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What Are They Saying about Matthew?

This revised and expanded edition of What Are They Saying about Matthew? offers a survey of current scholarship on Matthew by noted Bible scholar Donald Senior. He discusses the setting of Matthew’s Gospel, as well as its sources and structure. Senior also reviews Matthew’s Christology, use of the Old Testament, view of salvation history, attitude to the Law, and perspective on discipleship and church.

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How the Choir Converted the World: Through Hymns, with Hymns, and in Hymns

Music is the most effective delivery system for feelings—love, joy, sadness, glory. The early Church Fathers knew that music also has power over minds, and they used that power to maximum effect, writing hymns through which the early Christians would learn, retain, and spread the Gospel message. In How the Choir Converted the World, best-selling author Mike Aquilina demonstrates how the earliest Christians used music to transform a world that desperately needed transforming. As Aquilina suggests...

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Tools Matter: Beginning the Spiritual Journey

How can we tend the garden of our souls? Mary Margaret Funk turns to the wisdom of the desert fathers for the means of removing obstacles to spiritual growth, which include such weeds as thoughts of food, sex, possessions, anger, dejection, and pride, among other preoccupations. Redirecting thought can lead to a greater awareness of God and purity of prayer. This method to mental discipline may seem impossible at first, Funk admits, but those who succeed at it are rewarded with a liberating exp...

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The Social Media Gospel: Sharing the Good News in New Ways, 2nd ed.

If you are responsible for managing digital communications in your parish, staying current with trends in the rapidly changing world of social media can seem like an overwhelming task. Which social medium platforms make sense for your church community? How can you make them an effective tool for ministry?

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On Loving God with an Analytical Commentary

Perhaps Bernard’s most delightful tract, On Loving God posits that everything good in human persons is an expression of God’s love and by love the person may participate in the being of the triune God. In a new analytic commentary, Stiegman examines Bernard’s language, logic, and theology, demonstrating the vital importance of reading medieval authors on their own terms, without superimposing categories developed by later generations.

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The Liturgical Sermons: The Second Clairvaux Collection; Christmas through All Saints

Aelred, abbot of the Yorkshire Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147 to 1167, wrote six spiritual treatises, seven historical treatises, and 182 liturgical sermons, most of which he delivered as chapter talks to his monks. Translations of the first twenty-eight of these sermons appeared in The First Clairvaux Collection, Advent-All Saints, published in 2001. The current volume contains eighteen sermons given on feasts beginning with the Nativity and concluding with a sermon for All Saints.

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Homilies on the Gospels

Hildegard of Bingen’s Homilies on the Gospels are here translated for the first time from Latin into English. Hildegard’s sisters recorded and preserved her informal preaching in this collection of homilies on twenty-seven gospel pericopes. As teacher and superior to her sisters, Hildegard probably spoke to them in the chapter house, with the scriptural text either before her or recited from memory, according to Benedictine liturgical practice. The Homilies on the Gospels prove essential for comprehending the coherent theological vision that Hildegard constructs throughout her works, including the themes of salvation history, the drama of the individual soul, the struggle of virtues against vices, and the life-giving and animating force of greenness (uiriditas). Moreover, the Homilies on the Gospels establish Hildegard as the only known female systematic exegete of the Middle Ages.

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Sermons for Advent and the Christmas Season

The twelfth-century abbot and contemplative known to history as ‘The Mellifluous Teacher’ wrote sermons for the entire Christmas liturgical cycle from the first Sunday of Advent (four weeks before Christmas) to the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul (25 January). As he reflects on the wonder of the Incarnation, he reminds Christians still today that Christmas celebrates the awesome condescension of God-with-us, not a commercial carnival.

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Liturgy: The Illustrated History

This volume traces the history of liturgy from its origins in the second century to the present-day Church. Written by one of the foremost liturgical scholars, Father Keith Pecklers, this exceptional book is a geography of Christianity, analyzed period by period. It is an anthropological history of the Church that involves relationships with architecture, art, literature, culture, pastoral and ecclesiastical government—as well as with its connections with the civil power and the organization of ...

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Handbook for Liturgical Studies, Volume III: The Eucharist

The Eucharist contributes to the reflection on the meaning and purpose of the eucharistic celebration. It also offers teachers and students of liturgy a handbook for studying this subject based on historical development; theology and doctrine; liturgical texts and traditions in both East and West; and pastoral considerations. Articles include: • A Eucharistic Lexicon by Marcel Metzger • The Eucharist in the First Four Centuries by Enrico Mazza • The Eucharistic Liturgy in the East: The...

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