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"When his eight-year-old son died suddenly from a fast-moving blood infection, Brady heard the typical platitudes about accepting God's will and knew that quiet acceptance was not the only godly way to grieve. With deep faith, knowledge of Scripture, and the wisdom that comes only from experience, Brady guides readers grieving losses and setbacks of all kinds in voicing their lament to God, reflecting on the nature of human existence, and persevering...
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Langley offers comfort and encouragement to those struggling with recent loss or grief, helping them find language for complex emotions, and open their hearts through poetry.
Send My Roots Rain is a companion full of stories-sometimes wry and funny, always observant and accepting-for letting grief unfold and teach us. Langley invites a keen awareness that the passage through grief is the navigation of a narrow strait, requiring patience, skill, and...
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"Ryan Fleming is a young agnostic reeling from his brother's death. Though he is deeply angry with God, he makes good on a promise he made to his brother in the final moments of his life: to visit a church at least once. But shortly after his arrival, the slick megachurch's shoddily installed video projector falls on his head--sending Ryan through a wormhole into another world. After a narrow escape from the City of Destruction, where the comfortably...
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In his practice Dr. Carrigan witnessed Christians suffer and die with ravaging and devastating diseases. As an historian, he was aware of the untold suffering humanity has endured, at times at its own hand and even at times in the name of God. He has personally suffered the death of his wife, son and grandson, and the near deaths of his other son and his self in separate accidents.
He asked God why He has allowed such suffering in his people, the...
6) Night Light
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Why are we scared of the dark? Usually it's because we don't know what's there. Perhaps a friend? Perhaps a foe? The Bible tells us that even though we "walk through the valley of the shadow of death," God is with us. In this topical look at Christian suffering, author David Campbell reminds us that God has purpose in every season - even the painful ones. Both provocative and comprehensive, Night Light will give you a foundation of strength to walk...
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En el triste y larguísimo mes y medio que precedió a su muerte, en un oscuro calabozo de la prisión en Florencia, la pluma de fray Jerónimo fue hilando las frases encendidas de fe, dolor y amor, de las dos últimas meditaciones de su vida. Alcanzaba así la máxima altura moral de su carrera, al dejar escritas para todos los hombres que sufren estos dos vivos mensajes de contrición y esperanza. La traducción y el prólogo son de Antonio Fontán....
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Suffering is something that affects everyone. For many, it can be a stumbling block to faith in God and the catalyst to an unhappy life. But it doesn't have to be this way. In fact, it can be the catalyst to something greater: union with Christ. Dr. Bob Schuchts, founder and president of the John Paul II Healing Center in Tallahassee, Florida, seeks to answer these difficult questions in Real Suffering: Finding Hope and Healing in the Trials of Life....
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Even as Americans abandon traditional religion in droves, the question of death and afterlife continue to dominate our spiritual consciousness. How Our Departed Ones Live goes beyond popular flash-in-the-pan near-death experiences to express the age-old tradition and experience of the Orthodox Christian Church. This comprehensive book discusses the source of death and mortality, the inner connection and mutual relationship between the living and the...
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St Ignatius Brianchaninov (1807-1867) is renowned as a writer on the spiritual life in general. What is less well known is that throughout most of his adult life, he struggled with chronic illness and disability. Thus his own life experience disposed him to reflect on the meaning of suffering for human existence and how through it we might find "a harbor for our hope." The saint frequently returns to these themes in many of his letters, newly translated...
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While there are no easy answers to loss and death, Mature Grief offers a compass to anyone navigating the unknown and uncharted waters of grief.
Each life comes from God. It begins with God and has no end. Our parents came from God, out from the circle of eternity, bestowed with goodness, and in dying they return to God. Their circle is complete. And in between, their spirits splashed-down here briefly in a quiet eddy at the edge of the flowing river...
12) The Passages We Celebrate: Commentary on the Scripture Texts for Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals
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As believers, we celebrate many transitions in our lives: from original sin to new life, from single life to married live, and from this life to death and everlasting life.
Patricia Datchuk Sánchez has written a commentary on each of the more than 100 scripture selections we use to celebrate these passages of our lives-those graced moments we know as baptisms, weddings and funerals.
The commentaries are meant to be a help for those who minister...
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“Where You Go, I Shall” is a book that was born of experience and need. The authors, two of whom are widows and the third an Episcopal priest, were participants in a monthly support group for widows and discovered that many of the Bible's remarkable women-Mary, Ruth, Naomi, Abigail, Anna, Tamar, Judith, and some who are unnamed-are widows. In this book, they tell and reflect upon the biblical stories, offering background for greater understanding,...
14) I Am With You Always: The Nearness of God in Times of Loss: The Nearness of God in Times of Loss
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When we are alone, isolated, afraid, and grieving the loss of a loved one, Jesus tells us plainly, "Behold, I am with you always!" It is His presence and constant companionship that brings us comfort, consolation, and hope through all the seasons of our lives.
I Am with You Always invites the ordinary Catholic to once again "behold Jesus." In doing so, we will realize with joy and gratitude the wonderful connection between the ordinary teachings and...
15) Hermana Muerte
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¿Por qué se nace? ¿Por qué se muere?
¿Dónde vamos después de muertos?
Debemos escuchar a la muerte que nos enseña "en tiempo oportuno e inoportuno", desde todos los ángulos: dentro y fuera de casa, en el campo y en la ciudad, desde los periódicos y desde la televisión, incluso en otoño con las hojas de los árboles, a comprender a Aquel que nos dijo: "Yo soy la resurrección y la vida. El que cree en mí, aunque muera, vivirá; y todo...
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The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ is edifying, inspiring, surprising, and heart-rending. Emmerich's descriptions of our Lord's Passion will melt a heart of stone. This book is the best on the Passion we have seen. This is her compelling visionary account of the events surrounding Jesus' final days. A primary source for Mel Gibson's epic movie, The Passion of the Christ.
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Anne Catherine Emmerich was born in Germany in...
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JESUS WILL WALK WITH YOUR WHEN YOUR LOVED ONE MAY BE DYING, FROM THE MOMENT YOU GET THE CALL, UNTIL AFTER THE CEMETERY AND YOU GO HOME AND THEY ARE NO, LONGER THERE. JESUS WILL GUIDE YOU EVERY STEP OF THE WAY AND GIVE YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONE PEACE, STRENGTH, AND DELIVER YOU FROM YOUR FEAR. THIS BOOK AND HE WILL BE YOUR COMPANION ON THE DIFFICULT ROAD AHEAD.
WHAT TO THINK, DO AND SAY WHEN
VISITING, WITH THE FAMILY, AT THE MOMENT, OF THEIR BODY'S DEATH,...
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In this work the Puritan, Thomas Boston, leads the reader through Scripture proving with Scripture how the suffering of the saints is for their sanctification, final good, and reliance up the Lord which brings him glory. This is a great work to read ballast oneself against the storms of life that are certain to come.
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This little booklet is designed for anyone who faces the difficult and important task of offering words of remembrance at a Catholic Funeral. Both experienced and inexperienced speakers will benefit from this easy-to-read resource. It offers a simple, practical, and-most importantly-discreet way of informing anyone asked "to say a few words" at a Catholic service on the rules that are involved, while also offering practical advice on how to deliver...
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Lament is essential to human thriving. It allows us to cope with significant loss, an inescapable feature of our mortal existence. Lament is the passionate outpouring of deep, sorrow and grief over such loss, which helps us avoid being completely, overcome by the strong emotions that come with it. Lament is cathartic and constructive. It is a necessary step in coming to terms with great loss and moving forward in life. Not to lament is not to live-or...
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