Böcker av Bill Huebsch

The Echo Within is a prayer book for you if you are someone who wants to pray, whether or not you belong to a church. It's a complete set of brief, modern prayers for the hours of the day, a resource for meditation with Holy and Gracious Mystery who is the Author of our very being, the Beloved One among us as teacher, healer, and friend, and the Wellspring of Holiness. A blend of Lectio Divina, Personal Prayer, Ignatian Discernment, The Liturgy of the Hours, Centering Prayer, Meditation, & Mindfulness of the Indwelling Divine Presence You will want to put this prayer book into the hands of everyone you know who wants to pray in modern times.

Encounter with the Holy will lead you into the heart of Holy and Gracious Mystery-the Holy One who dwells within and among us-using plain, poetic English. It explores how we encounter the Holy as we listen for the echo within where we hear the divine voice that sounds in our hearts. Powerful. Life-changing. Whether or not you belong to a church. Responds to our inborn hunger to go beyond ourselves. Ecumenical. A new vocabulary of prayer. All in plain, poetic English that will stay with you forever.You will read and re-read this book, mark it up in the margins, pause to ponder on the mysteries, and then buy copies for everyone you know!

The story and promise of the Second Vatican Council are part and parcel of the church's daily life throughout the world. It isn't possible to prepare for or enact pastoral ministry today without being a student of Vatican II. From participatory liturgy to whole-family faith formation, from the RCIA to the deaconate, and from the renewed call to holiness to the renewed age of mercy, the springboard of the modern church is Vatican II. Because of this, knowing about the story of Vatican II is essential to understanding its promise. This volume tells that wonderful story of the council-and it does so in plain English. It follows an exciting chronological pathway from the beginning of the council to its final bell. But the deep promise of the council is found in the documents themselves. Church documents don't always make for compelling reading but the plain English presentations which author Bill Huebsch provides here make this book a page-turner! Huebsch captures the excitement and rapidly unfolding drama-all set in the theater of St. Peter's Basilica during those four years in the early 1960s. He treats each character with dignity and respect, moving beyond the judgments of "too liberal" or "too conservative" that have dogged the Church and created division rather than unity. This book fills its readers with hope and equips them to unfold the promise of the Second Vatican Council in today's world.