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The catalog cover image is a section of Wassily Kandinsky’s “The Gamut of Life,” painted in 1907 when he lived in Munich. It was a time not unlike our own on the macrolevel: two superpowers (Germany and the United Kingdom) were hegemonically bickering and pushing influence and weapons; new expressions of life were bursting out in many artforms as well as in daily living; and conventional notions of Christian faith were under siege from both the inside and the outside, incurring reactions institutionally and otherwise.

In a similar gamut of life today, are we still hungry at the feast, thirsting for truth and justice, encounter and understanding, compassion and peace? Are the many faces we “read” each day faces of affliction or faces of Easter? Not always easy to discern at a glance, is it? What do people read out of my face? Any hints of my history, present, and hopes for the future? How did the donkey in chapter 22 of the Book of Numbers recognize the angel blocking their way while Balaam didn’t? What was each focused on at that moment? The road or the bribe at the end of the road? When meeting an angel of God, am I more like Balaam or the donkey?

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Liturgical Press was founded by the Benedictines of John’s Abbey—saintjohnsabbey.org—in 1926. LITURGICAL PRESS litpress.org | 800.858.5450 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS NEW TITLES 2–18 Theology 2–4 Liturgy 5–7 Spirituality 8–13 Monastic 14–17 6 People of God 18 FALL 2018 RELEASES 19–29 GERHARD LOHFINK 30–31 TARGUMS 32 SACRA PAGINA 33 12 THE SAINT JOHN’S BIBLE 34 THE BIBLE: FROM LATE ANTIQUITY TO THE RENAISSANCE 35 BENEDICTINE DAILY PRAYER 36 THE RULE OF SAINT BENEDICT 37 VATICAN II 38 19 WORSHIP 39 THE BIBLE TODAY 39 GIVE US THIS DAY 40 25 Looking to adopt a book for a course? REQUEST AN EXAM COPY 30

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978-0-8146-8422-1 Paperback, 272 pp., Edmund Kee-Fook Chia 6 x 9, $29.95 e eBook World Christianity Encounters World Religions A Summa of Interfaith Dialogue Foreword by Archbishop L. Fitzgerald

Synthesizing the thinking of the most prominent scholars, Professor Edmund Chia discusses practically everything that should be known about Christianity’s encounter with other religions in this comprehensive book. Topics include: • the invention of the idea of World Religions and World Christianity • the Bible and the ’s attitude toward other faiths • Vatican II, Asian Christianity, and interfaith dialogue • the what, why, when, and how of dialogue • the global ecumenical movement • theologies of religious pluralism • cross-textual hermeneutics • comparative theology • interfaith worship • religious syncretism • multiple religious belonging • interfaith learning in seminaries

Edmund Chia, originally from Malaysia, headed the interreligious and ecumenical office of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences from 1996 to 2004. He then served on the faculty of the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago for seven years and, since “Dr. Chia carefully and clearly introduces 2011, has been teaching at the Australian Catholic University in students/readers to the history, the Melbourne. methods, and the promise of religious traditions and peoples coming together to learn from each other and work together to fix the world. He both informs and inspires.” Paul Knitter Paul Tillich Professor Emeritus Union Theological Seminary New York City

“A masterful summation of our multifaceted “Edmund Chia has provided a marvelous service for the religious reality that only the rare scholar teaching of interreligious dialogue at practically every level of and practitioner as experienced, insightful, theological education. This is a wonderfully conceived book, and reflective as Edmund Kee-Fook Chia very learned and yet very accessible at the same time.” would dare to write.” Stephen Bevans, SVD Francis X. Clooney, SJ Professor Emeritus of Mission and Culture Parkman Professor of Divinity Catholic Theological Union Harvard University

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978-0-8146-4668-7 Robert F. Leavitt, PSS Paperback, 320 pp., 6 x 9, $34.95 The Truth Will Make You Free e eBook The New Evangelization for a Secular Age Available March 2019 A Study in Development

The available literature on the new evan- gelization is wide-ranging and focused on issues of ecclesial renewal. In The Truth Will Make You Free, Fr. Robert Leavitt adopts a different approach to the subject. From Paul VI until Francis, the nature and challenges of modern secularism have become a recurring factor in the agenda of the new evangelization, yet often without historical perspective and philosophical balance. Few popular works bother to examine in such depth and scope, as this book does, what the history, nature, and implications of the secular age are for revitalizing ministry in an age of optional belief. Written for the interested layperson, seminarian, theology student, and pastor, The Truth Will Make You Free is an indispensable for rethinking our under- standing of the secular world in proclaiming the of Christ.

Robert F. Leavitt, PSS, is a priest of the Society of St. Sulpice and of the Archdiocese of Hartford. From 1980 to 2007, he served as president-rector of St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore, Maryland. Currently, he is the France-Merrick University Professor of Theology at St. Mary’s.

