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    Happy to be Holy?: A Guide to Gaudete et Exsultate
    Happy to be Holy?: A Guide to Gaudete et Exsultate
    Happy to be Holy?: A Guide to Gaudete et Exsultate
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    Happy to be Holy?: A Guide to Gaudete et Exsultate

    By Alan Hilliard

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    How can we know what it is to be holy? What difference can holiness make in our lives? Far from being a matter for only the ‘Holy Joes’ among us, holiness is the concern of all Christians, and is intimately connected to a life of Christian Joy. In How to be Holy, Fr Alan Hilliard takes us on a journey through Pope Francis’ latest Apostolic Exhortation. Chapter by chapter he explains the significance of Pope Francis’ remarks in an illuminating, and accessible way. Included are extracts from Gaudete et Exsultate, personal introductions to each chapter, and sets of questions to encourage you on your own spiritual journey. Pope Francis wants to help tune us in to God, and in How to be Holy Fr Alan Hilliard wants to help us tune in to Pope Francis! Rejoice and be glad!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMessenger Publications
    Release dateDec 31, 2018
    ISBN9781788121668
    Happy to be Holy?: A Guide to Gaudete et Exsultate

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      Happy to be Holy? - Alan Hilliard

      APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION OF POPE FRANCIS

      GAUDETE ET EXSULTATE

      PREFACE

      For a number of reasons, I was bowled over by the beauty of Gaudete et Exsultate, on which this book is based. Firstly, because many of the discussions about the Church going on at the moment fail to mention people’s deeply held faith, and their own beliefs. Much of the debate in various media streams makes the Church out to be just another sociopolitical institution. Gaudete et Exsultate, on the other hand, gets to the core of the life of a Christian: an inherent desire to know God. Secondly, Gaudete et Exsultate realises what it is to be human and places the journey of faith alongside our human limitations, of which we are all too aware. Thirdly, Gaudete et Exsultate has conviction – there is an author behind the words who believes what is being said and he wants us to believe it as well.

      Officially this book is an ‘Apostolic Exhortation’ the title of which, ‘Gaudete et Exsultate’, may be off-putting so I refer to it simply as ‘Gaudete’. The purpose of an Apostolic Exhortation is not to impose upon anybody but to encourage or exhort people to focus on something important. Most of us will not read the twenty two thousand word document so I have broken it down, extracting what I think are some of the key phrases from each chapter. It you want more you can refer back to the original document! I have also introduced a few stories to help us enter into every chapter with a few questions to set us up for the journey.

      I read recently that this century will be a century of ‘practices’. In other words we will rely less on prompts from the world and its institutions and more on prompts from our own souls. To flourish or even survive as human beings made in the image and likeness of God, this is the only option as the ways of the world are so powerful and focused that we can be buffeted around like leaves in the wind. History tells us that the best practices are those born from spirituality and what’s more they are proven to help us remain strong. Enjoy the book – may you find time to ‘Rejoice and be Glad’ for the wonder of your being.

      Fr Alan Hilliard

      Coordinator of the Pastoral Care

      and Chaplaincy Service

      at Dublin Institute of Technology

      AN INTRODUCTION TO GAUDETE

      My modest goal is to repropose the call to holiness in a practical way for our own time, with all its risks, challenges and opportunities. (P

      ARA

      2)

      We catch up once a month. If not over dinner it is always a phone call at least. We are from different disciplines but it’s fair to say that we both want the world to be a better place and we both believe that there is not enough attention paid to the good people in it.

      He caught me on the hop the other day. Like many people he has time for religion because he knows a lot of good people

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