Give Us This Day, Daily Prayer for Today’s Catholic
Give Us This Day, Daily Prayer for Today’s Catholic, Liturgical Press, August 2011
“Pray without ceasing.” “Rejoice always.” “Abide in peace.” Is such advice from St. Paul realistic for busy, 21st century lay persons? Give Us This Day offers a resounding “yes” to this question. Like others of its genre, this contemporary, monthly missal contains prayers and scripture readings for morning prayer, Mass and evening prayer each day of the month. This basic format offers a structure and rhythm to punctuate and permeate each day with prayer, scripture reading and worship, in union with the whole Church.
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Dorothy H. Roddy was the founder and principal of lgawaga, inc., a company that evaluates and manages investment opportunities as well as doing property developing and managing. Dottie serves on the Retreat House and Columbarium Committee and chairs the Garden Committee at Mepkin Abbey.
Creative Aging: Rethinking Retirement and Non-Retirement in a Changing World
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Sorin Books, Notre Dame, Indiana
Reviewed by Mary E. Miller
There is within every human person the desire for intimate relationship with the divine. We want to know the unknowable, understand that which cannot be understood. Occasionally, God graces us with glimpses of the divine. We experience God fleetingly, but we never know God in God’s fullness.
We struggle to describe God and name God but can only express our inchoate longings in metaphor, analogy, symbol, story and words. It is that constant longing that Joyce Rupp, OSM addresses in her latest book, Fragments of YourAncient Name: 365 Glimpses of the Divine for Daily Meditation.
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by Marjory Zoet Bankson
We journey through life in external patterns that we know from our families. That pattern: marriage, raising children, careers outside the home, is done externally and often gives us our only identity. Suddenly we find ourselves past child rearing, our “jobs” ended and begin to wonder—“Was/Is my life meaningful?”.
Marjory Bankson explores the spiritual dimensions of retirement and aging. We suddenly face that there is an “encore” opportunity that can be self chosen, exciting and fulfilling as we journey to the next stage of our life. Ms. Bankson relates wonderful examples, by story, of people who have discovered their real interior selves and have acted upon it, making the world a better place for them and for their fellow humans beings.
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Give Us This Day, Daily Prayer for Today’s Catholic
Liturgical Press, August 2011
“Pray without ceasing.” “Rejoice always.” “Abide in peace.” Is such advice from St. Paul realistic for busy, 21st century lay persons? Give Us This Day offers a resounding “yes” to this question. Like others of its genre, this contemporary, monthly missal contains prayers and scripture readings for morning prayer, Mass and evening prayer each day of the month. This basic format offers a structure and rhythm to punctuate and permeate each day with prayer, scripture reading and worship, in union with the whole Church.
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