COLOMBIA
PHILOSOPHY
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LIFE AND PHILOSOPHY
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192
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978-958-768-134-5
The project of renovating the linkage between science and life progressively became a question regarding how the facto life, by means of a transformation operated within and on itself, progressively turns into philosophical life. This current work is an effort to shed light on these issues, from the starting point of the genealogy in Heidegger’s thought during his first seminars in Freiburg until the publishing of his masterpiece, Being and Time.
Germán Darío Vélez Lópezis. PhD in Contemporary Philosophy, Paris 1 University. MA in Social Sciences, University of Antioquia, as well as BA in Philosophy and Arts, PontificiaUniversidad Bolivariana. Some of his essays have been published in national and foreign journals.
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THE POETIC CHARACTER AND LIFE
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152
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978-958-768-210-6
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In this volume, with the resort to the methodological principles of PHENOMENO LOGY, it can be found an approach to the understanding of human experience in the Life World from the reflection and study of the aesthetic work as the original source of the poetic dimension as the legitimate place for the occurrence of being in the historical and cultural scope.
Carlos Arturo Guevara is PhD in Education, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional. Currently, he works as a lecturer in the Education’s Undergraduate and Doctorate programs, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. Some titles among his work: The Life World: Latin American Literature and Formation as Spiritual and Historical Path: Latin America.
PSYCHOLOGY
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CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY. AN EXISTENTIALPHENOMENOLOGICAL-HERMENEUTICAL APPROACH
Format: 14x21 Pages: 80 ISBN: 978-958-768-112-3
This text intends to search for similarities between different proposals or models for clinical intervention. In the book, the existentialist, phenomenological, and hermeneutical features of clinical approaching –in general– and of existential analysis or logo therapy –particularly– are presented.
José Arturo Luna Vargas. Psychologist from the Universidad Nacional of Colombia; Specialist in drug addiction problems ISS, Rome, Italy. MA in Theory and Practice of Prosocial Behavior and Logo therapy Application, Universidad Autónoma of Barcelona, Spain. Inventor of the Existential Dialogue Circles (CDE in Spanish) technique to face loneliness and depression problems.
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GUILT AND CRIME
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280
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978-958-768-210-6
This book deals with losing the sense of guilt and the absence of guilt as the result of the repealing of morals, which already implies a de-humanized being. In this dehumanization, the human being returns to the primitive states of permanent fear and constant aggression, and to the rapid increase of mental illnesses.
Elkin Villegas. Psychoanalysis assistant. MA in Philosophy (ENG), Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. MA (NG) in Social Sciences: Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Social Ties, Universidad of Antioquia. Social Psychologist (UNAD). BA in Education: History and Philosophy, Universidad of Antioquia.
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THEOLOGY
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DOES GOD TOLERATE INJUSTICE?
Format: 17x24 Pages:
112
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9789-958-768-1383
This work consists of an analysis of one of the texts in the Book of Job (24, 1-12), clearly presenting a harsh description of the social reality of his time in the form of a brave statement against the injustice presented in such reality. A biblical passage which still has nowadays so much to teach about social structures and their concordance or mismatch with the design from the Creator, Lord of history.
P. Danilo Antonio Medina Leguizamón. Colombian priest, Society of Saint Paul (Pauline Priests). MA in Theology, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Ecuador. Specialist in Holy Scriptures, Pontificio Instituto Bíblico, Rome. Lecturer in Holy Scriptures and similar subjects in several universities. He has published several books in Saint Paul’s.
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SANCTUARIES
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152
ISBN:
978-958-768-210-6
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The author presents sanctuaries understood as places of communication, of experiencing, of an encounter between the people who experience the summoning and God, welcoming all of them in his Son. This is an interesting research revealing a serious theological work which relates the Scriptures, the teachings of the Church, and the lived experiences of communities of believers.
Iván Fernando Mejía Correa, Op. Dominican priest. MA and Professor of Theology, Santo Tomás University (Bogotá).
Theology
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THEOLOGY OF THE MARRIED COUPLE AND THE FAMILY
Format: 14x21 Pages: 104 ISBN: 978-958-768-055-3
This current work answers to the necessity of reflecting on the modern issue of married couples and future families. A new reflection about the conjugal couple and family sets out the necessity for a revision of the traditional language; it asks for a new starting point: love, sexuality, and sacramentality.
Silvio Botero studied Philosophy and Theology at the Seminario Mayor San Alfonso Maria de Ligorio (Colombia). He has a major in dogmatic Theology and canonic right obtained at the Universidad of Comillas in Madrid (Spain). He has also a Ph.D. in moral Theology obtained from the Universidad Lateranense of Rome.
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SPIRITUALITY
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10 SELECTED TOPICS ABOUT THE MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST This book presents a selection of some of the most important reflections regarding the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ by recent Popes. Likewise, it includes meditations from a number of missionaries of the Holy Blood. This is a beautiful book which invites us to discover and deepen on the mystery of this devotion.
Author: Missionaries of the Precious Blood.
