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- Title: Lenten Longings Year B
- Author : Catherine Nerney, SSJ, PhD
- Release Date : January 27, 2012
- Genre: Christianity,Books,Religion & Spirituality,Bible Studies,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1430 KB
Description
Lent invites us to a time of prayer, reflection, and conversion.
Make a six-week retreat by exploring the Sunday readings of Lent. Simple language and everyday metaphors steep you in the season’s promptings to surrender self, work for justice, and deepen prayer life. Lenten Longings is well suited for seasonal groups, small Christian communities, and individual reflection. Song suggestions, prayers, and action responses included.
This book is ideally-suited for use in faith-sharing groups and small Christian communities. Its theme "For the Life of the World" calls readers to commit to works of justice and the ongoing conversion of hearts. It covers the six weeks of Lent.
Each chapter or session includes:
A theme
Prayers
Appropriate music suggestions
Lenten Scripture-reading references from the weekly Sunday Lectionary readings
Two thematic reflections
Reflection and sharing questions
Suggested action steps to apply the insights gathered during reading the chapter
Supplemental informative sidebars
This book for liturgical cycle Year B, subtitled For the Life of the World, is the Year B edition of the three-year liturgical cycle of the Lenten Longings series. (Year B is used in 2012, 2015, 2018, 2021, etc.) Editions for Years A and C will become available for sale the years they are needed.
This book is one of many fine faith-sharing resources published by RENEW International.
For over thirty years RENEW International has continued its work of parish spiritual renewal and evangelization, creating the climate for God’s transforming grace in and among individuals, communities, and the world. RENEW International focuses on adult faith formation with its programs ARISE Together in Christ and Why Catholic?, and on young adult ministry with the programs Theology on Tap and Campus RENEW. RENEW International’s over 30 year record demonstrates service to over 25 million Catholics in college campuses, military bases, 13,000 parishes and 130 dioceses, as well as in 23 other countries.
These worldwide engagements include Australia, Belize, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, El Salvador, England, Ghana, Guam, Honduras, India, Ireland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Republic of South Africa, Rwanda, Scotland, Slovakia, Uganda, and Venezuela
About the author
Catherine Nerney, a Sister of St. Joseph, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, is a professor of religious studies in the Spirituality Graduate Department and director of the Institute for Forgiveness and Reconciliation at Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia. She has ministered to small Christian communities (SCCs) since 1978, when she was a facilitator in her RENEW small community in Bayonne, New Jersey. Inspired by her RENEW experience, Sister Cathy joined the Small Christian Community Department in the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, and served there from 1982 to 1986. Today, Sister Cathy continues to lecture and write on the roles SCCs play in shaping the Church.
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