Praying Our Goodbyes
Title | Praying Our Goodbyes PDF eBook |
Author | Joyce Rupp |
Publisher | Ave Maria Press |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2009-05-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 159471553X |
With 250,000 copies sold, this new edition of Joyce Rupp’s most popular book offers a fresh opportunity for readers to reflect, ritualize, and reorient themselves as they navigate life’s inevitable changes. Everyone has unique goodbyes—times of losing someone or something that has given life meaning and value. With the touch of a poet, Joyce Rupp offers her wisdom on "these experiences of leaving behind and moving on, the stories of union and separation that are written in all our hearts." Praying Our Goodbyes, Rupp says, is about the spirituality of change. It is a book for anyone who has experienced loss, whether a job change, the end of a relationship, the death of a loved one, a financial struggle, a mid-life crisis, or an extended illness. It is designed to help readers reflect, ritualize, and re-orient themselves—to help heal the hurts caused by goodbyes and the anxieties encountered when one season of life ends and another begins.
Open the Door
Title | Open the Door PDF eBook |
Author | Joyce Rupp |
Publisher | Ave Maria Press |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2008-09-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1933495405 |
The long-awaited book from best-selling spiritual guide Joyce Rupp, creatively leads readers to explore how the image of the door can guide them in a process of discovering their true self. Joyce Rupp brings new life to the ageless spiritual image of the door, weaving insights from East and West with the wisdom of contemporary spiritual writers, poets, and novelists in a practical format that is just right for contemporary readers. Structured as a daily prayer guide for everyday use over six weeks, each day offers a thematic reflection, a guided meditation, an original prayer, a thoughtful question, and a related scripture quote. A built-in guide for small groups makes this the perfect resource for groups of all kinds as well as individuals.
Praying Our Goodbyes
Title | Praying Our Goodbyes PDF eBook |
Author | Joyce Rupp |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781594712050 |
With 250,000 copies sold, this new edition of Joyce Rupp's most popular book offers a fresh opportunity for readers to reflect, ritualize, and reorient themselves as they navigate life's inevitable changes.Everyone has unique goodbyes--times of losing someone or something that has given life meaning and value. With the touch of a poet, Joyce Rupp offers her wisdom on "these experiences of leaving behind and moving on, the stories of union and separation that are written in all our hearts." "Praying Our Goodbyes," Rupp says, is about the spirituality of change.It is a book for anyone who has experienced loss, whether a job change, the end of a relationship, the death of a loved one, a financial struggle, a mid-life crisis, or an extended illness. It is designed to help readers reflect, ritualize, and re-orient themselves--to help heal the hurts caused by goodbyes and the anxieties encountered when one season of life ends and another begins.
Prayer
Title | Prayer PDF eBook |
Author | Joyce Rupp |
Publisher | Orbis Books |
Total Pages | 127 |
Release | 2007-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1570757127 |
Rupp opens up Scriptures that teach how to pray and applies them to daily life. She encourages readers "to pray always" through an awareness of the God of Love, "in whom we live and move and have our being."
Prayer Seeds
Title | Prayer Seeds PDF eBook |
Author | Joyce Rupp |
Publisher | Ave Maria Press |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2017-03-03 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1933495995 |
Named one of the 50 best spiritual books of 2017 by Spirituality & Practice. Winner of a 2018 Catholic Press Association Award: Prayer Collections (First Place). and a 2018 Association of Catholic Publishers Award: Prayer & Spirituality (First Place). Some of Sr. Joyce Rupp’s most perennially popular books have been collections of her original prayers, blessings, poems, and reflections. In Prayer Seeds, the bestselling author and retreat leader offers almost a hundred new selections on a variety of themes such as the feasts and seasons of the liturgical year, compassion, ministry, difficult times, and important events—all suitable for personal or group prayer. People who attend Rupp’s retreats or workshops often approach her to ask for a copy of a prayer that she composed for the event. In 2000, she collected her prayers in the book Out of the Ordinary. In Prayer Seeds, Rupp follows up with about a hundred never-before-published prayers written since the publication of the first collection. The prayers are organized thematically. Rupp’s warmth and closeness to God along with her sensitivity to the joy and sadness of life make her an ideal prayer companion. Her prayers are like seed planted in your soul. Tended and watered by love, they will grow and bear a rich harvest in your life.
Prayers of Boundless Compassion
Title | Prayers of Boundless Compassion PDF eBook |
Author | Joyce Rupp |
Publisher | Ave Maria Press |
Total Pages | 128 |
Release | 2018-03-02 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 193205717X |
Compassion was the center of Jesus' ministry and his mission for his disciples—and for us. Bestselling and award-winning author and retreat leader Joyce Rupp gives you the words to develop compassion in yourself as never before and to reenergize your ability to offer loving kindness to those around you. Compassion can change a heart, change a life, change a world. But we have to learn how to be compassionate and Joyce Rupp—codirector of the Servite Center of Compassionate Presence—can guide us. Forty original prayers, blessings, and meditations by Rupp will help us practice themes of compassion: as a way of life, welcoming ourselves, the river of suffering, from hostility to hospitality, a thousand unbreakable links, and compassionate presence. To be used alone or as a helpful companion to Rupp's Boundless Compassion book and program, this collection of prayers will inspire anyone to change the world.
Praying You Goodbye
Title | Praying You Goodbye PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Masson Copeland |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 80 |
Release | 2017-05 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780980230437 |