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Go!: 30 Meditations on How Best to Love Your Neighbor As Yourself Paperback – March 1, 2016

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Every Catholic is a missionary, but we’re not all called to travel far from home to serve others. You can live out the missionary dimension of your Christian vocation right now! In Go! 30 Meditations on How Best to Love Your Neighbor as Yourself, Fr John Bartunek combines Bible passages & Church teaching with practical advice that you can apply to your daily life. Throughout the book, he clarifies commonly misunderstood terms like mission, apostolate, evangelization, & new evangelization.As Christians, we are called to encounter Christ, to be His disciples, and to bring Him into the world. Go! explores this missionary dimension as the third book in Fr. Bartunek’s Complete Christian Series, which includes The Better Part and Seeking First the Kingdom. As with all of his books, Go! can be used for individual spiritual reading, personal meditation, or in a small group.
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  1. Print length
    216 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Ministry23
  4. Publication date
    March 1, 2016
  5. Dimensions
    5.4 x 0.7 x 8.4 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0996581235
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0996581233
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Fr. John Bartunek, LC.

Fr. John received his BA in History from Stanford University in 1990. He was ordained a Catholic priest for the Legionaries of Christ in 2003 and earned his doctorate in moral theology in 2010. His most widely known book is called The Better Part: A Christ-Centered Resource for Personal Prayer. Fr. John currently splits his time between Michigan (where he continues his writing apostolate and serves as a confessor and spiritual director at the Queen of the Family Retreat Center) and Rome, where he teaches theology at Regina Apostolorum.

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The words of Fr. John Bartunek enable us to read, meditate, absorb, and apply the Gospels to our lives. These reflections serve as a catalyst to follow the Holy Spirit’s lead along the path of holiness.

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"With his usual lucidity and warmth, Fr John not only explains what it means to "go into all the world", but does so with practicality and inspiration. He writes with a deep understanding of the obstacles we face, the hesitancy we feel and the insecurities that hold us back - while showing the spiritual empowerment that overcomes them. Remarkably, he also finds an ideal balance between everyday experience and the underlying Scripture and Church teaching that is foundational to Christ's call to go." --Paul McCusker - Author, Dramatist, and Creative Director at Focus on the Family

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Fr. John Bartunek, LC, S.Th.D., received his BA in History from Stanford University in 1990. He comes from an evangelical Christian background and became a member of the Catholic Church in 1991. After college he worked as a high school history teacher, drama director, and baseball coach. He then spent a year as a professional actor in Chicago before entering the religious Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ in 1993. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 2003 and earned his doctorate in moral theology in 2010.He provided spiritual support on the set of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ while researching the 2005 Catholic best seller, Inside the Passion, the only authorized, behind-the-scene explanation of the film. Fr. John has contributed news commentary regarding religious issues on NBC, CNN, Fox, and the BBC. He also served as the English-language press liaison for the Vatican's 2005 Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist.His most widely known book is called The Better Part: A Christ-Centered Resource for Personal Prayer. His most recent books are Seeking First the Kingdom: 30 Meditations on How to Love God with All Your Heart, Soul, Mind, and Strength, and Answers: Catholic Advice for Your Spiritual Questions.Fr. John currently splits his time between Michigan and Rome, where he teaches theology at Mater Ecclesiae College and Regina Apostolorum. In his Order's General Directorate in Rome, he continues his writing apostolate. Fr. John answers questions about the spiritual life at SpiritualDirection.com.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ministry23; First Edition (March 1, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 216 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0996581235
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0996581233
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.4 x 0.7 x 8.4 inches
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Fr. John received his BA in History from Stanford University in 1990. He was ordained a Catholic priest for the Legionaries of Christ in 2003 and earned his doctorate in moral theology in 2010. His most widely known book is called The Better Part: A Christ-Centered Resource for Personal Prayer. His online, do-it-yourself retreats are available at RCSpirituality.org.

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Clara
5.0 out of 5 stars As a diplomat's daughter who spent her pivotal formative years ...
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As a diplomat's daughter who spent her pivotal formative years of childhood in predominantly non-Christian countries: Korea, Japan, India and Bangladesh, I hesitate and find discomfort with being evangelical. However Fr. John Bartunek, drawing from an abundance of scripture and papal teachings, builds a strong foundation convincing me otherwise and on the call and necessity for evangelization by the Catholic laity.
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Stay with the writings of the saints -- this book is a bit watered down and I found I had to read a lot to get any meat from it.
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Fr Matthew P. Schneider, LC
5.0 out of 5 stars Go and Evangelize!
Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2016
How do we evangelize? What does evangelization mean? How do charity and evangelization relate? These types of questions Fr John Bartunek tried to enter in his latest book of meditations.

As I read through them, I had a mixed reaction: I already know this but this explanation and format of meditation may be perfect to explain this to other people. As I’m studying a grad theology degree specifically focused on evangelization, I realized I might have a little more knowledge on the topic that would be expected from an average reader. I think Fr Bartunek does a much better job than I would have to overcome the “knowledge trap.” (The knowledge trap is the fact that when we know a topic we can sometimes assume other facts that someone who doesn’t know the topic would not be familiar with.)

GO! 30 Meditations on How Best to Love Your Neighbor as Yourself doesn’t have some set of stellar pull quotes that will blow you away. If anything, Fr John seems to have avoided overly strong quotes to focus our mind more in a meditative manner rather than in the explosive manner tons of pull quotes might be read. The exception is his chapter epigraphs. (Here’s a perfect example of the knowledge trap, because I’m guessing at least half of you didn’t know an epigraph in the book was the quotation after the chapter title before the text.) Instead, it really follows through on what it promises as a book of meditations to now each person to pray over and thoughtfully consider different aspects of evangelization.

The structure is quite obvious in 30 meditations, as the title says, but these are broken up into four parts which each start general and then work on specifics. The first part talks about how we are all called to evangelize as evangelization is the deepest identity of the Church. Then it moves to the call to the individual talk about the different traits we all have which can be used to evangelize. The third section focuses on a wide variety of ways people can evangelize. It concludes with a short section of four meditations on maintaining ourselves in the practical life of an apostle.

The meditations follow a point with ample quotes from the Bible and catechism but don’t have a strict structure except questions and a closing prayer at the end. It is clear that Fr John has chosen to focus meditations around themes rather than other meditation books that focus on explaining a Bible passage in each mediation to illustrate a theme. I think this leads to him going over each topic quicker than I would have liked to try to cover such a wide swath in a short book. This is a matter of difference in what style you like.

I would highly recommend the book for people just starting out in the spiritual or apostolic life. However, for those with lots of experience, you may find some of the material a little on the basic side like I did.

Let me leave you with one of the best lines from the book which sums the whole thing up: “Evangelizing is in fact the grace and vocation proper to the Church her deepest identity. She exists in order to evangelize, that is to say, in order to preach and teach, to be the channel of the gift of grace, to reconcile sinners with God, and to perpetuate Christ’s sacrifice in the Mass, which is the memorial of His death and glorious resurrection.” – Bl Pope Paul VI, Evangelii Nuntiandi 14

[Disclosure: I was given a free copy of this book for the purpose of reviewing it.]

Note: this was originally posted on the Regnum Christi Live blog.
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