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Title: Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas by Plough Publishing House ISBN: 0-87486-917-X Publisher: Plough Publishing House Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best collection of readings for Advent and Christmas ever.
Comment: If you are looking for a great read for Christmas this is it. You can call the Publisher and they will work out a great price if you want to give this book away for Christmas presents. You might also want to look at there book " Bread And Wine Readings for Lent and Easter. These two books are the greatest books to be published on these two themes.
Rating: 5
Summary: A library in one volume
Comment: This extraordinarily rich collection of writings, mostly excerpted from larger works, offers stimulating meditations for each day of the Advent and Christmas seasons. The fifty writers include familiar names ranging from Thomas Aquinas to Henri Nouwen, Bernard of Clairvaux to Dorothy Day, John Chrysostom to C.S. Lewis, Martin Luther to Annie Dillard, T. S. Eliot to Kathleen Norris, as well as others less well-known. Nouwen shows how the fear of waiting can lead to hostile "first strike" approaches. Imprisoned, Alfred Delp calls for a "shocked awakening" from our false securities, that our hearts may be open to God's words of promise. Oscar Romero reminds us "Without poverty of spirit there can be no abundance of God." This is a veritable library in one small volume.
Rating: 5
Summary: I wonder as I wander...
Comment: I wonder as I wander through the pages of this book, how it is that the editors came to choose at least three selections I'd previously read, and having once read, returned to for spiritual nourishment. I felt as if this book had been compiled for me. Gail Godwin's essay on genealogy and grace moved me so much at the time I first read it in one of her novels, that I found myself going back to it over again. Kathleen Norris's writing on The Annunciation compels one to ponder the incomprehensible and embrace the mystery of the holiness of the season. Annie Dillard's description of the Church of the Nativity is rich in detail and provokes consideration of today's Bethlehem. These three readings could fill a season of wonder, but there are enough to cover the time from November 24th to January 7th. From Sylvia Plath to St. Thomas Aquinas, there is enough diversity to please a wide range of preferences. This reader considers it somewhat of a miracle itself that so much could be packed into such a small volume. For readers and thinkers yearning to see beyond the seasonal excesses, I recommend you "Watch for the Light."
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Title: Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter by Wendell Berry, Dorothy L. Sayers, Blaise Pascal ISBN: 0874869269 Publisher: Plough Publishing House Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Then Sings My Soul : 150 of the World's Greatest Hymn Stories by Robert J. Morgan ISBN: 0785249397 Publisher: Nelson Reference Pub. Date: 05 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: The Story of the Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke, Henry Van Dyke, Leo F. Buscaglia ISBN: 0345406958 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Advent and Christmas With Thomas Merton by Thomas Merton ISBN: 0764808435 Publisher: Liguori Publications Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The First Christmas Tree: Other Stories by Henry Van Dyke, Henry First Christmas Tree Van Dyke, Henry Spirit of Christmas Van Dyke ISBN: 1557253153 Publisher: Paraclete Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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