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This beautiful bible is also available from Ignatius Press in a leather hardcover edition and a flexible bonded leather cover edition. These leather covers feature the same iconography of Christ and the Four Evangelists as the paperback, but beautifully crafted in gold-foil stamping.
Paperback: 845 pagesPublisher: Ignatius Press (December 2005)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0898708346ISBN-13: 978-0898708349 Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.2 inches Shipping Weight: 2 pounds Best Sellers Rank: #78,933 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #727 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Bibles #1090 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Bible Study & Reference > Bible Study #18280 in Books > Religion & Spirituality
I am an ardent lover of the RSV bible. It has been my bible of choice for nearly 30 years. With the second Catholic edition, archaic language has been removed, and thus the RSV SCE is an excellent alternative for Catholics to the NAB and NRSV. I give the RSV SCE 5 stars.
I very much like that the designation, "Only Son," has been replaced by "Only Begotten Son" in John’s gospel. This conforms more closely to our Nicene Heritage. I don’t like the translation, "Only Son," as most modern versions have, even though that translation has merit.
The RSV SCE offers some welcome concessions to the Catholic understanding of the text. I mention two: 1) The Angel’s greeting to Mary in Luke 1:28 is rendered as "hail, full of grace,the Lord is with you" rather than "Hail, O favored one, the Lord is with you!" as in the original RSV. 2) Isaiah 7:14 uses the word "Virgin" rather than "young women" as in the original RSV. This change is legitimate, even though the Hebrew simply has "young woman." The Bible of the ancient Christian community was the Greek Septuagint, which was considered inspired in its own right. The Septuagint uses the word "virgin (parthenos)" in Isaiah 7:14.
One might hope that eventually, the RSV SCE will replace the New American Bible in all Enlish language Catholic liturgies, both here and abroad. Some Churches are already taking advantage of the RSV SCE. The new RSV SCE Lectionary has been approved for use in the Roman Rite by the Antilles Bishops Conference. The new Ukrainian Catholic Divine Liturgy Service provides New Testament quotes from the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition. The RSV SCE is literal, literary, and reliable.
The Revised Standard Version – Second Catholic Edition (RSV-2CE) is an updated version of the 1966 RSV-Catholic edition. Important changes from the original Catholic edition have been highlighted by some of the reviewers, but they generally fall into either of 2 principles: (i) removing archaisms, such as "morrow", "thees" and "thous", from the much of the text (except the Pater noster), or (ii) adjustments in favour of the Nova Vulgata as requested by Liturgiam authenticam.
The revision had great promise, but unfortunately the second principle was not followed consistently in my opinion. While they changed "cup" to "chalice" in the Last Supper narrative found in the three synoptic Gospels and in St. Paul’s 1st Letter to the Corinthians (11:23-26), it retained "cup" in the other places where the word refers to the cup/chalice of the Eucharist (10:16 and 11:27-28), leaving the reader puzzled as to the difference in terms in these cases. Similarly, while it is laudable that the RSV-2CE made some changes to Sirach to follow the Nova Vulgata, such as the inclusion of 1:5, 1:7 in the main biblical text rather than in the footnotes, it left out many (if not most) of the other unique verses found in the Nova Vulgata that were not translated in the original RSV-CE. It appears that the RSV-2CE is faithful to the second principle only for texts that are used somewhere in the Lectionary; perhaps the editors of the work simply took changes made by Rome to their edition of the RSV Lectionary and pasted them wholesale into the biblical text. Download Catholic Bible-RSV – December, 2005
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Review
“Chittister beautifully downplays regrets and accents the rewards of a mature life.” —Library Journal, starred review
“This collection of inspirational reflections . . . abounds in gentle insights and arresting aphorisms.” —Publishers Weekly
“We can all draw strength from Chittister’s essays on regret, nostalgia, and forgiveness. She reminds readers of all generations that aging doesn’t have to be a depressing series of losses.” —School Library Journal
“Perhaps you have to be in the second half of life to know how truthfully and helpfully Joan Chittister speaks. We live in a first-half-of-life culture, which makes this wisdom all the more necessary—and all the more wonderful.” —Richard Rohr, author, The Naked Now
“A prophetic voice that is desperately needed in our troubled time.” —Karen Armstrong, author, The Great Transformation
