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 Adèle
Joseph Stefanelli, SM, 565 pp.
$16.00 hardbound, $13.00 softbound
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$25.00 hardbound, $20.00 softbound
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Born in 1789,
the same year the French Revolution began, Adèle
de Batz de Trenquelléon was a woman of great zeal. She empowered
many women to grow in faith, community, and service to others while
deepening their relationship with God. This biography by Father
Joseph Stefanelli, SM, allows the reader to truly know Adèle by
walking through her childhood experiences, her spiritual journey,
her visioning of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate, and her
faith-filled years. Father Stefanelli uses her abundant letters to
support the successes and challenges of her life's ministry. Her
collaboration with Blessed William Joseph Chaminade and Marie
Thérèse de Lamourous was fundamental for the Marianist Family.
Father Stefanelli includes significant details of their shared
mission. This biography offers an in-depth look at Adèle's
spirituality, personality, and the numerous ways she responded to
God's call.
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The Armbruster Collection
Monograph No. 50
Jean Baptiste Armbruster, SM
135 pp., $5.00
No
charge to members of the SM or FMI
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This monograph
provides
the deep background into Chaminade’s spiritual thought, a thought that
is to be pondered with the heart. This collection is an excellent
resource for seasoned Marianists who seek a deeper understanding into
the mind of the Founder.
Armbruster examines the spiritual life and formation based on
Chaminade’s writings on direction, as well
as Chaminade’s affection for and use of the Three O’Clock Prayer and
the Apostle’s Creed.
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TheChaminade Legacy
Monograph Series - Document 53
Volume One - The Sodality of Bordeaux
711 pp., $16.00
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To prepare for
its bicentennial of 2017, the Society of Mary has produced a
critical edition of the writings and words of Blessed William Joseph
Chaminade. Now the initial offering of this multivolume French work–Ecrits et Paroles–is available in English under
the title The Chaminade Legacy.
The reader follows step by step the evolution of
Chaminade's thought and activity and examines the dynamism of a spirituality that, while remaining
always open to God's inspiration, must often adapt itself to the human condition, both political and cultural.
This edition follows both a chronological and an historical methodology.
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 Chaminade's
Message Today
by Eduardo Benlloch, SM
156 pp. $5.00.
No charge to
members of the SM or FMI
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Late in the 18th century, during the French Revolution,
Blessed William Joseph Chaminade was inspired at the feet of Our Lady
of Pillar in Saragossa to found the Marianist family. Are the
aspirations and inspirations of William Joseph Chaminade still
relevant in the 21st century? This question is thoroughly
addressed in Father Eduardo Benlloch’s Chaminade’s Message Today.
Father Benlloch explores the influences and experiences of Father
Chaminade’s lifetime, but not in a biographical context. Father
Benlloch’s purpose is far more long reaching. Father Chaminade’s
unfailing faith, devotion to Mary, and
dedication to prayer life are timeless qualities that are inspiring,
and Benlloch suggests even necessary, for today’s Marianists. Father
Benlloch unites Father Chaminade’s message with the problems facing
the world as the 21st century precariously unfolds. Blessed
William Joseph Chaminade was unique in his forethought and devotion to
sharing Christ’s message with future generations. Chaminade’s
Message Today inspires today’s Marianists to continue in this
mission.
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Commentary on the Rule of Life of the Society of Mary
Ambrogio Albano, SM, General Editor
English Version, 1423 pp., $10.00
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This book includes 52 articles that reflect the major themes in the
life of Marianist religious. For a listing of subject matter in this
work, please click on the link below for the contents page.
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Confidential Memorandum
Monograph 48
Narcisse Roussel, SM,
67 pp., $5.00
No charge to
members of the SM or FMI
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During his last years—when Father William Joseph Chaminade might have
looked for respite from all the turbulent periods of his life with
serene and unfettered days—he was subjected to a malicious attack.
His closest associates betrayed him. Narcisse Roussel, a member of the
General Administration while Chaminade was Superior General, wrote the
Confidential Memorandum. His purpose was to remove Chaminade from any
influence in the Society of Mary and to position himself to assume the
leadership. To those living in an age where
fair and just treatment under the law is fiercely guarded, the story
is even more disturbing because Father Chaminade never saw the
document with damaging—and false—testimony against him.
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Early Members of the Society of Mary (a researcher's tool)
Monograph 40
Lawrence J. Cada, SM.
553 pp., $16.00
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A Christian Educator of Youth in the Nineteenth Century: Father John Baptiste Lalanne
Pierre Humbertclaude, SM,
Translated by Herbert Pieper, SM
278 pp., $8.00
No
charge to members of the SM or FMI
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The parameters
of this biography are set forth in the Preliminary Note; “This biography
emphasizes both [Lalanne’s] philosophy and his achievements as a
Christian Educator of youth.” Although some biographical
information touches on Lalanne, the Marianist, those looking for a
better or deeper understanding of Lalanne as Marianist will not find it
here. Those, however, who are interested in
the pedagogical ideas and philosophies of an esteemed Marianist educator
need look no further.
