Prayer and Practice in the American Catholic Community

by Joseph P. Chinnici, Angelyn Dries, Christopher J. Kauffman

Overview

Prayer and Practice is a treasury of ninety-three original documents portraying the relationship of prayer and spirituality with the public life of American Catholicism. This book offers a glimpse at how handing on the faith, living a life of prayer, and finding their way in a new land are kaleidoscopically related in the American Catholic experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781570753428
Publisher:	Orbis Books
Publication date:	11/28/2000
Series:	American Catholic Identities Series
Pages:	301
Product dimensions:	6.03(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.81(d)

Table of Contents

	Foreword	xiii
	Acknowledgments	xvii
	General Introduction	xxi
Part 1	Foundations: 1785-1865
	Introduction	1
1.	Handing on the Faith: The Catechetical Tradition, 1785-93	4
2.	Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, 1792	6
3.	Sunday Obligation without a Priest, 1798	12
4.	Confraternal Prayer, 1805	13
5.	Ecclesiastical Discipline and Community Formation, 1810	17
6.	Early Rites of Passage, 1826	18
7.	The First Council of Baltimore, 1829	21
8.	Sunday Observance in Protestant and Catholic America, 1840	23
9.	The Story of a Conversion, 1845-54	26
10.	A Popular Image of the Church, 1846	28
11.	The Practice of Retreat, 1846	29
12.	A Bishop's Interior Life, 1850	32
13.	Pastoral on the Immaculate Conception, 1854	35
14.	A Model of Sanctity, 1857	38
15.	The Sacramental: Universal Access to the Holy, 1858	42
16.	The Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Peace, 1860	45
17.	The Practice of Lenten Penance, 1862	48
18.	Praying for Peace during the Civil War, 1863	51
19.	Prayer and Charity during the Civil War, 1865	54
Part 2	Construction of an American Catholic Identity: 1866-1917
	Introduction	55
20.	The Work of the Association of the Perpetual Rosary, 1866	59
21.	Promotion of Uniformity of Discipline, 1866	62
22.	"History of the Sodalities," 1866	63
23.	Sunday Morning at St. Stephen's, New York, 1868	65
24.	Devotional Life in the Gilded Age, 1870-85	69
25.	Prayer Life in a Rural Parish, 1870-1900	71
26.	A Pastoral Letter on the Sacred Heart, 1873	74
27.	An Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart, 1874	76
28.	Using a Sacramental, 1876-1917	78
29.	A Missionary Model of Holiness, 1880-1900	82
30.	An American Model of Holiness, 1883	84
31.	The Choice of a Way of Life, 1883	88
32.	Catechisms and Prayer Books, 1884	90
33.	A Native American Rite of Passage, 1884	93
34.	The Religious Meaning of Mortification, 1888	94
35.	Appeal to the Charitable on Behalf of the Colored Missions, 1890	96
36.	The Use of Sacred Images, 1892	100
37.	The Promotion of Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, 1895	103
38.	Litany for the Conversion of America, 1908	107
39.	The Drama of the Passion Unfolds in the West, 1910	109
40.	A Visit to the Blessed Sacrament, 1916	113
Part 3	The Era of Catholic Action: 1918-45
	Introduction	115
41.	Postwar Social and Spiritual Reconstruction, 1919	118
42.	The Spiritual Retreat for Women, 1922	124
43.	The Apostolate of the Choir Singer, 1923	126
44.	The Example of the Saints, 1925	128
45.	The Meaning of Suffering, 1927	129
46.	A Geography of Prayer, 1927	131
47.	A View from the Outside, 1928	133
48.	The Popularity of the Liturgical Movement, 1928	135
49.	Devotions in Troubled Times, 1930	138
50.	The Practice of Frequent Communion, 1930	142
51.	Learning to Pray by Doing, 1930	146
52.	Roman Catholicism--a Liberal Appraisal, 1931	148
53.	The Liturgy and Social Reconstruction, 1935	150
54.	The Spiritual Foundations of Catholic Action, 1935	152
55.	A New Social Catholicism, 1936	156
56.	Cardinal Mundelein Extols Frances Cabrini as a "Real Christian Heroine," 1938	159
57.	The Way of the Cross, 1939	162
58.	A Student Plan for Catholic Action, 1941	164
59.	The Divine Ideal of Holiness, 1942	169
60.	"A Surge to the New Testament," 1943	174
61.	A Program for the Christian Family, 1944-45	176
Part 4	Fruition of Early Reforms: 1946-79
	Introduction	181
62.	A Postwar Revival, 1945	185
63.	Mary, Model of a Woman's Spirituality, 1949	192
64.	Katherine Burton Reflects on Her Conversion, 1949	194
65.	Grandma Tinley Reads from the Bible, 1950	197
66.	Enthronement of the Sacred Heart in the Home, 1950s	199
67.	The Mystical Body and the Mass, 1951	205
68.	Patrick Peyton Explains the Rosary, 1951	209
69.	The U.S. Catholic Bishops Publish National Regulations on Fast and Abstinence, 1951	213
70.	Why Catholics Read the Bible, 1952	215
71.	A New American Ritual, 1952-54	218
72.	Fulton J. Sheen's Television Chalk Talks on Reparation, 1953	222
73.	Catholics as Practical Secularists, 1953	225
74.	The Parish Is Our Family, 1953	228
75.	Women's Apostolic Spirituality, 1956	231
76.	The Christian Family Movement and the Mystical Body, 1957	234
77.	Mission Circles Tabulate Their Work, 1959	237
78.	Making Community Prayer More Liturgical, 1965	239
79.	An Early Survey on Liturgical Change, 1964	242
80.	The Way of the Cross Moves to the Streets, 1965	246
81.	The Traumas of Change, 1965	250
82.	A Postconciliar Piety Void? 1966	253
83.	Richmond Synod's Directives on Ecumenism, 1966	258
84.	A New Approach to Penance, 1966	260
85.	Latin Americans' Request to Update the Family Rosary Crusade, 1966	263
86.	The Birth of Catholic Pentecostalism, 1967-70	267
87.	The House of Prayer Movement, 1969	270
88.	Revitalizing Contemplative Prayer, 1969	273
89.	The Renewal of the Retreat Movement, 1973	276
90.	The Distribution of the Eucharist, 1976	280
91.	The U.S. Bishops Introduce the Theme of the International Eucharistic Congress, 1976	282
92.	Spiritual Sources Gathered from Mystics of East and West, 1977	285
93.	The Sisters of St. Agnes Compile a Creed, 1979	288
	Index	291