Evangelio del Reino

Cuando el hombre y la mujer se someten a la voluntad de Dios, puede resultar en una maravillosa y apasionante aventura. // When man and wife submit to God's will, it can result in a wonderful and passionate adventure.

This is the Spanish translation of Father Keating's Open Mind, Open Heart, the best-selling book of the Centering Prayer movement, with sales of over 100,000 copies. It joins Continuum's two other books in Spanish by Father Keating, El Misterio del Cristo and Invitacin a Amar, and Sister Margaret Mary Funk's El Coraz n en Paz (Thoughts Matter).Keating gives an overview of the history of contemplative prayer in the Christian tradition, and step-by-step guidance in the method of centering prayer. This book is designed to initiate the reader into a deep, living relationship with God.

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.

Nació en Guayaquil, Ecuador, nieta y bisnieta de poetas. Se educó en el Colegio La Asunción, donde recibió un diluvio de amor de las religiosas, especialmente de Madre Pilar, porque le enseñó a amar y a vivir el Evangelio. Ha ido escribiendo cada una de estas hojas, para compartirlas con la familia, con los ahijados, con los amigos y con cualquiera que se anime a leerlas. Dice la autora: "Si pusiéramos una gotita de amor, en algún corazón que viva en el desierto espiritual, brotará en él un vergel de indescriptible belleza, porque estará regado por la fuente del amor de Dios,...