“If I had to recommend one book for students, seminarians, and priests, it would be this remarkable treatment.” Francis Schüssler Fiorenza Stillman Professor of Roman Catholic Theological Studies Harvard Divinity School “Why do so many people find it difficult to believe today? Why “This book is the most in-depth and erudite do some young people seem indifferent and even hostile to treatment of secularization and the new faith? How can we proclaim the Gospel in a secular age? If evangelization available. Anyone concerned you are asking questions such as these, read The Truth Will about the new evangelization—and why it Make You Free. Fr. Robert Leavitt explains how our secular is desperately needed—need look no society came about and how a new evangelization might further for a reliable guide.” address it. This is a book we have needed for a long time.” Ronald D. Witherup, PSS Frank J. Matera Author of Saint Paul and the Professor Emeritus New Evangelization The Catholic University of America

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978-0-8146-8455-9 Paperback, 458 pp., 6 x 9, $39.95 Catholic Social Bioethics e eBook and Social Justice The Praxis of US Health Care in a Globalized World Edited by M. Therese Lysaught and Michael McCarthy Foreword by Lisa Sowle Cahill Catholic health care is one of the key places where the church lives Catholic social teaching (CST). Yet the individu- alistic methodology of Catholic bioethics inherited from the manualist tradition has yet to incorporate this critical component of the Catholic moral tradition. Informed by the places where Catholic health care intersects with the diverse societal injustices embodied in the patients it encounters, this book brings the lens of CST to bear on Catholic health care, illuminating a new spectrum of ethical issues and practical recommendations from social determi- nants of health, immigration, diversity and disparities, behavioral health, gender-questioning patients, and envi- ronmental and global health issues.

M. Therese Lysaught, PhD, is professor at Neiswanger Institute for “A welcome addition to the growing call for Bioethics & Health Care Leadership at Loyola University Chicago a Catholic bioethics that is richly informed Stritch School of Medicine​ and Loyola’s Institute of Pastoral Studies. by Catholic Social Thought. Here justice is not an afterthought or a fourth principle but Michael McCarthy, PhD, is assistant professor at the Neiswanger the lens through which we question Institute for Bioethics & Health Care Leadership at Loyola University everything from how we weigh social Chicago Stritch School of Medicine​. investments in health care to what counts as a moral issue. Required reading for Contributors: anyone concerned with the social Alexandre Andrade Martins, MI, PhD Mark Kuczewski construction of health, health care, and Armand Andreoni Antoinette Lullo, MD health policy and anyone who has ever Rachelle Barina M. Therese Lysaught wondered what bioethics from an option for Sheri Bartlett Browne Michael McCarthy Jana Marguerite Bennett Virginia McCarthy the poor would look like.” Michelle Byrne, MD Brian Medernach, MD Maura A. Ryan Christian Cintron Carly Mesnick John Cardinal O’Hara, CSC, Charles M. A. Clark Cory D. Mitchell Associate Professor of Christian Ethics Bruce Compton M. Nussbaum, MD, MTS University of Notre Dame Robert DeVita Dónal O’Mathúna Dan Dwyer Michael Panicola “Catholic Bioethics and Social Justice is a Jorge José Ferrer, SJ Cristina Richie, PhD gift not only for ethicists, theologians, and Robert J. Gordon, DMin Alan Sanders Hille Haker Abigail Silva mission leaders but for anyone interested Ron Hamel Aana Marie Vigen in the integrity of Catholic health care.” Lena Hatchett Andrea Vicini, SJ, MD Michael Miller Jr. Sharon Homan Brian Volck, MD System Vice President, Mission & Ethics Kelly R. Herron Tobias Winright SSM Health

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978-0-8146-8462-7 Bob Hurd Paperback, 256 pp., 6 x 9, $24.95 Compassionate Christ, e eBook Compassionate People Available April 2019 Liturgical Foundations of Christian Spirituality Foreword by Michael Downey

Spirituality is a motion, a responsive movement of heart, mind, and spirit to the life of God moving within us. Starting from his Roman Catholic roots but working ecumenically, Bob Hurd explores this notion of spirituality in two parts. Part 1 places it in the theological framework of Creation- Grace-Incarnation, concluding that its specific form is participation in Christ’s self-emptying love of God, humankind, and creation. Part 2 investigates this kenotic spirituality liturgically, exploring how it comes to expression in the ritual stages of Gathering, Word, Eucharistic Prayer, Communion, and Sending. Comparing and contrasting each stage with corresponding patterns in various Protestant traditions, Hurd lays out the possibility of a spirituality common to Christians of various confessions.

Well known for his liturgical music, Bob Hurd has also served as a teacher and liturgist in various pastoral and academic settings. He currently teaches in Seattle University’s Graduate Program in Theology and Ministry. His widely used liturgical music, published by Oregon Catholic Press, is featured in numerous hymnals in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Australia.

“You have enjoyed singing Bob Hurd’s “Deeply grounded in Scripture and demonstrating deft liturgical music. Here is your opportunity command of insights provided by Karl Rahner and Louis-Marie to enter the fruitful mind of this faithful Chauvet, Bob Hurd’s Compassionate Christ, Compassionate Christian. You will explore not only the People articulates a Christian spirituality that, nourished by workings of worship but also the God liturgical practice, moves with the spirit of God moving within whom worship encounters. Hurd’s book us. Hurd’s account of liturgy ties the love that moves Dante’s will help you appreciate why his music so stars with the love that God summons us to practice in the powerfully draws you into Christian prayer.” human village.” Fr. Paul Turner Timothy Brunk Pastor, Cathedral of the Immaculate Associate Professor of Theology Conception, Kansas City, Missouri Villanova University

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978-0-8146-8468-9 Paperback, 160 pp., Torvend 5 ½ x 8 ½, $19.95 e eBook Still Hungry at the Feast Eucharistic Justice in the Midst of Affliction

In Still Hungry at the Feast, Episcopal priest and professor Samuel Torvend invites readers to expand their experience and understanding of the Mass, the Holy Eucharist, as more than a personal encounter with the risen Christ. Drawing on recent research, the long history of eucharistic reflection among Christians, and contemporary commitments to economic justice, Still Hungry at the Feast invokes the integral relationship between eucharistic practice and eucharistic mission. Here the ecu- menical pattern and meaning of the Mass opens toward care for our wounded creation, solidarity with the poor and outcast, keeping the fast, and recovering a eucharistic economy. Lectionary references will assist those charged with liturgical preparation, while preachers and catechists will find guidance in the eucharistic homilies that conclude the book.