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Jalons
Joseph Verrier, SM,
Translated by Joseph Stefanelli, SM,
4 volumes (492, 635, 422, 89 pp.)
$50.00 set
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This
four-volume work by Joseph Verrier, SM, presents the life of William
Joseph Chaminade from 1761 to 1816, ending with the foundation of the
Society of Mary. The French title images “following the guide markers
along the road which William Joseph Chaminade has taken.” We see the
early influences of Chaminade, his courage during the French
Revolution and exile to Spain. We witness his enduring belief in his
work as a missionary to young and old alike, men and women, in the
Sodality, in the religious orders, in schools and cities throughout
France.
Father
Chaminade wrote, “You are all missionaries.” The scholarship and
dedication of Father Verrier provide us with this detailed biography,
which is based on original sources and includes detailed notes. This
book is for the serious reader, someone willing to follow the path of
Chaminade step by step.
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Last Years of Father Chaminade:
1841-1850
Vincent R. Vasey, SM
152 pp., $3.00
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Unwittingly, for over 100 years, any person telling the story of the
final period of Father Chaminade’s life misrepresented it. In
fact, the clouds that formed during the stormy events of 1841-1850 hung
over members of the religious institutes he founded For a half
century,Chaminade
was relegated to little more than a footnote in the annals of SM
history. The calumny threatened to truncate
the progress of his Cause toward being
declared a saint. Complicating the matter is the fact that 50
years after the drama, a major biographer of Father Chaminade's
found it a problem of conscience to disclose the whole truth and couched
the sequence of events in a framework that was more palatable, but still
not truthful.
All this changed with the work of Father Vincent Vasey, SM. In
1966 he was elected Procurator General of the Society and Postulator of
the Cause of Father Chaminade. He researched notes, letters, and
legal documents related to the case. In 1970, he published
the remarkable findings on the actual course
of this aspect of Father Chaminade’s history. . . .
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Letters of Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon
Monograph 41
Adele de Batz de Trenquelleon
Translated by Joseph Roy, SM, Edited by
Joseph Stefanelli, SM
Vol 1, 383 pp; Vol 2, 544 pp. $8.00 each or $15.00
per set.
No charge to
members of the SM or FMI
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Father Joe Stefanelli,
SM, says the number of letters from Adèle was “certainly in the
thousands. Of them, only 737 have come down to us.” Because her
companions in service were scattered over a large geographical area,
she developed a system of letter writing. She wrote, “It is not so
much the style that should preoccupy us, but rather our own
improvement.”
We gain
insights into Adèle’s personality, her spirituality, her deep faith,
her mission, and her desire to live for God alone. Although her life
was short—she died when not quite 39—Adèle worked diligently to spread
the faith to all around her. The primary work of the Daughters of Mary
continued to be the development and guidance of young women of the
Sodality and the Association. During her life as a religious, she
founded convents at Tonneins, Condom, Agen, Arbois, and Bordeaux.
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The Marianist Person at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century
Hugh W. Bihl, SM
111 pp., $8.00
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Brother Hugh Bihl’s
work is a study of the theology of the human person in relationship to
Marianist spirituality. The Marianist Person also includes
Trinitarian, liberation, and feminist perspectives and builds a view
of the human person who is free and who participates in God’s creative
reality.
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Marianist Soundings
(a publication of NACMS
issued in the fall and spring)
$3.00 each, Subscription
$5.00 per year
No charge to
members of the SM or FMI
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Contains
short articles of interest to Marianists, both lay and vowed
religious. Published fall and spring; in an easy-to-use 7 x 8.5 inch
format.
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Mlle de Lamourous
Joseph Stefanelli, SM
517 pp., $16.00 hardbound, $13.00 softbound
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This biography of Marie Thérèse is
intriguing in the variety and number of “hats” she wore during her
long life. She was from the aristocratic class and had lived on a
country estate; during the Revolution, she bravely ministered in
Bordeaux; when she fled to the country at Pian, she served as
spiritual leader of the townspeople. She began a long association with
William Joseph Chaminade and was instrumental in the development of
the Sodality, the foundation of the Daughters of Mary, and the early
years of the Society of Mary. Her major work was the Miséricorde, a
refuge for women who wanted to reform their lives.
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NACMS Cumulative Index
NACMS, 2003
75 pp. $3.50 (on disk $2.00)
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The NACMS
Cumulative Index provides members
of the Marianist Family with a guide to materials published by NACMS,
the Marianist Resources Commission, and other groups for whom we
provide a distribution service. All the listings are available from
NACMS.
The NACMS
Cumulative Index has four sections: a title index, an author
index, a numerical index for publications issued in series (such as
the MRC Bulletin,
Marianist Soundings,
and Things Marianist), and a
subject index. The index is available in two formats: on a
CD in Word for $2.00 or in 8 1/2 x 11"
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The
Promised Woman
Monograph 37
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Marianist Spirituality,
May 1992
738 pp. $16.00
No charge to
members of the SM or FMI
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If one wishes
to know the wide array of perspectives in the Marianist world about
our common spirituality, this collection of papers will be of
interest. Some are remarkable for their scholarship; others are
touching in their ability to capture the spirit of a particular
culture and how Marianist spirit interfaces with it. While the
richness of the work lies in the expansive scope of thought and
experience contained in its pages, individuals and groups might find
that focusing on a set of papers from a cluster of writers will
provide much grist for the reflective mill. . . .
