UNDERSTANDING SELF-HARM
Joan Freeman
Understanding Self-Harm is a guide for parents, teachers, therapists or anyone who lives with, supports or provides therapy for people who self-harm. This book blows away the stigma and myths that are attached to this distressing behaviour. It explains fully and comprehensively what self-harm is really about and includes a step-by-step section on how people who self-harm should and can be supported and helped.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joan Freeman set up Pieta House due to a lack of services in the area of self-harm. She is a member of the Irish Association of Suicidology, the Psychological Society of Ireland and the British Psychological Society. She lives in Dublin.
BIOETHICS AND THE CATHOLIC MORAL TRADITION
Rev. Dr Pádraig Corkery
This is a user-friendly presentation of the approach and conclusions of the Catholic moral tradition in relation to contemporary issues in bioethics. Providing questions to facilitate further reflection and group discussion, Pádraig Corkery draws on his experience of teaching bioethics at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and favours a less technical approach to the subject. This is an accessible book addressing the ethical issues that arise from developments in science and medicine.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Pádraig Corkery is Head of the Department of Moral Theology and Dean of the Faculty of Theology in Pontifical University, Maynooth. He is the author of Companion to the Compendium of Catholic Social Doctrine (Veritas, 2007).
HEART SPEAKS TO HEART THE STORY OF BLESSED JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
Dermot Mansfield SJ
Dermot Mansfield presents a clear and vivid account of the life of John Henry Newman, a man who was subject to much misunderstanding and suspicion in the Catholic Church. ‘Heart speaks to heart’, the motto he chose when made a cardinal late in life, shows that his whole life was interwoven with a range of people, high and low, both Anglican and Catholic. This book offers a fresh perspective on Newman’s life, with contemporary Church issues and questions of faith and unbelief never far from mind.
Ultimately, though, it is Newman’s extraordinary care for truth that is apparent throughout. This being the year of Newman’s beatification by Pope Benedict XVI, it is a timely book that tells in a meaningful way the story of his long life.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dermot Mansfield SJ has worked mainly in the field of spiritual direction and retreats in Ireland, the UK, Canada and Nigeria. He was also involved in the training and formation of spiritual directors in Ireland, and lectures in the Graduate Spirituality Programme at Milltown Institute, Dublin.
IN THE SECRET OF MY HEART MOMENTS OF STILLNESS IN THE HEART OF CHRIST
Anna Burke
In the Secret of My Heart honours the Sacred Heart of Jesus, not only as a traditional icon, but as a timeless inspiration for all who seek God. Through the lens of scripture, Sr Anna Burke remembers how Jesus revealed knowledge of God as ultimately a heart experience.
Encouraged by the encyclical Deus caritas est and Pope Benedict’s exploration of love as that which most surely reveals God, the book revisits a timeless symbol of the divine identity, revealing that it is ultimately to a loving God that we turn for light in darkness, for meaning in life.
Sr Anna Burke shows us that Jesus is the experience of God, and the gift of Jesus in human history is most deeply understood in the secret of the heart.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anna Burke RSM taught for ten years in Palm Bay, Florida, and for seven years in Lundazi, Zambia. She was also school chaplain for six years in Carrick-on-Shannon. She is currently involved in Adult Faith Development with a speci§ c interest in liturgy and scripture. Her previous publications include Sacred the Hour: The Rosary Story in Mystery (Veritas, 2007), Where Blessings Flow: Words of Glory and Thanks (Veritas, 2008), and When Silence Falls: The Stations of the Cross (Veritas, 2008).
MARTHE ROBIN
A Prophetic Vision of the Gospel Message
Bernard Peyrous; translated by Kathryn Spink
Marthe Robin is one of the most intriguing figures of the twentieth century. Born into a peasant family in a remote French village, by the age of eighteen she was confined to bed in a state of paralysis and by thirty-eight she was blind. Throughout her life, she received over 100,000 visitors, ranging from Church leaders and prominent intellectuals to farmers and school children, all seeking and receiving consolation, prayerful support and counsel.
Her own identification with Jesus was so intense that she bore on her body the marks of his wounds and every Friday for many years experienced the Passion of Christ. However, she was no ‘holier-than-thou’ mystic and insisted on her own ordinariness. Her courage and wisdom despite her suffering are an inspiration.