“It’s the best book I have read on the subject of aging, a dazzling work radiant with gems of insight on every page. It will be my spiritual reading in the days ahead.” —Andrew Greeley, author, The Great Mysteries
“Brims with insight, pluck, verve and courage. . . . It shows us both the joys and the challenges of growing older, and encourages us to discover the deep spiritual meaning that can come with older age.” —Helen Prejean, author, Dead Man Walking
“An amazing compendium of wisdom not only for people facing aging or providing support, but for everyone who wants to live a spiritually centered and balanced life.” —Michael Lerner, editor, Tikkun Magazine
See all Editorial Reviews
Paperback: 222 pagesPublisher: BlueBridge; Fourth Printing edition (September 1, 2010)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1933346337ISBN-13: 978-1933346335 Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.9 x 8.3 inches Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #5,092 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #15 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Aging #40 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Christian Living > Self Help #47 in Books > Self-Help > Spiritual
When "The Gift of Years" by Joan Chittister made its way to my mailbox for me to review, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Was I really the right person to be reviewing this? After all, I am in my thirties, transitioning from youth to middle age. I’m not quite ready for senior citizen status yet. As it turned out, "The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully" is a wonderful lesson in how to live, regardless of our chronological age.
Chittister, a Benedictine sister, is 70 years old. She suggests that she may actually be too young to write this book because life still has lessons left to offer. She "reserves the right to revise this edition when she is ninety." Chittister views how we life at any age to be a choice. We are each given the gift of today. It is up to us what we do with it. She counters the idea that old age need be a time of isolation and loneliness and uselessness. Rather, it can be a time of great connectedness and joy and purpose. It is a time for looking back, not with the pain of regret for opportunities lost, but with understanding of how the life that has been lived has meaning for who we are right now and what our future holds.
Chittister maintains that senior citizens have so much to offer to the world at large. Their wisdom and their stories and their experience are a great gift. They also have the time to get involved. Without the pressures of a 9-to-5 job or raising a family, they can volunteer more, make more of a difference. They have the chance to do all the things that they always wanted to do that there was never time for before. "Age does not forgive us our responsibility to give the world back to God a bit better than it was because we were here.
"The thing most wrong about this book," Joan Chittister tells us in this vibrant collection of essays on growing old, "is that I may be too young to write it. I am, after all, only seventy." She is, she tells us, among those whom gerontologists call the "young old," those who are sixty-five to seventy-four and may not yet have attained the ripest wisdom.
We are indeed fortunate that Chittister decided not to postpone the writing of The Gift of Years, for it is full of the grace of decades of thought and meditation. It is written not only for those of us who are among the old, but for everyone: we are all growing older, and all of us may eventually undertake the search for meaning and fulfillment that lies at the deepest heart of the aging process.
The Gift of Years is a full basket of rich gifts: forty-plus short essays on the many dimensions of eldering, "its purpose and its challenges, its struggles and its surprises." Each essay begins with words of wisdom from someone who has considered the meaning of growing old, then tells a brief story or an anecdote, offers a reflection, and invites us to participate in a meditation on the burden and blessing of the years.
In "Time," for instance, Chittister quotes Pablo Picasso: "It takes a long time to become young." There is an anecdote about a potter named Thomas, who at eighty had lived long enough "to release the beginner in himself again and again." There are reflections: time ages things; time deepens things; time ripens things. And then there is the meditation.
Joan Chittister, a Benedictine nun, has written over twenty-five books that map the terrain of the Christian life, with special attention paid to issues of feminism, international justice, the monastics, and reform in the Catholic Church. I’ve especially enjoyed Scarred By Struggle, Transformed By Hope (2003) based upon the Jacob narrative, Listen with the Heart (2003), and Called to Question (2004). In The Gift of Years she writes for a broader audience that is not necessarily Christian or even religious.
