Carmen Acevedo Butcher
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Hildegard of Bingen: A Spiritual Reader
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2007
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8 editions
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Man of Blessing: A Life of St. Benedict
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2006
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8 editions
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Incandesence: 365 Readings With Women Mystics
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2005
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2 editions
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Following Christ: A Lenten Reader to Stretch Your Soul
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2009
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5 editions
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A Little Daily Wisdom: Christian Women Mystics
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2008
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6 editions
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St. Hildegard of Bingen : A Spiritual Reader(Paperback) - 2013 Edition
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God of Mercy: Ælfric's Sermons and Theology
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2006
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2 editions
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Following Christ: a Lenten Reader to Stretch Your Soul
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Eighteen Sermons by Aelfric
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1991
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The Origins and Development of the English Language by Jahn Algeo (2012-07-31)
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“Every earthly revelation has a spiritual significance. I believe that if we humans were more spiritual, we wouldn’t need visions. These are given whenever someone hasn’t quite grasped an invisible spiritual lesson and needs a visual to go with it. We must learn to pull off this rough husk and feed on its sweet kernel.”
― The Cloud of Unknowing: With the Book of Privy Counsel
― The Cloud of Unknowing: With the Book of Privy Counsel
“SURELY YOU SEE from this that you shouldn’t take your own experience as the rule of thumb by which you judge other contemplatives. For example, those who must work really hard to reach the peak of contemplation, and then only get there occasionally, might make the mistake of using their own experience as the standard for other contemplatives. We must remember that not everyone has a difficult journey to the exceptional ecstasy. Some walk a simple path, routinely meeting the miraculous in the ordinary. On the other hand, these contemplatives must not make the opposite assumption that their experience is universal. Not everyone feels the joy of contemplation whenever they wish. Avoid both close-minded ways of thinking, for you can’t judge another’s unique contemplative experience by your own. Besides, you can’t know God’s wisdom; someone who has struggled a long time with prayer only to know the extraordinary transcendent moment may one day have these moments whenever they want and as often as they want. Moses is a good example of this. To start with, he only rarely caught a glimpse of the Ark’s form and not without first working awfully hard on the mountain. But later, when the Ark was kept in the valley, Moses could see it as often as he liked.1”
― The Cloud of Unknowing: With the Book of Privy Counsel
― The Cloud of Unknowing: With the Book of Privy Counsel
“Salt ultimately comes from the ocean by the action of light. So, in this Gospel, Jesus is saying poetically, you all are, in essence, the ocean, one made by and of love. May we remember our shared, stable, divine center and that, when by deep listening, we honor the sacred worth of our own and of another’s life, our empathy dissolves into transformative compassion. Salt has power to disinfect wounds. May we remember that accepting ourselves and each other—both—as imperfect and “unshakably good,” as Father Greg Boyle reminds, is strong medicine that creates a community of cherished belonging. Small kind acts are never small. Salt can also melt snow and ice from roads and walkways, making clear passage. May we remember our kind divine parent, and may this awareness melt the iciness of perfectionism, the illusion of separation and anxiety, steadying our steps together.”
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