Sanctity And Motherhood
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Sanctity And Motherhood
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Author : Anneke Mulder-Bakker
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-05-13
Sanctity And Motherhood written by Anneke Mulder-Bakker and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Increasingly, recent scholarship has focused on those married women and mothers in the Middle Ages who achieved holiness. The Merovingian Waldetrudis and Rictrudis; Ida, mother of the crusader king Godfrey of Bouillon; Elisabeth of Hungary and Bridget of Sweden are among them. Unlike Mary and her mother, Saint Anne (mother saints, whose sanctity was based on motherhood) these female parents were honored despite rather than because of their children. They were holy mothers, whose status as spouses and mothers gave them a public voice and opened for them the road to sanctification. They successfully combined marriage and motherhood with a religious life and functioned as holy women in their community. Despite increasing respect, tension between the roles of saint and wife persisted. Saintly women were not expected to be happily married: the ancient prejudice against sexual passion and physical ease mitigated the enjoyment of married life.The book's original essays focus on Northern Europe, where the cult of Saint Anne reached its climax around 1500. It does not explore Church doctrine and theology, as other studies do, but examines the religious experience of historical holy mothers and saints and how these women were perceived by their communities and their biographers.
The Cruelest Of All Mothers
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Author : Mary Dunn
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2015-10-01
The Cruelest Of All Mothers written by Mary Dunn and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-01 with Religion categories.
In 1631, Marie Guyart stepped over the threshold of the Ursuline convent in Tours, leaving behind her eleven-year-old son, Claude, against the wishes of her family and her own misgivings. Marie concluded, “God was dearer to me than all that. Leaving him therefore in His hands, I bid adieu to him joyfully.” Claude organized a band of schoolboys to storm the convent, begging for his mother’s return. Eight years later, Marie made her way to Quebec, where over the course of the next thirty-three years she opened the first school for Native American girls, translated catechisms into indigenous languages, and served some eighteen years as superior of the first Ursuline convent in the New World. She would also maintain, over this same period, an extensive and intimate correspondence with the son she had abandoned to serve God. The Cruelest of All Mothers is, fundamentally, an explanation of Marie de l’Incarnation’s decision to abandon Claude for religious life. Complicating Marie’s own explication of the abandonment as a sacrifice carried out in imitation of Christ and in submission to God’s will, the book situates the event against the background of early modern French family life, the marginalization of motherhood in the Christian tradition, and seventeenth-century French Catholic spirituality. Deeply grounded in a set of rich primary sources, The Cruelest of All Mothers offers a rich and complex analysis of the abandonment.
The Heart Of Motherhood
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Author : Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle
language : en
Publisher: Crossroad
Release Date : 2006
The Heart Of Motherhood written by Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle and has been published by Crossroad this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Family & Relationships categories.
With five children in her home and a personal encouragement from Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Donna Marie Cooper O'Boyle is predestined to offer this inspiring book of reflection and prayer.
Sanctity S Mother Tongue
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1952
Sanctity S Mother Tongue written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with Silence categories.
Sanctity S Mother Tongue
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Author : Sister 1890- Mary Cecilia
language : en
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
Sanctity S Mother Tongue written by Sister 1890- Mary Cecilia and has been published by Hassell Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with categories.
A spiritual exploration of the role of silence and speech in cultivating a deeper connection to God, including practical advice and suggested practices for developing a more contemplative prayer life. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
This Life That Is Ours
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Author : Lauren Burdette
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
This Life That Is Ours written by Lauren Burdette and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Religion categories.
This Life That Is Ours offers 40 gentle meditations with guidance for reflection on the spiritual journey of motherhood. These practical, soul-affirming meditations nurture a mother's heart and spiritual life in a season fraught with overwhelm, exhaustion, and loss of identity. Through the lens of Burdette's real-life stories, the reader is invited to ponder her experience and to contemplate where God might be present. This book is divided into three sections. Reflections in the first section, "Becoming a Mother," explore the dynamics of being a new mother and the whirlwind experience of those early months and years. The second section, "Becoming Yourself," considers what it means to return home to yourself--to begin to find your identity again, both within the realm of motherhood and outside of it. The third section, "Becoming Holy," names the holy paradoxes of motherhood--the ways it can be both extraordinary and mundane, both gift and sacrifice--ultimately deepening one's experience of the holiness of motherhood. This Life That Is Ours includes an introduction, a preparatory guide for the reflective journey, a closing spiritual practice, and a conclusion. This book can be used in communities of mom groups, intergenerational groups of women, or spouse groups and would make a great gift for new mothers and mothers-to-be.