This book, based on Bernard Peyrous’ uniquely comprehensive knowledge of Marthe Robin’s writings and the testimonies gathered for her beatification cause, traces not only her life and spiritual journey, but also the growth of the initial community she founded (Foyer of Charity) and of others born from it throughout the world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND TRANSLATOR
Bernard Peyrous, priest, doctor of letters and member of the Emmanuel Community, is an authority on the history of spirituality and the postulator for the cause for beatification of Marthe Robin. He was helped in the writing of this book by Marie-Thérèse Gill, vice-postulator and a member of the Foyer of Charity.
Kathryn Spink, author of numerous spiritual biographies, is the translator of Jean Vanier’s Made for Happiness, as well as many of Dominique Lapierre’s books.
O COME, LET US ADORE
Exploring the Crib at Christmas
Christopher Hayden
This enchanting book is a boost and a tonic for the faith we celebrate at Christmas time. Christopher Hayden shows us how immensely relevant, practical and challenging our Christmas faith is. Carefully setting the stage for the birth of the Saviour, he gradually populates the crib with all its different characters, explaining the significance of each one. Each chapter concludes with some ‘points to ponder’, making this an ideal book for preachers, as well as for prayers. The book combines sensitivity to the concerns of biblical scholarship with a popular approach style. It is intended to help people enter prayerfully and reflectively into the spirit of Christmas.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Christopher Hayden is a priest of the Diocese of Ferns, currently serving as Spiritual Director in Rome’s Irish Seminary, the Pontifical Irish College. He was ordained a priest in 1991, and since then has served in both urban and rural parishes and in seminary teaching positions. In 2008, he completed his PhD in New Testament studies at the Milltown Institute, Dublin.
OUR FAMILY MASS RESOURCES FOR THE FAMILY SUNDAY LITURGY
Bernadette Sweetman
Drawing on her experience as a primary school teacher and parent, as well as her academic work in Religious Education, Bernadette Sweetman gives us a comprehensive collection of ready-to-go Liturgies of the Word. This resource is beneficial for all parishes, whether they would like to set up a Family Liturgy, or wish to refresh one already in place.
Our Family Mass is the only Irish-based resource book of the Liturgy of the Word for children. It offers useful material that can be incorporated into liturgies involving children, such as dramatisations of the gospels and visual aids. This invaluable resource is suffused with strong home-school- parish links and all materials are presented in a manner that is meaningful, relevant and inspiring to families with children of all ages.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bernadette Sweetman trained as a primary school teacher and is currently on a career break from St Colmcille’s BNS, Swords. She holds a First Class Masters in Religious Education (Primary) and lives in Co. Dublin with her husband, Dave, and daughter, Annie.
PARISH PASTORAL COUNCILS
A Formation Manual
Debra Snoddy, Jim Campbell and Andrew McNally
A useful manual for the formation of a parish pastoral council
This is a ‘how-to-do-it’ workbook that lays out the necessary steps for forming, enabling and sustaining a parish pastoral council. It moves from introducing the concept of a parish pastoral council to its formation and planning, and on to its first few years of activity. The book provides detailed step-by-step procedures, which can be easily adapted to any parish situation. These procedures are further detailed on an accompanying CD, which provides visual aids and kick-off points for discussion. While other books on parish pastoral councils focus on the theory, this book is simply about getting it done. The focus is practicable and singular: to form a parish pastoral council with sufficient knowledge and training to get some ‘real’ work done for the good of all in the parish community.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Debra Snoddy is a full-time lecturer in Biblical Studies and is Chair of the Continuing Education Committee for the School of Adult and Community Learning at All Hallows College, Dublin. Debra has worked for the Archdiocese of Armagh, where she concentrated on creating and implementing a programme for the development of parish pastoral councils. She is a graduate of NUI Maynooth and has completed post-graduate studies in Louvain, Belgium.
Jim Campbell has been a member of the staff of the Institute of Cultural Affairs since it began in 1972. He is widely experienced in facilitation, training and locally based development work. Jim currently teaches a suite of facilitation courses at All Hallows College, several of which are accredited in an academic degree programme. Jim also does process consulting work with numerous organisations, helping them to plan and deal with complex organisational issues and manage change.