Samuel Torvend, PhD, is a priest in the Diocese of Olympia and professor of religion at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. He is the author of Flowing Water, Uncommon Birth: Christian Baptism in a Post-Christian Culture; Daily Bread, Holy Meal: Opening the Gifts of Holy Communion; and Luther and the Hungry Poor: Gathered Fragments. His many published articles focus on the Eucharist and social ethics.

“Samuel Torvend’s Still Hungry at the Feast is a beautifully written primer on the spirituality of living eucharistically: living “Far more than an academic treatise, this is what we pray and praying what we live. Both generous in an urgent plea that Christian eucharistic breadth and focused in intent, this small book exemplifies the feasting address the cries of the world’s ‘economy of grace’ in which the author places the Eucharist, hungry and poor, the afflicted and gift of God and work of human hands. May we take into action oppressed.” the ‘economy of grace’ at the heart of this writing!” Thomas H. Schattauer Lizette Larson-Miller Wartburg Theological Seminary Huron University College, University of Western Ontario Dubuque, Iowa

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978-0-8146-6023-2 R. C. D. Jasper and G. J. Cuming Paperback, 384 pp., 6 x 9, $49.95 Prayers of the Eucharist e eBook Early and Reformed Fourth edition edited by Paul F. Bradshaw and Maxwell E. Johnson

This classic work, previously edited by Ronald Jasper and Geoffrey Cuming, has been a staple source in teaching liturgy to generations of students in colleges, seminaries, and universities. It has now been comprehensively revised for future generations of litur- gical scholars. Updates include: • New introductions that take into account the substantial changes in recent scholarship • New groupings of the various prayers into liturgical “families” in order to make their relationships clearer • Plus, new bibliographies

“For decades, Jasper and Cuming’s Prayers of the Eucharist has given a wide audience access to the treasures of Paul F. Bradshaw is emeritus professor of liturgy at the University of liturgical tradition. By integrating recently Notre Dame and an Anglican/Episcopal priest. The author or editor of discovered texts, rearranging the material, over thirty books and of more than 120 articles and essays, he is also and thoroughly updating introductions a past president both of the North American Academy of Liturgy and and commentary, Paul Bradshaw and of the international Societas Liturgica. From 1987 to 2005 he was editor- Maxwell Johnson ensure that this in-chief of the scholarly journal Studia Liturgica. standard work remains a reliable guide not Maxwell E. Johnson is professor of liturgy at the University of Notre only to the sources but also to current Dame and a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The scholarship.” author or editor of twenty-five books and of more than ninety articles Harald Buchinger and essays, he is also a past president of the North American Academy University of Regensburg, Germany of Liturgy, serves as an editorial consultant for Worship, and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Ecclesia Orans. “Bradshaw and Johnson have produced an edition of the classic Prayers of the Eucharist: Early and Reformed that every contemporary textual scholar must have. The revisions in both commentary and text reflect the multiplicity of forms in eucharistic praying in the early church and invite the student of liturgy to enter more deeply into the texts themselves.” Rev. R. Pivarnik, OP Providence College

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978-0-8146-8465-8 Paperback, 152 pp., Albert Holtz, OSB 5 x 7, $16.95 e eBook Faces of Easter Available February 2019 Meeting the Paschal Mystery in the People Around Us Illustrations by Daniel Partain

Using vignettes set in or near his monastery in downtown Newark, New Jersey, Benedictine monk Albert Holtz helps us to see that the Easter mystery, which can often seem abstract and distant, is in fact present all around us. As we accom- pany him through the fifty days of the Easter season, we listen in on his intriguing interactions with local street people and his inner-city high school students—an insider’s look at what goes on in a monk’s heart as he chants Vespers to the sound of police sirens. Anyone wishing to deepen his or her experience of the Easter mystery will find this a valuable and engaging book.

“In these insightful and engaging stories, Albert Holtz, OSB, is a monk of Newark Abbey in Newark, New Jersey, Fr. Holtz introduces us to an unforgettable where he is the director of formation and teaches New Testament in cast of characters—some old friends, the monastery’s inner-city prep school. His frequent long walks on the some chance encounters—who help him streets of downtown Newark have made him familiar with the people understand the many dimensions of the and the scenes of his native city. Easter mystery. He also encourages us to see in the faces of the people in our own lives an illumination not only of the mysteries of suffering and loss but also of spiritual connection, redemption, and hope. What a timely gift this book is.” Elizabeth Wiegard Mother of student activist Emma González

“The Easter celebration does not end with Easter Sunday. Holtz “Fr. Albert Holtz is a good companion to leads us gracefully through the whole season. His deceptively have on this daily walk through the Easter simple book is truly a nourishing companion for all of it. The season. As he shares the events in his life meditations for each day are based on the author’s experience we learn to open our eyes to the surprises and lifelong wisdom. The reader is drawn to mine the insights we might walk past without seeing. He of his or her own stories to discover God’s hand there too. A shines the light of Easter into the drama lifelong alleluia!” of the inner city and often, because he is Irene Nowell, OSB open and hopeful, sees it shining back.” Author of Wisdom: The Good Life Kodell, OSB Mount Saint Scholastica in Atchison, Kansas Subiaco Abbey

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978-0-8146-6359-2 Gerhard Lohfink Hardcover with dust jacket, 128 pp., 5 x 7, $17.95 The Our Father e eBook A New Reading Rights: World, English Translated by Linda M. Maloney

Can Christians still pray the Our Father in the twenty-first century? We can, and we must.

