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religion 31 the gospel of matthew a commentary michael mullins this commentary on matthew s gospel is offered as a textbook for students of theology and as a guide for serious readers in the hope that it will deepen their spiritual and theological insight and bring them to a level of academic competence it is also aimed at those many preachers who wish to underpin their preaching with serious reading and to people who practice lectio divina and other forms of spiritual reading no prior technical knowledge of biblical scholarship is assumed terms are explained in the book and important greek and hebrew words and expressions translated jesus our teacher reflections on the sunday readings for matthew s year martin hogan the reflections in this book on the sunday readings for the year of matthew year a are offered as a resource to homilists to members of prayer groups and bible reflection groups and to anyone who wishes to prayerfully reflect on the sunday readings the year of matthew is a renewed opportunity to recognize god s visitation to us in the person of jesus and like mary to hear god s word and to submit to it april 5½ x 8½ 400 pages columba isbn 978-1-85607-591-6 1-85607-591-5 paper $44.95 may 5½ x 8½ 144 pages columba isbn 978-1-85607-586-2 1-85607-586-9 paper $18.95 exploring eucharist thoughts meditations ideas donal harrington this book is intended for a very wide audience for anybody who would like to enrich their own appreciation of the eucharist it grew out of a course conducted for liturgy groups in a number of parishes the thoughts and ideas proved very helpful to people in throwing new light on the meaning of the mass and in opening up new ways of seeing and participating in it hold firm john charles mcquaid and the second vatican council francis x carty mention archbishop john charles mcquaid of dublin to any irish catholic and you will most likely be told that he came back from the second vatican council and said there would be no change he was torn between innate anxiety about sudden change and unquestioning obedience to every wish of the pope he was a man of contrasts if not opposites gentle and kind but authoritarian and strict shy but forceful indeed the most dominant and controversial irish churchman of his age this book reaches behind the myths of john charles mcquaid and describes how the dream of pope john s council was lived out for the archbishop and the 800,000 catholics in his archdiocese april 120 pages columba isbn 978-1-85607-588-6 1-85607-588-5 paper $23.95 insights that inspired me and may also inspire you jack mcardle the author says `i wrote this book because i wanted to clarify many things for myself we are all familiar with the saying `a life without reflection is a life not worth living when we reflect we are given insights the one thing that has greatly motivated me over the years in my writing and retreats was a conviction that the message was really very simple it is a simple message for complicated people i do not claim any `insider information on god or things of god i present these because they genuinely did help me and i offer them to you in the hope that they help you also mcardle is a teacher and he is acutely aware of the role of a good teacher in the formation of students catholic library world may 5½ x 8½ 144 pages columba isbn 978-1-85607-585-5 1-85607-585-0 paper $23.95 john spiritual theologian wilfrid harrington this is the final volume in a series of pastoral commentaries on the gospel which seek to make available the best of scriptural scholarship to the nonspecialist the series will be of particular interest to preachers teachers and those coming to scripture study for the first time revised second edition march 5½ x 8½ 114 pages columba isbn 978-1-85607-583-1 1-85607-583-4 paper $14.95 february 5½ x 8½ 104 pages columba isbn 978-1-85607-594-7 1-85607-594-x paper $21.95

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