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A Testament of Devotion.New York: Harper & Bros. 1941. ISBN 0-06-064361-7; The Eternal Promise ISBN 0-944350-02-X; Thomas Kelly, A Biography, Richard M. Kelly Harper and Row, NY, 1966, Library of Congress no. 66-11486
True Devotion to Mary (1712), by Louis de Montfort; A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (1728), by William Law; The Practice of the Presence of God (1792), by Brother Lawrence; The Christian Year (1827), by John Keble; The Greatest Thing in the World (1889), by Henry Drummond; Streams in the Desert (1925), by L. B. Cowman
Judea, Galilee and neighboring areas at the time of Hosea, Micah, Isaiah and Samuel's prophetic ministries. The oldest forms of devotional literature were manifested as prophecies, particularly before Christ; and were provided under the dictation of the Holy Spirit as a direct communication of God's "future plans".
Dives in misericordia (Latin: Rich in Mercy) is the name of the second encyclical written by Pope John Paul II. [1] It is a modern examination of the role of mercy—both God's mercy, and also the need for human mercy—introducing the biblical parable of the Prodigal Son as a central theme.
Formal references to this devotion first appeared in the 11th and 12th centuries. [20] However, the most significant source for the devotion to the Sacred Heart in its present form was Visitandine Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647–1690), who claimed to have received a series of private revelations from 1673 to 1675.
The Passion Translation (TPT) is a modern English paraphrase of the New Testament, and of an increasing number of books from the Hebrew Bible.The goal of The Passion Translation is "to bring God's eternal truth into a highly readable heart-level expression that causes truth and love to jump out of the text and lodge inside our hearts."
A series of full-page illuminations preceding the Psalms, usually illustrating the Passion story, though some also featured Old Testament narratives. Such images helped to enhance the book's status, and served as aids to contemplation in the practice of personal devotions.
The Greek and Latin New Testament with annotations was the scholarly part of his wider biblical program that included his Paraphrases (from his conviction that the humble and faithful unlearned could be true "theologians") and Patristic editions (from his conviction that even an optimal translation should not be read divorced from the ...