Author: Carole Garibaldi Rogers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199830428
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A collection of extraordinary oral histories of American nuns, Habits of Change captures the experiences of women whose lives over the past fifty years have been marked by dramatic transformation. Bringing together women from more than forty different religious communities, most of whom entered religious life before Vatican II, the book shows how their lives were suddenly turned around in the 1960s--perhaps more so than any other group of contemporary women. Here these women speak of their active engagement in the events that disrupted their church and society and of the lives they lead today, offering their unique perspective on issues such as peace activism, global equality for women, and the clergy sexual abuse crisis. The interviewees include a Maryknoll missionary who spent decades in Africa, most recently in the Congo; an inner-city art teacher whose own paintings reflect the vibrancy of Haiti; a recovering alcoholic who at age 71 has embarked on her fourth ministry; a life-long nurse, educator, and hospital administrator; and an outspoken advocate for the gay and lesbian community. Told with simplicity, honesty, and passion, their stories deserve to be heard.
Habits of Change
Author: Carole Garibaldi Rogers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199830428
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A collection of extraordinary oral histories of American nuns, Habits of Change captures the experiences of women whose lives over the past fifty years have been marked by dramatic transformation. Bringing together women from more than forty different religious communities, most of whom entered religious life before Vatican II, the book shows how their lives were suddenly turned around in the 1960s--perhaps more so than any other group of contemporary women. Here these women speak of their active engagement in the events that disrupted their church and society and of the lives they lead today, offering their unique perspective on issues such as peace activism, global equality for women, and the clergy sexual abuse crisis. The interviewees include a Maryknoll missionary who spent decades in Africa, most recently in the Congo; an inner-city art teacher whose own paintings reflect the vibrancy of Haiti; a recovering alcoholic who at age 71 has embarked on her fourth ministry; a life-long nurse, educator, and hospital administrator; and an outspoken advocate for the gay and lesbian community. Told with simplicity, honesty, and passion, their stories deserve to be heard.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199830428
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A collection of extraordinary oral histories of American nuns, Habits of Change captures the experiences of women whose lives over the past fifty years have been marked by dramatic transformation. Bringing together women from more than forty different religious communities, most of whom entered religious life before Vatican II, the book shows how their lives were suddenly turned around in the 1960s--perhaps more so than any other group of contemporary women. Here these women speak of their active engagement in the events that disrupted their church and society and of the lives they lead today, offering their unique perspective on issues such as peace activism, global equality for women, and the clergy sexual abuse crisis. The interviewees include a Maryknoll missionary who spent decades in Africa, most recently in the Congo; an inner-city art teacher whose own paintings reflect the vibrancy of Haiti; a recovering alcoholic who at age 71 has embarked on her fourth ministry; a life-long nurse, educator, and hospital administrator; and an outspoken advocate for the gay and lesbian community. Told with simplicity, honesty, and passion, their stories deserve to be heard.
A Life of Promise: Poverty, Chastity, Obedience
Author: Francis J. Moloney
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1579107486
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1579107486
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Change and Confusion in Catholicism
Author: Nathan R. Kollar
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527588289
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
We live in a liminal time. The anthropologist Victor Turner describes liminality as a time of severe disorientation for individuals and societies that lies between one stage of life and another. All the former signposts that provided people with an identity are in a state of upheaval as they transit between these stages. This book uses the lifelong personal and professional experiences of the author to analyse how Catholics experience liminality today and dealt with it yesterday. It provides the reader with an historical case study of frightening experiences, both in teaching what to expect during such a time and what to assume when it ends.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527588289
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
We live in a liminal time. The anthropologist Victor Turner describes liminality as a time of severe disorientation for individuals and societies that lies between one stage of life and another. All the former signposts that provided people with an identity are in a state of upheaval as they transit between these stages. This book uses the lifelong personal and professional experiences of the author to analyse how Catholics experience liminality today and dealt with it yesterday. It provides the reader with an historical case study of frightening experiences, both in teaching what to expect during such a time and what to assume when it ends.
