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Our One Great Act of Fidelity

More so than anything else, the Eucharist is what anchors many peoples' life, prayer, and ultimately the way they live their lives. In this deeply personal book, Father Ronald Rolheiser delves into the history and meaning of this sacred tradition, drawing upon the insights of various scripture scholars, theologians, and church teachings. With personal warmth and great insight, he reflects on his own particular Roman Catholic upbringing and the centrality that the Eucharist has within that tradition. At the same time, he looks at other denominations’ traditions around the Eucharist. Our One Great Act of Fidelity is an investigation into the ways people secure their faith and belief and discover true intimacy with God and each other. Ultimately, however, it is a spiritual and a personal statement of how Ronald Rolheiser understands the Eucharist and why he celebrates it every day.

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Secularity and the Gospel

In recent past, "missionary work" often meant bringing our familiar Gospel to faraway places and other peoples. In secular America today, however, even our own children know little about the Gospel. In this major volume, Ron Rolheiser offers original chapters on the question of secularity, and introduces leading voices in Catholic thought to show how Christian faith can thrive in a secular world. Contributing authors: Robert Schreiter, C.PP.S; Michael Downey; Mary Jo Leddy; Gilles Routhier; Robert Barron; Reginald W. Bibby; Ronald Wayne Young, OMI.

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Forgotten Among the Lilies

In The Restless Heart, Ron Rolheiser addresses the problems of loneliness and isolation in the present age. In Forgotten Among The Lilies, he takes readers to the next step by focusing on the obsessions that can dominate our modern lives.

Using his trademark blend of humor, insight, compassion and honesty, Rolheiser provides solid guidance for moving beyond the obsessions, restlessness, fears and guilt that seem to be emblematic of the 21st century. "This book", says the author, "is for those who struggles to make this life, such as it is, enough."

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The Restless Heart

Loneliness is not a rare and curious phenomenon. It is at the center of every person's ordinary experience. 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.

"The Restless Heart" won the Winnifred Sanford award in the United Kingdom in 1990 as the best book on spirituality.

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The Holy Longing

"A master weaver is at work here...i found my soul on every page. 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" - Sister Helen Prejean, Author of Dead Man Walking

"Without doubt, Ronald Rolheiser's The Holy Longing is one of the best books about Christian spirituality that has been published in many a year. It's insights are just what all of us need at this moment of history. It blends the old and the new in ways that few others can do" - Most Reverend Rembert G. Weakland, O.S.B., Archbishop of Milwaukee

This book is published in Great Britain as "Seeking Spirituality". "The Holy Longing" is published in North America by Doubleday and is available in hardcover at popular bookstores.

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Against an Infinite Horizon

The popular columnist of The Catholic Herald presents a far-flung overview of our contemporary lives. He enables us to see over the horizon of our time and in doing so gives quieter, sane advice through these perceptive and often humorous essays. He writes with compassion and wit on such subjects as marriage, family life and the presence of God, loneliness and sexuality, death and birth, social justice and humility, the unconditional love of God, language and prayer to present a companion volume to his award-winning "Forgotten Among The Lilies".

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The Shattered Lantern

A hundred years ago, Nietzche had his mystical madman smash a lantern in the marketplace and announce to Western Culture that "God is dead!". Few people took him seriously. Today, we would. Faith, if not shattered, is shaken by cultural values.

The Shatterd Lantern drew from a variety of stories and experiences to offer a spiritual antidote. The author suggests that, "The way back to a lively faith is not a question of finding the right answers, but living in a certain way." The existence of God, like the air we breathe, need not be proven. It is a question of developing good lungs to meet it correctly.

Ronald Rolheiser shines a new light on the contemplative path of Western Christianity. He offers a way back home.

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