When one reaches the highest degree of human maturity, one has only one question left: How can I be helpful? With his trademark acuity, wit, and thoughtfulness, Rolheiser shows how identifying and embracing discipleship will lead to new heights of spiritual awareness and maturity. In this new book, Rolheiser takes us on a journey through the dark night of the senses and of the spirit.
Here, we experience the full gamut of human life, pleasure and fervor, disillusionment and boredom. But, as Rolheiser explains, when we embrace the struggle and yearning to know God we can experience too a profound re-understanding to our daily lives. Where do we go once the basic questions in our lives are no longer the restless questions of youthful insecurity and loneliness?
Who am I? Who loves me? How will my life turn out? Where do we go once the basic question in life becomes: How can I give my life away more purely, and more meaningfully? The intent of this book is to try to address exactly those questions: How can we live less self- centered, more mature lives? What constitutes deep maturity and how do we reach that place? And, not unimportantly, what constitutes a more adult, Christian discipleship? What constitutes a truly mature following of Jesus?
Poems from various eras and cultures illustrate people's perception of nature and consciousness and how that perception changed. From best-selling author and speaker Fr. In this newly revised edition of Sexuality and Holy Longing, author Lisa Graham McMinn beautifully describes how people are created by God for relationship, and our sexuality guarantees that we will long for and be drawn toward others.
McMinn provides a blueprint for understanding sexuality--and our longing to be loved--at all stages of life childhood, teen years, early adulthood, midlife, and old age. In the context of faith and a changing culture, she explores sexual awakenings in adolescence, choices, opportunities and challenges of single people, and mysteries of committed covenantal relationships. She addresses tough topics, including reproductive issues, sexuality for those who are single divorced, widowed, or never married , and in this new edition, LGBT issues and same-sex marriage.
The author details practical solutions for ways that parents, educators, and churches can nurture others and ourselves in the quest to understand sexuality as a longing that draws us toward God and others, and to embrace it as a God-given gift. Thought-provoking study questions at the end of each chapter inspire readers to reflection and action in reclaiming our sexuality through grace.
From the author of the bestselling, The Holy Longing, comes a book about the central expression of faith for hundreds of millions of Christians, the Eucharist. More so than anything else, the Eucharist is what anchors many peoples' life, prayer, and ultimately the way they live their lives. At the core of this readable, deeply revealing book is an explanation of God and the Church in a world that more often than not doubts the credibility of both.
Ronald Rolheiser, O. His regular column in the Catholic Herald is featured in newspapers in five different countries. I have recommended The Holy Longing to literally dozens of people—from the devout believer to the doubtful seeker—and all have found it a great help in moving closer to God. At last we have a guide who helps us know what to do with the fire of desire within us.
At last a comprehensive, life-giving approach to sexuality. At last a dynamic understanding of how the paschal mystery plays in our own lives. At last a way to weave love for the poor and struggling people with the highest mystical love of God…I love this book. Then he dares to answer them with clear answers delivered in simple, straightforward language.
He lets us look at different spiritualities, even a spirituality of sexuality. This is a book that engenders hope because it shows there are paths for each one of us. Basil Pennington , O. Sound good sense and insight are combined with genuine sympathy and understanding for the majority of us who struggle spiritually. The Holy Longing is a bracing alternative to religious posturing.
Truly incarnational, Ronald Rolheiser grounds his vision of the spiritual life in hard real-life experiences and tells tough truths. In the end, it is the hard truths of compassion, forgiveness, and action in the world, that give us a true and lasting hope. A much needed antidote to the consumerist view of religion, this book is both a delight and a challenge to read. He is never sentimental—and all the time he is absolutely grounded in reality.
Its insights are just what all of us need at this moment of history. It blends the old and the new in ways that few other authors can do. Weakland, O. Start earning points for buying books! Book Gifts for Everyone on Your List.
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Paperback —. About The Holy Longing Ronald Rolheiser makes sense of what is frequently a misunderstood word: spirituality. Also by Ronald Rolheiser. See all books by Ronald Rolheiser.
Product Details. Inspired by Your Browsing History. God lies inside us as an invitation that fully respects our freedom, never overpowers us, but also never goes away. The invitation lies there precisely like a baby lying helpless in the straw, gently beckoning us, but helpless in itself to make us pick it up. For each day of Advent through the Octave of Christmas, Advent Daybreaks provides an opportunity for prayer and reflection on the coming of the messiah, the word made flesh.
Loneliness is not a rare and curious phenomenon. It is most dangerous when it is not recognized, accepted and worked through creatively. Conversely it is a tremendously creative and humanizing force when it is recognized and lived correctly. Examining current theories on the causes of loneliness and using modern day parables from literature, the cinema and his own experience, Ronald Rolheiser identifies different types of loneliness: some are to be avoided, some endured and others positively taken up and entered into.
This outstanding book offers a distinctively Christian approach to the subject, and will reassure and free many to live more meaningfully. Beloved author Ronald Rolheiser continues his search for an accessible and penetrating Christian spirituality in this highly anticipated follow-up to the contemporary classic, The Holy Longing.
With his trademark acuity, wit, and thoughtfulness, Rolheiser shows how identifying and embracing discipleship will lead to new heights of spiritual awareness and maturity. In this new book, Rolheiser takes us on a journey through the dark night of the senses and of the spirit.
Here, we experience the full gamut of human life, pleasure and fervor, disillusionment and boredom. But, as Rolheiser explains, when we embrace the struggle and yearning to know God we can experience too a profound re-understanding to our daily lives. Where do we go once the basic questions in our lives are no longer the restless questions of youthful insecurity and loneliness?
Who am I?
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