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NEW CHRIST: DIVINE FILIATION
By Fr. Charles Anang
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Christians are likely to be unaware of the profound depths of their identity and sublime destiny. By Baptism, the Christian has become the temple of the indwelling Holy Spirit, so as to share in Christ's sonship of the Father …
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NEW CHRIST: PRIESTLY CONFIGURATION
By Fr. Charles Anang
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The Holy Spirit descends, so to speak, to transubstantiate the priest into “another Christ, Christ Himself.” This configuration to Christ with His powers at Ordination must lead to an intimate friendship with Him (“I call you friends,” Jn 15:15) for an interior substitution (“Christ lives in me,” Gal 2:20)— the lack of which holiness is the ultimate root of all the Church’s crises …
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NEW EVANGELIZATION: STARTING ANEW FROM CHRIST
By Fr. Charles Anang
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Pope John Paul II, guided by inspiration, called for a new evangelization with a new Pentecost and a new springtime. This new evangelization, beyond band-aid solutions or addressing external elements, entails a renewal of the foundations in the path of the early Church— with a rekindling by the fire of the Holy Spirit and a return to the original kerygma …
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MYSTICAL INCARNATION: “YOU ARE MY SON, THE BELOVED”
By Fr. Charles Anang
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The Christian goal is to fulfill the desire of Jesus’ heart, “I came to cast fire [Spirit] upon the earth,” for mystical incarnation into “another Christ, Christ himself.” But this transformation into Christ is for the ultimate goal of sharing in His sonship, so that we too can hear the Father‘s loving words, “You are my Son, the Beloved.” …
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WON BY THE DIVINE EAGLE: MYSTICAL UNION IN HOMILIES, TALKS, AIDS, & COUNSELS
By Fr. Charles Anang
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The reference to “Eagle” (Won by the Divine Eagle) was initially inspired by J.-P. de Caussade’s “Let us soar like an eagle above these clouds, with our eyes fixed on the sun...” But the main inspiration derives from the heart of St. Thérèse. For many strive for holiness through various acts of prayer, mortification, and charity …
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WON BY THE DIVINE EAGLE: MORE HOMILIES, TALKS, AIDS, & COUNSELS
By Fr. Charles Anang
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This book found its original inspiration from St. Thérèse, who having been Won by the Divine Eagle, surrendered to divine Love and now leads souls to Christ: There is only one thing for Thérèse to do; to offer herself as a holocaust to this Love, to let herself be won and carried off by the “eternal Eagle,” to fly “on the winds of the divine Eagle to the eternal furnace in the bosom of the blessed Trinity” …
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UNITIVE STAGE: LIVE JESUS
By Fr. Charles Anang
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“We have ceased to be contagious” may characterize our times, as Catholics seem to be increasingly abandoning the practice of the faith. One diagnosis is that, in various dimensions of the faith (e.g., holiness, evangelization, liturgy), the Church’s response has been to work at the Ascetical Stage (“our living in God”) without ascending to the Unitive Stage of Mansions 5-7 (“God living in us”), at which the Spirit takes over powerfully …
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Holy Spirit’s Renewal in Christ
By Fr. Charles Anang
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Authoritative commentators have discerned a crisis in the Church. This book takes the inside-out path of renewal for reform. Its thesis is that the Holy Spirit has a renewal plan in place, that is spearheaded by John Paul II and centered around a new Pentecost, evangelization, and springtime...
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The Child and the Cross in Church Renewal
By Fr. Charles Anang
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The reader might ask: you have presented in Holy Spirit’s Renewal in Christ the need and the program for renewal, how can I concretely engage in Church renewal? This book is a response, through two key coordinates: Jesus’ filial abandonment before the Father (His heart) and His cross, culminating at Calvary (His path).
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Mystical Union in the Trinity
By Fr. Charles Anang
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The author, while praying over St. John of the Cross’ The Living Flame of Love and reading von Balthasar’s Theodrama III, felt inspired to make notes. The result was another manuscript, completed in three weeks.
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Christ Crucified Draws All to the Father
By Fr. Charles Anang
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The author was inspired to collect syntheses he had made for courses. The book’s title, Christ Crucified Draws all to the Father, is a variation of Christ’s allusion to the victory of the cross, “I will draw all to myself.”
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A Glimpse of Adrienne von Speyr’s Works
By Fr. Charles Anang
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The author was reading the works of Adrienne von Speyr and felt moved to make some summaries as he did so. Then the inspiration came to put together this material to introduce Christians to her works. Though he has read them out of interest, he attempts this because little research has been done…
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Sacraments: Mystical and Pastoral Dimensions
By Fr. Charles Anang
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While the author was teaching a course on Sacraments II (Confession, Anointing, Holy Orders, Marriage), it came to mind to put together notes on all seven sacraments for laity, who are often unfamiliar with the general sense as well as particular aspects of the sacraments. An example of this is the ignorance of the many graces gives in Confession that also enable us to attain holiness, or how Christ accompanies the couple in Marriage, or why the Church teaches that the Anointing of the Sick is primarily for the seriously ill and not the dying.
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Priestly Spirituality and Renewal
By Fr. Charles Anang
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This book presupposes that there is a crisis in the Church in general and the priesthood in particular that requires massive renewal in the scale of the Catholic Reformation. In this Preface, we reproduce elements found in Holy Spirit’s Renewal in Christ. Thus, while the theme of this book is “priestly renewal,” we are setting it within the horizon of the need for massive renewal due to a critical crisis in the Church.
