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Man to Man, Dad to Dad: Catholic Faith and Fatherhood
Par Brian Caulfield. 2013
What does it mean to be a Catholic man and father today? The identity and purpose of fathers in contemporary…
society is more uncertain than ever before. Cultural shifts such as rising rates of divorce and single motherhood, conception through sperm donation and in-vitro fertilization, and the educational and professional advancements of women have confused traditional paternal roles and family unit structures. As a result, a perception has been created whereby fatherhood is undervalued¿or altogether unnecessary. But this perception is misguided¿especially for Catholic fathers who are vital to supporting the structure of the family unit: the ¿domestic church. ¿ In this collection of faith-filled reflections by thirteen dads, the value of a Catholic father¿s identity and purpose is affirmed in the context of modern society. Acknowledging our workaholic tendencies and the constant struggle to strike a balance between family life and work life, fathers are provided with a realistic approach to making their relationships with God, their wives, and children more involved and fulfilling. Blending personal anecdotes from Catholic fathers, models of fatherhood in Jesus¿ parables, Scriptural passages, references to other publications, and allusions to Church teachings and figures of authority, this guidebook helps Catholic dads find the path to living as faithful family men through three simple steps: pray, love, confess.Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of E. E. Cummings
Par E E Cummings, George James Firmage, Richard S Kennedy. 1983
A new volume in the Liveright series of Cummings reissues, offset from the authoritative Complete Poems 1904-1962. The poems in…
Etcetera were discovered in three Cummings manuscript collections and selected from more than 350 unpublished pieces. Many of the poems are from his early years and all convey his freshness and youthful spirit, exhibiting his celebration of love and delight in common natural phenomena. Etcetera was first published by Liveright in 1983. This newly reissued edition is published in a uniform format with Is 5, Tulips & Chimneys, ViVa, XAIPE, and No Thanks.Prayers for New Brides
Par Jennifer White. 2014
A new wife is seldom aware of the intense spiritual battle threatening her dreams of happily ever after. Often, she…
enters the marriage without the benefit of great examples, biblical knowledge, and mentors offering godly wisdom. The battle begins and she is unarmed. Can she survive? Will her marriage become another divorce statistic? Marriage is God's design. He has a battle plan, the power and the resources to win. When a wife knows who God is and what He can do, she can trust Him to sustain her and her marriage. Her joy will be complete as she allows Him to empower her to do more for her union than she can imagine.Forgiveness
Par R. Scott Hurd. 2011
In this book, Father R. Scott Hurd writes of the spiritual, psychological, physical, and social benefits of learning how to…
forgive and find peace. Drawing from his pastoral experience, Hurd examines how human weakness affects such things as our ability to forgive and reconcile, our capacity to trust, and how we cope when a plea for forgiveness is rejected by a person we have wronged.Collected Poems
Par Arnold Rampersad, Frederick Glaysher, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Robert Hayden. 1985
An exquisite body of work celebrating the centennial of one of the most important African-American poets of the twentieth century.…
Robert Hayden was one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century. He left behind an exquisite body of work, collected in this definitive edition, including A Ballad of Remembrance, Words in the Mourning Time, The Night-Blooming Cereus, Angle of Ascent, and American Journal, which was nominated for a National Book Award. Also included is an introduction by American poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, as well as an afterword by Arnold Rampersad that provides a critical and historical context. In Hayden's work the actualities of history and culture became the launching places for flights of imagination and intelligence. His voice--characterized by musical diction and an exquisite feeling for the formality of pattern--is a seminal one in American life and literature.Facing Infertility: A Catholic Approach
Par Jean Dimech-Juchniewicz, Paul A. Carpentier. 2012
Do you or someone you know live with the pain of infertility? If so, you are not alone; one in…
six couples struggle to conceive a child. Drawing from her own experience and the example of other women and couples, Jean Dimech-Juchniewicz offers hope for all those affected by infertility:Whereas: Poems
Par Stephen Dunn. 2017
Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn examines the difficulties of telling the truth, and the fictions with which we choose to…
