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"Lent is inescapably about repenting." Every year, the church invites us into a season of repentance and fasting in preparation for Holy Week. It's an invitation to turn away from our sins and toward the mercy and grace of Christ. Often, though, we experience the Lenten fast as either a mindless ritual or self-improvement program. In this short volume, priest and scholar Esau McCaulley introduces the season of Lent, showing us how its prayers and rituals point us not just to our own sinfulness but also beyond it to our merciful Savior.

It's a miracle that he can see demons, plain as day, and that he can cast them out with the force of his will. It's a miracle that he's friends with Pico della Mirandola, the Count of Concordia. It's a miracle that when Girolamo visits the deathbed of Lorenzo "the Magnificent", the dying Medici is wreathed in celestial light, a surprise to everyone, Lorenzo included. It's a miracle that when Charles VIII of France invades northern Italy, Girolamo meets him in the field, and convinces him to not only spare Florence but also protect it.

This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world. It offers a glimpse into the minds of a vast range of different peoples: early hunter-gatherers and farmers, ancient Egyptians, traditional Chinese sages, the founders of Christianity, trailblazers of the Scientific Revolution, and those who constructed our modern consumer society.

»Bleib bloß, wo du bist«, zischte ich und wich noch weiter zurück. »Warum hast du mich hierhergebracht?« »Weil ich die Kontrolle brauchte.« »Was ist mit Professor Stevens? Was hast du mit ihm gemacht?« »Ich habe ihn getötet.« »Warum?« Seine Antwort überraschte mich nicht und ich durfte nicht weiter darüber nachdenken, sonst würde ich vermutlich endgültig zusammenbrechen. »Er hat sich nicht an die Regeln gehalten.« Dämonisch ist eine normale junge Frau. Ihr Leben dreht sich um die Uni, ihre Freunde und den Job. Bis zur Walpurgisnacht, die sie mit ihrem Hexenzirkel im Wald verbringt.

Even 300 years ago, believers found it difficult to sustain for 40 days the proper Lenten spirit. That's why even then, countless Christians turned to the writings of Bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704), whose great piety and simple eloquence won him renown as one of the greatest preachers of his time. From Bishop Bossuet's sermons and spiritual writings, believers drew ever greater Lenten wisdom and strength.

Cassandra hat es geschafft und Myrrahs Seele endlich aus ihrem Körper befreit, doch der Preis war hoch. Während sie versucht, hinter das Geheimnis der Schriftrollen zu kommen, beginnen die Welten mehr denn je unter den aufgestauten Energien zu leiden und drängen Cassandra, die Tore zu öffnen und sich dem Erschaffer zu stellen. Doch sie ist nicht mehr gewillt, sich ihrem Schicksal zu fügen. Was ist sie bereit zu opfern, um sich ihrer Bestimmung zu entziehen?

Des personnages qui avancent obstinément... Comme des petites tortues entêtées qui apprendraient à danser lentement, lentement, dans un monde trop rapide, trop violent.

Ask any financially successful person how they achieved their goals, and chances are they'll tell you it all started with a budget. And that's exactly where you should start. Budgeting For Dummies shows you how to create a plan that fits your lifestyle, manages everyday needs, and builds your savings. Author Athena Valentine, founder of the Money Smart Latina blog, offers step-by-step details for creating and following a budget without feeling like you're depriving yourself of all the things that make life worth living.

In these peculiar times, we are thrust back into ourselves in a kind of suspension: one in which only private life exists yet threatens to become trivial through a sense of mutual, overarching dread. Lent from award-winning writer Kate Cayley is built from this tension, exploring domestic and artistic life amidst the environmental crisis and the surprising ways that every philosophical quandary—large and small—converges in the home, in small objects, conversations, and moments.

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Gilly is heel tevreden met haar leven: ze runt een succesvolle bed and breakfast in haar eigen huis en geen haar op haar hoofd die eraan denkt die prachtige plek op te geven. Maar dan ontmoet ze makelaar Leo, die niet alleen vriendelijk en behulpzaam is, maar ook nog eens verwarrend aantrekkelijk. Langzaam begint ze zich af te vragen of het wel zo erg zou zijn het roer van haar leven radicaal om te gooien. Gilly's volwassen dochter Helena heeft haar eigen beslommeringen. Haar bedrijfje als weefster komt goed van de grond nu haar prachtige stoffen steeds populairder worden.

“A bulletproof case that sexual diversity exists in the natural world…The Sexual Evolution is a thoughtfully and delightfully written book full of illuminating and entertaining information that will be new to most readers. At a time when ignorance and misinformation about sex, gender...

A Lent Companion: Daily Reflections for the 40 Days of Lent is a powerful guide designed to accompany you during the Lent season - the 40 days of contemplation between Ash Wednesday and Easter - or any time you need a quick dose of hope and inspiration. Its daily messages and reflections focus on pertinent issues such as self-acceptance, expectations toward self and others, self-awareness, forgiveness, gratitude, grace, and how to put life in perspective.

This revised edition of Fr. Alexander Schmemann's Lenten classic examines the meaning of the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, the prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian, the canon of St. Andrew of Crete, and other neglected or misunderstood treasures of Lenten worship. Schmemann draws on the Church's sacramental and liturgical tradition to suggest the meaning of "Lent in our life". The Lenten season is meant to kindle a "bright sadness" within our hearts. Its aim is precisely the remembrance of Christ, a longing for a relationship with God that has been lost.

In this short phrase, Elyse Fitzpatrick summarizes the heart of each devotion in Friend of Sinners. Beginning with Ash Wednesday and ending with the empty tomb, you’ll remember daily the love of Jesus, who died so you could have eternal life.

Walk closely with the Virgin Mary this Lent and let her apparitions and messages guide your daily steps toward Easter. This book offers you a Marian roadmap through each week’s theme, showing you how to deepen your prayer, trust, and conversion. Find new peace as you learn to listen for God’s voice, pray for healing, embrace the Rosary of the Seven Sorrows, and carry your crosses with Mary’s help — ready to rejoice with her in Christ’s Resurrection.

He wakes up in the middle of the woods with chalk-white skin, the ability to heal from any injury, and no memory of who or what he is. He is Bloodshot, and now he’s caught between the shadowy defense contractor that wants to capture him, and the underground network of dangerous psychics that want to destroy him. Now, Kalea, the young woman who found him, has a target on her back just for trying to help.

St. John Henry Newman, regarded as the most important English theologian of the nineteenth century, poignantly reflects on the thoughts that tormented Jesus as a result of His friends’ betrayals and the anguish of His Heart in willingly suffering all for love of us. These penetrating meditations will enable you to enter more deeply into our Savior’s Passion through multiple vantage points.

In her book, I Gave Up My Husband for Lent, Melissa J. Peters invites you to settle into a front-row seat of her story. Walk with her through her journey of codependent relationships, watch her transformation, and learn from her lessons along the way as she struggles with being married to an alcoholic, faces disillusionment, seeks help through therapy, and finds hope by pursuing a deeper relationship with God.

Featured in The Advocate, New York Times, Literary Hub, Autostraddle, and New York magazine's The Cut This is a vital exploration of the ways society overlooks—and fails—young women with disabilities and chronic illnesses Miriam’s doctor didn’t believe she had breast cancer. She did...