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After many years of experience with churches, I observed that the maturing of the churches in general was being thwarted by the lack of genuine apostolic and five fold ministry. The book was written to illustrate the need for genuine fatherly leadership from the heart of maturity. Most books about apostolic leadership, although good and helpful, were more or less written from the point of view of application and performance of ministry rather than from the aspect of heart. Key editorial points are: Why we need leaders to be fathers. Why fathers should be honored and the results in the church...

Attracted to God Spiritual Exercises are an occasion to listen more attentively to the divine voice, “Listen to me, son, acquire knowledge and apply your heart to my words.” (Eclo 16,23) This manual of Spiritual Exercises is the result of the author’s meditations, prayers and reflections during various stays in the Monastery of Poblet. We offer and share them with all those people who wish to use them, in their day to day life or in the context of a long retreat, to deepen the following of Christ, to grow as children of God and reflect over the meaning of life. We also offer them to all ...

¿Crees en los ángeles? –Me preguntaron un día. - ¡Claro que sí! –respondí de inmediato. Lo que jamás imaginé es que ellos, los ángeles, fueran a intervenir en mi vida de la forma en que lo hicieron. Esta podría ser la reflexión de Julio, el protagonista de Diamantes en la noche. Él y su esposa Sara son un matrimonio feliz; tienen dos hijas y tres nietos. Ambos aman a Dios y le sirven mientras disfrutan de una hermosa estabilidad en todos los ámbitos de su vida. De pronto, su existencia se ve dinamitada por un comunicado que quiebra los pilares de su vida. De tal calibre es el ...

Nos encontramos, a nivel global, ante una crisis fundamental de tener que repensar y reformular, en todas partes, los laicismos y los secularismos. Y no se trata de la vuelta de la religión, de la vuelta a lo tradicional, sino que se trata de repensar el estado moderno, que permita precisamente el tipo de pluralismo cultural religioso con el que vamos a tener que vivir y convivir a nivel global de ahora en adelante. Conversación académica mantenida en la Universidad de Deusto con José Casanova.