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Spirituality in the Catholic Tradition
By Fr. Charles Anang
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The book depicts the trajectory of two millennia of the spirituality of the Church. It delineates 4 eras. Part I (Patristic-Early Middle Ages): Church Fathers and Augustine; Monasticism in the East and West. Part II (Middle Ages): Mendicant Orders (Dominic, Thomas, Francis); Catherine; Teresa and John; Ignatius. Part III (Modern era): F. de Sales; J.-P. de Caussade; Therese. Part IV (Contemporary era): mystics (Conchita, Elizabeth, Dina, Francisca, Newman); 3 lay charisms (Escrivá, Giussani, Lubich); von Balthasar's key Marian principle for the Church. It differs from Jordan Aumann's Christian Spirituality (from which excerpts are drawn) in developing selected key figures.
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The Call to Be Nazareth Mystics
By Fr. Charles Anang
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A Crisis of Nazareth Mystics in the Path of St. Thérèse
There is a crisis in our times that George Weigel and St. Josemaria Escriva call a “crisis of saints.” We sense that this is somewhat generic because many devout Catholics confuse sanctity with fidelity and generosity. We changed the original tentative title of this book from The Call to Holiness as Attainable to The Call to be Nazareth Mystics. A fuller title could be The Call to be Nazareth Mystics in the Path of St. Thérèse.
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A Mariology Primer
By Fr. Charles Anang
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After teaching an abbreviated Mariology course, the author was moved to inscribe the course along with additional material on Mariology into a book. This follows his pattern of recently inscribing three other courses (Sacraments, Priesthood, Spirituality of Catholic Tradition) as textbooks for theology students but also for Catholics at large.
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A Primer on Ecclesiology
By Fr. Charles Anang
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The author felt moved to begin transcribing into books the theology courses he had taught, that are in fact based on Bishop Attila Miklósházy’s lecture handouts. Miklósházy himself had published only a 5-volume work (The Origin and Development of Christian Liturgy) and a smaller work (Benedicamus Domino!), both on the liturgy, and we felt that his extensive lecture handouts merited being published as well, here on Ecclesiology.
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A Primer on Grace and Glory
By Fr. Charles Anang
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The author felt moved to transcribe yet another of the theology courses he had taught that are based on Attila Miklósházy notes. Bishop Miklósházy had published a 5-volume work on the liturgy but not his extensive lecture handouts, here of “Grace and Glory” (Parts I, II), the second half of Theological Anthropology.
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A Primer on Creation, Anthropology, Sin
By Fr. Charles Anang
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This book is part of the author’s project to compile his theology courses into books, that are based on Attila Miklósházy notes. Miklósházy had given the author his handouts and permission to use them at will. As these are largely handouts from Miklósházy’s courses, they are not intended as erudite specialist works but primers for students or introductions for lay persons.
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A Primer on Christology
By Fr. Charles Anang
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The author felt moved to begin transcribing into books the theology courses he had taught, that are in fact based on Bishop Attila Miklósházy’s lecture handouts. Miklósházy himself had published only a 5-volume work (The Origin and Development of Christian Liturgy) and a smaller work (Benedicamus Domino!), both on the liturgy, and we felt that his extensive lecture handouts merited being published as well, here on Ecclesiology.
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Theological Integration I: Foundations, Creation, Anthropology
By Fr. Charles Anang
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The author for several years taught the comprehensive exam to the graduating seminarians (and lay persons), which covers the entire array of Dogmatic (Systematic) Theology, 19 domains altogether (not unlike the comprehensive exam for those graduating from Rome’s Gregorian University, though with individual professors covering each domain). He decided to transcribe this course, identifying two critical pivotal pillars for each domain, e.g., within Mariology, the four Marian dogmas and von Balthasar’s Marian principle.
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Theological Integration II: Trinity, Church, Mary, Glory
By Fr. Charles Anang
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The author, for several years, taught the comprehensive exam for the graduating seminarians (and several lay persons), which covers the entire array of Dogmatic Theology domains, 19 altogether (not unlike the one-semester comprehensive exam course for those graduating from the Gregorian University’s Licentiate degree in Rome). The author decided to publish this course, employing two pivotal pillars within each domain for synthesis.
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Theological Integration III: Sacraments, Grace
By Fr. Charles Anang
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The author, for several years, taught the comprehensive exam for the graduating seminarians (and occasional lay persons), which covers the entire array of Dogmatic Theology domains, 19 altogether (not unlike the one-semester comprehensive exam course for those graduating from the Gregorian University’s Licentiate degree in Rome). The author decided to transcribe this course, employing two pivotal pillars inscribed in two-part questions for each domain as synthesis.
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OUR EYES ARE FIXED ON JESUS
Autobiography or Salvation-History of a Hungarian Jesuit Attila Miklósházy, S.J.
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The harrowing experience of living under Nazi and Communist totalitarian regimes, that forged the spirit of K. Wojtyla, S. Wyszynski, and J. Mindszenty, also configured the soul of the young Attila Miklósházy: given up for dead at four, the shooting death of his father who died in his arms, his courageous valedictorian speech in favour of freedom and love of country for which he was arrested …
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