Gerhard Lohfink breaks open its strange phrases like “hallowed be thy name,” its off-putting language like “Father” and “kingdom,” and its apparently harsh demands like forgive us as we have forgiven those who hurt us—all to shed light on Jesus’ original words and their meaning. By probing what the prayer meant for Jesus and his first disciples in their world, Lohfink calls us to allow the Our Father to break open our own minds and hearts to its infinite invi- tation and challenge for our time and for all ages.

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. The Curious Form of the Our Father 2. The Original Situation 3. The Surprising Address Gerhard Lohfink was professor of New Testament exegesis at the 4. The Gathering of the People of God University of Tübingen. Since 1986, he has lived and worked as a theologian 5. The Coming of God’s Reign for the Catholic Integrated Community. His many books include No Irrelevant 6. The Realization of God’s Plan Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth, Does God Need the Church?, and Is This All There 7. Forgiveness of Sins Is?, all from Liturgical Press. 8. Protection in the Time of Testing 9. Liberation from Evil 10. Desperate Cry and Confident Trust See pages 30–31 for more by Lohfink u 11. A Paraphrase of the Our Father

“I especially appreciate how Lohfink reveals the Jewishness of the prayer. I’ll continue to say these words in “The Our Father is our prayer taught by our Lord himself. Gerhard traditional form at Mass, and in times Lohfink has brought forward the most comprehensive interpretation of personal prayer, but I understand from his vast and timely biblical scholarship. I found this book to be them better than ever before.” an awakening.” Jon M. Sweeney Mary Margaret Funk, OSB Editor of A Course in Christian Author of Renouncing Violence: Practice from the Monastic Mysticism by Thomas Merton Tradition and the Matters series

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978-0-8146-6362-2 Paperback, 168 pp., Susan H. Swetnam 3 1 5 ⁄8 x 8 ⁄4, $14.95 e eBook In the Mystery’s Shadow Available June 2019 Reflections on Caring for the Elderly and Dying

As our lifespans continue to grow longer, millions of people every year spend time caring for the elderly and dying—some as professionals, some as volunteers, and some through their loving but demanding care for parents, spouses, or other family members or friends. In her book In the Mystery’s Shadow, Susan Swetnam draws on her experience serving thousands of ill and dying clients, often in hospice programs, as a certified massage therapist—and also on her experience of caring for her own husband, who died young of cancer. She explains how this some- times difficult work offers not just the fulfillment of giving comfort to people who need it but also moments of breathtaking wonder, moments that hint at the untold complexity of being human and affirm our sacred connections with each other. She writes of the hard lessons caregivers learn about them- Susan H. Swetnam is the author of A Season of Little Sacraments: selves, while at the same time knowing Christmas Commotion, Advent Grace, also published by Liturgical the strange and humbling sense of Press. She taught advanced writing courses for thirty-five years at Idaho State University. being used in the service of God’s love. Insightfully connecting end-of-life care with the liturgical year, Swetnam invites those who care for the sick and dying, whether professional or volunteer, to TABLE OF CONTENTS stay awake to the sacred implications Part 1: Contexts of their labors. Saying Yes to a Vocation in End-of-Life Care Honoring the Rich Possibilities of Aging

Part 2: Practice The Little Things Reimagining Human Communication The Saving Grace of Humor Earthen Vessels Other People’s Lives Strangers as Friends Ordinary Wonders Mortality, Every Morning

Afterword: Many Parts

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978-0-8146-8463-4 Michael Casey, OCSO Paperback, 488 pp., 5 ½ x 8 ½, $29.95 Balaam’s Donkey e eBook Random Ruminations Available February 2019 For Every Day of the Year

Balaam’s Donkey is a series of daily reflections based on the homilies preached by Cistercian monk Michael Casey over his fifty years of priesthood. What remained of the original homilies was a large box full of index cards with a few talking points on each. From there, Casey has re-created the homilies and recast them into short reflections, arranged randomly for every day of the year. The range of topics discussed is broad and the approach taken differs with each reflection, most of them colored with a touch of Casey’s whimsy and good humor.

Michael Casey, OCSO, has been a monk of Tarrawarra Abbey (Australia) since 1960. In the intervening years he has conducted “Casey’s ‘repurposed’ homilies are the best many retreats and workshops on every continent (except Antarctica) fruit of lectio divina. Wherever you stick your and has written many articles and books on topics relating to thumb in, you pull out a spiritually wise and monastic history and spirituality. theologically thought-provoking plumb. Engaging turns of phrase and energetic prose promote reflection that is both sweet and sustaining.” Bonnie Thurston Author of Maverick Mark: The Untamed First Gospel

“As these words find an echo in your heart “In this eclectic collection of short homilies for each day of you begin to feel, more than see, the the year, Michael Casey brings surprise, challenge, comfort, interconnectedness of the book. Casey calls and encouragement to the reader who wonders at the it ‘random ruminations’ but I noticed after workings of God in everyday life. His usual sharp wit and reading the meditation for the day and profound insight into the very heart of the human condition putting the book down, I felt better about the and the scriptural text, along with his uncanny ability to make coming day. Hope and encouragement is the the quirkiest of connections with all manner of sources, make golden string binding these reflections this work an apt companion to one who desires a word of together like the ‘bundle of myrrh’ so dear to wisdom as they journey through a year of seeking God.” the lover in the Song of Songs 1:13.” Carmel Posa, SGS Abbot Brendan Freeman Coeditor of Tjurunga: An Australasian Mellifont Abbey, Ireland Benedictine Review