live. Incisively capturing the oddities of our logic and the whimsies of our reason, the poems in Whereas show there is always another side to a story. With graceful rhythm and equal parts humor and seriousness, Stephen Dunn considers the superstition and sophistry embedded in everyday life: household objects that seem to turn against us, the search for meaning in the barrage of daily news, the surprising confessions between neighbors across a row of hedges. Finding beauty in the ordinary, this collection affirms the absurdity of making affirmations, allowing room for more rethinking, reflection, revision, prayer, and magic in the world.Cleansed
Par Marcel Lejeune. 2016
Those caught in the grip of porn may withdraw in shame and despair, thinking there is no hope. Author Marcel…
LeJeune shows readers that the road to freedom from pornography cannot and should not be traveled alone. LeJeune offers scientific evidence of the addictive and destructive power of pornography, and provides resources and suggestions for keeping your home and family safe.Entering History: Poems
Par Mary Stewart Hammond. 2016
Lyrical narratives that chronicle a long marriage, rich with wit, dark irony, and poignancy. In her long-awaited second volume, Mary…
Stewart Hammond chronicles a long marriage with sharp wit, dark irony, and poignancy. As James Merrill says of Hammond’s poems, they “brim with what the whole world knows.” Entering History opens on a middle-aged couple, modern-day travelers in an ancient setting. The collection follows their relationship through time and place, combining the personal and the historical in stories of the family—siblings, a daughter, and the very different marriage of the poet’s parents. The marriage poems share the intimacy, erotic playfulness, irritations, worries, and angers that are part of an enduring love and a long marriage. In “Portrait of My Husband Reading Henry James,” the poet paints her husband using syntax and language that evoke James’s. In “Venasque,” the wintry village, perched on the edge of a cliff, serves as a metaphor for the existential crisis facing the couple. “Lines composed at Beaufort, South Carolina, a few miles above Parris Island,” about the poet’s brother, moves back and forth between the Civil War and the preparations of troops for today’s wars. In “Jacob and Esau with Sister,” two brothers, in a transaction as old as oral history, highlight its consequences in the twenty-first century. “Anniversary” is a heartbreaking elegy for a third brother who kills himself. Hammond reaches into the past and present of the American family, closing Entering History where it began, with the couple in bed, now older, harkening back to the bed they shared when they were newlyweds. These powerful, beautifully crafted, lyrical narratives give depth to an examination of life—its joys, sorrows, laughter, and tragedies.Selected Poems 1965-1990
Par Marilyn Hacker. 1994
Here is a rich collection of work from five books by one of America's most controversial poets. Marilyn Hacker's poems…
have been praised for their technical virtuosity, forthright feminism, political acuity, and unabashed eroticism. Included are selections from Hacker's first book, Presentation Piece (1974), the Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets and a National Book Award Winner; Separations (1976); Taking Notice (1980), which was claimed as an integral part of the burgeoning feminist and lesbian canon; Assumptions (1985), which explored the conundrums of gender, race, and identity in contemporary life; and Going Back to the River(1990), which received a Lambda Literary Award.Winter Numbers: Poems
Par Marilyn Hacker. 1994
Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In her seventh volume Marilyn Hacker confronts life and death at the…
end of our genocidal century, making another extraordinary contribution to the feminist and lesbian canon.The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems 1950-2001
Par Adrienne Rich. 2002
A reissue of the classic Adrienne Rich selection, revised and expanded to cover the entirety of her career, with a…
new Introduction. The Fact of a Doorframe is the ideal introduction to Rich's opus, from her formative lyricism in A Change of Word (1951), to the groundbreaking poems of Diving into the Wreck (1973), to the searching voice of Fox (2001).A Double Sorrow: A Version of Troilus and Criseyde
Par Lavinia Greenlaw. 2015
An original poetic work that brings alive Chaucer’s great love story, illuminating the psychological drama at its heart. The captivating…
love story of ill-fated Troilus and Criseyde, first popularized by Chaucer’s poem in the 1380s, is one of the most enduring stories of the English language. In A Double Sorrow, award-winning poet Lavinia Greenlaw breathes fresh life into the medieval tale through a series of seven-line stanzas, which mimic the form of Chaucer’s original poem. Set during the siege of Troy, A Double Sorrow is the story of the Trojan hero Troilus and his beloved Criseyde, whose traitorous father defects to the Greeks and persuades them to ask for his daughter in an exchange of prisoners. Troilus suggests that Criseyde flee with him, but she knows she will be universally condemned and instead pretends to submit to the exchange while promising Troilus that she will find a way to return to him within ten days. But once in the company of the Greeks, she soon realizes the impossibility of her promise to Troilus and in despair succumbs to another. In this series of skillfully crafted poetic vignettes, Greenlaw illuminates each small but irrevocable step as these characters argue each other and themselves into and out of love. The result is a breathtaking and shattering read, contemporary and timeless.Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems
