Christianity: Origins And Contemporary
Into the Classroom is a series of eleven new books designed for second-level teachers beginning the new Leaving Certificate Religious Education syllabus. Each of the books covers all the content in the relevant syllabus section. With their accessible and engaging commentary, they will also be of great interest to third-level students, educators and a general readership.
Going To God Together: Reflections Along The Way
Throughout the world, we find traces of an insatiable thirst to bow down spiritually before the Mystery that surrounds life. We see it in a Buddhist temple and in a mosque; in a Passover celebration and a Hindu Diwali festival. A mysterious sense of the Absolute, the transcendent, urges us to reach out beyond all that is around us, excavate deep within us and, above all, make some form of declaration with the whole of our being that we want to be in harmony with God, with others, within ourselves.
Faith Questions
`The "door of faith" (Acts. 14:27) is always open for us, ushering us into the life of communion with God and offering entry into his Church'.
With these words, Pope Benedict XVI began his apostolic letter Porta Fidei for the indiction of the Year of Faith.
His Mass And Ours : Meditations On Living Eucharistically
Brendan Leahy offers this loving explanation of the dual dimension of the Mass - Christ's gift and our existential participation, His action and our daily cooperation.
Brendan Leahy, "Holy Week invites us to lift up our hearts in Hope", Irish Times 30 March, 2021.
Holy Week moving into Easter is a yearly invitation to lift up our hearts and keep on hoping against hope, contemplating in hope whatever signs of the resurrection we find around us, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant. We each have our own resurrection world opening up in, through and around us.
Brendan Leahy, "Rekindling the Passion for Christian Unity: So that All may Believe", The Furrow (2021): 3-8.
The very recent publication of an Ecumenical Vademecum/Guidebook by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity is an occasion for Catholics to look again at our ecumenical commitment, especially in this month when we celebrate the Week of Prayer for Christian unity (18-25 January). While the Vademecum, available on-line, is specifically focussed on reminding bishops of the priority of ecumenism, it is indirectly addressed to all of us, inviting us to rekindle the passion for unity that the Spirit has underlined through the ecumenical movement. The search for unity, we are reminded, is intrinsic to our identity as church.
