El padre Hurtado

Many people have the compassionate wish to benefit others, but few understand how to accomplish this successfully in daily life. Bodhisattvas are friends of the world, who have such strong compassion that they are able to transform all their daily activities into ways of benefiting others. The path of the Bodhisattva was exquisitely explained in the universally loved poem Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life by the the 8th century master Shantideva. With this commentary, the full effectiveness and profundity of this wonderful poem are revealed in full and made applicable for our time....

En el verano de 1961 se difundió la noticia de que cuatro niñas veían a la Virgen en la aldea de San Sebastián de Garabandal. El hecho de que las niñas llegaran a negar las apariciones ha sido el principal motivo por el que llegó a parecer que la Iglesia católica las daba por falsas. Sin embargo, las videntes nunca afirmaron que todo fuera falso y con el tiempo se reafirmaron en la realidad de sus visiones. Mientras tanto, la Iglesia corregía su juicio sobre Garabandal. Aunque la autoridad diocesana –el obispo de Santander– haya suspendido el juicio negativo sobre las apariciones, ...

For thirty years, Mark as Story has introduced readers to the rhetorical and narrative skill that makes Mark so arresting and compelling a story. Rhoads, Dewey, and Michie have helped to pioneer our appreciation of the Gospels, and Mark in particular, as narratives originally created in an oral culture for oral performance. New in this edition are a revised introduction and an afterword describing the significant role Mark as Story has played in the development of narrative criticism.

When world renowned Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor turned sixty he took a sabbatical from his teaching and turned his attention to solitude. This beautiful literary collage documents his multifaceted explorations, and shows how to enjoy the inescapable solitude that is at the heart of human life.