Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon
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Talking Points: Who Started All This Anyhow?
As Talking Points is an electronic document, it will be emailed to you by NACMS staff. Please order via the NACMS website. No shipping and handling apply to your order of Talking Points.
Talking Points contains prayer, scripture, and reflection questions related to the following issues of Things Marianist.
Things Marianist: Who Started All of This, Anyhow?
by Joseph Stefanelli, SM
This is an easy-to-read history of the three people the Marianist Family call "the Founders." The lives and contributions of William Joseph Chaminade, Marie Thérèse de Lamourous, and Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon are highlighted. Readers can grasp the story of each and find reference material for more historical detail and context.
Walking with Adèle
by Marie-Joëlle Bec, FMI
Translated by Arthur Cherrier, SM
93 pp.
Introduced by an excerpt from one of Adèle’s letters and closed with a prayer summarizing Adèle’s thoughts on a subject, each chapter in this little book invites the reader to see the subject with Adèle’s heart and spirit. Each chapter offers, in flowing narrative, excerpts from Adèle’s letters encouraging a deepening in the chosen virtue, devotion or attitude deemed important to her.
Retreat with Adèle
by Eileen J. Cehyra, FMI
24 pp., $3.00
A Retreat with Adèle is a spiritual guide which takes readers on a seven-day retreat. The booklet is filled with scripture passages centering on Jesus and Mary; the words of Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon, Foundress of the Marianist Sisters; and reflection questions which can be used for personal or group activities. It is geared toward anyone making a personal retreat or for someone seeking moments of quiet away from the "busyness" of life.
Origins of the Marianist Family: Notes on Marianist History
by Eduardo Benlloch, SM
364 pp.
It reads like a Hollywood thriller--and in fact it includes a DVD, called Where We Were Born--yet it is the essence of our Marianist history, the true story of our origins, filled with moments of joy, betrayal, and uncertainty. And, it clearly depicts the greatness of our Founder, Blessed William Joseph Chaminade. What is it?
Letters of Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon (2-Volume Set)
by Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon
Translated by Joseph Roy, SM, Edited by Joseph Stefanelli, SM
Vol 1, 383 pp; Vol 2, 544 pp. $20.00 per set
Monograph 41
To order a single volume of Letters of Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon, visit the listing for (volume 1) or for (volume 2).
Letters of Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon (Volume 2)
by Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon
Translated by Joseph Roy, SM, Edited by Joseph Stefanelli, SM
Vol 1, 383 pp; Vol 2, 544 pp.
Monograph 41
For both volumes of Letters of Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon, which are sold a discount, visit Letters of Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon (2-Volume Set)
Letters of Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon (Volume 1)
by Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon
Translated by Joseph Roy, SM, Edited by Joseph Stefanelli, SM
Vol 1, 383 pp; Vol 2, 544 pp.
Monograph 41
For both volumes of Letters of Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon, which are sold a discount, visit Letters of Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon (2-Volume Set)













