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Resisting Happiness, by Matthew Kelly. Beacon Publishing. 2016.
Another page turner from Matthew Kelly to engage readers to broaden their appreciation of the faith of Jesus Christ and their every-day life! A note on the cover reads: “A true story about why we sabotage ourselves, feel overwhelmed, set aside our dreams, and lack the courage to simply be ourselves…and how to start choosing happiness again.” Several pastors in this area
have chosen to give this book as a gift to parishioners at Christmas time and encourage the folks to use it as a group study/reflection book. The short chapters, well captioned and interesting, offer surprises and exciting results to the readers.
One of the last chapters caught my eye; it is called ‘When God Looks at a
Resume’. Readers will find a surprise response. What is God looking for? Availability!!! How available to God are you at this time in your life?
Other chapters are entitled: Your quest for happiness, Life is messy, Get busy living, Making sense of everything, Living soulfully, Falling in love, Are you a pilgrim or a
tourist, Made for mission, Blessed and grateful. Almost every chapter will have something new for he readers.
Happy Traveling!
Thanks to Sr. Irene Hartman, OP for this review.
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St. Irenaeus: (130-202). June 28.
The Church is fortunate that Irenaeus was
involved in many of its controversies in the second century. He was a student, well trained no doubt, with great patience in investigating, tremendously protective of apostolic teaching, but prompted more by a desire to win over his opponents than to prove them in error.
As bishop of Lyons he was especially concerned with the Gnostics, who took their name from the Greek word for
“knowledge.” Claiming access to secret knowledge imparted by Jesus to only a few disciples, their teaching was attracting and confusing many Christians. After thoroughly investigating the various Gnostic sects and their “secret,” Irenaeus showed to what logical conclusions their tenets led. These he contrasted with the teaching of the apostles and the text of Holy Scripture, giving us, in five books, a system of theology of great importance to subsequent times. Moreover, his work, widely used
and translated into Latin and Armenian, gradually ended the influence of the Gnostics.
The circumstances and details about his death, like those of his birth and early life in Asia Minor, are not at all clear.
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