Böcker utgivna av Edizioni Sant'antonio

Affective maturity is a process of directing, structuring, and restructuring the human heart as it bends towards that innate need for love. Many experiences can disaffect the heart and block the process of its growth towards this maturity. This book offers insights on the best method of handling one¿s sexuality, management of one¿s affection, and its challenges within the sphere of celibate life. Celibacy is a gift and a charism which priests of the Catholic Church in the Latin rite enjoy, by God¿s Grace. The same applies to the religious. Nevertheless, every gift or treasure is associated with some difficulties. Attainment of affective maturity provides the key to understanding and handling the difficulties associated with this priceless treasure. While many people are interested in getting those with sexual misconduct punished or dismissed, this book is more of preventive measure. Only when one is affectively mature can she or he manage the great force of libido and eros, putting the force under control and channeling the energy more positively in life.

La novità teologica che Benedetto XVI propone alla Chiesa, è la vera teologia mariana che conduce ad una riflessione sistematica, una teologia non composta soltanto di devozione o di dottrina, ma di affettività e di razionalità, di fede e di ragione. È l¿intelligibilità della devozione e l¿affettività della dottrina, è una devozione meditata, maturata con l¿aiuto della ragione, più strutturata e sistematica, ed è anche una dottrina razionale che porta alla devozione, alla contemplazione di Dio, attraverso la Madre del Signore.

The radical methods of the inward prayer recommended by Jesus, «go into your room», «shut the door», and finally, «pray to your Father who is in secret [¿] and who sees in secret», neither practically teaches how to enter into the inner chamber nor how to shut the door, but constructs a space, which is left to the disciples for further praxis. The contemplative practice of the n¿psis (mindfulness) found in the masters of the Philokalia explores the unexplained praxis of the skills, for of closing the doors, in order to prevail upon the mental riots, when one wants to pray and reach the state of stillness and contemplation of God. This study on the hermeneutical reading of watchfulness, in the Parable of the Ten Virgins, and the Philokalia, discloses the unique and the rich heritage of the Christian mindfulness meditation.