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Hi, I'm Anna. I am seven years old. And sometimes I feel scared. Don't worry--I know how to tell when I am afraid, and I also have a plan to face my fears. If you read this book, you can learn how to face your fears, too! When I Am Afraid is more than an illustrated children's book. It is a tool for parents to help their child deal with fear and anxiety in God's way. Told from the perspective of seven-year-old Anna, the book shares ways children can recognize when they are anxious and equips them with biblical truths that can help them trust in God. Each truth is demonstrated with a story from the life of King David, followed by questions encouraging parents and children to talk about what they learned. Read this book with your children and discover practical tips that will help them--and you--fight fear.

Draws on evidence found in surviving manuscripts to restore friars to their rightful place in the history of English health care.

This volume brings together texts of the twelfth-century Hildegard of Bingen and the early-thirteenth-century Francis of Assisi to represent religious spirituality after the Gregorian Reform and just prior to or simultaneous with the formation of universities in Western Europe. In an extraordinary way, Hildegard embodies monastic theology and spirituality and provides a contrast to the new thing that would be created with the study of theology in the new Aristotelian idiom of the universities. But equally in contrast to the Benedictine Hildegard, the thirteenth century witnessed a renewed enthusiasm for a more literal following of Christ in a life of penitence and poverty. This is a life of dependence, not on a superior and enclosed community but on the compassion of society at large. Francis would join this movement on his own terms, attract a following, and gradually formulate a spirituality that sent signals of the need to reform individual lives and the institutions of the Church. These two authors, then, are not joined here because of any shared similarity but to help illustrate two quite different spiritualities that animated the lively European twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

There were two Bernards of Clairvaux. The first was the genuine Bernard who lived from 1090 to 1153, and wrote letters, sermons, and treatises that are of major consequence in the history of the twelfth century. The second is a host of writers, most of whom have not been identified, who wrote treatises attributed to the genuine Bernard, but that were not from his pen. This volume, the first complete translation in more than three hundred years, presents one of the most important texts in the history of medieval Latin spirituality. Written between 1170 and 1190 by an unidentified Cistercian monk-priest, Meditationes piisimae, "Very Devout Meditations," became one of the most popular and widely distributed pieces of spiritual literature in the whole of the Middle Ages. The work survives in at least 670 manuscripts, with the complete English translation of the treatise published in 1701.

St. Gerasimos is a wonder-working saint whose relics have remained incorrupt for nearly 500 years after his falling asleep! His relics are on the island of Kefalonia, on the western shore of Greece, where he founded a women's monastery.The holy hierarch, Saint Dionysius, who was born and reared on Zakynthos, was the son of pious and wealthy parents, Mocius and Paulina by name. In his youth he entered the ancient monastery of the Strophada Islands, which lie south of Zakynthos, and there he donned the monastic habit. Later, he was appointed Archbishop of Aegina, and adorned its throne for a considerable time. Thereafter he returned to his homeland. One incident in his life especially reveals to what virtue he attained. A man came to him in desperation, witnessing that he had committed a murder, and was being pursued by the slain man's family. He asked Saint Dionysius to give him refuge. The Saint agreed to this, upon learning that it was his own brother whom the man had slain, he said nothing, but concealing the agony of his grief, hid him. When the Saint's kinsmen arrived at the monastery, he told them that the Murderer had gone by such and such a way. When they had departed, he admonished the man concerning the gravity of his sin, instructed him in repentance, and sent him off in peace having forgiven him his brother's murder. According to local tradition, this man later returned and became a monk at this same monastery. Saint Dionysius reposed in peace in 1621, leaving behind his sacred and incorrupt relics as a treasure for his fellow citizens.

What are the success criteria of innovative Church work? How can local Church communities get more vital? And, how can innovative Church projects contribute to system change?These are the questions posed by the Space for Grace programme, which identifies, supports and evaluates innovation in the Church through its funding programme in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany since 2019. This book presents the insights of the programme as well as concrete learnings on innovation and system change. It intends to inspire more volunteers and pastoral workers to join the journey to new forms of Church.The publication of the programme presents, from a cross-national perspective, examples of effective church innovation projects and identifies success criteria for innovative Church work. The learning from the evaluation of the Space for Grace programme contributes to systemic change by encouraging, supporting and improving new ways and ideas in church work.This publication is designed for pastoral innovators whose work inspired this book, for people who are at the brink of joining this movement of pastoral innovation to whom this book can offer support, for the multipliers and church leaders who shape the organisational structure for church innovation, and for all those interested in the social discourse on prosocial innovation.

Little is known of her early life. Neither the dates of her birth nor of her death are known. Her birth is believed to have been about 1731 and her death about 1803.The wife of Colonel Andrei Feodorovich Petrov, who served as a court chorister, Xenia fell into great grief upon the death of her husband when she was 26 years old. Appearing to have lost her mind from her grief, Xenia distributed her possessions to the poor, and keeping and dressing only in the clothes of her husband she wandered the streets of St Petersburg among the paupers. She called herself by her husband's name: Andrei Feodorovich. Her life was centered on God, seeking protection and comfort only in Him. During the nights, she refused refuge and went into the fields where she prayed through the nights.When relatives of Xenia tried to help her with necessities she replied , "I do not need anything." The people of St. Petersburg came to love her as she placed the Kingdom of Heaven before earthly possessions. The people considered her presence in their homes as good signs. Her acceptance of services and bread from merchants, however small, brought them great sales as their customers, who loved the saintly Xenia, frequented those who helped her.Xenia possessed the gift of clairvoyance. She foretold the deaths of the Empress Elizabeth, in 1761, and of the imprisoned John IV Antonovich, the great-great-grandson of Tsar Alexis, in 1764. After her death her grave became a place of pilgrimage. Portions of the dirt from her grave brought healing for many of the pilgrims.

Have you ever wondered if God hears or answers the prayers of children? Is having a close relationship with God at a young age possible? The answers are yes, yes, and yes! You can have a close relationship with God at any age! In this book, I refer to God as Abba, a super affectionate name for Daddy. In the next seven days, I will show how Abba is a protecting, encouraging, and loving Father. Through the I Am prayers and statements; you will better understand who Abba says you are and what He says you can do. Grab a grown-up to take on this exciting seven-day journey with you. You can do this! Start by saying, " I AM!"

Empowering the Children Ministry is a practical tool who will let children leaders Ministry to bring the word of God in a funny and objective way for the kids, because of the variety of the stories and the originality what offer each script is going to get the child to understand perfectly the Bible story and all details around it because each line of the script is set up to the kids can get how the God's Kingdom works because each script is wrote with simple words for 3 to 10 age for they can understand the message, and inside the story always is Jesus presented like our Savior and the characters of the story are explained super easy, Iso Zapata: is Leader of the Student Ministry of Theater at Tabernacle of God Church, in Tampa Florida. Her passion is to write stories containing a word of salvation for children, through puppet theater. She is also passionate about mentoring the call that children have from the Lord and empowering them with strategies that the Lord has given her to be Servants/Actors of excellence. He loves to teach and preach to children the word of God. Radically defends the conviction that if the child is instructed from an early age in the word of God, the child will grow up being a mentally healthy and productive person for society, because he will be trained to make wise decisions in life. She is a wife and mother; she practices cycling in the middle of nature and enjoys long walks inside the trees and cooking healthy dishes.