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978-0-8146-8474-0 Paperback, 304 pp., Jaechan Anselmo Park, OSB 5 ½ x 8 ½, $29.95 e eBook Thomas Merton’s Encounter Available April 2019 with Buddhism and Beyond His Interreligious Dialogue, Inter-Monastic Exchanges, and Their Legacy Foreword by William Skudlarek, OSB Preface by Bonnie B. Thurston

Thomas Merton recognized the value and possibility of contemplative dialogue between monastics and contemplatives of other religious tradi- tions and hoped that, through such dialogue, monastics would strive for ‘inter-monastic communion’ and a bonding of the broader ‘spiritual family.’ Among other themes and topics, this book explores Thomas Merton’s role as a pioneer of Buddhist-Christian dialogue and monastic interreligious dialogue. It delves into the process of Merton’s self-transformation through contemplative experiences, explores his encounter with Zen and Tibetan Buddhists and his pioneering engage- ments in Buddhist-Christian dialogue, and presents and responds to the criti- cisms of those who raise questions about Merton’s understanding of Buddhism. This text articulates and analyzes the influences of Buddhist theory and practice on Merton’s contemplative Jaechan Anselmo Park, OSB, is a member of St. Benedict Waegwan Abbey in South Korea, where he has been vocation director and director spirituality and shows how his legacy of the Monastic Experience program. He received his STL and ThD has influenced and continues to from Regis College at the University of Toronto, Canada, where he is currently completing a doctorate in sacred theology. inspire interreligious and inter- monastic dialogue, particularly in an Asian monastic context.

“Fr. Park’s profound study of Thomas Merton’s multi-religious encounters reveals the enormous impact and importance of Merton’s legacy for the church and for the world. It is the first extensive study to explore Merton’s legacy in terms of how it has shaped the institutional church, through the activities of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID) and through the Monastic Interreligious Dialogue (MID), which functions under its aegis.” Joe Raab Siena Heights University Coeditor of The Merton Annual

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978-0-8146-8473-3 Thomas Merton Paperback, 200 pp., 5 ½ x 8 ½, $19.95 A Course in Desert e eBook Spirituality Available May 2019 Fifteen Sessions with the Famous Trappist Monk Edited by Jon M. Sweeney Foreword by Paul Quenon, OCSO

Thomas Merton’s sessions with the young monks at the Abbey of Gethsemani showcase Merton’s bril- liant ability to survey the key figures and synthesize their writings, inspiring his listeners and readers with what it means for the spiritual life. Like its companion volume, A Course in Christian Mysticism, this book is a collection of fifteen lectures that get to the heart of Merton’s belief that monastic wisdom and spirituality are applicable for everyone. This compact volume allows anyone to learn from one of the twentieth century’s greatest Catholic spiritual teachers. The study materials at the back of the book, including additional primary source readings and thoughtful questions for reflection and discussion, make this an essential text for any student of Christian desert spirituality.

Jon M. Sweeney is an independent scholar, author, critic, and publisher. His books include The Pope Who Quit: A True Medieval Tale of Mystery, Death, and Salvation, Inventing Hell, and several books on Saint Francis. He also edited A Course in Christian Mysticism, by Thomas Merton. He is a regular contributor to America and The Tablet and is the publisher and editor-in-chief at Paraclete Press. He is married, the father of three, and lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

“A Course in Desert Spirituality offers keen insight into the wisdom of early Christian mystics like St. , John Cassian, and Evagrius Ponticus. It makes the and Fathers come alive. But it also reveals much about the spiritual “In today’s turbulent world many women and men . . . are heart of Thomas Merton himself.” looking toward Benedictine and earlier traditions for a guide Carl McColman, author of The Big on how to live. Here they are carefully spelled out again for Book of Christian Mysticism and our guidance.” The Unteachable Lessons From the foreword by Brother Paul Quenon, OCSO

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M W0 57P, 978-0-87907-557-6 Blessed Gabriella Sagheddu Paperback, 232 pp., 5 ½ x 8 ½, $29.95 The Letters of Blessed Maria Gabriella e eBook with the Notebooks of Mother Pia Gullini Rights: World, English Translated by Lavich, OCSO, with Available April 2019 introduction by Mariella Carpinello

During Blessed Maria Gabriella Sagheddu’s short life as a Cistercian in the Italian monastery of Grottaferrata, she wrote detailed letters about her life there to her family in and to her former parish priest. These letters are collected here, along with notes and letters by and to her , Mother Pia Gullini, OCSO, and M. Pia’s notes and recol- lections about Bl. Gabriella. Also included are letters to M. Pia from Father Benedict Ley, a monk of the English Anglican abbey of Nashdom, regarding the hope for Christian unity.

Blessed Maria Gabriella Sagheddu was born in Dorgali, Sardegna (Italy), in 1914. At twenty years of age she entered the Trappist monastery of Grottaferrata. In 1938, she offered her life for the union of the Christian Churches and died of tuberculosis in 1939. She was beatified by John Paul II on January 25, 1983, in the basilica of St. Paul Outside-the-Walls at the end of the Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity.

