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Deep in the heart of every person there is a longing for happiness. But what is happiness, and how might we find it? Countless books send us searching for the answer in a wide variety of different places: through personal relationships, career suc...

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No person has worked more effectively toward the abolition of the death penalty in the United States than Helen Prejean, CSJ. Her best-selling book Dead Man Walking, and the hit Hollywood film adaptation in which she was played by Susan Sarandon, ...

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Since the early centuries, Christians have held up the saints as models of living the Gospel of Jesus Christ. While the church officially recognizes a relatively small number of saints, the actual roster is infinitely wider. Blessed Among Us explo...

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Since the early centuries, Christians have held up the saints as models of living the Gospel of Jesus Christ. While the church officially recognizes a relatively small number of saints, the actual roster is infinitely wider. Blessed Among Us explo...

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Dorothy Day's unpretentious account of the life of St. Therese of Lisieux sheds light on the depth of Day's Catholic spirituality and illustrates why Therese's simplicity and humility are so vital for today. Whether you are called to the active li...

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A noted spiritual writer seeks answers to life's big questions in the stories of the saintsIn All Saints---published in 1997 and already a classic of its kind---Robert Ellsberg told the stories of 365 holy people with great vividness and eloquence...

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In a world I won't see, but I wish I would, the biographies of some others here, including a few whom we serve lunch to, would be written and be read as eagerly as you say one of me would be read. --Dorothy DayAmbassadors of Godis a collection of ...

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Drawn from writings, sermons, and letters and including a brief biography, this collection offers a full introduction to Charles de Foucauld, French aristocrat and soldier in North Africa at the turn of the century, who experienced a radical conve...

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Zen master, monk, poet, and peace advocate, Thich Nhat Hanh is a true spiritual master of the twentieth century. Through his writings and retreats he has helped innumerable people of all religious backgrounds to live mindfully in the present momen...

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Carlo Carretto (1910-1988) was a member of the Little Brothers of Jesus, the order inspired by the spirituality of Charles de Foucauld. Through his bestselling "Letters from the Desert" and more than a dozen other books, Carretto present...

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If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, and ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.Thomas Merton S...

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Pope Francis shares wisdom and inspiration with those he calls the "hope and future" of the world. A compilation of his addresses to youth, including sermons and talks from the two Youth Day celebrations in Rio and Krakow.

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Throughout his life Gandhi conducted an ongoing dialogue with Christian believers and missionaries. Although as a faithful Hindu he was unwilling to accept Christian dogma, he recognized and revered Jesus as one of history's great prophets of nonv...

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This collection of Dorothy Day's "On Pilgrimage" columns from the 1960s is a chronicle of faith and action. Living among the poor and seeking God in her daily life, Dorothy Day had a special vantage point during this tumultuous decade, marked by t...

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A collection of Dorothy Day's "On Pilgrimage" columns from the 1970s. Highlights: Travels around the world, including Tanzania and the Soviet Union; arrest with the farmworkers at age 75; a standoff with the IRS over refusal to pay federal income ...

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Based on several hundred letters exchanged between Robert Ellsberg and Sister Wendy on an almost daily basis during the last three years of Sister Wendy's life, the correspondence initially dealt with lives of saints, the meaning of holiness, and ...

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In The Franciscan Saints , spiritual trailblazers span the centuries from Francis and Clare to Solanus Casey and Mychal Judge, with representatives from every walk of life and corner of the world. Each entry features the essential biographical fac...

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Reading Robert Ellsberg's profiles of holy men and women is like throwing open a window in a stuffy old church and taking in great gulps of fresh air. Henri Nouwen has described his writing as ';evocative without being pious.' He broadens the trad...

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