Showing results for "The Flower Book" in Christianity

The Story of a Soul conveys St. Therese of Lisieux's "Little Way" of spiritual childhood - her "elevator" to Heaven, as she called it. This method was approved by Pope Pius XI as a way for all to grow in holiness through unfailing confidence and childlike delight in God's merciful love. Again and again in this audiobook, St. Therese shows us how her "Little Way" of love and trust comes straight from Sacred Scripture.

Read by the author. Discover how to live freely and release your burdens with gospel meditations that turn your focus to the God who cares deeply for you. Are you looking for a new way of living? A way to stop anxious thoughts and release heavy burdens you aren't meant to carry? In The Way of...

Drawing from Sacred Scripture, the examples of the saints, and culture, Cardinal Alexis Lépicier, O.S.M., guides you in contemplating each invocation of one of the most treasured Marian prayers ever composed. This stirring devotional aims to help you absorb the profound beauty of this litany while coming to understand and love the Blessed Virgin more deeply.

This is a collection of 365 moral admonitions of Saint Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) and other notable Franciscans. The compiler of this anthology suggests that Francis "was inspired by God, six hundred years ago, to rekindle in His Church the spirit of humility, simplicity, poverty, detachment from the world, and ardent love of our crucified Redeemer." Indeed, these admonitions manifest a great concern for the cultivation of personal humility, meekness, chastity, and sorrow for sin. The admonitions you find here are directed primarily to Franciscan friars and cloistered nuns, as seen, for ...

A collection of 51 short essays by George William Foote, who in May 1881 founded the magazine "The Freethinker", which is still published (online) today. In the first issue, Foote writes: The Freethinker is an anti-Christian organ, and must therefore be chiefly aggressive. It will wage relentless war against superstition in general, and against Christian superstition in particular. The essays of this collection were previously published in "The Freethinker" over more than 10 years, and detail Foote's views on religion and Christianity. He writes about as diverse topics as specific stories from...

The Freethinker, founded in 1881 was one of the first secular humanist magazines, and also one of the oldest surviving one, moving online only in 2014. It was founded by G. W. Foote, who was its chief editor for 34 years and stated the magazine's purpose as The Freethinker is an anti-Christian organ, and must therefore be chiefly aggressive. It will wage relentless war against superstition in general, and against Christian superstition in particular. It will do its best to employ the resources of Science, Scholarship, Philosophy and Ethics against the claims of the Bible as a Divine Revelation...

The author avers that evangelization is the ripple process of making converts, initiating them into the body of Christ, and transforming them into committed disciples of Jesus. He also explains that a nexus exists between evangelization and Christian development in which the latter has its root in the former and integrally stems from it. The ultimate essence and gamut of evangelization is the continuous, healthy growth of its human organ, which is the church. This book is a good read for church workers, leaders, missionaries, seminarians, and young converts.

Journey into the life of Saint Rose of Lima, T.O.S.D. (April 20, 1586 – August 24, 1617), a remarkable Spanish colonist in Lima, Peru. Renowned for her profound asceticism and unwavering compassion for the less fortunate, she dedicated her life to serving the needy through her personal efforts. As a lay member of the Dominican Order, she holds the honor of being the first person born in the Americas to be canonized by the Catholic Church. (Summary from Wikipedia)