David P. Lavich, OCSO, entered the Order of Cistercians of the Strict “I am delighted by the opportunity to learn Observance at Saint ’s Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts, in about Maria Gabriella and her remarkable 1987, after completing twelve years of missionary work in Japan. After life, so poignantly documented in her letters serving in as a councilor to the abbot general of the Order from and in the notebooks of Mother Pia. Lavich’s 2008 until 2017, he has returned to serve as chaplain to the Order’s English translation flows smoothly, and I women’s monasteries in Japan. found myself easily caught up in the gripping events of her life. The book was difficult to CistercianPublications.org put down, as I felt simultaneously dismayed yet joyful, but most of all compelled to continue forward on my own spiritual journey. As a researcher of Italian female , this book is a must-read. If you love saints, then you’ll love this book.” Molly Morrison Associate Professor of Italian Ohio University

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CS275P, Hugh Feiss, OSB, Ronald E. Pepin, 978-0-87907-275-9 and Maureen M. O’Brien Paperback, 704 pp., 5 ½ x 8 ½, $49.95 A Benedictine Reader e eBook Available March 2019 530–1530

A Benedictine Reader: 530–1530, has been more than twenty years in the making. A collaboration of a dozen scholars, this project gives as broad and deep a sense of the reality of the first one thousand years of Benedictine monasticism as can be done in one volume, using primary sources in English translation. The texts included are drawn from many different genres and from several languages and areas of Europe. The introduction to each of the thirty-two chapters aims to situate each author and text and to make connections with other texts and studies within and outside the Reader. The general introduction summarizes the main ideas and practices that are present in the Rule of Saint Benedict and in the first thousand years of Benedictine monasticism while suggesting questions that a reader might bring to the texts.

Hugh Feiss, OSB, is a monk of the Monastery of the Ascension in Jerome, Idaho. Ronald E. Pepin received his PhD from Fordham University. Maureen M. O’Brien is professor in the Department of History at Saint Cloud State University, where she teaches ancient and medieval European history. All three previously collaborated on The Lives of Monastic Reformers, 1 and 2 from Cistercian Publications.

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“Perfectae Caritatis invited religious to enter into their original sources and primitive inspirations. A Benedictine Reader achieves this by creating a fascinating world of medieval monastic doctrine. This anthology opens up for any interested person ancient sources that fashioned monastic aggiornamento through the centuries. With quite remarkable scholarship, the wealth of footnotes in this volume introduces contemporary authorities promoting this renewal. Together these ancient monastics and contemporary scholars form a valuable treasure for a rebirth in monastic wisdom and insight.” Thomas X. Davis, OCSO Abbot Emeritus, New Clairvaux Abbey

“A Benedictine Reader brings together in a single volume , John of Fécamp, Abelard, , and other well-known figures of Western medieval monasticism. Also included are lesser- known authors and works by anonymous voices. This virtual library of medieval Benedictine texts fills a gaping hole in monastic libraries and will be an excellent resource in monastic formation programs.” Mark A. Scott, OCSO Abbot of New Melleray

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Gregory the Great was pope from 590 to 604, a time of great turmoil in Italy and in the western Roman Empire generally because of the barbarian invasions. Gregory’s experience as prefect of the city of Rome and as apocrisarius of Pope Pelagius fitted him admirably for the new challenges of the papacy. The Moral Reflections on the Book of Job were first given to the monks who accompanied Gregory to the embassy in Constantinople. This fifth volume, containing books 23 through 27, provides commentary on six chapters of Job, from 32:1 through 37:24. The present volume covers the chapters of Job devoted to Elihu, the young man who derides the three friends who couldn’t find an answer to Job. For the most part Gregory confines himself, with a few exceptions, to the allegorical moral exegesis, making Elihu a symbol of the arrogant person (sometimes the heretic and some- times the unworthy member of the church) and Job Br. Brian Kerns has been a Trappist for sixty years, a type either of the church herself or of the holy seventeen years at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, and the rest at the Abbey of the Genesee preachers of sound doctrine. in upper New York state, interrupted by a year at Oxford, North Carolina, and five years at Genesee’s foundation of Novo Mundo in Parana, Brazil. The first four volumes of his translation of Gregory the Great’s Moral Reflections on the Book of Job were published by Cistercian Publications between 2014 and 2017.

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Illuminating Justice explores the call to social ethics in The Saint John’s Bible, the first major handwritten and hand-illuminated Christian Bible since the invention of the printing press. Situating his close analysis of The Saint John’s Bible’s illuminations in the context of contemporary biblical exegesis and Catholic teaching, Homrighausen shows how this project stimulates the ethical imagination of its readers and viewers on matters of justice for women, care for creation, and dialogue between Jews and Christians. Written for scholars, pastors, teachers, and any fan of The Saint John’s Bible, this book shows how beauty and justice intertwine in this wondrous illuminated Bible for the new millennium.

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Stephen Okey Brian P. Flanagan A Theology of Conversation Stumbling in Holiness An Introduction to David Tracy Sin and Sanctity in the Church Foreword by David Tracy

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Stephen Okey is assistant professor of philosophy, Brian P. Flanagan is associate professor of theology at theology, and religion at Saint Leo University in Saint Leo, Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. He is the Florida, where he teaches courses in Catholic theology and co-editor of Liturgy + Power, the 2016 annual volume of the ethics. College Theology Society.

