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Product Description: After fifty years of monastic life, prayer, and spiritual direction, Meg Funk knows what it means to listen with the ear of one's heart to the Holy Spirit. InDiscernment Matters, she shares what she has learned. This book is a resource for those who want to learn and practice discernment as taught by the early monastic tradition...read more
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9780814634691 | Liturgical Pr, February 15, 2013, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: After fifty years of monastic life, prayer, and spiritual direction, Meg Funk knows what it means to listen with the ear of one's heart to the Holy Spirit.
Product Description: Humility Matters makes the claims that humility is for a disciple of Jesus Christ what enlightenment is for a Buddhist, realization for a Hindu, surrender for a Muslim, and righteousness for a Jew. It is the unmistakable character of one who has accepted the vocation to undertake the spiritual journey...read more
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9780814635131 | Liturgical Pr, February 15, 2013, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Humility Matters makes the claims that humility is for a disciple of Jesus Christ what enlightenment is for a Buddhist, realization for a Hindu, surrender for a Muslim, and righteousness for a Jew.
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9780814634974 | Liturgical Pr, February 15, 2013, cover price $18.95
Product Description: Cassian taught that real intimacy with God in prayer demands renouncing one's former way of life, the thoughts belonging to that former way of life, and one's very idea of God. In Thoughts Matter, Mary Margaret Funk focuses on the second of these: renouncing the thoughts belonging to one's former way of life...read more
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9780814635254 | Liturgical Pr, February 15, 2013, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Cassian taught that real intimacy with God in prayer demands renouncing one's former way of life, the thoughts belonging to that former way of life, and one's very idea of God.
Product Description: In January 1984, Sr. Mary Margaret Funk, a Benedictine nun from Indiana, paid a visit to Maryknoll missionary nuns working in Bolivia. On what should have been a routine trip to the local town for a convocation ceremony, a flash flood swept away the jeep in which she, three nuns, a priest, and a disabled boy they had adopted were traveling...read more
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9781590562352 | Rudolf Steiner Pr, March 31, 2011, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In January 1984, Sr.
Product Description: This is the third volume of a trilogy that began with Thoughts Matter: The Practice of the Spiritual Life and continued with Tools Matter for Practicing the Spiritual Life. Thoughts Matter was an update of the teaching of the fourth-century desert father John Cassian on the eight 'afflictive thoughts' that impede the spiritual life (thoughts about food, sex, 'things', anger, etc...read more
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9781441133090 | Reprint edition (Continuum Intl Pub Group, January 6, 2011), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This is the third volume of a trilogy that began with Thoughts Matter: The Practice of the Spiritual Life and continued with Tools Matter for Practicing the Spiritual Life.
Product Description: Islam Is... is the record of Benedictine nun Sr. Mary Margaret Funk's multiyear engagement in interfaith dialogue with American Muslims in an effort to bridge the gaps that seem to divide Christianity and Islam. In the book she reflects on Islam, a religion that has challenged and transformed her and in which she has found startling similarities to her own deeply held Catholic practice and beliefs...read more
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9781590561256 | New rev edition (Lantern Books, May 30, 2008), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Islam Is.
9781590560617 | Lantern Books, November 1, 2003, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: For the last seven years, Benedictine nun Sr.
Product Description: This is the third volume of a trilogy that began with Thoughts Matter: The Practice of the Spiritual Life and continued with Tools Matter for Practicing the Spiritual Life. Thoughts Matter was an update of the teaching of the fourth-century desert father John Cassian on the eight 'afflictive thoughts' that impede the spiritual life (thoughts about food, sex, 'things', anger, etc...read more
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9780826417282 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, November 30, 2005, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This is the third volume of a trilogy that began with Thoughts Matter: The Practice of the Spiritual Life and continued with Tools Matter for Practicing the Spiritual Life.
Product Description: Funk turns to the wisdom of the desert fathers for the means of removing obstacles to spiritual growth, which include thoughts of food, sex, possessions, anger, dejection, and pride, among other preoccupations. Redirecting thought away from such weeds in the garden of the spirit can lead to a greater awareness of God...read more
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9780826413512 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, November 1, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In her previous book, Thoughts Matter: The Practice of the Spiritual Life, Sister Mary Margaret Funk, elaborating on the teaching of John Cassian, dealt with the eight classic "thoughts" that distract us from the presence of God.
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9780826416551 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, July 30, 2004, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Funk turns to the wisdom of the desert fathers for the means of removing obstacles to spiritual growth, which include thoughts of food, sex, possessions, anger, dejection, and pride, among other preoccupations.
A thoughtful companion for spiritual seekers introduces the method developed by John Cassian, a fourth-century monk, for concentrating the mind and controlling extraneous thought during meditation. (Spiritual Life)
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9780826413239 | Reprint edition (Continuum Intl Pub Group, May 1, 2001), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Introduces the method developed by John Cassian, a fourth-century monk, for concentrating the mind and controlling extraneous thought during meditation.
Introduces the method developed by John Cassian, a fourth-century monk, for concentrating the mind and controlling extraneous thought during meditation
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9780826411648 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, January 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Introduces the method developed by John Cassian, a fourth-century monk, for concentrating the mind and controlling extraneous thought during meditation
Introduces the method developed by John Cassian, a fourth-century monk, for concentrating the mind and controlling extraneous thought during meditation
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9780826410634 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, April 1, 1998, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Introduces the method developed by John Cassian, a fourth-century monk, for concentrating the mind and controlling extraneous thought during meditation
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