Format: 12x18 Pages: 88 ISBN: 978-958-768-049-2
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TO LIVE WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD
Format: 12x18 Pages: 68 ISBN:
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978-958-768-898-4
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Blood, in these times, is the sign of God’s love which questions us and demands our attention. This current work introduces the theology of Christ’s Blood in a simple and pedagogical way. Its purpose is help the readers to discover a spiritual path leading to the encounter with Christ.
Juan Carlos Barajas. Priest from the Precious Blood missionaries, was born in Mexico. He studied Philosophy in the Universidad Pontificia of Mexico; Theology in the Universidad Católica of Chile. BA in Pedagogy, Alberto Hurtado University. Currently, he is the Director of the Lay Missionaries of the Precious Blood Association in Bogotá, Colombia.
FAMILY
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THE DIARY OF A FAMILY
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The family is the fabric of society, the appropriate place for the transmission of life and the most fundamental education. This book presents, in a clear and simple way, the diverse situations and experiences lived within families, with the purpose of providing tools for handling healthy family relations. The book includes certain key topics, which in depth study is directed towards family realization: children, authority, communication, forgiveness, and familiar solidarity. All of these are developed in such a way that the reader can relate with the presented experiences and anecdotes.
Pages: 208 ISBN:
978-958-715-480-1
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VIRTUES FOR A SUCCESSFUL MARRIAGE
Format: 14x21 Pages: 192 ISBN:
A book which analyzes the necessary virtues in order to successfully face conjugal and family relations. The author, based on her experience of private practice with married couples, presents different common situations affecting married life and shows how the negative aspects of a marital relation that sometimes lead to its destruction can be counteracted.
Marina Echeverri Hoyos. Specialist in Education and Family Counselling Universidad of Navarra, Spain. Cofounder of the Spanish-American Educative Corporation for Family and Society, CEFHAS, having its head office in Cartagena, Colombia.
978-958-768-109-3
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Family The Family, a Community of Love and Life. Tension between unity and fecundity.
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A reflection regarding the family in its dimensions of unity and fecundity from different perspectives: social-anthropological; historical-theological; and that one of the Church’s teachings and pastoral.
Author: JosĂŠ Silvio Botero
Format: 14x21 Pages: 278 ISBN:
978-958-715-534-1
PERSONAL GROWTH Soul Health. Medicine for every day
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A book to nurture the soul every day of the year. The thoughts collected here remind the readers about their mission, filling them with hope, strengthening their will, and allowing them to discover the sense of life.
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Author: Guillermo Cardona
Format: 7,5x10,5 Pages:
256
ISBN:
978-958-715-635-5
CATECHETICS
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BAPTISM COURSE FOR PARENTS AND GODPARENTS
A number of parents still want to baptize their children, but their motivations are more anthropological, mystical, or ritualistic than Christian. This is due to different reasons: the short length of the course and sociological factors. This is why this handbook intends to be helpful for catechism teachers, parents, and godparents concerning the first sacrament in Christian life, the baptism.
Author: Rubén Hernández
Format: 14x21 Pages: 40 ISBN: 978-958-768-085-0
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On the way with Lectio Divina - B
Format: 14x21 Pages: 296 ISBN:
978-958-968-186-4
The author offers a tool which helps in the internalization of God’s Word and, thus, to the experience of the presence of Jesus by means of a living, dynamic and multifaceted encounter with the Holy Scriptures and, above all, with Jesus. This proposal is accompanied with pedagogical resources which enrich its reading and facilitate the exercising of the Lectio Divina.
Juan Elías Muñoz Gómez. Priest. He studied Biblical Theology in the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome. He has worked as religious trainer in several seminaries in the country. Currently he is a member of the Trainer’s Team in the Seminário Maior “Nossa Senhora de Fatima” in Brasilia, in which he is the academic director and Bible lecturer. He has written several books.
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PAULINE’S CHARISMA
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WOMEN PRESENCE IN THE PAULINE’S CHARISMA
A Pauline priest, presents an overview of the life of Blessed Alberione and shows the role of women throughout it. Among the women highlighted in these pages, the author pays special attention to Tecla Merlo and Ursula Rivata, the first women called by the Blessed to continue with the Pauline mission. Likewise, he presents an interesting interview to nuns who have dedicated their lives to the Pauline’s charisma. A book to remind all readers that the role of women is essential in the transformation of society and, of course, in the spreading of the Christian message.
Format: 14x21 Pages: 200 ISBN:
978-958-715-896-0 Author: P. Ciro Quintero
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CHILDREN’S BOOKS
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JACOBO
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Jacobo is the son of an important businessman. He has grown tired of working in his father’s company. He wants easy and quick money, and thus he asks for his legal inheritance. His project: to be a rock Singer, reach fame and fortune with his music. But he does not make an effort to do so; he believes that everything can be bought with the money he received. He leaves his house, and after wandering around bars and pubs playing his music, he loses his money and finds himself alone. Feeling remorse, he decides to return to his father’s home.
