Generous Faith: Stories to Inspire Abundant Living

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By: Sister Bridget Haase OSU

Paraclete Press / 2009 / Paperback

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In Generous Faith, Sister Bridget Haase shares inspiring and uplifting anecdotes that show you how to live a fully awake and connected life. She has served in Appalachia, Mexico and Africa, among poor mountain folk and malnourished children. She now serves at The Boston Home, a long-term care facility for people with MS and other degenerative diseases.

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Title: Generous Faith: Stories to Inspire Abundant Living
By: Sister Bridget Haase OSU
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 190
Vendor: Paraclete Press
Publication Date: 2009

Dimensions: 6.50 X 5.38 (inches)
Weight: 5 ounces
ISBN: 1557256152
ISBN-13: 9781557256157
Stock No: WW256157

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Experience the generosity of God in this very moment. Learn how to trust and experience God's presence in your life.

"In addition to sharing powerful stories of seemingly ordinary experiences, Sister wisely directs us to take the time to ponder, reflect, and be attentive to the ways the Lord is working on our lives. We all need to make time and space for God if we want to understand our calling and our mission. With the help of the very accessible guided meditations Sister has provided, we can all grow in faith and confidence that we can witness Christ's love to the people in our lives." —Cardinal Sean O'Malley, Archbishop of Boston

This simple and joy-filled book opens our hearts to what is in the air we breathe, under our feet, and in this very moment: the abundant life, a gift from God. As Sr. Bridget says with her infectious enthusiasm, all we need to do is cultivate this awareness through three basic practices:

Living in the moment
Trusting in Divine care
Experiencing God’s presence.

This is not a how-to book of methods and techniques. Rather, it is a collection of stories that give shape and face to these three practices. The people in these stories ask us to re-examine our own journey and change our perspective. In so doing, we take a second look at our life, and realize that what we have is more than enough for it is, quite simply, most abundant.

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For more than 50 years, Sr. Bridget Haase, OSU has been a well-traveled Ursuline Sister, having taught students in Appalachia and across the U.S. and in Mexico, ministered to starving children in Sudan, East Africa, and lived in Ursuline communities in West Africa, Italy, and England. In Massachusetts she worked as an infant/toddler early educator in an HIV/AIDS day care and was spirituality coordinator at The Boston Home, a long-term care facility for those coping with multiple sclerosis and other neurological disorders. Bridget co-hosted "Spirit and Life," a weekly radio show on the Relevant Radio network, leads parish missions and retreats across the U.S., contributes reflections to Living Faith: Daily Catholic Devotions, and serves as Sister Storyteller, along with her puppet-companions Legs, Legette, Honeysuckle, and Miss Sunshine for local schoolchildren, ages 3-4 years as well as ministry at the local McDonalds.

She is the author of Generous Faith: Stories to Inspire Abundant Living and Doors to the Sacred: Everyday Events as Hints of the Holy ( Paraclete Press). Her honors include the Exceptional Women Award from Magic 106.7, Greater Boston Media; being featured both on the "Making a Difference" Segment of NBC Nightly News and as the cover story in St. Anthony Messenger Magazine; an honorary Doctor of Theology degree from Stonehill College; and the first recipient of the Caritas Dei award from Relevant Radio. Enjoy her website: www.wisdomwonder.com

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"I have seen the love and compassion of Sr. Bridget firsthand, in a ministry we have shared for years. She is a woman that not only talks about generous faith, but lives it daily. Enjoy this book — it will open your eyes to see God everywhere and in everything."— Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, MD, Co-Pastor, Bethel AME Church, Boston; and Executive Director, My Sister's Keeper

"In addition to sharing powerful stories of seemingly ordinary experiences, Sister wisely directs us to take the time to ponder, reflect, and be attentive to the ways the Lord is working on our lives. We all need to make time and space for God if we want to understand our calling and our mission. With the help of the very accessible guided meditations Sister has provided, we can all grow in faith and confidence that we can witness Christ's love to the people in our lives."

—Cardinal Sean O'Malley, Archbishop of Boston