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Debate is raging behind the closed doors of the Rochester Commission over whether women priests can become bishops. This volume offers the views of those "for" and those "against", as well as providing information for those who do not know the issues involved.
Pope John Paul II speaks to the need for a fresh enthusiasm for a renewed and revitalized consecrated life.
A Place to Belong: Letters from Catholic Women explores what it means to be a woman of faith today. Edited by Corynne Staresinic, the founder of the nonprofit The Catholic Woman, this stunning anthology of twenty-five deeply personal letters, wisdom from women saints, reflection questions, art, photography, and prayers will inspire you to live your femininity along your own unique life path as you find--and provide for others--a place to belong.
The work contains multiple examples of strong women in Scripture, but what makes it reasonable today is the author's detailed and cautious expression of how the Bible has come down on a large number of societal problems as well as how, historically, the Bible has always been a progressive and enlightening book, that's appropriate in all times and places. This work is an impressive sermon, preached in the First Congregational Church Portland, Oregon by Frederic Rowland Marvin, with an introductory notice by Frances Power Cobbe. It was delivered in 1903 during the women's ballot movement on the controversial subject of women in administration. Consecrated Womanhood is like a breath of fresh air for those who have long been dissatisfied by the prevailing tendency in Christian churches to deny to women the privileges and responsibilities of holy offices and duties. The preacher opens his discourse with the statement that "the Bible honored woman when every other book was blind to the true dignity of her character."
Many silent and forgotten voices are brought to life in this volume which presents the accumulated wisdom of women mystics, theologians, spiritual directors, poets, visionaries, mothers and activists over eleven centuries. Featured writers include Julian of Norwich, Hildegard of Bingen, Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, Therese of Lisieux, Bernadette of Lourdes, Bridget of Sweden, Wendy Beckett, Joan Chittister, and many more, some translated into English for the first time. Their concerns are broad ranging and they reflect on: Prayer, Family life, a woman's lot, suffering, comfort and consolation, women's ministry and its restrictions and more. All these varied voices are linked by a common thread: in every age women have sought authentic spiritual self expression. This anthology is an inspiration for all women today who are seeking opportunity to define and realise their charisma.
Religious sisters have created educational and healthcare systems over the past two hundred years that have transformed the Catholic community in the United States. Through their ministry, sisters have served waves of immigrants and those pushed to the margins. The growing cultural diversity of newer sisters and the diminishing number of older sisters, therefore, is both a challenge and a creative moment to be critically examined. This book examines these changes in culture and ethnicity among sisters, the structural impact of diminishing numbers, and the creative response to this new reality for religious life in the United States. In it, sisters from a variety of generations, cultures, and institutes join with the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) researchers to examine and reflect on CARA's recent research findings and their impact on the life and ministry of sisters today.
This book is an initiative of the Polish Bishops' Commission for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. The author follows the path of the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Vita Consecrata and presents consecrated life like a mosaic.In short articles under specific keywords, he elucidates the most important elements. These articles are assembled in the key of contemporary ecclesiology, using the Church's threefold identity as mystery, community and mission.
Fully Consecrated is the result of God birthing a dream He placed inside of Haley Wade's spirit. As she found her identity in Christ and sought to know Him more intimately each day, Haley experienced the richness of God's love. She recognized that the world could never satisfy her hungry heart.After she was made new in Christ, Haley longed to share the Hope she had been changed by. Her blog was one of the first seeds she saw the Lord bring to life in her personal relationship with Him. Undeniably His has been and continues to be a platform Haley uses to share raw and real messages of Hope with more countries than she even knew existed.As Haley has grown in Christ over the past four years, her love for Jesus and sharing Him has increased. Fully Consecrated is a printed collection of the stories God has given to Haley in her blogging ministry. The lessons she has received and learned from the Lord have not all been easy. Many of them have been found in the most vulnerable and unexpected places.Through Fully Consecrated, Haley desires for every reader to take hold of the abundant life God has in store for them. She realizes that life is short and what we do with our time matters.Are you longing to embrace Jesus in a deeper and more intimate way? What are you holding onto that God is asking you to lay down? Will you lay down what you think is good so that you can receive God's best?I challenge you to consecrate yourself fully to Jesus Christ no matter how tired, empty, or broken you may feel. There is more to living than what the world offers. We will only ever be satisfied whenever our souls are consecrated and given fully to our sweet Father.
The story of the consecrated life in Canada since the 1960s should be about much more than numerical decline. Although the falling numbers are significant among Catholic religious in communities that pre-date Vatican II, many communities continue to show stability and even growth. This book provides nuance to that story by adding detailed portraits of movements, communities and institutions. In four parts, this book presents essays from the leading scholars on religious life in Canada that seek to address the state of religious communities dedicated to religious virtuosity normally characterized by formal promises of chastity, poverty, and obedience. The essays examine a broad range of topics related to the general state of consecrated (or “religious” or “monastic”) life in contemporary Canadian Christian and Buddhist traditions. In the first section, the contributors trace the demographics and definitions of religious life in Canada. The second section examines Canadian developments in Catholic religious life during the Vatican II and the post-Vatican II eras. A third section explores trends in contemporary Canadian religious life, while the fourth section describes the consecrated life in other Canadian religious traditions.
Manuscript cultures have frequently forgotten, neglected, or even erased women's contributions from memory. Women's agency has also been a glaring blind spot in the scholarly pursuit of gender perspectives on the production of written artefacts. This volume addresses these lacunae by highlighting manuscripts and inscriptions by and for women, their active participation and enabling sponsorship, and their role in the circulation and dissemination of written artefacts. Seven papers present case studies from East Asian inscriptions to ancient cuneiform epigraphic, Egyptian graffiti from late antiquity to individual specimen and large-scale collections in medieval Europe, focusing on how women participated in and contributed to those. How did they assert their involvement, their claims and their aspirations? By what rationales and mechanisms were they excluded or their contribution marginalised? How did they react to structures that discriminated against them, eventually circumventing, subverting and transforming them? The present volume sheds light on new findings, gives unique insights and discusses methodological considerations in the budding field of women's manuscript studies.