"God is Unchanging Love"
An Excerpt from the introduction:
"It has taken me a long time to understand the simple sentence,"God is Love," though it has been part of my vocabulary since childhood. The Gospels tell of it, the saints have written extensively about it and I have always believed it, but until recent years I never fully appreciated what it meant. My intellect said, "Yes, it's true," but never touched me as it does now. It was just one more fact in the information system of religious truths I learned as a child. "God is Love:- so what else is new?
ISBN: 0-8189-0538-7
"Enjoy The Lord"
How very difficult it is for most people to be joyful. Yet we were made for joy and have within our reach the means to achieve it. This book demonstrates how contemplative prayer is the path to the joy we seek. More particularly, it shows how contemplative prayer leads to a sense of self-worth and inner happiness which makes such joy possible. The kind of contemplation which Father Catoir recommends is not an abstraction or the privileged achievement of the few but an everyday reality for those who are willing to make the effort. It is the core of a satisfying and joy-filled life of loving union with God and selfless service of our neighbor. This revised version contains much original material which adds to the value of what was already a highly acclaimed little volume on practical contemporary spirituality.
How very difficult it is for most people to be joyful. Yet we were made for joy and have within our reach the means to achieve it. This book demonstrates how contemplative prayer is the path to the joy we seek. More particularly, it shows how contemplative prayer leads to a sense of self-worth and inner happiness which makes such joy possible. The kind of contemplation which Father Catoir recommends is not an abstraction or the privileged achievement of the few but an everyday reality for those who are willing to make the effort. It is the core of a satisfying and joy-filled life of loving union with God and selfless service of our neighbor. This revised version contains much original material which adds to the value of what was already a highly acclaimed little volume on practical contemporary spirituality.
ISBN:0-8189-0776-2
The dilemma of Divorced Catholics
WITH CHAPTERS ON ANNULMENTS, conscience, and the internal forum, this title by the former Director of The Christophers addresses the dilemma of Catholics who have been divorced and possibly remarried outside the Church, who want to know where they stand. Can they receive the sacraments? Is there any hope for getting a Church annulment? If that fails, do they have any options left? Why is the Church so strict when it comes to marriage? Incorporating material from the revised Code of Canon Law and the new Catechism of the Catholic Church, Father Catoir's aim in this book is to offer hope and encouragement to those Catholics who are experiencing the pain of a broken marriage and who still long to retain their ties with the Church they have known and loved all their lives. "It isn't easy," he writes, "trying to express both compassion toward people in marital difficulty and fidelity to the value that marriage is an indissoluble bond... St. Paul's statement to the Galatians (6:2) puts the whole thing in perspective for me. 'Help carry one another's burdens, in that way you will fulfill the law of Jesus Christ.' Ever since I read that line, I have understood clearly that the defense of principles must be done within the context of love. The supreme law is the law of charity." Priests as well as lay persons will find much to help them here as they wrestle with this very delicate and important issue which affects the lives of so many in the Church today.