Andrew McNally works as a priest in the Archdiocese of Armagh, where he has served as a curate, Diocesan Adviser for Religious Education and as Director of Pastoral Renewal and Family Ministry. He has a licence in theology from the Gregorian University in Rome and an MEd from Boston College. In his present role, he has been involved in the formation and maintenance of parish pastoral councils, the development of diocesan pastoral plans and the establishment of pastoral areas and adult faith development.
PRAYERS FOR GRANDPARENTS
Catherine Wiley (editor)
Celebrating our Grandparents
From when we were very young our grandparents have watched over us and showered us with love. They have laughed with us, cried with us, and prayed with us. Can we ever thank them enough? The Catholic Grandparents Association, set up in 2007, wants to say thanks. The Association appealed to the children of Ireland to write a prayer especially for their grandparents, to thank them, honour them, and remember them if they have passed on. These beautiful prayers poured out love and affection for grandparents, alive and deceased. This very successful appeal resulted in hundreds of submissions nationwide. A selection of these prayers now appears in this publication.
A wonderful gift for any grandparent, Prayers for Grandparents treasures these most special of people and the most special of roles they play in our lives.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
The Catholic Grandparents Association was set up by Catherine Wiley, and for the past two years in September has hosted the increasingly popular National Grandparents Pilgrimage in Knock, Co. Mayo. The mission of the CGA is to pass on the faith from grandparents to grandchildren. Catherine Wiley is a native of Castlebar, Co. Mayo, and now lives at Murrisk, Co. Mayo. She is married to Stewart, and is a grandmother of ten.
RESOLVING BEREAVEMENT
Fiona McAuslan and Peter Nicholson
A new book in The Resolving Series: Resolving Bullying, Resolving Anger and Resolving Sibling Rivalry
Death is something we all must experience as a part of life, even children, and this book helps them to deal with the acute loss and strong emotions that result from the death of a loved one. It is aimed at children (aged six to twelve), their parents/guardians, teachers and professionals who support children during times of bereavement.
The story focuses on how loss affects Joe and Lisa in different ways, but how they both find support and learn how to talk about their feelings. They begin to regain confidence and learn how to be happy again. The story will help children understand and deal with grief and all the emotions that come with it, such as isolation, anger, depression, guilt, fear and insecurity.
The book also has a very useful toolbox section, with tips, games and information to help children put into practice what they have learned from the book. It is also supported by a website, which has additional material available for download for both children and parents.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Fiona McAuslan holds a Masters in Mediation and Conflict Resolution Studies from University College Dublin. She is an experienced mediator and conflict coach with many years’ experience working with family, workplace and school conflicts. She works in the Irish Family Mediation Service and Clanwilliam Institute and is an accredited Practitioner Mediator with the Mediators Institute of Ireland. Fiona has published the S.A.L.T. Programme: A Confl ict Resolution Education Programme for Primary Schools. She lives in North County Dublin with her husband, Michael, and two children, Sarah and Ben.
Peter Nicholson is a communications specialist and has built a very successful Marketing and Visual Communications Business over the last fifteen years. Peter and Fiona met whilst working on the S.A.L.T. programme and they have continued to work together on many other projects. He is married to Karen and they have two children, Patrick and Ailish.
SEASONS OF LIGHT
A Collection of Haiku
Dermot O’Brien
Dermot O’Brien invites the reader into a world of beauty through the delicate medium of haiku. A humble form of poetry, haiku, although short in length, are sublime in content. For a poetic form that is so often exclusively associated with Japan, Dermot O’Brien guides the reader effortlessly to a more familiar territory – Ireland.
In place of cherry blossoms, cranes and Kyoto, we are delighted by furze, cormorants and ‘a swan above the Slaney’. Haiku are an expression of nature and life in the purest possible form, and this collection is Dermot O’Brien’s attempt to say, in simple language, what it is like to be alive in this world and its promise of the next.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dermot O’Brien was born in Dublin and has lived in England and Spain. Having found inspiration in the poetry of Matsuo Basho, he has been writing and publishing haiku for many years, including Small World: Haiku on the Way (Veritas, 2004). He currently resides in Wexford.
