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6 Steps to Holiness
A booklet by Dr. Ronda on spiritual growth.
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Called By Name:
Following a Personal Spirituality
A 46 page booklet.
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Mary, Teach Us How to Live!
A 49 page booklet.
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God Alone, Words of Our Lord to a Soul
These locutions that I read seem to me to be authentic and beautiful. The author wishes to be anonymous.
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Give Me your Heart: Preparing for Eternal Life
Excerpts from the writings of Charles Rich edited by Ronda which is displayed on this web-site as a booklet. This is an ideal book for those of you who like short passages on spirituality to meditate on and to give to friends not likely to read long books. It is arranged by state of the reader's soul such as "when you feel disgusted, resentful, anxious, etc."
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The Embrace of the Soul: Reflections on the Song of Songs by Charles Rich
edited by Ronda Chervin, Ph.D. , Forward by Fr. Raphael Simon, OCSO.
This beautiful book by Charles Rich has been out of print for many years. See www.friendsofcharlesrich.com for more about this remarkable contemplative writer.
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The Kiss From The Cross
by Ronda Chervin, Ph.D.
A Saint for Every Kind of Suffering is one of Dr. Ronda's best books, recently out of print.
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Spiritual Friendship: Darkness and Light
by Ronda Chervin, Ph.D.
This title is out of print. It sets forth stages of spiritual friendship and helps the reader sort out the negatives and the positives to avoid pitfalls and respond to grace.
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Why I Am A Catholic Charismatic
by Ronda Chervin, Ph.D.
is a long out of print book written by Dr. Ronda to meet objections to Charismatic Renewal, especially those coming from magisterial Catholic.
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Weeping with Jesus: the Journey from Grief to Hope
by Ronda Chervin, Ph.D.
As one who lost many family members in a short period of time, this book is a sharing of what I learned and wisdom found in other writers. It includes chapters on the pain of loss, coping with doubt about eternal life, how the saints dealt with grief, etc.
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Healing of Rejection with the Help of the Lord: A Survivor's Guide
by Ronda Chervin, Ph.D.
This book includes these chapters: Fantasy, Anxiety about Loss, Despair, Fresh Fantasies, Real Love. It traces fictional stories of rejections in romantic situations, in parent/child, ministry, and includes witness stories involving divorce, and other types of rejection.
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The Last Fling:
A novel about a Catholic widow's adventures looking for a second husband and trying a religious community.
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Living In Love: About Christian Ethics
As human beings struggle to resist the depersonalizing forces of today's technological society, the concepts "loving" and "caring" take on new depths of meaning.
Ronda Chervin explores the reasons for living in love, the ways we can identify "the loving thing to do" in our personal lives, the steps needed for making a loving decision, and the applications of ethical principles to social -- even global -- issues. This book, used for decades by individuals and as a teaching tool for H.S. and College age includes arguments from Scripture and from reason for the most difficult to explain teachings of the Church.
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The Way of the Pilgrimess – the Story of Sister Magnificat of Catholic Solitudes as told to Ronda Chervin:
When I lived at Catholic Solitudes as a lay contemplative I met an extraordinary French woman who traveled from Paris to Jerusalem on foot as a pilgrim, lived many years as a contemplative nun and is now a hermit living in France and part of the year in Texas at Catholic Solitudes. I loved her story and decided to write it down so others could be inspired.
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Spirituality of the Emotions
This is a series of 7 sessions done first as a parish series. It includes teachings and interactive sharing and journal questions. You may want to engage in these interactive exercises yourself or with a group in your own area. This could be done by sitting around the audio of your computer with the group or printing out for them the accompanying written texts for each session. If you choose to do this I would be happy to hear about progress or questions at chervinronda@gmail.com
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Face to Face:
This includes writings from my journal when I was a professor at Our Lady of Corpus Christi as a consecrated widow in the Society of Our Lady of the Trinity, and also my time as a lay contemplative at a hermitage.
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Heart to Heart:
This includes time living in a Catholic Village in Arkansas, Star of the Sea.
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Full Circle:
Excerpts from Ronda's journal entries between Jan. 2006 and May 2007.
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Leaflets by Dr. Ronda Chervin
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Saved! Dr. Ronda's story of her Conversion to the Catholic faith
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Tell me why I should be a Catholic when ...
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1. There is so much pain in the world it seems there cannot be a god of love?
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2. The Church has such a history of evil to her name?
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3. The moral teachings of the Church seem so strict - cant be we good Christians following our own conscience?
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4. What Catholics call 'sacraments' seem like empty, ineffective rituals?
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5. Women are second class citizens in the Church?
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Saved! Dr. Ronda's story of her Conversion to the Catholic faith
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