HAB is happy to re-propose after many years Paul Claudel's play The Tidings Brought to Mary, a play in a translation by Louise Morgan Sill. A significant introduction by Luigi Giussani, founder of the Catholic lay ecclesial movement of Communion and Liberation, helps the reader to be drawn more deeply into the drama of the play and to find described there the drama which faces each of us. Pope Benedict XVI once made the point that world history is a struggle between two kinds of love: "self-love to the point of hatred for God, and love of God to the point of self-renunciation. This second love brings the redemption of the world and the self." This is the claim, the proposal of the play The Tidings Brought to Mary. After nearly a hundred years, as we watch this Infinite Love generate the play's heroic characters, we find ourselves begging in turn: "Please let me meet You. Please let your love take hold of my life. Please let me be embraced by a love that shows me where my place is-that draws everything in my life to Yourself. Please let me obey that love."

The Tidings Brought to Mary

Literature & Fiction

Claudel, Paul

Dramas & Plays

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"Jesus did not eliminate human suffering: He came to suffer together with us." With these words Fr. Vincent Nagle introduces his readers to his work in the hospital where he has served for years as chaplain. Trite phrases just don't cut it when families are confronted by the mystery of suffering. "When I go into a hospital room, I go in with a broken heart, willing to share this adventure with these patients whose very selves are broken apart by illness. I don't want to give them false comfort, but real hope." Brief and intense fragments of hospital life are alternated with the fascinating story of Fr. Vincent's own journey to faith and the priesthood. "When I understood that in order to be truly alive I needed to return to the faith, my condition was that God not let me be separated from the difficulties of life." And God took him seriously.

Life Promises Life

Politics & Social Sciences

Nagle, Vincent

Sociology

"Together on the Road" offers a fresh vision of Christian community rooted in friendship with one another and with Christ. Its engaging reflections encourage us to reject the widespread isolation, loneliness, and activism that mark contemporary life, and to embrace a renewed sense of belonging to each other in Christ as the most wonderful event of our lives. In particular, Massimo Camisasca invites priests to renew their passion for living and giving themselves in communion with one another. He candidly admits: "Priestly fraternity has helped me discover that friendship is an answer to my deepest desires."Essential for priests, men and women religious, and those committed to community, it also offers all believers a compelling model of lived Christianity, one that celebrates a purposeful, passionate belonging to the Church, and that believes absolutely in its future.

Together on the Road

Camisasca, Massimo

Parenting & Relationships

Mons. Massimo Camisasca, founder and general superior of the Fraternity of St. Charles, has educated priests and seminarians for twenty-five years. The first part of this book contains several lessons given to his seminarians during their formation. The second part is articulated around five words: the three "classic" terms (poverty, virginity, and obedience) are completed with reflections on fatherhood and fruitfulness. "The world needs fathers, and Christ wants us to become fathers, an echo as it were of He who gave us existence and the light to live by, He who has saved us from nothingess and has opened the door to the greatest adventure there is: forgiveness. We are called to meet men and women everywhere and without fear, as traveling companions. We are called to be the embrace which does not hold back before the sick, the elderly, children, the abandoned, the dying. With them, we begin to experience the relevation of the glorious life which has no end."

The Challenge of Fatherhood

Family Relationships

Una delle opere più rappresentative del carisma di Comunione e Liberazione è la Fraternità san Carlo. Fondata nel 1985, è stata riconosciuta come società di vita apostolica di diritto pontificio da Giovanni Paolo II, il 19 marzo 1999. I suoi membri vivono in case sparse oggi in circa venti paesi e quattro continenti. Questa è la storia della Fraternità raccontata in prima persona dal suo fondatore.