Now that she has passed her seventieth birthday, Chittister explores what it means to grow older gracefully. To do this she has written short (3-5 pages each) meditations on forty themes like regret, ageism, adjustment, letting go, sadness, solitude, success, etc. She begins each chapter with a pithy aphorism from a broad range of poets and prophets, both ancient and modern — Plato and Picasso, Browning and Byron, Emily Dickinson and Jung. After the brief meditation, she summarizes the chapter by observing both the "burden" and the "blessing" of the theme under consideration. On the idea of the future, for example, she writes, "The burden of these years is to assume that the future is already over. A blessing of these years is to give another whole meaning to what it is to be alive, to be ourselves, to be full of life. Our own life."
Which is to say that much of my future of growing older is what I intentionally choose to make it. We all face the inexorable biology of the body and the deterioration of our physical condition. But we also enjoy the possibilities of the "eternity of the spirit" and the frame of mind we choose to follow. One can choose to age passively or actively, says Chittister. Download The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully – September 1, 2010 Pdf Download
–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
“Chittister beautifully downplays regrets and accents the rewards of a mature life.” —Library Journal, starred review
“This collection of inspirational reflections . . . abounds in gentle insights and arresting aphorisms.” —Publishers Weekly
“We can all draw strength from Chittister’s essays on regret, nostalgia, and forgiveness. She reminds readers of all generations that aging doesn’t have to be a depressing series of losses.” —School Library Journal
“Perhaps you have to be in the second half of life to know how truthfully and helpfully Joan Chittister speaks. We live in a first-half-of-life culture, which makes this wisdom all the more necessary—and all the more wonderful.” —Richard Rohr, author, The Naked Now
“A prophetic voice that is desperately needed in our troubled time.” —Karen Armstrong, author, The Great Transformation
“It’s the best book I have read on the subject of aging, a dazzling work radiant with gems of insight on every page. It will be my spiritual reading in the days ahead.” —Andrew Greeley, author, The Great Mysteries
“Brims with insight, pluck, verve and courage. . . . It shows us both the joys and the challenges of growing older, and encourages us to discover the deep spiritual meaning that can come with older age.” —Helen Prejean, author, Dead Man Walking
“An amazing compendium of wisdom not only for people facing aging or providing support, but for everyone who wants to live a spiritually centered and balanced life.” —Michael Lerner, editor, Tikkun Magazine
See all Editorial Reviews
Paperback: 222 pagesPublisher: BlueBridge; Fourth Printing edition (September 1, 2010)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1933346337ISBN-13: 978-1933346335 Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.9 x 8.3 inches Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #5,092 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #15 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Aging #40 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Christian Living > Self Help #47 in Books > Self-Help > Spiritual
When "The Gift of Years" by Joan Chittister made its way to my mailbox for me to review, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Was I really the right person to be reviewing this? After all, I am in my thirties, transitioning from youth to middle age. I’m not quite ready for senior citizen status yet. As it turned out, "The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully" is a wonderful lesson in how to live, regardless of our chronological age.
Chittister, a Benedictine sister, is 70 years old. She suggests that she may actually be too young to write this book because life still has lessons left to offer. She "reserves the right to revise this edition when she is ninety." Chittister views how we life at any age to be a choice. We are each given the gift of today. It is up to us what we do with it. She counters the idea that old age need be a time of isolation and loneliness and uselessness. Rather, it can be a time of great connectedness and joy and purpose. It is a time for looking back, not with the pain of regret for opportunities lost, but with understanding of how the life that has been lived has meaning for who we are right now and what our future holds.
Chittister maintains that senior citizens have so much to offer to the world at large. Their wisdom and their stories and their experience are a great gift. They also have the time to get involved. Without the pressures of a 9-to-5 job or raising a family, they can volunteer more, make more of a difference. They have the chance to do all the things that they always wanted to do that there was never time for before. "Age does not forgive us our responsibility to give the world back to God a bit better than it was because we were here.
"The thing most wrong about this book," Joan Chittister tells us in this vibrant collection of essays on growing old, "is that I may be too young to write it. I am, after all, only seventy." She is, she tells us, among those whom gerontologists call the "young old," those who are sixty-five to seventy-four and may not yet have attained the ripest wisdom.
We are indeed fortunate that Chittister decided not to postpone the writing of The Gift of Years, for it is full of the grace of decades of thought and meditation. It is written not only for those of us who are among the old, but for everyone: we are all growing older, and all of us may eventually undertake the search for meaning and fulfillment that lies at the deepest heart of the aging process.
