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Robert F. Morneau

Auteur van Ashes to Easter: Lenten Meditations

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Bishop Robert F. Morneau is pastor of Resurrection Parish in Green BAY, Wisconsin, and the auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Green Bay. He is a regular columnist for the diocesan paper, The Compass.

Werken van Robert F. Morneau

Paths to Prayer (1997) 42 exemplaren
Our Father Revisited (1980) 16 exemplaren
The Gift (1995) 15 exemplaren
Discovering God's presence (1980) 14 exemplaren
Lent with Bishop Morneau (2008) 9 exemplaren
A Tale from Paleface Creek (2001) 9 exemplaren
Poems Thrown into the Wind (2003) 6 exemplaren
Meet the Saints (2011) 2 exemplaren

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Geboortedatum
1938-09-10
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
USA
Beroepen
auxiliary bishop (Diocese of Green Bay)
Organisaties
Roman Catholic Church

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To lead a good spiritual life, to know true inner peace, and to abide in God are goals of all Christians. In Spiritual Directions, one of today's most eminent Christian leaders lays out a path toward spiritual maturity. He describes 10 principles of spiritual direction and 10 guidelines for prayer, discernment, and asceticism. He shares a rich understanding of reverence and the primacy of joy, and gives us a series of delightful spiritual exercises for eclectic nomads. Finally the author shares what riches he has found in Quaker spirituality.… (meer)
 
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PendleHillLibrary | Nov 2, 2023 |
I received an ARC copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Having read several books on meditation by Kabat-Zinn, Thich Nhat Hanh and the Dalai Lama I was interested to read a book on Catholic prayer (as a form of meditation) and found it very enlightening both in the similarities as well as the differences between the various authors regarding contemplation, meditation and prayer.

First of all the Morneau’s book manages to be several types of books at once. Much like Kabat-Zinn’s “Wherever You Go, There You Are” and Hahn’s “Peace is Every Step” it is a “how to” guide on methods of prayer, as those books are for meditation. However, the focus is different. While Zinn, the Dalai Lama and Hahn seek to instill inner mindfulness in the individual meditator, Morneau’s focus is outward. Morneau argues that a prayerful life is comprised of two elements, both of which are essential. The internal dialogue with God, and the external interaction with the Church and the liturgy.

The Buddhist, in my limited understanding, argues that all we have is individual perception and that nothing has reality outside of perception (the concept of “nothingness” or “emptiness.”) of that event. In fact, everything is in such a constant state of change (Hahn calls it “interbeing”) that we cannot say that is has one existence. You and I see the same thing but our perceptions are different due to our proximity, the relative dullness or acuity of our senses and intellect, and perhaps time and experience. This makes sense if you think about it. It is like we are sitting around a campfire at night. Reality is a bunch of shadows appearing and reappearing around us. Morneau would reject this as “subjectivism.” For Morneau, reality is the fire itself. He feels that all reality revolves around God (St. Anselm’s “Ultimate Reality”). This also leads him to argue that private prayer or meditation, in and of itself, is not helpful, leads to isolation and is not healthy. Man is a social animal and needs interaction with a community. Celebration of the Liturgy is crucial to development of the complete and happy person. He also, being a member of the Catholic clergy, ties much of what he says with the Roman Catholic Catechism.
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ChrisMcCaffrey | Apr 6, 2021 |

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