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This book shows how, once we have adjusted to the unitive state, the spiritual journey moves on to yet another more final ending.
In our major religious traditions, the outstanding milestone in the spiritual journey is the permanent, irreversible transcendence of the self-center or ego. The fact that a great deal has been written about the journey to this point means that many people have come this far. But what, we might ask, comes next? Looking...
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This famous classic work tells the true story surrounding the miraculous visions of St. Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes, France in 1858. Werfel, a highly respected literary writer who was an outspoken anti-Nazi from Vienna, became a Jewish refugee who barely escaped death from the Nazis in 1940, and wrote this moving story to fulfill a promise he made to God.--Cf. Book description, Amazon.com.
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Examines the claims that the waters of Lourdes, France, contain mysterious healing properties. The story began in 1858 when fourteen-year-old Bernadette Soubirous is said to have witnessed a vision of the Virgin Mary. Since then, believers have traveled there in hopes of experiencing the alleged healing powers of the sacred waters.
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Studio classic volume 8
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Until a miracle changes their minds, church and state officials persecute a simple, ingenuous peasant girl who claims to have seen a vision of "a beautiful lady".
9) The miracle
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The announcement from the Vatican that the Virgin Mary is returning to Lourdes this very year to perform another miracle cure holds the world enthralled.
12) Memory
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"In July 1971, Bernadette Mayer embarked on an experiment: For one month she exposed a roll of 35mm film and kept a daily journal. The result was a conceptual work that investigates the nature of memory, its surfaces, textures and material. Memory is both monumental in scope (over 1100 photographs, two hundred pages of text and six hours of audio recording) and a groundbreaking work by a poet who is widely regarded as one of the most innovative writers...
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"Each year, millions of people from all over the world bathe in the water of a spring in Lourdes, France. They come to pray for physical and spiritual healing and to remember a young girl who was chosen by the Mother of Jesus to draw us closer to her Son. Illustrated with delicate mixed media watercolor, inks, gold overlays, and collage this lovely book tells the story of Saint Bernadette and the beautiful lady, the miraculous spring, and the wonders...
15) Bernadette
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Bernadette Scarduzio was born with the most common inherited disease that no one has ever heard of: Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) syndrome. CMT is the number one hereditary neuropathy in the world, affecting 1 in 2,500 people or nearly 2.6 million worldwide. It is a degenerative nerve and muscle disorder which leads the body to deteriorate over time. Sometimes the progression is slow. Sometimes it is rapid. In some cases, it is fatal. There is no cure....
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The saint of Lourdes enters the convent and endures various trials. Through it all, Bernadette trusts in God and remembers the Virgin Mary's words to her: "I cannot promise you happiness in this life, only the next." Based on actual testimony taken from the canonization investigation.
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Encounter the saints volume 2
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A biography of the young French girl who lived during the latter part of the nineteenth century and who received apparitions of the Blessed Mother. Includes a description of Lourdes today.
20) Stop filming us
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Dutch filmmaker Joris Postema explores the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo accompanied by three local artists: journalist Ley Uwera, Mugabo Baritegera, and filmmaker Bernadette Vivuya. As he documents the work of these artists, he is confronted by the questions of whether a Western filmmaker can capture the complex truth of the African country, or if he is continuing a neocolonial tradition.