978-958-768-207-6
Luis Gabriel Niño. Visual Communicator, Fundación Universitaria Los Libertadores. He has worked as illustrator and book designer in Saint Paul’s Publishing House for several years. luinin31@gmail.com
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Children´s books THE bread of the word for children
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A monthly publication to bring children closer to the Word of the Lord. In full color and with beautiful drawings, this brochure includes: the Mass readings for every Sunday, the Gospel for ordinary days, a reflection, a prayer for every day, a daily task, and amusing puzzles that will allow children to remember more easily the Word of God.
Ordinario de
la Misa
Ri
es
s Inicial to
Iniciemos nuestra fiesta canto muy alegre.
Sacerdote En el nombr e del Padre, del Hijo, y Niños Sacerdote
Niños
del Espíritu Santo.
Amén.
La gracia, la alegría y la paz de parte de Dios, nuestro Padre, y de Jesucristo, el Señor, estén con todos ustedes. Y con tu espíritu.
Pidamos perdón Sacerdote
Antes de iniciar nuestra fiesta de la eucaristía, pidamos perdón a nuestro querido papá Dios por las faltas que cometemos y que lo ofenden, que lo entristecen y con las cuales hacemos daño a los demás .
Cuando ofendemos a alguien que amamos, pedimos perdón. A veces nuestros amigos no nos disculpan pero Jesús es un amigo que siempre perdon a. Ahora pidamos perdón por las cosas malas que hayamos hecho.
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Yo confieso ante Dios todopo deroso y ante ustedes, herma que he pecado mucho de nos, pensamiento, palabra, obra y omisión. Por mi culpa, por mi culpa, por mi gran culpa. Por eso ruego a santa María, siempre Virgen, a los ángeles, a los santos y a ustedes, hermanos, que intercedan por mí ante Dios, nuestro Señor. Sacerdote Dios todopo deroso…
Niños
Canto de entrada La eucaristía inicia con un
Niños
La Misa es el lugar del encuentro con el Señor y con los hermanos. Ponte de pie para saludarlo y saludar también a quienes comparten contigo en esta gran fiesta.
Amén.
Gloria (Solo los domin
gos, solemnidades y fiestas )
Sacerdote
Niños
Todos con alegría vamos a alabar a nuestro buen y gran padre Dios diciendo: Gloria a Dios en el cielo… Y en la tierra paz a los hombres que ama el Señor.
Por tu inmensa gloria te alabam os, te bendecimos, te adoram os, te glorificamos, te damos gracias Señor Dios, Rey celestial, Dios padre todopoderoso . Señor, Hijo único, Jesucristo, Señor Dios, Cordero de Dios, Hijo del Padre; tú que quitas el pecado del mundo, ten piedad de nosotros; tú que quitas el pecado del mundo, atiende nuestra súplica; tú que estás sentado a la derecha del Padre, ten piedad de nosotros; porque sólo tú eres Santo, solo tú Señor, sólo tú Altísimo , Jesucristo, con el Espíritu Santo en la gloria de Dios Padre. Amén.
El Gloria es un Himno muy bello que nos recuerda a los pastores que fueron a ver a Jesús en Belén. Se canta todos los domingos y días de fiesta, excepto en tiempo de Adviento y deCuaresma.
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Bible journal
Format: 14x21 Pages: 432 ISBN: 978-958-768-117-8
God walks with us, it is our traveling companion every day of our lives. This Bible Journal is an invitation to meet with His Word 365 days a year to discover the everyday miracle that can guide and enlighten all our daily actions.
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IN DEVELOPMENT
CHRISTIAN MORAL HANDBOOK
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CHRISTIAN MORAL HANDBOOK
A text that offers, with doctrinal rectitude and fidelity to the teachings of the Church, some basic criteria from which Christian moral should be approached, allowing the truths of faith to enlighten moral behavior. A work that educate us as authentic disciples and missionaries of Jesus Christ and that is helpful to find an answer to the fundamental question: “What do I have to do in order to receive my inheritance of eternal life?”
Javier Muñoz Mora. BA in Moral Theology, Academia Alfonsiana of Rome. Forming Educator in the Christ Priest National Seminar, and teacher of Moral.
THE SPIRITUALITY OF SAINT TERESA
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THE SPIRITUALITY OF SAINT TERESA
The doctrine of Saint Teresa is presented as a discerning tool in the face of the increasing spiritual or religious offer. This is a support of secure doctrine for the spiritual growth and maturity of priests, monks and nuns, forming educators, and committed lay people.
Fray Oswaldo Escobar, Regional Provincial for Center America, Discalced Carmelites Order.
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THE PRESBITERIAL MINISTRY
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THE PRESBITERIAL MINISTRY
31 meditations about the importance of the figure of Jesus of Nazareth, High and Eternal Priest. A book to be used by priests and seminarists, but also by lay people who fervently participate of their baptismal priesthood.
Author: P. José Silvio Botero
LONELINESS. A BLEEDING WOUND IN THE HEART OF POSTMODERN SOCIETY
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LONELINESS. A BLEEDING WOUND IN THE HEART OF POSTMODERN SOCIETY We all suffer from loneliness in any stage of our lives. However, when it appears, sometimes, we don’t know how to experience it, how to feel it, and how to handle it. This current book allows the reader to discover the positive value of loneliness, and to cope with those aspects which cause pain.
Author: Hipólito Martínez
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