Il Vento Di Dio (English and Italian Edition)

History

World

Undervalued, vilified, unsupported, stressed, underpaid, yet still undeterred. Unsung heroes, generously giving of themselves, against all odds, fighting a silent, difficult battle with immense sacrifice, tenacity, and perseverance. This battle - the battle of educating the men and women of tomorrow - takes place daily in our schools. Now more than ever, teaching has become a true calling or vocation - a call to remedy the bleak future that many foresee. The economic crisis and the tumultuous international climate have propelled teachers into the forefront, making them indispensable in the struggle to save our children and our nation. In their hands rests the American dream, economic progress, social stability, and world peace.

The Teachers Will Save Us

Education & Teaching

Rodelgo-Bueno, Jose

Schools & Teaching

La vita dell'uomo è essenzialmente vocazione, "chiamata". «C'è una voce nella mia vita» è il primo verso di una poesia di Giovanni Pascoli. Descrive qualcosa che accade a ciascuno di noi. Qualcuno ci chiama, e il nostro nome risuona in ogni avvenimento, in ogni circostanza. Anche se a volte noi siamo distratti e non ce ne accorgiamo, questa voce c'è, e, per poco che siamo vivi, la sentiamo. Di fronte a questa chiamata, che sollecita drammaticamente la libertà del singolo, siamo invitati a rispondere ogni giorno, per incontrare Dio e non smarrire noi stessi.

Una Voce Nella MIA Vita (English and Italian Edition)

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

There is a long and sacred history of venerating the holy images of our Lord, Jesus Christ. At Christmas time, we in- cense the Holy Infant in the manger and re- call his humility and love. During Lent we walk with devotion through the Stations of the Cross, tracing the steps that lead to our salvation. And on Easter morning we stand before the empty tomb, filled with awe in the presence of the Angels at the wondrous works that God has done. Images of Christ have the power to move our hearts, they can catechize without words and allow us to contemplate the beautiful face of God revealed in His own Son. - Cardinal Sean O'Malley, From the Introduction

The Rediscovered Face, the Unmistakable Features of Christ

A blueprint for reform in the Catholic Church. The author draws on twenty-five years at the head of a young missionary order which he founded, and proposes a road forward out of the quagmire the Catholic Church and its priests find themselves in today. "Will there still be priests in the Church's future? Has not the time come for us to humbly inquire into the direction change should take?" So writes Mons. Massimo Camisasca. He dedicates nearly half of his book to silence, prayer, liturgy, and the Mass, and then moves on to discuss several commonly underdeveloped themes (study, fatherhood, common life, and friendship). He closes with three chapters on hot-button issues (virginity, women, mission) which he treats on the basis of the preceding reflections. With a preface by Mons. Bruguès, secretary of the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education.

Father. Will there still be priests in the Church's future?

Among the sixteen books written by the gifted Capuchin priest Ignacio Larran aga (1928-2013), The Silence of Mary is the best sold, printed in forty editions and twelve languages. The personality and history of the mother of Jesus has been reconstructed by means of a penetrating analysis based solidly on the canonical Scriptures without appealing to traditions or apocryphal writings. Although Catholic in its orthodoxy, Larran aga's description is valid for Christians of all denominations, which makes this book a sound basis for ecumenical dialog. Born and ordained a priest in Spain, the Capuchins sent him to the province of the Order of Capuchin Friars Minor in Chile at the age of thirty-one. In his eagerness for all to get a deep God experience, he traveled to many countries giving conferences and organizing courses and workshops. The Prayer and Life Workshops, which he founded, met with great success in the United States. However, since his aim was primarily focused on Latin America, those in North America rarely recognize his name and he continues to be little known. Although The Silence of Mary was translated into English about a quarter of a century ago, only a few copies were distributed, and the book was never reprinted. In order to remedy that gap, we now present to the North American public an absolutely new and authentic version of Larran aga's best seller. It is translated from the original, faithfully attempting to express in English what was written so powerfully in Spanish. Therefore, it serves as an excellent introduction to the mind of the author."

The Silence of Mary

LARRAÑAGA, IGNACIO

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