SENDING OUT ROOTS
Helping Parents and Teachers to Share the Faith
Carole M. Eipers
Catechesis for Parents and Teachers
This is a book written for parents and teachers to help them see the ways they already share faith with their children and suggesting new ways they also might like to try. It affirms the holiness of family life and the teaching ministries, and calls those engaged in these vocations to recognise and enhance what they do, in their own living of the faith and in their sharing and teaching of that faith.
Carole M. Eipers reflects on scripture and the documents of the Church, particularly the six dimensions of faith formation in the General Directory of Catechesis, which set forth a vision for catechesis. Drawing on her forty years’ experience as a parent and catechist, Carole further illuminates this vision with her own stories and anecdotes.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr Carole M. Eipers is Vice President and Executive Director of Catechetics for William H. Sadlier, Inc. She served in parish ministries for over twenty years as a teacher, Director of Religious Education, Youth Minister and Pastoral Associate. Carole was Director of the Office for Catechesis for the Archdiocese of Chicago for nine years and served as President of the National Conference of Catechetical Leadership. She has written and presented for national and international groups in the area of catechetics and holds a Master of Pastoral Studies degree from Loyola University, Chicago, and a Doctor of Ministry degree from the Graduate Theological Foundation, Indiana.
LITURGICAL CALENDAR FOR IRELAND 2010
Edited by Fr Paddy Jones
The essential guide to the Church’s daily round of prayer
The Liturgical Calendar for Ireland is the essential guide to the Church’s daily round of prayer. It provides not only the basic rules for celebrating the liturgy, but also notes and commentaries for a deeper understanding of the liturgical celebrations.
COPING WITH A RELATIVE’S ADDICTION
Northlands Centre
A no-nonsense guide for those who are affected by the addiction of a loved one
Written for those who are affected by the addiction of a loved one, this book sets out the complex realities of dependency by looking at how addiction can become the whole family’s illness. It is a no-nonsense guide to where your responsibilities lie when a partner, parent or child is dependent, detailing the emotional and practical dilemmas these situations can demand. Relatives will find knowledge, understanding, reassurance and practical advice throughout this book, regardless of the stage of addiction or recovery their loved one is at.
Through the many years’ experience of the Northlands Centre, evident in particular in the helpful case studies, this book shows families what they can do in the midst of this confusing and damaging situation. Above all, however, it offers hope: families need, and can achieve, their recovery too.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Over thirty years ago, Northlands became the first community-based, independent treatment centre in Ireland and the first small unit to take the treatment of alcohol problems out of the mental health setting. Since then it has been helping individuals, families and communities to understand and deal with the many issues that contribute to problems with alcohol, drugs, gambling and other addictive behaviours. Northlands has always had a strong ethos of working not only with the addicted person, but also with those who are involved in their lives.
UNDERSTANDING SCHOOL BULLYING
A Guide for Parents and Teachers
Mona O’Moore
An examination of school bullying and the many forms it takes
This book provides a rich understanding of school bullying and the many forms it takes. The reader will be left in no doubt as to the serious consequences of bullying for the victims, the bullies and, indeed, society. The book places a strong emphasis on prevention and intervention at primary, secondary and tertiary level. Crucial and practical steps are provided, especially for parents and teachers, as to how they can make a real difference in reducing the widespread and serious level of victimisation and bullying in our schools today.
This book is unique in its recommendations for best practice, which draw not only on the most up-todate research, but also on the author’s many years of professional experience of working with children, parents and teachers. It is designed for anyone who wishes to gain an understanding of bullying in a clear and concise manner and promotes a whole school community approach to bullying, which has recently been proven to be the most effective method in decreasing school bullying.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr Mona O’Moore is the Founder and Director of the Anti-Bullying Research Centre in the School of Education in Trinity College Dublin, the first of its kind in Ireland. She is Associate Professor of Education and a graduate and fellow of Trinity College Dublin, with an MA in Child and Educational Psychology from the University of Nottingham and a PhD in Psychology from the University of Edinburgh. Dr O’Moore has written widely on the subject of bullying, including Dealing with Bullying in Schools: A Training Manual for Teachers, Parents and Other Professionals (Sage Publications Ltd, 2004) and Inclusion or Illusion?: Educational Provision for Primary School Children with Mild General Learning Disabilities (Blackhall Publishing Ltd, 2009).