The Gift of Years is a full basket of rich gifts: forty-plus short essays on the many dimensions of eldering, "its purpose and its challenges, its struggles and its surprises." Each essay begins with words of wisdom from someone who has considered the meaning of growing old, then tells a brief story or an anecdote, offers a reflection, and invites us to participate in a meditation on the burden and blessing of the years.
In "Time," for instance, Chittister quotes Pablo Picasso: "It takes a long time to become young." There is an anecdote about a potter named Thomas, who at eighty had lived long enough "to release the beginner in himself again and again." There are reflections: time ages things; time deepens things; time ripens things. And then there is the meditation.
Joan Chittister, a Benedictine nun, has written over twenty-five books that map the terrain of the Christian life, with special attention paid to issues of feminism, international justice, the monastics, and reform in the Catholic Church. I’ve especially enjoyed Scarred By Struggle, Transformed By Hope (2003) based upon the Jacob narrative, Listen with the Heart (2003), and Called to Question (2004). In The Gift of Years she writes for a broader audience that is not necessarily Christian or even religious.
Now that she has passed her seventieth birthday, Chittister explores what it means to grow older gracefully. To do this she has written short (3-5 pages each) meditations on forty themes like regret, ageism, adjustment, letting go, sadness, solitude, success, etc. She begins each chapter with a pithy aphorism from a broad range of poets and prophets, both ancient and modern — Plato and Picasso, Browning and Byron, Emily Dickinson and Jung. After the brief meditation, she summarizes the chapter by observing both the "burden" and the "blessing" of the theme under consideration. On the idea of the future, for example, she writes, "The burden of these years is to assume that the future is already over. A blessing of these years is to give another whole meaning to what it is to be alive, to be ourselves, to be full of life. Our own life."
Which is to say that much of my future of growing older is what I intentionally choose to make it. We all face the inexorable biology of the body and the deterioration of our physical condition. But we also enjoy the possibilities of the "eternity of the spirit" and the frame of mind we choose to follow. One can choose to age passively or actively, says Chittister. Download The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully – September 1, 2010
The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary Hardcover – April 20, 2004
Author: Visit ‘s Mark Sanborn Page ID: 0385513518
Review
“The Fred Factor is a powerful, poignant parable of success. It’s about going the extra mile and always doing more than is expected. It is revolutionary, yet simple. It is life changing.”
–Brian Tracy, author of Focal Point and Goals: How to Get Everything You Want—Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible
About the Author
MARK SANBORN is an international known author, motivational speaker, and the president of Sanborn & Associates, Inc., an idea studio for leadership development. He gives nearly one hundred presentations each year on leadership, team building, customer service, and mastering change. Mark and his family live near Denver, Colorado.
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Hardcover: 112 pagesPublisher: Currency; 1st edition (April 20, 2004)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0385513518ISBN-13: 978-0385513517 Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 1.1 x 7.8 inches Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #12,071 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #19 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Christian Living > Business & Professional Growth #85 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Christian Living > Self Help #189 in Books > Business & Money > Business Culture > Motivation & Self-Improvement
This short book focuses on a mailman Mark Sanborn met, a man named Fred. When the author first met Fred, Fred took an effort to get to know his new customer, and find ways to do a better job as a mailman. This book about the value of doing a better job, how to build relationships, and why we should take initiative. In short by going the extra mile we’ll have a better life, and others will benefit.
It is a good book, and a short book. It is well written. The book is entertaining and at the same time makes many good points.
The first of four sections covers how the author met Fred the mailman, and how very quickly the author realized that Fred was a superstar mail carrier. The basics of what a "Fred" is are explored, and then the author mentions sightings of other "Freds."
The second section explains how you can become a Fred. Basically you need to build relationships with others so you know them well enough to then be able to be create, take initiative and make a difference.
The third section gives pointers on how you can help others grow into being Freds. The basic steps are to:
1) Find – how do you recognize a Fred
2) Reward – how should Freds be rewarded
3) Educate – how help people improve their Fredness
4) Demonstrate – model the correct behavior
The final section recounts the value and importance of being a Fred.
This is a book worth reading. It provides a good reminder and motivation to go the extra mile and do a better job.
