Rekindling The Sacred Fire

Author : Chantal Fiola
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887554806
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rekindling the Sacred Fire written by Chantal Fiola and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why don’t more Métis people go to traditional ceremonies? How does going to ceremonies impact Métis identity? In Rekindling the Sacred Fire, Chantal Fiola investigates the relationship between Red River Métis ancestry, Anishinaabe spirituality, and identity, bringing into focus the ongoing historical impacts of colonization upon Métis relationships with spirituality on the Canadian prairies. Using a methodology rooted in an Indigenous world view, Fiola interviews eighteen people with Métis ancestry, or an historic familial connection to the Red River Métis, who participate in Anishinaabe ceremonies, sharing stories about family history, self-identification, and their relationships with Aboriginal and Eurocanadian cultures and spiritualities.

Author : Chantal Fiola
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887559352
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Returning to Ceremony written by Chantal Fiola and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning to Ceremony is the follow-up to Chantal Fiola’s award-winning Rekindling the Sacred Fire and continues her ground-breaking examination of Métis spirituality, debunking stereotypes such as “all Métis people are Catholic,” and “Métis people do not go to ceremonies.” Fiola finds that, among the Métis, spirituality exists on a continuum of Indigenous and Christian traditions, and that Métis spirituality includes ceremonies. For some Métis, it is a historical continuation of the relationships their ancestral communities have had with ceremonies since time immemorial, and for others, it is a homecoming – a return to ceremony after some time away. Fiola employs a Métis-specific and community-centred methodology to gather evidence from archives, priests’ correspondence, oral history, storytelling, and literature. With assistance from six Métis community researchers, Fiola listened to stories and experiences shared by thirty-two Métis from six Manitoba Métis communities that are at the heart of this book. They offer insight into their families’ relationships with land, community, culture, and religion, including factors that inhibit or nurture connection to ceremonies such as sweat lodge, Sundance, and the Midewiwin. Valuable profiles emerge for six historic Red River Métis communities (Duck Bay, Camperville, St Laurent, St François-Xavier, Ste Anne, and Lorette), providing a clearer understanding of identity, culture, and spirituality that uphold Métis Nation sovereignty.

Author : Joachim Hartmann
Publisher : Messenger Publications
ISBN 13 : 1788124839
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joy in God written by Joachim Hartmann and published by Messenger Publications. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemplative prayer and the contemplative way of life are the central themes of this book. Against the backdrop of their rich experience of accompanying those coming on retreat to House Gries, Germany, the authors talk about what happens in silence: healing and wholeness, suffering and consolation, forgiveness and reconciliation, gratitude and joy... This originated from a desire to make more widely available the experiences that emerge through conversations between retreatants and guides. The individual chapters of the book, each based on a particular theme have a clear and consistent structure. A short introduction to the theme is followed by a conversation. Scripture, the writings of St. Ignatius, experiences from spiritual accompaniment as well as the authors’ own personal experiences form the basis for these conversations. Through using the questions, “Where was my heart burning?” “Where were my eyes opened?” the authors pick out aspects in the conversation which triggered a particular resonance within them. Finally, each chapter concludes with short exercises for the reader, relevant to the theme.

Author : Timothy P. Foran
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 088755511X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defining Métis written by Timothy P. Foran and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Defining Métis" examines categories used in the latter half of the nineteenth century by Catholic missionaries to describe Indigenous people in what is now northwestern Saskatchewan. It argues that the construction and evolution of these categories reflected missionaries’changing interests and agendas. "Defining Métis" sheds light on the earliest phases of Catholic missionary work among Indigenous peoples in western and northern Canada. It examines various interrelated aspects of this work, including the beginnings of residential schooling, transportation and communications, and relations between the Church, the Hudson’s Bay Company, and the federal government. While focusing on the Oblates of Mary Immaculate and their central mission at Île-à-la-Crosse, this study illuminates broad processes that informed Catholic missionary perceptions and impelled their evolution over a fifty-three-year period. In particular, this study illuminates processes that shaped Oblate conceptions of sauvage and métis. It does this through a qualitative analysis of documents that were produced within the Oblates’ institutional apparatus – official correspondence, mission journals, registers, and published reports. Foran challenges the orthodox notion that Oblate commentators simply discovered and described a singular, empirically existing, and readily identifiable Métis population. Rather, he contends that Oblates played an important role in the conceptual production of les métis.

