Héroes y heroinas de las virtudes humanas

Jesus's Prayer is a refuge because it offers peace to the soul, but it does not generate inertia, on the contrary, it activates the action transformadora. The assiduous practitioner becomes stronger and still in the middle of the world, it finds in itself the sufficient distance between the stimuli and the reaction. It spread this one interior, previously to the answer that happens to the events, to he allows to act with deliberation, looking for the coherence between its conduct and the message of the Gospel. The Prayer of Jesus's name, known also like the Prayer of the heart, is a...

El Papa Francisco acaba de publicar la primera encíclica sobre ecología, seis meses antes de que se produzca la Cumbre de la ONU en París sobre el Cambio Climático. En la encíclica, que lleva como título la expresión italiana «Laudato si’» —en castellano, «Alabado seas»—, el Papa muestra su preocupación por aquellas cuestiones que tienen que ver con el cuidado de nuestro planeta: el cambio climático y el calentamiento global; la contaminación producida por los residuos no biodegradables, tóxicos y radioactivos; las energías renovables; la corrupción en el mercado...

A clear, illustrated guide for the presider and other leaders of the liturgy, contemporary in approach but based on ancient and classic principles of celebration. Contents include: Theological and liturgical principles; Liturgical ministry and liturgical ministers; Liturgical space; Vesture, vessels, and other liturgical objects; the liturgical year; the shape of the liturgy; the sung liturgy and singing during the liturgy; the order of the Eucharist (the "heart" of the book); and the celebration of Baptism during the Eucharist.

Translated by Kieran Kavanaugh, OCD, and Otilio Rodriguez, OCD. Contains Book of Her Foundations and Minor Works. In 1573, while staying in Salamanca to assist her nuns in the task of establishing one of her seventeen monasteries, Teresa began composing the story of their foundation. The Book of Her Foundations comprises the major portion of Volume Three. This book not only tells the story of the establishment of her monasteries but, characteristic of Teresa, digresses into counsels on prayer, love, melancholy, virtuous living and dying, plus other teachings of the Mother Foundress. This book ...