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Essential reading for anyone considering a celibate life in the world,
This review is from: Celebrating the Single Life (Paperback)
This is one of the best spiritual books I have ever read. Susan Muto is not only theologically learned, but she also writes from experience as a single, celibate laywoman living her vocation in the world. Muto cogently defends the place of singleness in Christianity and elucidates the single life as a calling just as noble, spiritual, honorable, and apostolically productive as marriage, the priesthood and diaconate, and the religious life.
Reading this book truly changed my life. I knew that I wasn't called to marriage, and I was starting to have doubts about my possible callings to the priesthood and/or the religious life. I had given some thought to the single life, but I had a limited understanding of it. This book opened my eyes and made me realize that this way of life really is for me. I continue to re-read parts of it for continued enlightenment and inspiration. It gave me a road map for my celibacy and growth in Christian charity. In addition to the important theological context that Muto provides, she offers a mainly practical take on lay celibacy, explaining precisely what celibate love for one's sisters and brothers in the human family entails and offering important advice such as a single's exercising both love and "forgetfulness" with people in order to avoid excessively close friendships that may antagonize others. She offers great ideas such as conversing with Jesus while going about one's work. She includes chapters on those who are single by circumstance and single parents. In addition, there is an insightful introduction by Muto's frequent collaborator, the late Father Adrian van Kaam, himself a brilliant spiritual writer. Though Muto writes from a Catholic perspective, her wisdom is thoroughly applicable for celibate lay people of any Christian tradition. Even non-Christian celibates will find much of relevance to their lives within these pages. If you are a single person of religious faith and even remotely considering embracing celibacy or are unhappy with your single state and struggling to cope, you must read this excellent book.
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foundational formation, forming mystery, single vocation, formative spirituality, formative reading, formation mystery, solitary vocation, formation tradition, human formation, conventual life Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Dimension Books, Image Books, Teresa of Avila, Garden City, John of the Cross, Adrian van Kaam, Dag Hammarskjöld, Harper Torchbooks, Paulist Press, Desert Fathers, Lumen Gentium, House of God, Soren Kierkegaard, The World of Silence, Body of Christ, Living Creatively, Otilio Rodriguez New!
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- On Being Yourself by Adrian Van Kaam on page 46, page 47, and page 54
- The Point of View : Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol 22 by Soren Kierkegaard on page 46, and page 52
- The Imitation of Christ by Thomas A Kempis on page 110, and page 117
- Dogmatic Constitution on the Church: Lumen Gentium by Vatican II on page 167, and page 174
- Point of View for My Work as an Author: A Report to History by Soren Kierkegaard on page 46, and page 52
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- The Courage to Be Chaste by Benedict J. Groeschel in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Understanding Christian Spirituality by Michael Downey on page 74, and page 87
- Sexual Ethics: An Evangelical Perspective by Stanley J. Grenz in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Singling: A New Way to Live the Single Life by John R. Landgraf in Back Matter
- Young Adult Ministry by Terry Hershey in Back Matter
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