Ergebnis für "Maria" in Religion

Maria Luise Prean-Bruni ist durch ihre Tätigkeit als Referentin einem großen Publikum bekannt. Ihr Missions- und Kinderhilfswerk in Uganda vergrößert sich beständig und hilft Menschen auf vielfältige Art und Weise. In der Autobiographie ihres bewegten Lebens erzählt sie von den wegweisenden Ereignissen und Wundern auf ihrem Weg und den verschiedenen Berufen, in denen sie tätig war. Gelesen von Johanna Klöpper.

There are times when looking back helps to fuel our future. Looking back at the life of evangelist Maria Woodworth-Etter, you will be emboldened by the truth that nothing is impossible to the believer who surrenders to God. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Maria Woodworth-Etter, the grandmother of the Pentecostal movement, astounded many Americans as she traveled across the country holding revivals. At these meetings, the worst sinners in the town were saved, the most diseased were healed, and her biggest critics were proven wrong.

With or Without Me is an unsparing and eloquent critique of religion. Yet Esther Maria Magnis’s ire is merely the beginning of an exceptional journey toward belief and God—a journey punctuated by personal losses retold with intense immediacy. She fiercely dismantles both the clichéd phrases she’s heard in church and the vague progressive pieties of her parents’ generation.

Stories of Maria of Agreda's exceptional attributes spread from her cloistered convent in seventeenth-century Agreda, Spain, to the court in Madrid, and beyond. Without leaving her village, the abbess impacted the kingdom, her church, and the New World. Based upon her transcendent visionary experiences, Sor Maria chronicled the life of Mary, mother of Jesus of Nazareth, in the Mystical City of God. This work was temporarily condemned during the Spanish Inquisition.

Over a quarter of a century after its first publication, the great and simple wisdom in this book continues to influence women's lives...

One of the most brilliant minds of the Middle Ages, Herman of Reichenau was a severely crippled monk who, though he was marginalized and even mistreated by his fellow monks, is celebrated to this day for his groundbreaking scientific work and the beauty of his musical compositions, among them "Salve Regina."

Lasst ihn am Leben. Er soll sehen, wie er irrt und wie machtlos sein Gott ist. Doch wie sieht es bei dir aus, Prophet Elija? Besitzt du mehr als deinen Ziegenfellmantel und den brüchigen Ledergürtel um deiner Mitte?

Through vivid storytelling, this historical account reveals the disturbing influences and grim motives that possessed Alessandro Serenelli, St. Maria Goretti’s murderer. Yet it is much more than a chilling tale; this true narrative is a testament of transformation and redemption — God’s mercy shining forth through the most seemingly hopeless of situations. Just as great literature and spiritual writing have the power to transform the soul and spur it on to heroic deeds, the force of immoral prose can corrupt and even drive the soul to unspeakable deeds.

St. Teresa of Calcutta was born in 1910 in Skopje, in present-day Macedonia, Mother Teresa joined the Sisters of Loreto religious congregation in Dublin, Ireland in 1928. As a Sister of Loreto, she taught geography at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, India for twenty years. In 1950, she started her own religious congregation, the Missionaries of Charity, in order to minister to the poorest of the poor. To people throughout the world, Mother Teresa is an icon of goodness and compassion.

Al hecho ya de por sí fascinante de un viaje a Tierra Santa en el siglo IV, se le añaden en Yo soy Egeria las cualidades de su protagonista, una mujer de la por entonces provincia romana de Gallaecia, aguerrida, inteligente y prudente. Consciente de los límites impuestos, recoge para sus compañeras todo lo que va descubriendo, para mostrarnos la realidad eclesiástica de su tiempo y poner en evidencia los cimientos de una Iglesia con grandes limitaciones para las mujeres, obstáculos que en algunos aspectos continúan presentes aún en nuestros días.

