Ronald Rolheiser

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  Insane For The Light

  $28.00

  A spiritual journey through life’s final years and its “mellowing of souls”–the long-awaited conclusion of Father Rolheiser’s trilogy of modern spiritual classics, following The Holy Longing and Sacred Fire

  As the shadows lengthen and we find ourselves no longer in the morning or noon of life but rather face its approaching dusk, we uncover a new spiritual task: to give away the final years of our lives and, ultimately, our deaths. So argues beloved author Ronald Rolheiser. During life’s first years, we embark on a search for meaning and discover in ourselves a profound, unquenchable thirst for the Divine. And when we reach adulthood, we realize that we are called to give our lives away?to our spouses, children, careers, friends, and neighbors in need. But in the end, we must learn to let it all go.

  In this highly anticipated conclusion to Father Rolheiser’s spiritual classics, The Holy Longing and Sacred Fire, and with characteristic attentiveness and care, Rolheiser accompanies readers on a spiritual journey through life’s final years and the mellowing of our souls. In these years, bitterness can give way to forgiveness, mere imagination to profound and subtle faith, wishful optimism to virtuous hope, and control to surrender. Readers will learn to see in Jesus a model for a spirituality of holy passivity rather than activity and find in him the courage to overcome the darkest nights of faith.

  Drawing on the work of John of the Cross and Henri Nouwen, Rolheiser outlines a spirituality capable of giving away one’s death?and by that a spirituality of truly living.

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  Domestic Monastery : Creating A Spiritual Life At Home

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  What is a monastery? A monastery is a place set apart–a place to learn the blessings of powerlessness, and that time is not ours but God’s. Our home and our duties can, just like a monastery, teach us those things. The vocation of monastic men and women is to physically withdraw from the world. But the principle is equally valid for those of us who cannot go off to monasteries. Certain vocations offer the same kind of opportunity for contemplation, and provide a desert for reflection.

  In ten brief and powerful chapters, Fr. Ron explores how monastery life can apply to those who don’t live in a cloister:

  – Monasticism and Family Life
  – The Domestic Monastery
  – Real Friendship
  – Lessons from the Monastic Cell
  – Ritual for Sustaining Prayer
  – Tensions within Spirituality
  – A Spirituality of Parenting
  – Spirituality and the Seasons of Our Lives
  – The Sacredness of Time
  – Life’s Key Question

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