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I thought I should finally actually read the books.

A must-read for all pastoral care professionals.

A must-read for all pastoral care professionals.

The text is known only from one thirteenth century manuscript that also contains the major complete text of Charitons 'Chareas and Callirhoe'.

In the intimacy of a home, Jewish women and their families gather for Shabbat. In place of the traditional opening Psalm, the women around whose table they were assembled reads a poem to open this Sabbath meal:

Three generations back
my family had only
to light a candle
and the world parted.
Today, Friday afternoon,
I disconnect the clocks and phones.
When night fills my house
with passages.

For example, in a binding spell found in Hadrumentum in North Africa, probably dating from the third century CE, a woman named Domitiana invokes the divine to attract Urbanus.

WE HAVE LOOKED at how the path of shock, uncertainty, and conviction can lead us to lose touch with our brilliant sanity.

Wegela, Karen Kissel (2011-01-05). What Really Helps: Using Mindfulness and Compassionate Presence to Help, Support, and Encourage Others (Kindle Locations 1364-1365). Shambhala Publications. Kindle Edition.

The man who turns to [God] therefore need not turn away from any other I-Thou relation: but he properly brings them to [God], and lets them be fulfilled "in the face of God."

"First, worship is about a relationship, and everything must serve that relationship; second, that relationship must be given concrete, material articulation." (p. 23)

That is the biggest message primitive life has to offer (p. 148)

A tradition is what it is, not only in virtue of the ideals it espouses, but also 'how it resolves conflicts' between those values. (p. 103)

"During that period, Israel was an 'am', a people living together in a bounded physical space. It was also an 'edah', a political entity, at times under the leadership of judges, later under the rulership of kings." (p88)

PETER DRUCKER: So the same woman who forty years ago would have been arranging lilies for Easter is now teaching, or taking care of pre-schoolers, or running the admissions office in the hospital, or chairing the parish council?

These methodologies are particularly prevalent among those who understand their work as empowering or standing in solidarity with the other. (p38)