Author : John of the Cross
Publisher : Bethany House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781556614811
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Set My Spirit Free written by John of the Cross and published by Bethany House Publishers. This book was released on 1994-11-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rekindling the Inner FireWritings that touch the pure-flaming heart of God ... from the men and women who walked with Him through the ages ... guiding into a deeper friendship with the "Father of Lights."John of the Cross (1549-1591) was one of the brightest spiritual lights of the dark and tumultuous 1500s. His teaching led thousands to inner freedom from "the dark night of the soul"--the state of spiritual blindness in which most of us live our days, unaware that God is right beside us, in love, in freeing power. Through great opposition and danger, John taught countless men and women how to find freedom in the Spirit.John's words and deep understanding of spiritual truth will also help you find a richer experience of God, leading you to:a fresh infilling of the love of the Father.renewed wonder at the beauty and holiness of Jesus, our Lord and brother.the discovery of the Holy Spirit's presence, helping you daily, with new strength and freedom from within.Treasured and classic writings that have had a profound impact on the church down through the ages.

Author : Doris Jeanne MacKinnon
Publisher : University of Regina Press
ISBN 13 : 0889772363
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Identities of Marie Rose Delorme Smith written by Doris Jeanne MacKinnon and published by University of Regina Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie Rose Delorme Smith was a woman of French-Métis ancestry who was born during the fur trade era and who spent her adult years as a pioneer rancher in the Pincher Creek district of southern Alberta. The Identities of Marie Rose Delorme Smith examines how Marie Rose negotiates her identities--as mother, boarding house owner, homesteader, medicine woman, midwife, and writer--during the changing environment of the western plains during the late nineteenth century.

Author : Mansal Denton
Publisher : Denton Cognitive Holdings, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781737781615
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Hunting written by Mansal Denton and published by Denton Cognitive Holdings, LLC. This book was released on 2021-08-14 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Sacred Hunting? A practice that leads us back to our origins. A reminder that, for our ancestors, obtaining the food that sustains life was a spiritual act involving bloodshed. A reconnection to nature and the earth that gave us birth. An opportunity for connection and tribal brotherhood. A transformative encounter with death. Mansal Denton, like the men he leads on wilderness quests, was raised in a culture alienated from its sources of nourishment and sustenance. A youthful indiscretion that led to a prison cell fundamentally altered his life's trajectory. Here, he shows the power and vitality that the hunt can bring into men's lives in this perilous time, when rites of passage are notably absent. Sacred Hunting brings the richness of his hunting experience, and that of the men whose journeys he facilitates, into inspirational focus.

Author : Irad Malkin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004296700
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Colonization in Ancient Greece written by Irad Malkin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.-- University of Pennsylvania)

Author : Herb Belcourt
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
ISBN 13 : 1927366720
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking in the Woods written by Herb Belcourt and published by TouchWood Editions. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated edition of Herb Belcourt's remarkable life story with a brand-new foreword by the author. The eldest of ten children, Belcourt grew up in a small log home near the M�tis settlement of Lac Ste. Anne during the Depression. His father purchased furs from local First Nations and M�tis trappers and, with arduous work, began a family fur trading business that survives to this day. When Belcourt left home at 15 to become a labourer in coal mines and sawmills, his father told him to save his money so he could work for himself. Over the next three decades, Belcourt began a number of small Alberta businesses that prospered and eventually enabled him to make significant contributions to the M�tis community in Alberta. Belcourt has devoted over 30 years of his life to improving access to affordable housing and further education for Aboriginal Albertans. In 1971, he co-founded CanNative Housing Corporation, a nonprofit agency charged with providing homes for urban Aboriginal people who confronted housing discrimination in Edmonton and Calgary. In 2004, Belcourt and his colleagues established the Belcourt Brosseau M�tis Awards Fund, a $13-million endowment with a mandate to support the educational dreams of M�tis youth and mature students in Alberta and to make a permanent difference in the lives of M�tis Albertans.

Author : Rev. Anthony Ruff, O.S.B.
Publisher : LiturgyTrainingPublications
ISBN 13 : 1618330306
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Music and Liturgical Reform written by Rev. Anthony Ruff, O.S.B. and published by LiturgyTrainingPublications. This book was released on 2022-01-07 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Ruff, O.S.B., has written a brilliant, comprehensive, well-researched book about the treasures of the Church's musical tradition, and about the transformations brought about by liturgical reform. The liturgy constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium stated many revolutionary principles of liturgical reform. Regarding liturgical music, the Council's decrees mandated, on the one hand, the preservation of the inherited treasury of sacred music, and on the other hand, advocated adaptation and expansion of this treasury to meet the changed requirements of the reformed liturgy. In clear, precise language, he retrieves the Council's neglected teachings on the preservation of the inherited music treasury. He clearly shows that this task is not at odds with good pastoral practice, but is rather an integral part of it. The book proposes an alternate hermeneutic for understanding the Second Vatican Council's teachings on worship music.