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Mary: A History of Doctrine and Devotion

Graef, Hilda C.

Religion & Spirituality

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The Way of the Mystics

Religious Studies

Hassell Street Press

Modern Gloom and Christian Hope

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The Scholar and the Cross: The Life and Work of Edith Stein

Edith Stein was a figure most singular and rare. Even within the purview of the illustrious history of the Church's saints, few can lay claim to so powerful a marriage of faith and intellect. Born into a devout Jewish family in 1891, her intellectual abilities did not long go unnoticed and in 1913 she moved to Göttingen in Germany to study philosophy under Edmund Husserl. There, as destiny would have it, she encountered a work on the life of Saint Teresa of Ávila, which lead her to a profound conversion. Following her baptism in 1922, she continued her scholarly work, teaching at various Catholic schools throughout Germany. Torn between her clear proclivity for the academic life and a deep desire to join the Carmelite Order, Edith's mind was decided for her when the rise of the Nazi party in Germany put an abrupt end to her academic career. She was able to spend some contented years with the Carmelites, but in the end her Jewish heritage caught up with her, leading to her inevitable arrest by the Gestapo. In due course she was sent to Auschwitz, where she died in 1942. First published in 1955, Hilda Graef's The Scholar and the Cross remains the most insightful and accurate biography of this saint. Filled with intimate details of Stein's conversion, interior life, scholarly endeavors, and eventual martyrdom at the hands of the Nazis, this book stands as an enduring, loving tribute to a great saint and scholar.

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Angelico Press

It’s a common but unrecognized problem: without even realizing it, you may have allowed your spiritual life to be distracted and diverted by practices and assumptions which are in fact foreign to authentic faith. That’s why you need Hilda Graef’s Commonsense Book of Catholic Prayer and Meditation! In it, she gives you positive ways to avoid pitfalls and build your spiritual life on the solid rock of truth. 
It’s deceptively easy (especially for committed Catholics) to fall into these spiritual traps. You may become frustrated and let your efforts to follow Christ fall by the wayside because you think that your prayers and devotions should make you feel a certain way, and they don’t. Or you may take something as an answer to prayer simply because it came to you after your prayer, even though it brings trouble and difficulty into your life. Graef also details here how quickly you can succumb to sinful habits of injustice, pride, lack of charity, and many others — without even recognizing it’s happening. 
Graef, an internationally respected Catholic author, here gives you the spiritual resources you need to clear away these and other roadblocks to your spiritual progress. She shows you how to use common sense in your approach to faith — while remaining loyal to the Church’s teaching in its fullness. 
This book doesn’t just show you how to avoid spiritual traps! It also sketches out a comprehensive program for your ongoing spiritual development. Graef details how you can grow closer to God by being faithful to your everyday duties; how you can make your work a means to holiness (even if you hate your job); how you can grow holier even through recreation; how to center your spiritual life on the Mass; and much more. She even gives you valuable secrets of how you can jump-start your prayer time when you find your prayers stale and dispiriting. 
Beware: The Commonsense Book of Catholic Prayer and Meditation compels you to examine yourself and your spiritual habits and assumptions honestly. This is no book for the worldly or halfhearted! But if you’re willing to take a hard look at your spiritual life and do what’s necessary to become more faithful to Christ, you’ll find a tremendous amount of help here.

The Commonsense Book of Catholic Prayer and Meditation

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Sophia Inst Pr

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