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Library Assistants
Our well stocked library has many new books, a good reference section, and is a nice place to spend some quiet time. Coming soon is a computer terminal to provide access to the internet for parishioners without their own means of surfing the world-wide-web. Contact: Carol Kazmarek at 294-2558 or ken_kaczmarek@yahoo.com.
New CD collection of Henri Nouwen's works are available in the Library just in time for Lent 2011.
Spend your car time growing spiritually with any of these soul searching compact discs that we have just added to our Library collection.
Henri Nouwen is one of the most prolific and popular spiritual writers of our time. He wrote more than 40 books and taught at Notre Dame as well as at Yale and Harvard. For the 10 years before his death in 1996, he was part of the L'Arche Daybreak community in Toronto, sharing life with people with developmental disabilities. For more information about this author, visit www.HenriNouwen.org.
Choose from the following:
Reaching Out: Three Movements of Spiritual Life (4 discs)
In this best-seller, the renowned spiritual guide, Henri Nouwen, describes three movements in our search for union with God. The first movement from loneliness to solitude, explores our experience of our own selves and longings. The second movement, from hostility to hospitality, focuses on our relationships with others. The challenge in the third movement is to progress from illusion to prayer. Nouwen's plan leads us through good times and struggles, joys and sorrows, to joyful union with God.
Our Greatest Gift: A Meditation on Dying and Caring. (3 discs)
Henri Nouwen takes a new and personal look at mortality. Sharing his own experiences with aging, loss, gried and fear, Nouwen asks, "Can we wait for our death as a friend who wants to welcome us home?"
Prayer: The Way to a Transparent Life
This simple, brilliant talk on prayer illustrates the effect that prayer has on our lives.