"In calling me to live my special qualities and characteristics, God planted deep in myself an original purpose-what my concrete self adds up to---and the desire to live that out."\nThis passage by Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), medieval scholar and founder of the Jesuit order, is the impetus for new content and a re-release of TRANSPIRATIONS-Guidance for the Head & Heart through Career and Beyond with IngramSpark Publishing. The passage is the perfect link between the spirituality of vocation and career development. Connecting our call "to live out our qualities and characteristics" to "original purpose" and discerning "what my concrete self adds up to" is the essence of career/work/service/retirement planning. Ignatius recognized this in the Middle Ages and integrated it into his spiritual teachings. Dr. Bachhuber recognized this genius and incorporated significant practices into the new chapter, "Ignatian Spirituality for Work, Service and Retirement Transitions."\nThis final complement to TRANSPIRATIONS applies Ignatius's wisdom to career, service, and retirement transitions, making this unique career development and spiritual companion even more valuable.\nDr. Bachhuber brings leading career/work insights from experts like William Bridges, Richard Bolles, and Herminia Ibarra together with his professional experiences from major universities, Fortune 500 companies, and leading retreats. 
He weaves the wisdom of spiritual writers like Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, Mary Oliver, Sister Joyce Rupp, Parker Palmer, Eckhart Tolle, Teresa of Avila and now, Ignatius Loyola into his spiritual and personal experiences.\nTom brings a likeable, informal style together with his substantive messages. This resource can be read straight through, used as a workbook, or as a means for daily reflection.\nThe book may be helpful if you are: 
o Approaching or experiencing retirement, searching for meaning in your next work, volunteer or ministry opportunity, 
o Experiencing insufficient value in your career/work/ministry and looking for fresh perspectives and purpose, 
o Feeling unsatisfied at the beginning or middle of a career and longing for a change or new direction, 
o Desiring to explore inward and use spiritual ideas/resources to help with discernment, 
o Needing encouragement, inspiration, and a closer relationship between your job search and your faith/spiritual life, 
o Going through a challenging time professionally or personally, 
o Wanting to apply the teachings of Ignatius Loyola to your career, service or retirement transition.

TRANSPIRATIONS-Guidance for the Head & Heart through Career and Beyond

Bachhuber, Thomas

Business & Money

Caritas Communications

This thoroughly funny memoir proves that life’s tragedies and challenges should never defeat our sense of humor. Whether it is in a happy breakfast with Geraldine Ferraro, an unfriendly lunch with Clarence Thoms, or a grim tete-a-tete with Pope Benedict XVI Maguire finds the fun in life and shares it with us in these hilarious pages.

A Merry Memoir of Sex, Death, and Religion

Biographies & Memoirs

Maguire, Dr. Daniel C

Memoirs

HOPE IS A DIALOGUE—A DESCRIPTION These pages explore some of the most central issues of our lives. They seek to define conscience, its imperatives and its limitations. They search for the new paradigms we need to live lives that are authentic and contemporary. In the light of the articles on conscience and paradigms, these pages explore through Galileo’s telescope, as it were, the verification of new centers for our lives. Our moral behavior must not be essentially defined in natural law and biological centers; nor must the Church be defined as the center of the universe or of our lives. All revolutions that are truly worthy connect us with the past that they surpass and leave. An especially delicate article, Hope Is A Dialogue explores the question of whether Jesus was married, calling Jesus Joseph’s son rather than Mary’s child. The sadness of life is evoked in “Crosses in the Early Darkness” and the loss of those we desperately loved in “Homily for My Mother”. The status of married priests and of marriage as well as priesthood is explored. And redemption is defined in another article, as the salvation of our integrity. The unifying theme that weaves its way through these reflections is the passion we are summoned to follow, a passion to make ourselves at home with ourselves so that we can inclusively welcome all those who seek a home in our friendship and faith.

Hope is a Dialogue

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Padovano, Anthony T.

Psychology & Counseling

“Medicine in Search of Meaning is a wonderful, self–reflective book that will help physicians rekindle their passion for medicine and the patients they serve during these times of tumultuous change in the delivery of health care. Bill has brought the business of

Medicine in Search of Meaning: A Spiritual Journey for Physicians

Medical Books

Bazan, Bill

Medicine

A personal story of what it's like for a man in his 70's to move in with a passel of abused and neglected kids, share their lives and take on a new identity as a grandpa to a children's village. The author's job description as a live-in grandfather at the inter-generational village is to be a giver of unconditional love to twenty-four foster children ranging in age from five to sixteen.

Grandpa to a Children's Village

Hank Mattimore

My poems focus on what I perceive in the world of nature, on significant people from the past and present, on early years growing up in Iowa. Poetry is the way I tell my story, a story of love and joy, of grief and loss, life at the heart of what we are about as humans.

Let Morning Begin

Literature & Fiction

Kay Mullen

Poetry

In the late sixties, I left a convent in the Midwest where I had once taken vows. I moved to the East and obtained a job teaching in an elementary school although my goal was to teach at a community college. I knew I had sufficient education but was bewildered as to how to write an effective resume. I heard that a priest serving at my parish was preparing to go on sabbatical, and I was impressed by his academic credentials, so I summoned the courage to phone and ask for his advice. He offered to meet with me and share his own resume. That encounter began a dialogue that gradually led us both in a new direction. In the spirit of Vatican II, we fell in love. Little did we know, that within the year, appropriate papers from Rome would be filed, we would combine our curriculum vitae, marry, and begin the long trip to Alaska. Little did l know that I would find myself teaching not at a college but first grade in a grammar school on the tundra. This book is intended as a kind of photograph album in words. Turning the pages, the reader catches glimpses of the early days of our marriage: our trip from Stanford (where my husband completed a summer grant), to our home in Fairbanks. We spent our first year of marriage there which ended with the completion of his sabbatical work at the Geophysical Institute. There are brief views of the last days too, thirty-five years later, when we were stunned to learn he had cancer. These are not posed photographs, but snapshots glances of lives taken by surprise.

Even the Stones

My husband Francis died on January 3, 2010. During the previous three months and ten days after we learned he had bone cancer, we shared unforgettable experiences. I communicated many of these in my emails to family and friends, bringing them along with us during our passage into the unknown - through his hospice at home to his death. In September, 2010, I began rereading the letters I had begun writing in September, 2009. Then, two books of poetry given to me by a friend, sparked something new in my life. The books were Donald Hall s The Painted Bed and Without, in which he laments the death of his wife, Jane Kenyon, also a poet. Fresh from revisiting and reliving Francis and my experiences, and with the example of a grief-stricken poet to encourage me - poems started coming. The first one sets the scene: I was a nun and you, a priest.

Sing to Me and I Will Hear You - The Poems

Elaine G. McGillicuddy

He guides us as he explores our journey through the universe of the new cosmology. In the course of his intellectual journey he has opened up so many new ways by which to view the world and the cosmos that surrounds and embraces us so that we come “to feel at home in the universe.” He has taught us that we are part of the cosmos, that our bodies carry within them all of the elements of the periodic table that derived from the dust of exploding stars. Furthermore Dick states that all of reality consists of interconnected relationships-in-motion permeated by a sacred radiant energy. He tells us the four Cs of the Great Story: cosmogenesis, creativity, chaos and compassion. In this Great Story it is we who are the “Second Coming,” as participants with God as co-creators of the ever expanding universe.

Discussions in the New Cosmology: Evolutionary, Creation-Centered Spirituality

Scaine, Richard

Religion & Spirituality

Hidden Holiness Voices of Priests

Thomas A. McCabe

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