Par Alice Fulton. 2004
Highlights from each of Alice Fulton's groundbreaking, prize-winning poetry books. Over the past twenty years, Alice Fulton has emerged as…
one of the most brilliant and honored poets of her generation. She is also among the most thrillingly inventive, compassionate, and necessary. Cascade Experiment charts the evolution of a poetics that revises the limits of language, emotion, and thought.Ordinary Beast
Par Nicole Sealey. 2017
ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S TOP 10 POETRY BOOKS OF FALL 2017 NPR'S MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY BOOKS OF 2017 A striking,…
full-length debut collection from Virgin Islands-born poet Nicole SealeyThe existential magnitude, deep intellect, and playful subversion of St. Thomas-born, Florida-raised poet Nicole Sealey’s work is restless in its empathic, succinct examination and lucid awareness of what it means to be human. The ranging scope of inquiry undertaken in Ordinary Beast—at times philosophical, emotional, and experiential—is evident in each thrilling twist of image by the poet. In brilliant, often ironic lines that move from meditation to matter of fact in a single beat, Sealey’s voice is always awake to the natural world, to the pain and punishment of existence, to the origins and demises of humanity. Exploring notions of race, sexuality, gender, myth, history, and embodiment with profound understanding, Sealey’s is a poetry that refuses to turn a blind eye or deny. It is a poetry of daunting knowledge.Sometimes He Whispers Sometimes He Roars
Par Marilynn Chadwick. 2012
Become the Answer to SOMEONE ELSE'S PRAYER Whether you're new to the journey of prayer or have been praying for…
years, this book will take your prayer life to levels you've never imagined. And if you feel a little unsure about how to begin, veteran prayer warrior Marilynn Chadwick will guide you each step of the way. As Marilynn shares the amazing stories of what prayer has done in her life--and the lives of others--you'll begin to get a vision for what your prayers can become. Several special features are included in this book, making it both inspirational and practical: * A 21-Day Prayer Experiment * An 8-Week Leader's Study Guide * A special A-List of Prayer Lifeline Scriptures * An exhaustive list of resources for those who want to go even deeper The joys of a powerful prayer life await you. You, too, can become the answer to someone else's prayer.The Gift of Rest
Par David Klinghoffer, Senator Joe Lieberman. 2011
The Sabbath is a gift that Senator Joe Lieberman, as an observant Jew, received from his parents who, in turn,…
received it from their parents, who received it from generations of Jews before them. According to ancient tradition, the line of transmission extends back to Moses at Mt. Sinai, who received the Sabbath as the fourth of the Ten Commandments. In this book, Lieberman will offer the gift of Sabbath observance--a gift that has anchored, ordered, and inspired his life--to readers of all faiths. In the past century, the Sabbath has fallen on hard times. It is thought of as just another day or as a time to squeeze in some extra errands or recreation that you may have missed during the workweek. The weekend passes in a blur of often meaningless activity. Combining personal and political memoir with history and broadly informed religious reflection, this book is a practical how-to guide, with simple suggestions for introducing the Sabbath into your own life. It will be a very personal book, yet also one animated by reflections on history and larger social trends. It will also include profound reflections of both classical and modern Jewish sages, from the Talmud and the ancient Jewish prayer book, the Siddur, to Maimonides, to Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Rabbi Soloveitchik.Heaven in the Real World: The Transforming Touch of God
Par Don Mclaughlin. 1997
The Character of a Man
Par Bruce Marchiano. 2006
While many books have emphasized Jesus as the Son of God, few have considered his identity as the Son of…
Man. In this eye-opening book, Bruce Marchiano explores the humanity of Christ and the Jesus-qualities that we can emulate today. As an actor who took on the role of Jesus for the acclaimed film Matthew, he encountered Jesus, the man, in a life-changing way and in this book shares his discoveries. Employing a friendly, conversational style, he explores a biblical view of manhood as evidenced by such characteristics as humility, passion, honor, selflessness, gentleness, and submission.I'm a Good Mother
Par Gigi Schweikert. 2005
Every mother repeatedly asks herself the age old question, Am I a good mother? This delightful book offers sixty affirmations…
that she is. But more than that, with each affirmation, Gigi Schweikert shares an encouraging message, an easy-to-do action step for today, a prayer, and a scripture. The perfect gift for a friend of loved one or a pick-me-up book for yourself, this book will inspire and encourage moms of all ages.