With Burning Hearts: A Meditation on the Eucharistic Life

by Duccio Di Buoninsegna (Illustrator), Henri J.M. Nouwen (Author)

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2016
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Through the Gospel story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus, Henri Nouwen offers a profound understanding of what he calls the Eucharistic life. Like those original dejected disciples, we too come together in our brokenness before God, hear the Word and the profession of faith, and recognise Jesus in the breaking of the bread. But the story continues. Having received this Eucharistic gift, we are called, like the disciples, to go forth in mission to spread the Good News. From mourning to discernment, from invitation to intimacy, and from community to the charge to go forth and bear witness: With Burning Hearts calls us to experience all of this journey, to know that what we celebrate and what we are called to live are one and the same. With illustrations by the great medieval artist, Duccio, this is a book to contemplate and treasure.

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Through the Gospel story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus, Henri Nouwen offers a profound understanding of what he calls the Eucharistic life. Like those original dejected disciples, we too come together in our brokenness before God, hear the Word and the profession of faith, and recognise Jesus in the breaking of the bread. But the story continues. Having received this Eucharistic gift, we are called, like the disciples, to go forth in mission to spread the Good News. From mourning to discernment, from invitation to intimacy, and from community to the charge to go forth and bear witness: With Burning Hearts calls us to experience all of this journey, to know that what we celebrate and what we are called to live are one and the same. With illustrations by the great medieval artist, Duccio, this is a book to contemplate and treasure.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 31 Jul 2016
ISBN 10: 1626982104
ISBN 13: 9781626982109

Author Bio

Henri J. M. Nouwen, one of the most popular spiritual writers, wrote more than forty books, among them the bestselling Out of Solitude. He taught at the University of Notre Dame, as well as Yale and Harvard Universities. From 1986 until his death in 1996, he was part of the L Arche Daybreak community in Toronto, where he shared his life with people with mental disabilities. Duccio di Buoninsegna was an Italian painter, active in the city of Siena in Tuscany, where he was born, in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.