Seek That Which Is Above: Meditations Through the Year
Overview
In this beautifully illustrated book, Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) gives us profound meditations on what our life in Christ should be like as it is lived through the various seasons and feasts of the liturgical year. This book also includes thoughts on other spiritual and secular themes such as the true nature of peace, why it is difficult for so many to experience joy, the relationship between spirit and matter, vacation and rest, etc. These inspiring insights from the man who became pope, show how Joseph Ratzinger’s deeply spiritual and theological experience, together with his wide literary and cultural interests are a gift to the Church in the modern world. Here is a shepherd leading the faithful entrusted to his care to deep springs of refreshing, life-giving water.
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Key Features
- Unpacks various seasons and feasts of the liturgical year
- Includes thoughts on other spiritual and secular themes
- Provides profound biblical teaching for both Protestants and Catholics
Contents
- Reflections in Advent
- Candlemas
- Fasching—Mardi Gras
- Journeying toward the Easter Mystery
- The Feast of the Spirit
- What Corpus Christi Means to Us
- May Devotions: Memories and Reflections
- Meditations at Vacation Time
- Miscellaneous
Product Details
- Title: Seek That Which Is Above: Meditations Through the Year
- Author: Joseph Ratzinger
- Translator: Graham Harrison
- Edition: 2nd
- Publisher: Ignatius Press
- Publication Date: 2007
- Pages: 184
- Resource Type: >Monographs
- Topic: Liturgical Theology
About Joseph Ratzinger
Joseph Ratzinger is one of the most revered Catholic prelates, scholars, theologians, teachers, and authors of our time. He has spoken on many crucial subjects, including sexual consumerism, roles of men and women today, marriage, the priesthood, and the future of the world. On June 29, 1951, Joseph Ratzinger was ordained to the priesthood in the Cathedral of Freising on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul. He also received his doctorate in theology in 1953 from the University of Munich. Starting in 1959, Ratzinger taught theology at the University of Bonn.
After many years of teaching at several German universities, Ratzinger was appointed by Pope Paul VI as Archbishop of Munich and Freising in March 1977, and was elevated to cardinal in June 1977. In November 1981, Ratzinger was summoned by Pope John Paul II to Rome, where he was named Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, President of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, and President of the International Theological Commission.
On April 19, 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected to be the 265th pope. He took the name Benedict XVI, after St. Benedict of Nursia. As pope, he received worldwide respect and was a spiritual influence to Christians and non-Christians alike. In 2013, he resigned the papacy, becoming the first pope to do so in since the fifteenth century. He retired to a monastery in the Vatican Gardens, where he continues to study and write.
Save more when you purchase this book as part of the Select Works of Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI (21 vols.).
Key Features
- Unpacks various seasons and feasts of the liturgical year
- Includes thoughts on other spiritual and secular themes
- Provides profound biblical teaching for both Protestants and Catholics
Contents
- Reflections in Advent
- Candlemas
- Fasching—Mardi Gras
- Journeying toward the Easter Mystery
- The Feast of the Spirit
- What Corpus Christi Means to Us
- May Devotions: Memories and Reflections
- Meditations at Vacation Time
- Miscellaneous
Top Highlights
“The days of Advent are like a quiet knocking at the door of our smothered souls, inviting us to undertake the risk of stepping forward toward God’s mysterious presence, which alone can make us free.” (Pages 21–23)
“The Risen One cannot be seen like a piece of wood or stone. He can be seen only by the person to whom he reveals himself. And he reveals himself only to the one whom he can entrust with a mission. He does not reveal himself to curiosity but to love; love is the indispensable agent if we are to see and apprehend him.” (Page 90)
“While our maps of the earth have become more and more complete, man’s inner self has become increasingly a terra incognita, an alien region, in spite of the fact that there are greater discoveries to be made there than in the visible universe.” (Page 18)
“r it becomes alarmingly clear: Yes, I am Israel. I am the ox that does not know its owner.” (Page 21)
“Ultimately he arrived at this insight: if there is to be real justice in the world, it must be for all and for all time, and that means justice for the dead as well. It would have to be a justice that retroactively heals all past suffering. And this would imply the resurrection of the dead.” (Page 49)
Product Details
- Title: Seek That Which Is Above: Meditations Through the Year
- Author: Joseph Ratzinger
- Translator: Graham Harrison
- Edition: 2nd
- Publisher: Ignatius Press
- Publication Date: 2007
- Pages: 184
- Christian Group: Catholic
- Resource Type: Monographs
- Topic: Liturgical Theology
About Joseph Ratzinger
Joseph Ratzinger is one of the most revered Catholic prelates, scholars, theologians, teachers, and authors of our time. He has spoken on many crucial subjects, including sexual consumerism, roles of men and women today, marriage, the priesthood, and the future of the world. On June 29, 1951, Joseph Ratzinger was ordained to the priesthood in the Cathedral of Freising on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul. He also received his doctorate in theology in 1953 from the University of Munich. Starting in 1959, Ratzinger taught theology at the University of Bonn.
After many years of teaching at several German universities, Ratzinger was appointed by Pope Paul VI as Archbishop of Munich and Freising in March 1977, and was elevated to cardinal in June 1977. In November 1981, Ratzinger was summoned by Pope John Paul II to Rome, where he was named Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, President of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, and President of the International Theological Commission.
On April 19, 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected to be the 265th pope. He took the name Benedict XVI, after St. Benedict of Nursia. As pope, he received worldwide respect and was a spiritual influence to Christians and non-Christians alike. In 2013, he resigned the papacy, becoming the first pope to do so in since the fifteenth century. He retired to a monastery in the Vatican Gardens, where he continues to study and write.