Saintly Moms
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Author : Kelly Ann Guest
language : en
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
Release Date : 2021-08-19
Saintly Moms written by Kelly Ann Guest and has been published by Our Sunday Visitor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-19 with Religion categories.
The lives of the saints are a great source of inspiration and reassurance for us. The holy women in Saintly Moms can help us better to understand motherhood as a vocation, just like any other calling from God, and a path to holiness. Whether you’re a new mom, a grandmother, or somewhere in between, this book will encourage all mothers in their vocation as they identify themselves in the lives of these saints, who also experienced the joys and challenges of being a mom. Their stories will also be inspiring to young women exploring the vocation of motherhood and anyone with an interest in saints who were mothers. Each chapter profiles a different holy mother, reflects on a lesson learned in her life, and ends with a prayer through her intercession. While we grow in admiration and devotion to them, these Saintly Moms can help us see the saintly possibilities each one of us possesses. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kelly Ann Guest is a youth minister, contributing blogger at CatholicMom.com, and contributing author for The Catholic Mom’s Prayer Companion. Previously, she was a Dominican Sister of St. Cecilia in Nashville, an education coordinator for a Catholic Charities' program for pregnant teens, a middle school teacher, and a director of religious education. Her most challenging and rewarding calling, though, is as a wife and the mother of ten children.
The Oldest Vocation
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Author : Clarissa W. Atkinson
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2019-03-15
The Oldest Vocation written by Clarissa W. Atkinson and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-15 with History categories.
According to an old story, a woman concealed her sex and ruled as pope for a few years in the ninth century. Pope Joan was not betrayed by a lover or discovered by an enemy; her downfall came when she went into labor during a papal procession through the streets of Rome. From the myth of Joan to the experiences of saints, nuns, and ordinary women, The Oldest Vocation brings to life both the richness and the troubling contradictions of Christian motherhood in medieval Europe. After tracing the roots of medieval ideologies of motherhood in early Christianity, Clarissa W. Atkinson reconstructs the physiological assumptions underlying medieval notions about women's bodies and reproduction; inherited from Greek science and popularized through the practice of midwifery, these assumptions helped shape common beliefs about what mothers were. She then describes the development of "spiritual motherhood" both as a concept emerging out of monastic ideologies in the early Middle Ages and as a reality in the lives of certain remarkable women. Atkinson explores the theological dimensions of medieval motherhood by discussing the cult of the Virgin Mary in twelfth-century art, story, and religious expression. She also offers a fascinating new perspective on the women saints of the later Middle Ages, many of whom were mothers; their lives and cults forged new relationships between maternity and holiness. The Oldest Vocation concludes where most histories of motherhood begin—in early modern Europe, when the family was institutionalized as a center of religious and social organization. Anyone interested in the status of motherhood, or in women's history, the cultural history of the Middle Ages, or the history of religion will want to read this book.
Mother Teresa S Lessons Of Love Secrets Of Sanctity
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Author : Susan Conroy
language : en
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing
Release Date : 2003
Mother Teresa S Lessons Of Love Secrets Of Sanctity written by Susan Conroy and has been published by Our Sunday Visitor Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the summer of 1986, 21-year-old Susan Conroy left her family and friends and headed off to Calcutta, India -- alone -- to assist the Missionaries of Charity. Her goals for this journey were ambitious: "Work alongside Mother Teresa, actively trying to learn her ways of selfless love, devotion, and service". "Grow stronger in my faith". "Grow in appreciation for what I have been given". "Grow in concern for human life". "Carry through life all that I will learn, and share this with others". Now, in a one-of-a-kind, first-person account with never-before-published photographs, Susan Conroy takes you there. "This is a story about how 'all things are possible with God,'" she writes. "It is a treasury of the lessons of love that I learned from Mother Teresa and her beloved poorest of the poor." Book jacket.
The Sanctity Of Home
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Author : Islay Burns
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1853
The Sanctity Of Home written by Islay Burns and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1853 with Christian education of children categories.