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Reading the Signs of the Times, Speaking to a Changing World: An Overview
of Catholic Theology from 1800 to 2000
John A. McGrath, SM
205 pp., $8.00
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Father John A.
McGrath has surveyed the main elements of Catholic theology of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries in this book. He concentrates on
currents in Western Europe, especially France, Germany, and Italy, to
show connections with Marianist life in this period. He begins with
the stream of French traditionalism after the French Revolution and
then follows the liberal line of thought of Felicité de Lamennais. He
treats the Tübingen School and the developments in English
Catholicism, especially as seen in the work of Cardinal Newman. . . .
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A Short History of Marianist Spirituality
Lawrence J. Cada, SM.
139pp., $8.00
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A Short History of Marianist Spirituality
is exactly that—short.
Yet within its 139 pages, Cada captures the essence of the origins and
development of Marianist spirituality. Ever attentive to language,
Cada examines the evolution of many phrases and concepts dear to
Marianists and carves a solid analysis for why Marianist spirituality
is fundamentally “lay,” “adaptive,” and “Modern.”
This work is an
essential primer for anyone wishing to enter more fully into the
history of our charism.
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The Spirit of Our Foundation, Vol. 4
471 pp. $13.00
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Suppression of Religious Orders in France
Monograph #51
Sister Lucia Ubbiali, FMI
180 pp. $5.00
No charge to
members of the SM or FMI
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This is a
fascinating history of what happens when a government promulgates laws
promoting anticlericalism. Sr. Lucia situates the struggles of
the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate not only in the
historical perspective of the French government’s repressive attitude
towards religious institutes, she also deals with the consequences of
these attitudes. Relying on interviews and archival material,
Sr. Lucia objectively reports the failings and mistakes unavoidable
when anyone is forced to grapple with laws and attitudes that threaten
an institute’s very survival and, by extension, one’s own “survival”
or way of life. Another interesting part of this history
describes the providential merger of the Third Order of Auch, a merger
that assured the survival of the Daughters of Mary.
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 Venerable Chaminade’s Etat: A Forerunner of Secular Institutes
Herbert Kramer, SM
159 pp., $3.00
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Venerable
William Joseph Chaminade (1761-1850) was one of the very few
forerunners of today’s Secular Institutes. Born in Perigueux, France,
he devoted half a century after the French Revolution to the expansion
of a prosperous Marian Sodality and to the direction of two religious
congregations, the Institute of the Daughters of Mary and the Society
of Mary. But his true plans had been to unite certain young men and
women within the ranks of his Bordeaux Sodality in the observance of
the traditional vows of evangelical perfection while remaining in the
secular world. . . . The time has come however for his pioneering
initiatives to be presented to the modern Church in which Secular
Institutes have become an approved vocation to evangelical perfection.
That is the purpose of the present study.
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William Joseph Chaminade, His Apostolic Intent and His Engagement with
Schools, Instruction, and Education: An Historical Portrait
Monograph 42
Joseph H. Lackner, SM
58 pp., $5.00
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If you are seeking
material on the educational vision of Father Chaminade and an
exploration of the historical realties that shaped his and the first
brothers', approach to education, this
treatise is for you. It contains material on early Marianist
methods of education, as well as the Founder's
spiritual wisdom on instructing youth. Because of the nature of
William Joseph Chaminade, His Apostolic Intent, this work is
recommended mostly for school administrators and for those who seek to
deepen their philosophy of Marianist education. (This work is an excerpt
from Father Lackner’s dissertation on Marianist education.)
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 Writings
on Faith
William Joseph
Chaminade,
Translated by Joseph Roy, SM,
2 volumes (609
pp.)
$16.00 set
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Throughout his lifetime, Father William Joseph Chaminade continually
made references to faith, so NACMS is pleased to announce a new
two-volume set in English devoted to the words of the Founder in
this area, Writings on Faith.
This work, produced by Jean-Baptiste Armbruster, SM, has been
translated from the original French by Joseph Roy, SM.
The first volume contains selections from Chaminade’s letters from
1796 to 1849, 53 years of his active life in the service of the
Church. Time and time again he urges his correspondents to allow the
spirit of faith to transform their entire being, their intelligence,
their heart, their will, and their decisions.
Volume two is divided into two sections: faith in the writings for
lay people and faith in the writings for religious life. Beginning
with his writings on the Marian Sodality, the collection then moves
to extracts from Manual of the Servant of Mary and selections from
retreats for sodalists in which Father Chaminade often developed
ideas to strengthen them in their Christian faith. Notes d’Instruction
were brief texts he used for preaching and teaching. Many biblical
texts on faith enrich these passages and allow us to realize more
fully to what extent Father Chaminade knew, used, and taught the
Bible. This section includes writings from 1801 to 1844
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