Sacred Voice Is Calling Personal Vocation and Social Conscience

Name: Sacred Voice Is Calling Personal Vocation and Social Conscience
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ISBN: 9781570756450

ISBN-10: 1570756457

ISBN-13: 9781570756450

Edition: 2006

Authors: John Neafsey

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What does it mean to find and follow our personal calling? Howdo we distinguish between the "still, small voice" of our authentic vocation and all of the other competing counterfeit voices in our hearts and the needs of our world? Drawing widely on the wisdom of saints, sages, and the traditions of spiritual direction, Neafsey describes a path to living in the place, as Frederick Buechner has put it, "where our deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Orbis Books
Publication date: 4/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 210
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English



Preface



Introduction: Personal Vocation and Social Conscience


Meanings of Vocation


The Voice


Learning to Listen


Learning to Live



Sacred Voices: Listen, So That You May Live


Spirit Persons


The Cry of the Poor


The Still, Small Voice



Discernment: The Inner Compass of the Heart


The Inner Compass


Discernment of Spirits


Three Key Questions


Discernment and Social Analysis



Authenticity: To Live as though the Truth Were True


True Self, False Self


Wholeness and Holiness


Truth and Lies, War and Peace


The Truth Will Make You Free



Passion and Compassion: The Heart's Calling


Reasons of the Heart


Falling in Love


Our Desires and God's Desires


Compassion and the Heart of God



Vision: The Quest for a Worthy Dream


The Vision Quest


Dreams: God's Forgotten Language


The Dream with a Capital "D"


Prophetic Imagination and the Dream of God



Suffering: The Call of the Wounded Healer


Growing Pains


Symptoms as a Voice of the Soul


The Wounded Healer


Redemptive Suffering



Conscience: The Morality of the Heart


The Inner Voice of Conscience


Real and False Guilt


The Sound Heart and the Deformed Conscience



Social Conscience: Awakening from the Sleep of Inhumanity


Option for the Poor


The War on Terror and the Call of Conscience


The Call to Speak



Conclusion: A Still and Quiet Conscience


Success and Failure


Risks and Mistakes


Love and Death


How Can I Keep from Singing?


Notes


Index