Lessons from the Thorns is based on the true story of a young girl’s incredible journey through the painful experiences (thorns) of the dreadful realities of life, including childhood sexual abuse and human trafficking. It is a journey that chronicles the fight for mental health and wellness, the search for her voice, her soul. It is the story of a Savior; a Hero was paid the highest price to redeem her right to be free and to be loved.

Margherita Maria Alacoque (1647-1690) è stata una monaca e mistica francese canonizzata nel 1920. La notorietà di Margherita Maria Alacoque è dovuta al fatto che le rivelazioni che ella racconta di aver ricevuto porteranno allo sviluppo del culto e all'istituzione della solennità liturgica del Sacro Cuore di Gesù. All'apertura della sua tomba, nel luglio 1830, il suo corpo fu trovato incorrotto, e tale è rimasto sotto l'altare della cappella della Visitazione di Paray-le-Monial.

An instant best-seller in Italy, Vita di Gesù Cristo ("Life of Jesus Christ") was also highly praised by Catholic peer journals worldwide and has never since been out of print. The author, Giuseppe Ricciotti, was an archaeologist and Biblical scholar. After his seminary studies and completing mandatory military service, he was ordained a priest in 1913 and continued his studies at the University of Rome.

Mencionada tanto en el Nuevo Testamento como en varios evangelios apócrifos, su figura ha desatado desde siempre una gran polémica. Considerada santa por la Iglesia Católica Romana, la Iglesia Ortodoxa y la Comunión Anglicana, ella reviste una especial importancia para las corrientes gnósticas del cristianismo.

Fr. Stanley Rother was true to his word. He did not run. And was martyred at the age of 46. Fr. Stanley arrived in Guatemala in 1968, and immediately identified with his parishioners' simple, farming lifestyle. He learned their languages, prepared them for the Sacraments, and cared for their needs. Fr. Stanley had found his heart's calling. In early 1981, his name was on a death list, so he returned to Oklahoma and was warned not to return. But he could not abandon his people, so he went back, and made the ultimate sacrifice for his faith.

Testimonio autobiográfico de la primera mujer suiza del Opus Dei, dando a conocer su itinerario interior, sus momentos junto a san Josemaría y algunos recuerdos sobre el desarrollo del Opus Dei. De padres suizos y religión protestante, María Casal nace y crece en Sevilla en tiempos de guerra. Decide estudiar Medicina (era la única mujer, recuerda) y no tarda en hacerse católica. En 1954 dirigirá la escuela de enfermería de la Universidad de Navarra, y más tarde desempeñará diversos trabajos en la promoción y formación de la mujer, tanto en Italia como en Suiza.

A través de los siglos, los hombres han discutido sobre la vida y obra de Jesús. Se han cuestionado su existencia y su muerte. Han surgido obras que buscaron debilitar y socavar las bases del dogma cristiano, al igual que han nacido fervientes defensores de la tan controversial historia del cristianismo, lo que demuestra la importancia que tuvo y tiene aún hoy en día la imagen de Jesucristo, del hombre, una de las figuras más importantes de la historia de la humanidad.

Rasputín. Un monje lascivo y ambicioso nos presenta la historia de este oscuro personaje de la Rusia imperial de finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX. Su vida, decadencia y muerte no pueden comprenderse lejos de la familia Romanov, especialmente de la zarina Alexandra, en quien ejercía una gran influencia. Un personaje controvertido cuya historia se encuentra llena de misticismo, intrigas, muerte y sexo.

María Magdalena es probablemente la figura más célebre del cristianismo popular, una mujer de nuestro tiempo, la que los medios de comunicación y las sensibilidades modernas pueden abrazar con mayor convicción.

St. Maria Goretti was only a child when she died a martyr’s death. Yet today, she inspires millions who find in her a perfect model of purity and holiness. Listen here about her great holiness in the midst of tremendous suffering, how she died at the hands of a vicious murderer who tried to defile her purity, and how she visited this very same murderer years later in his jail cell to forgive him.