A CHANGE OF HABIT
Author: Patty Ptak Kogutek
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1452542813
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
A religious eddy hurled seventeen-year-old Patty into a convent in the 1960s, to please her earthly father, and say yes to her heavenly Father. Her time in the convent parallels changes wrought in religious life by Vatican II, including changes of names and attire. After leaving the convent following seven years of service, she assumes she can pick up her life and move on. She finally broke out of the debilitating patterns learned in the convent, and now she shares the seven secrets to guilt-free living learned on her journey.
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1452542813
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
A religious eddy hurled seventeen-year-old Patty into a convent in the 1960s, to please her earthly father, and say yes to her heavenly Father. Her time in the convent parallels changes wrought in religious life by Vatican II, including changes of names and attire. After leaving the convent following seven years of service, she assumes she can pick up her life and move on. She finally broke out of the debilitating patterns learned in the convent, and now she shares the seven secrets to guilt-free living learned on her journey.
Poverty, Chastity, and Change
Author: Carole G. Rogers
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Some of the women are nationally known - such as Sister Joan Chittister, a Benedictine nun from Erie, Pennsylvania, who has written numerous books and articles about the Catholic Church and religious life; and Sister Theresa Kane, the Sister of Mercy who publicly addressed Pope John Paul II on the subject of women in the Church when he visited the United States in 1979.
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Some of the women are nationally known - such as Sister Joan Chittister, a Benedictine nun from Erie, Pennsylvania, who has written numerous books and articles about the Catholic Church and religious life; and Sister Theresa Kane, the Sister of Mercy who publicly addressed Pope John Paul II on the subject of women in the Church when he visited the United States in 1979.
Radical and Free
Author: Brian O'Leary
Publisher: Messenger Publications
ISBN: 1788121791
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
This book is the result of two preached retreats I gave to mark the recent Year of Consecrated Life (2015). However, the origin of the material goes much further back, drawing on my teaching experience both at Manresa Centre of Spirituality and at Milltown Institute (covering a period of thirty years). In both places I had taught courses on religious life – its history, theology, and most of all its underlying spirituality. Indeed, I have always used history and theology (and other disciplines such as psychology and anthropology) in service of exploring and renewing the spirituality of religious life. Another way of saying this is that I am above all interested in values (as appreciated, appropriated, and articulated). This lies behind my decision to structure the talks (now the book) almost entirely around the vows. After an initial chapter on the origins of religious life, I devote two chapters each to poverty, chastity, and obedience. My emphasis is not on the vows as such (dealing with questions that Canon Law might raise) but on the motivating values that the vows express. Only these values can explain why people enter and flourish in religious life. All religious, without distinction, are called to be “radical and free”.
Publisher: Messenger Publications
ISBN: 1788121791
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
This book is the result of two preached retreats I gave to mark the recent Year of Consecrated Life (2015). However, the origin of the material goes much further back, drawing on my teaching experience both at Manresa Centre of Spirituality and at Milltown Institute (covering a period of thirty years). In both places I had taught courses on religious life – its history, theology, and most of all its underlying spirituality. Indeed, I have always used history and theology (and other disciplines such as psychology and anthropology) in service of exploring and renewing the spirituality of religious life. Another way of saying this is that I am above all interested in values (as appreciated, appropriated, and articulated). This lies behind my decision to structure the talks (now the book) almost entirely around the vows. After an initial chapter on the origins of religious life, I devote two chapters each to poverty, chastity, and obedience. My emphasis is not on the vows as such (dealing with questions that Canon Law might raise) but on the motivating values that the vows express. Only these values can explain why people enter and flourish in religious life. All religious, without distinction, are called to be “radical and free”.
Sisters
Author: John Fialka
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312262297
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Identifying nuns as the first feminists and sweeping in its scope and insight, "Sisters" reveals the treasure of spiritual capital that religious women have invested in America. 25 photos.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312262297
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Identifying nuns as the first feminists and sweeping in its scope and insight, "Sisters" reveals the treasure of spiritual capital that religious women have invested in America. 25 photos.
A Different Touch
Author: Judith A. Merkle
Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 9780814624654
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This work speaks of the challenges of religious life today where the essentials of Christian living and union with God are sought with "a different touch." Reflecting on the history of religious life since the nineteenth century, Sister Judith comments on how each of the traditional vows shape the ongoing adult development of the religious, and she relates these vows to current cultural and sociopolitical issues. A Different Touch is addressed both to those in religious formation and to congregations that are engaged in theological renewal.
Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 9780814624654
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This work speaks of the challenges of religious life today where the essentials of Christian living and union with God are sought with "a different touch." Reflecting on the history of religious life since the nineteenth century, Sister Judith comments on how each of the traditional vows shape the ongoing adult development of the religious, and she relates these vows to current cultural and sociopolitical issues. A Different Touch is addressed both to those in religious formation and to congregations that are engaged in theological renewal.
Historical Collections out of several Grave Protestant Historians, concerning the Changes of Religion
A CHANGE OF HABIT
Author: Patty Ptak Kogutek
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1452542821
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
“Growing up Catholic, I could relate to so many of the references and the experiences Patty shares—but you don’t have to be raised Catholic to know about guilt—and this is a book for everyone! Patty’s perspective is to impart truth in a fun and light-hearted way, and that is exactly what reading this book will let you do—lighten your heart!” – Gerry Gavin, author “Messages from Margaret” and Hay House radio host. “A Change of Habit takes you on an extraordinary journey into the world of hope and inspiration. Regardless if you are just beginning your journey, or are highly enlightened, this profound story will have a major positive impact on your life.” – Nick Bunick, author of the New York Times bestseller “The Messengers” A Change of Habit recounts a spiritual journey that started when a religious eddy hurls seventeen-year-old Patty into a convent in the 1960s. Her deeply embedded guilt drives her to obey the Catholic Church, please her earthly father, and say yes to her heavenly Father. But in the convent, she fails to find happiness in religious rites and rules. Her time in the convent parallels changes wrought in religious life by Vatican II, including changes of names and attire. After leaving the convent following seven years of service, she assumes she can pick up her life and move on. But once the religious habit comes off , long-practiced habits of poverty, chastity, and obedience dog her into married life. Finally facing the reality mirror, she breaks out the debilitating patterns learned in the convent. In finding true spirituality and finally listening to the God within, she shakes the destructive habit of guilt. Her story speaks to like-minded “guilt sponges,” offering hope on their personal spiritual quests. She shares the seven secrets to guilt-free living learned on her journey. A Change of Habit is not the story of a girl breaking from the convent to live happily ever after; the story’s uniqueness hinges on how ingrained duty lodges. This story of personal reinvention and empowerment that takes place over forty years shows that it’s never to late to change one’s future.
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1452542821
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
“Growing up Catholic, I could relate to so many of the references and the experiences Patty shares—but you don’t have to be raised Catholic to know about guilt—and this is a book for everyone! Patty’s perspective is to impart truth in a fun and light-hearted way, and that is exactly what reading this book will let you do—lighten your heart!” – Gerry Gavin, author “Messages from Margaret” and Hay House radio host. “A Change of Habit takes you on an extraordinary journey into the world of hope and inspiration. Regardless if you are just beginning your journey, or are highly enlightened, this profound story will have a major positive impact on your life.” – Nick Bunick, author of the New York Times bestseller “The Messengers” A Change of Habit recounts a spiritual journey that started when a religious eddy hurls seventeen-year-old Patty into a convent in the 1960s. Her deeply embedded guilt drives her to obey the Catholic Church, please her earthly father, and say yes to her heavenly Father. But in the convent, she fails to find happiness in religious rites and rules. Her time in the convent parallels changes wrought in religious life by Vatican II, including changes of names and attire. After leaving the convent following seven years of service, she assumes she can pick up her life and move on. But once the religious habit comes off , long-practiced habits of poverty, chastity, and obedience dog her into married life. Finally facing the reality mirror, she breaks out the debilitating patterns learned in the convent. In finding true spirituality and finally listening to the God within, she shakes the destructive habit of guilt. Her story speaks to like-minded “guilt sponges,” offering hope on their personal spiritual quests. She shares the seven secrets to guilt-free living learned on her journey. A Change of Habit is not the story of a girl breaking from the convent to live happily ever after; the story’s uniqueness hinges on how ingrained duty lodges. This story of personal reinvention and empowerment that takes place over forty years shows that it’s never to late to change one’s future.