Jeffrey Kirby
Autore di Kingdom of happiness : living the beatitudes in everyday life
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Opere di Jeffrey Kirby
Sanctify Them in Truth: How the Church's Social Doctrine Addresses the Issues of Our Time (2022) 12 copie
A Journey to Mount Carmel: A Nine-day Preparation for Investiture in the Brown Scapular of Our Lady (2022) 3 copie
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- Nome canonico
- Kirby, Jeffrey
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 22
- Utenti
- 268
- Popolarità
- #86,166
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 22
- Lingue
- 1
Fr. Kirby first identifies the sources of unhappiness: the false promises—the anti-beatitudes—of a fallen, busy world. He explains how these anti-beatitudes, far from leading to happiness, tear down and rob us of happiness. Kirby leads the reader out of this darkness, pointing us to Jesus Christ as the saint-tested and centuries-proven source of authentic peace, true joy, and radical happiness.
To unveil the path to happiness in Jesus Christ, Kirby does not rely on emotional arguments or soft spirituality. He turns to the boldness of the Lord’s Beatitudes, the real promises to true happiness. He teaches about the love, power, and self-control within them by showing their practical, life-application in today’s world.
Kingdom of Happiness shows that the Beatitudes are not a self-help guide or a boring list of eight more things to do, but are a series of grace-filled, life-giving promises that excite our souls and point us along a way of life that assures us of true, lasting happiness.… (altro)