Ever had a waiter ask, "Somethin’ to drink?" while you look at your menu? How about a hotel clerk that says "Help you" like a question or a secretary who says "may I ask what this is in reference to?" when you try to call someone? The fact is, we hear so many monotone responses so often that "excuse me" "nice to meet you" and "have a nice day" seem to have no meaning at all. But then there’s Fred, the guy who looks you in the eye, goes the extra mile, and adds a personal touch to the service he provides you. In today’s ever-so-competitive markets, you’d think the personal touch approach would be second nature. The thing is, it’s not, and this probably won’t change. Sanborn isn’t trying to teach clever people a shortcut–he’s simply trying to remind us that genuine effort and a personal approach will never go out of style.
What I love about The Fred Factor is that it counters the notion that to succeed in business means somehow abandoning your values. Mark Sanborn makes a case that success in business, or life, for that matter, is a matter of embracing the values of service, caring, and doing the right thing. This is a book that should be standard issue for every employee of every company. Outstanding! Download The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary – April 20, 2004 Pdf Download
The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary Hardcover – April 20, 2004
Author: Visit ‘s Mark Sanborn Page ID: 0385513518
Review
“The Fred Factor is a powerful, poignant parable of success. It’s about going the extra mile and always doing more than is expected. It is revolutionary, yet simple. It is life changing.”
–Brian Tracy, author of Focal Point and Goals: How to Get Everything You Want—Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible
About the Author
MARK SANBORN is an international known author, motivational speaker, and the president of Sanborn & Associates, Inc., an idea studio for leadership development. He gives nearly one hundred presentations each year on leadership, team building, customer service, and mastering change. Mark and his family live near Denver, Colorado.
See all Editorial Reviews
Hardcover: 112 pagesPublisher: Currency; 1st edition (April 20, 2004)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0385513518ISBN-13: 978-0385513517 Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 1.1 x 7.8 inches Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #12,071 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #19 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Christian Living > Business & Professional Growth #85 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Christian Living > Self Help #189 in Books > Business & Money > Business Culture > Motivation & Self-Improvement
This short book focuses on a mailman Mark Sanborn met, a man named Fred. When the author first met Fred, Fred took an effort to get to know his new customer, and find ways to do a better job as a mailman. This book about the value of doing a better job, how to build relationships, and why we should take initiative. In short by going the extra mile we’ll have a better life, and others will benefit.
It is a good book, and a short book. It is well written. The book is entertaining and at the same time makes many good points.
The first of four sections covers how the author met Fred the mailman, and how very quickly the author realized that Fred was a superstar mail carrier. The basics of what a "Fred" is are explored, and then the author mentions sightings of other "Freds."
The second section explains how you can become a Fred. Basically you need to build relationships with others so you know them well enough to then be able to be create, take initiative and make a difference.
The third section gives pointers on how you can help others grow into being Freds. The basic steps are to:
1) Find – how do you recognize a Fred
2) Reward – how should Freds be rewarded
3) Educate – how help people improve their Fredness
4) Demonstrate – model the correct behavior
The final section recounts the value and importance of being a Fred.
This is a book worth reading. It provides a good reminder and motivation to go the extra mile and do a better job.
Ever had a waiter ask, "Somethin’ to drink?" while you look at your menu? How about a hotel clerk that says "Help you" like a question or a secretary who says "may I ask what this is in reference to?" when you try to call someone? The fact is, we hear so many monotone responses so often that "excuse me" "nice to meet you" and "have a nice day" seem to have no meaning at all. But then there’s Fred, the guy who looks you in the eye, goes the extra mile, and adds a personal touch to the service he provides you. In today’s ever-so-competitive markets, you’d think the personal touch approach would be second nature. The thing is, it’s not, and this probably won’t change. Sanborn isn’t trying to teach clever people a shortcut–he’s simply trying to remind us that genuine effort and a personal approach will never go out of style.
What I love about The Fred Factor is that it counters the notion that to succeed in business means somehow abandoning your values. Mark Sanborn makes a case that success in business, or life, for that matter, is a matter of embracing the values of service, caring, and doing the right thing. This is a book that should be standard issue for every employee of every company. Outstanding! Download The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary – April 20, 2004
