The Prince of Peace - Goodier, Archbishop Alban
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From prophecy to fulfillment, the Incarnation is the center of our holy Faith. This awe-inspiring classic will help you take a breath and ponder the hidden yet stupendous events surrounding this great mystery. You will be spiritually uplifted as you reflect upon insightful and stirring meditations -- thirty each for Advent and Christmas. Although the short reflections may be read in less than ten minutes per day, you may wish to spend time contemplating the mysteries and allowing them to nourish you again and again. Archbishop Alban Goodier provides a handy three-point summary for each…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
From prophecy to fulfillment, the Incarnation is the center of our holy Faith. This awe-inspiring classic will help you take a breath and ponder the hidden yet stupendous events surrounding this great mystery. You will be spiritually uplifted as you reflect upon insightful and stirring meditations -- thirty each for Advent and Christmas. Although the short reflections may be read in less than ten minutes per day, you may wish to spend time contemplating the mysteries and allowing them to nourish you again and again. Archbishop Alban Goodier provides a handy three-point summary for each meditation, as well as: * Meditations on an event in Jesus' life that baffles human comprehension * An explanation of how God bestows His favors on you, as He did on the Holy Family * Popular prayers and devotions that sprang from Advent and Christmas * Ways in which Our Lady shows you how to live both the contemplative and the active life Advent is a time to slow your pace of life, to be receptive, docile, and still, and to gaze at the beauty before you -- Almighty God, present, waiting in the womb of His chosen Mother. The Christmas season, likewise, is a time to rejoice in tranquil adoration before our newborn Savior's manger. Archbishop Goodier's masterful meditations on these sacred moments will awaken in you the powerful mystery of the Word made flesh. Archbishop Goodier guides you along from the Old Testament prophecies to the pure yes of Mary, from the stable birth to the daily life of Jesus in Nazareth. These soul-stirring meditations, drawing from the customs of the time, enliven the Gospel stories in a way that will enrich both your emotional and intellectual experience of the ultimate mystery of God's love for you. This keepsake book is a treasure for contemplating Our Lord as the Incarnate God who came to us little, poor, and vulnerable. Archbishop Goodier's reflections will aid you in raising your mind and heart to God and will nourish your prayers to the Infant Savior. You will grow in knowledge and devotion as you contemplate Jesus' hidden life and God's mercy in dwelling among us.
Autorenporträt
These pages remind us that God's grace can conquer every human flaw . . .Christ came not to call saints but to make them -- often out of weak, stupid, and sinful men. That's why the saints are not only models of holiness for us to imitate; they're reminders that God's grace can outshine every human flaw.As Alban Goodier's classic Saints for Sinners shows us, even the greatest saints had to battle the same stubborn vices, temptations of the flesh, and bouts of spiritual dryness that afflict you and me today. In these pages, with a style that perfectly blends hagiographical detail, spiritual meditation, and a skilled storyteller's touch, Archbishop Goodier brings us the tales of: The mercenary fighting man and itinerant gambler who left behind his rough soldier's habits and founded a religious order to care for the sickThe backward, sickly teenager, disowned by his family and dogged by the Inquisition, who became a miraculous healer and paragon of humble simplicityThe willful Tuscan beauty with a bad reputation who forsook vanity and lust to answer God's call to live in poverty and penitenceThe brilliant, brooding Spanish nobleman who gave up everything to be a missionary -- only to see most of his efforts failThe royal chaplain and daring Counter-Reformer who escaped the gallows but had to endure a lifelong interior martyrdom of doubt and discouragementThe hedonistic heretic and womanizer who traded worldly pleasure for divine happiness, and became one of the Church's greatest theologiansAnd other inspiring tales of imperfect souls "made perfect in infirmity"Read these stories and find in them delight and encouragement, as well as hope. You'll come to see that there is no one so sinful, weak, or desolate that God has not already raised another like him to the heights of glory.