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An indispensable study of how Jorge Bergoglio became the strikingly “original thinker and believer who has renewed the Church in his ministry as Pope Francis.” Mollie Wilson O’Reilly Editor at Large, Commonweal

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“This helpful collection makes available in “This book calls religious priests to embrace the straightforward style the many dimensions of tension between profession and ordination in order to traditional French spirituality for today’s reader. re-embrace the mercy at the heart of many of the Through both historical and thematic approaches, and founders of religious orders. This book is indispensable with special attention to mission to the marginalized, for anyone interested in the religious priesthood in the it lays out the unity and diversity within the movement.” twenty-first century, and I cannot recommend it highly Carolyn Osiek, RSCJ enough!” Archivist, Society of the Sacred Heart Garrett Galvin, OFM United States–Canada Province Franciscan School of Theology

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Philip Sheldrake is professor and director of the Institute Stephen Bevans is a member of the missionary congregation for the Study of Contemporary Spirituality at Oblate School of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) and professor of of Theology, San Antonio, Texas. He is also senior research mission and culture, emeritus, at Catholic Theological Union, fellow at Westcott House in the Cambridge Theological Chicago. Federation and senior research associate of the Von Hügel Institute, St. Edmund’s College Cambridge. Philip Sheldrake Robin Ryan is a Passionist priest who serves as associate is a well-known authority on Christian spirituality and on professor of systematic theology at Catholic Theological spirituality more generally and has written or edited Union. He teaches and writes in the areas of ecclesiology, seventeen books. Christology, and the theology of suffering.

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Written from her deep experience in the monastic tradition, Sister Mary Margaret Funk shows us that, with faith and our given vocations, we are more than strong enough to resist and renounce the violence in the world around us. This book offers, both for personal use and for the broader community, a teaching for our troubled times, a teaching that empowers the reader to renounce violence in all its bold and subtle forms.

Mary Margaret Funk is a Benedictine nun of Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove, Indiana. From 1994 through 2004, she served as executive director of Monastic Interreligious Dialogue, which fosters dialogue among monastics of the world’s religions. In addition to the volumes of the Matters Series, she is the author of Islam Is . . . : An Experience of Dialogue and Devotion and Into the Depths: A Journey of Loss and Vocation. “Once again Sister Meg has taken the ancient desert spirituality and made it meaningful for twenty-first-century city dwellers. As a Benedictine living in Mexico and often surrounded by violence, I might have preferred a ‘quick fix’ to my situation; but then anyone who knows Meg Funk would never go to her for easy, ‘out-there’ solutions to their problems. A word of advice: don’t miss the appendices.” Patricia Henry, OSB “In the book Renouncing Violence, Sr. Mary Margaret Funk Monasterio Pan de Vida takes a uniquely monastic view of violence and its end. Torreon, Mexico There are no charts or graphs on violence, but rather windows into her monastic practice, wisdom, and faith. I “The book invites us all to practice training our enjoyed and learned the most from her personal stories and minds and hearts from self-consciousness to self-reflection, going deep into her own anger, searching God-consciousness for a world in desperate for a solution, and ultimately finding it. Her understanding need of peace, reconciliation, and freedom of thoughts and where they came from, helped along by her from the forces of evil.” many years of work with Buddhists, was particularly Mary M. Heintzkill, MTS, BCC interesting and useful. The phrase, ‘World peace begins Director of Spiritual Care and with inner peace’ seems to be the heart and soul of this Mission Integration book.” Ascension Health Ven. Kusala Bhikshu

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Kevin W. Irwin Joris Geldhof Context and Text Liturgy and Secularism A Method for Liturgical Theology Beyond the Divide Revised Edition

“In an era when the blogosphere coverage of the “Joris Geldhof brings to a wider audience a much- liturgy often reflects ideology, division, and needed application of social-philosophical theory to superficiality, this thoroughly reworked book lays out move analysis of the weakening force of liturgy in late- the terrain in a serene and careful manner. It is a book modernity beyond the tired polemics of so-called that deserves deep reflection and prayer.” traditionalist versus reformist church politics to a Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, OSB deeper understanding of the fundamental challenges Mount Angel Abbey and Seminary yet unique potential for liturgical practice today.” Bruce T. Morrill, SJ “This new edition of the book covers the same ground Vanderbilt University as one would expect, but much more. Irwin ends up with a series of constructive invitations, as it were, not “This learned, wise, and clearly written book invites only for liturgical theologians but for all Christians us again to a dense celebration of the liturgy as a made by the liturgy: ‘Be honest, be attentive, be open, complex of symbols that can save us all from the be grateful, be hopeful.’ This new edition of Kevin loneliness and isolation belonging to ideological Irwin’s Context and Text is of enormous value in secularism, while refusing to reject secularity itself. helping us to respond to these invitations and so to Both progressive and conservative, this lovely book worship more fruitfully. I cannot recommend it highly affirms the world while welcoming God’s urgently enough.” needed salvation.” Owen F. Cummings Gordon W. Lathrop Academic Dean and Regents’ Professor of Liturgy Emeritus Professor of Theology United Lutheran Seminary of Pennsylvania Mount Angel Seminary

Monsignor Kevin W. Irwin has been on the faculty of The Joris Geldhof is professor of liturgical studies and Catholic University of America for over thirty years, where sacramental theology at Catholic University of Leuven, he held the Walter J. Schmitz Chair of Liturgical Studies Belgium, where he chairs the Liturgical Institute and serves (2000–2015), served as Dean of the School of Theology and as editor in chief of the bilingual journal Questions Religious Studies (2005–2011), and is currently an Ordinary Liturgiques/Studies in Liturgy. He was elected President of Research Professor. Msgr. Irwin has published eighteen Societas Liturgica for 2017–2019. books on liturgy and sacraments. 978-0-8146-8461-0 978-0-8146-8037-7 Paperback, 712 pp., 6 x 9, $49.95 Paperback, 184 pp., 5 ½ x 8 ½, $29.95 e eBook e eBook

