The Ear of the Heart
Title | The Ear of the Heart PDF eBook |
Author | Dolores Hart |
Publisher | Ignatius Press |
Total Pages | 419 |
Release | 2013-04-16 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1681491478 |
"Listen and attend with the ear of your heart." - Saint Benedict. Dolores Hart stunned Hollywood in 1963, when after ten highly successful feature films, she chose to enter a contemplative monastery. Now, fifty years later, Mother Dolores gives this fascinating account of her life, with co-author and life-long friend, Richard DeNeut. Dolores was a bright and beautiful college student when she made her film debut with Elvis Presley in Paramount's 1957 Loving You. She acted in nine more movies with other big stars such as Montgomery Clift, Anthony Quinn and Myrna Loy. She also gave a Tony-nominated performance in the Broadway play The Pleasure of His Company and appeared in television shows, including The Virginian and Playhouse 90. An important chapter in her life occurred while playing Saint Clare in the movie Francis of Assisi, which was filmed on location in Italy. Born Dolores Hicks to a complicated and colorful Chicago family, Mother Dolores has travelled a charmed yet challenging road in her journey toward God, serenity and, yes, love. She entered the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Connecticut, at the peak of her career, not in order to leave the glamorous world of acting she had dreamed of since childhood, but in order to answer a mysterious call she heard with the "ear of the heart". While contracted for another film and engaged to be married, she abandoned everything to become a bride of Christ.
Writing for the Ear, Preaching from the Heart
Title | Writing for the Ear, Preaching from the Heart PDF eBook |
Author | Donna Giver-Johnston |
Publisher | Augsburg Fortress Publishers |
Total Pages | 163 |
Release | 2021-08-10 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1506463231 |
In Writing for the Ear, Preaching from the Heart, Donna Giver-Johnston teaches preachers how to communicate effectively--how to get away from their notes and make a more personal connection with their listeners. Grounded in a theology of the incarnation, she offers a step-by-step method for writing sermons with the fewest, most impactful and memorable words and delivered by heart to communicate a message that captures the ears and hearts of listeners.
My Ear at His Heart
Title | My Ear at His Heart PDF eBook |
Author | Hanif Kureishi |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 2010-03-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781416588191 |
Described in a recent New York Times Magazine profile as a "postcolonial Philip Roth," Hanif Kureishi first captured the attention of audiences and critics in the 1980s with the award-winning novel The Buddha of Suburbia and the films My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid. In three decades of acclaimed work, Kureishi has written fiction and films exploring a series of interconnected themes about identity and desire—from Islamic radicalism to kinky sex, and from psychoanalysis to the relationships of fathers and sons. After discovering an abandoned manuscript of his father’s, hidden for years, Kureishi was compelled to turn his "unflinching perspective" (Time Out) onto his own history. Like Roth, Martin Amis and Geoffrey Wolfe, who also have written books about their fathers, Kureishi wanted to understand and perhaps to reconcile. My Ear at His Heart offers remarkable insight into the birth of a writer, chronicling how Kureishi’s own literary calling emerged from the ashes of his father’s aspirations. And so begins a journey that takes Kureishi through his father’s privileged childhood by the sea in Bombay, through the turbulent birth of Pakistan and to his modest adult life in England—his days spent as a civil servant, his nights writing prose, hopeful of one day receiving literary recognition. "A beguiling and complex tale of fact, fiction and family tensions" (The Guardian), My Ear at His Heart was published to great acclaim in the United Kingdom in 2004 and went on to win the prestigious Prix France Culture Etranger. Now, this profound work from one of the most compelling artists of our time is at last available in a Scribner edition.
Tattoos on the Heart
Title | Tattoos on the Heart PDF eBook |
Author | Greg Boyle |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2011-02-08 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1439153159 |
Father Boyle started Homeboy Industries nearly 20 years ago, which has served members of more than half of the gangs in Los Angeles. This collection presents parables about kinship and the sacredness of life drawn from Boyle's years of working with gangs.
Listen with the Ear of the Heart
Title | Listen with the Ear of the Heart PDF eBook |
Author | Maria S. Guarino |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | 215 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1580469108 |
A contemplative ethnographic study of a Benedictine monastery in Vermont known for its folk-inspired music.
The Tell-Tale Heart
Title | The Tell-Tale Heart PDF eBook |
Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
Publisher | SAMPI Books |
Total Pages | 22 |
Release | 2024-01-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 656133115X |
In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", the narrator tries to prove his sanity after murdering an elderly man because of his "vulture eye". His growing guilt leads him to hear the old man's heart beating under the floorboards, which drives him to confess the crime to the police.
The Ear
Title | The Ear PDF eBook |
Author | Piret Raud |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024-03-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780500660287 |
A surreal story inspired by Vincent van Gogh's ear, by the award-winning children's book creator, Piret Raud.When the artist Vincent van Gogh cuts off his ear, the ear is suddenly left alone and headless. What will become of her? Where should she go? What should she do? Acutely aware of how small and insignificant she is in the big, wide world, the ear experiences something of an identity crisis. She simply doesn't know who she is anymore. But thanks to a downcast frog with a heavy heart who simply needs listening to, she realizes what she can offer to the world: a sympathetic ear. Through helping her friends, she discovers a fresh perspective on life.Piret Raud is Estonia's leading children's book creator, and has twice been nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, in 2020 and 2022. Her hand-drawn artwork is breathtaking for its exquisite detail, remarkably vibrant colours and bold compositions. This bedtime story will amuse, beguile and teach empathy in equal measure.