual life as a true journey to personal happiness. In many boys' minds, worship, prayer, and service to others is the way of women. This error in judgment is often born in boys because their fathers are absent in the home as initiators of prayer and instructors in moral life. This error is further compounded by the absence of priests in the life of young men. This lack of masculine role modeling in the spiritual life results in boys being ignorant of the true nature and adventure of entering the spiritual life and guiding others to do so as well. This workbook should be used by men as a catalyst to begin or deepen their spiritual life with the expressed desire of sharing the life with their sons. The contributors to this books envision it being used in meetings between fathers and priests. Within these meetings, the content of this workbook should be shared and reflected upon, especially the stories written by priests about their own fathers. Such stories will clarify how a father ministers the mystery of faith to his sons.

Spiritual Fathers: A Workbook for Priests and Dads

PH.D.

Reading, Praying, and Reflecting on Scripture with Journaling.

Wrap Yourself in Scripture

Karen L. Dwyer

Lawrence A. Dwyer

In this volume several seminary theologians explore the relationship between teaching theology and the essential ministry of spiritual direction as it is practiced in the seminary. These essays deepen the conversation that was begun in the first volume of this series, Seminary Theology: Teaching in a Competitive Way (2010). In 2006 the U.S. Bishops invited seminary personnel to consider how they can establish spirituality as the heart of teaching theology in seminary formation [The Program of Priestly Formation (5th ed)]. This IPF Publications series of books is a response to this call by the US Bishops. In generating this series IPF hopes to serve the Bishops in their vision that spirituality is the core of seminary formation.

Seminary Theology II

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Reclaiming Our Priestly Character

Reclaiming Our Priestly Character

Resting on the Heart of Christ: The Vocation and Spirituality of the Seminary Theologian

Be Thou My Vision: Meditations on the Priesthood

Radical Surrender: Letters to Seminarians

Heart Speaks to Heart

Reclaiming Our Priestly Character - Revised Edition

Spiritual Fathers: A Workbook for Priests and Dads

Wrap Yourself in Scripture

Seminary Theology II