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Anne McGowan and Paul F. Bradshaw Gail Ramshaw The Pilgrimage of Egeria Saints on Sunday A New Translation of the Voices from Our Past Enlivening Itinerarium Egeriae with Introduction Our Worship and Commentary

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Anne McGowan is assistant professor of liturgy at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, she is the author of Eucharistic Epicleses, Gail Ramshaw studies and crafts liturgical language from Ancient and Modern (Liturgical Press, 2014). her home outside of Washington, DC. A Lutheran laywoman, a past president of the North American Academy of Liturgy Paul F. Bradshaw is emeritus professor of liturgy at the and recipient of its Berakah award, and professor emerita University of Notre Dame. The author or editor of over thirty of religion at La Salle University, she has published books and more than 120 articles and essays, he is also a extensively about biblical metaphors, the Revised Common past president of both the North American Academy of Lectionary, and parish liturgical practice. Liturgy and the international Societas Liturgica. 978-0-8146-4558-1 978-0-8146-8421-4 Paperback, 248 pp., 6 x 9, $29.95 Paperback, 200 pp., 5 ½ x 8 ½, $19.95 e eBook e eBook

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Aelred of Rievaulx Aelred of Rievaulx The Liturgical Sermons Homilies on the Prophetic The Durham and Lincoln Collections Burdens of Sermons 47–84 Translated by Lewis White with introduction by Marsha L. Dutton Translated by Kathryn Krug, Lewis White, and the Catena Scholarium Edited with an introduction by Ann Astell

Aelred, abbot of the Yorkshire Cistercian abbey In these thirty-one homilies on Isaiah 13–16, of Rievaulx from 1147 to 1167, wrote six spiritual together with an introductory Advent sermon, treatises, seven historical treatises, and 182 litur- Aelred interprets the burdens that Isaiah gical sermons, many of which he delivered as prophesied against the nations according to chapter talks to his monks. The current volume their literal, allegorical, and moral senses. He contains thirty-eight sermons for feasts from sees these burdens as playing a role both in the Advent through the Nativity of Mary, taken from history of the church and in the progress of the the Durham and Lincoln collections, edited by individual soul. This collection of homilies is an Gaetano Raciti in CCCM 2B. ambitious, unified work of a mature monk, synthesizing biblical exegesis, ascetical teaching, spiritual exhortation, and a theory of history.

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Lewis White has been a teacher and translator at the Language Center of the Universidad Tecnológica de la Mixteca, Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca, Mexico, since 2009. Lewis White has been a teacher and translator at the Kathryn Krug has an MA in medieval studies from the Language Center of the Universidad Tecnológica de la University of Chicago. Mixteca, Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca, Mexico, since 2009.

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David N. Bell Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. Everyday Life at La Trappe An Elemental Life under Armand-Jean de Rancé Mystery and Mercy in the Work of A Translation, with Introduction and Father Matthew Kelty, OCSO Notes, of André Félibien des Avaux’s (1915–2011) Description De L’abbaye De La Trappe (1689)

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Jesus of Nazareth What He Wanted, Who He Was Translated by Linda M. Maloney “Lohfink’s Jesus of Nazareth is the best Jesus book I know. It is solidly based on sound biblical scholarship, full of fresh theological insights, respectful of the and their portraits of Jesus, and beautifully expressed. It is especially effective in highlighting the centrality of God’s reign and Israel as God’s people in Jesus’ life and work.” Does God Need the Church? Daniel J. Harrington, SJ Boston College School of Theology and Ministry Toward a Theology of the People of God Translated by Linda M. Maloney “Lohfink’s portrait of Jesus is very much worth reading. Because he looks to the Gospels with a sympathetic yet “In our day, when confusion abounds concerning the identity critical eye, he gives a faithful interpretation of Jesus. And and purpose of the Church, few books could be more timely. because he is faithful, Lohfink offers a portrait that is Indeed, this book is a virtual feast, and it should be considered challenging—especially for the church today.” essential fare for anyone who has ever struggled to articulate America Magazine a theologically satisfying answer to the question in Lohfink’s title, anyone who cares deeply about the Church but who “Lohfink teases out the intertextuality among the Old questions its relevancy in our place and time, or by anyone Testament, Jesus, and the New Testament with dazzling looking for help thinking through the no-less-vexing question finesse. His construction of the eschatological community of the Church’s relation to Israel.” intended by Jesus invites ecclesiological discussion. Most Anglican Theological Review significantly, he rebuffs supersessionism with a portrait of Jesus as an authoritative and critical interpreter of Torah. “There is much for us to learn about ourselves and our Finally, his sensitivity to the theology of the Evangelists Church. This book opens the way for us to drink deeply from provides a resource for Christian spirituality. This is a book the springs of salvation.” worth engaging.” Sr. Kathleen Gorman, OSB, Spirit and Life Horizons

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Is This All There Is? On Resurrection and Eternal Life No Irrelevant Jesus Translated by Linda M. Maloney “Thoughtful, entertaining . . . Asking big religious questions On Jesus and the Church Today Lohfink takes aim at classic discussions of faith from a Translated by Linda M. Maloney Christian perspective rooted in wonder and trust. This intelligent, gracious book is a welcome contribution to “This latest book by Gerhard Lohfink is a collection of essays, theological conversations about life, death, and resurrection.” each of which, in different ways, offers a means of coping Publishers Weekly Starred Review with the difficulties of life in the Church today. There is a sharp intellect at work here, and immense erudition, especially in “Highly recommend this book as a profound invitation to the area of the New Testament; indeed one of Lohfink’s great reflect on the ultimate issues of death and life.” strengths is his attentiveness to Scripture.” Theological Studies

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