The Great Life: Essays on Doctrine and Holiness in Honor of Fr. Ronald Lawler, O.F.M. Cap.
Overview
This collection of essays presents the answer of faith to many questions of our culture.
Father Ronald Lawler, OFM Cap. (1926–2003), was a priest, teacher, author, theologian, catechist, spiritual advisor, and mentor, who lived the great life of faith and encouraged others to join him in loving Christ and his Church. In The Great Life, those who knew and loved Father Lawler honor him by continuing his work of presenting the faith in its fullness and beauty. This collection of essays is not only an invitation to know the faith, but also to love, live, and teach it from the heart of the Church.
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This volume is part of the Catholic Virtue and Holiness Collection (7 vols.). Take a look at the whole collection.
- Addresses issues of faith
- Compiled in honor of Father Ronald Lawler
- Represents perspectives of Catholic clergy, apologists, theologians, and more
- The Church as Mother and Teacher
- Passing On the Faith
- Doctrine and Catechetics
- Confirmation: An Increase and Deepening of Baptismal Grace
- Catechesis for Personal Vocation
- The Paternal Order of Priests: An Open Letter to the Clergy on Their Continuing Education
- Human Dignity: The Heart of Catholic Social Teaching
- Moral Issues, Political Candidates, and the Vocation of Public Service
- The Choice to Homeschool
- “Male and Female He Created Them”: Catechesis on Human Sexuality and Sexual Ethics
- The Biological Justification for Humanae Vitae
- The Logic of Doctrine and the Logic of Catechesis: The Relationship Between the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the General Directory for Catechesis
- The Challenge for Catechesis in the New Evangelization
- Cardinal Wright, Father Lawler, and the Teaching of the Faith
- Catechesis by Example
- Has Christ Only One Church?
- Lessons from a Great Man
Top Highlights
“Christian formation is seen as a progressive but complete configuration to Christ. The Church Fathers called this process the sequela Christi or imitatio Christi: the following or imitation of Christ.” (Page 177)
“Another early writing that has always fascinated me is the Letter to Diognetus, where the author is describing to his friend what Christians are like. He says that they live in the same neighborhoods, speak the same language, dress like everybody else; but they do not kill their babies and they respect the marriage bond. Very quaint indeed. It is a little scary to think that Diognetus’ letter could have been written last week.” (Page 14)
“He ended his presentation with a message of love: ‘The cruelest people in the Church, I think, are those who, hoping to be kind to suffering people today, destroy or neglect (or fail to insist on) the sacred values that are needed to brace ordinary lives.’ Christ is making demands on the hearts of men and women: to faithful love and forgiveness, and generosity. Father Lawler understood that the new law is established through ‘the grace of the Holy Spirit.’ This is the grace that gives men and women power to do with generosity what is necessary for them to do to be good persons at all. He quoted the words of Pope Paul VI in Humanae Vitae: ‘It is an excellent work of Divine Love to lessen in no way the saving law of Christ’ (HV 29).” (Page 155)
“The world is a powerful and attractive teacher, but while it can often give us what we want, it can’t give us what we need. We need God.” (Page 4)
- Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl
- Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap.
- Archbishop Sean O’Malley, OFM Cap.
- Fr. Thomas Weinandy, OFM Cap.
- Katrina Zeno
- Russell Shaw
- Scott Hahn
- Janet Benestad
- Brian Benestad
- Robert George
- Gerard Bradley
- William May
- Evelyn Billings
- John Billings
- Fr. Augustine DiNoia, OP
- Father Kris Stubna
- Patrick Riley
- William Saunders
- Fr. Ronald Lawler
- Robert Lockwood
- Title: The Great Life: Essays on Doctrine and Holiness
- Authors: Michael J. Aquilina, Kenneth M. Ogorek
- Publisher: Emmaus Road
- Print Publication Date: 2005
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Pages: 248
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Catholic Church › Doctrines; Holiness
- Resource ID: LLS:GRTLFSSYSDCTRNH
- Resource Type: Monograph
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