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"In the book Renouncing Violence, Sr. Mary Margaret Funk takes a uniquely monastic view of violence and its end. There are no charts or graphs on violence, but rather windows into her monastic practice, wisdom, and faith. I enjoyed and learned the most from her personal stories and self-reflection, going deep into her own anger, searching for a solution and ultimately finding it. Her understanding of thoughts and where they came from, helped along by her many years of work with Buddhists was particularly interesting and useful. The phrase, `World peace begins with inner peace' seems to be the heart and soul of this book."Ven. Kusala Bhikshu"This is a necessary book at a time when, as Meg Funk puts it, we are `in a global bad mood,' and angry voices and violent actions grab the headlines. She makes a convincing argument that the Christian tradition—in Scripture, in the life and death of Jesus, in the coming of the Holy Spirit, and in the practice of prayer—offers a way out of retaliation and violence. As challenging as this book is, it is also reassuring: if the renunciation of violence is our response to the magnitude of God's love for us, Funk asserts that it is the Spirit who gives us the capacity to find our way to reconciliation and peace."Kathleen Norris, Author of Dakota: A Spiritual Geography and The Cloister Walk"In the current time, violence is pervasive and pronounced. Violence grips our collective and individual spirits. In her book, Renouncing Violence, Sr. Meg Funk skillfully invites us to return to the deep-seated roots of the monastic tradition in an effort to renounce that which has taken hold of us during this tenuous and volatile time. By renouncing violence in all forms, we rediscover who we are and return to that which we are called to be—people of love and compassion, becoming healers for that which violence has destroyed. As Sr. Meg emphatically states throughout her book, in renouncing violence we shift from harm to healing. Renouncing Violence is needed now more than ever. The book invites us all to practice training our minds and hearts from self-consciousness to God-consciousness for a world in desperate need of peace, reconciliation, and freedom from the forces of evil."Mary M. Heintzkill, MTS, BCC, Director of Spiritual Care and Mission Integration, Ascension"In the face of almost overwhelming anger and violence active in our culture and world-at-large, we ask, `How can we bring about healing and reconciliation?' Sr. Mary Margaret Funk offers a means: inner work. With the grace of the Holy Spirit, we can train our minds to uproot angry thoughts and actions that fuel violence in our world. Renouncing Violence is a timely, important, and practical guide to the necessary inner work to become vessels of healing in our world."Fr. Daniel Chowning, OCD"Once again Sister Meg has taken the ancient desert spirituality and made it meaningful for twenty-first century city dwellers. She has a wonderful way of being faithful to her Roman Catholic tradition while stretching us to experience God's all-encompassing compassionate love. Meg turns the tables on some age-old interpretations of Jesus' behavior in the temple; the wrathful God who demands atonement for our sins and the Church as God's instrument for punishment."She is an excellent teacher. As a Benedictine living in Mexico and often surrounded by violence, I might have preferred a `quick fix' to my situation; but then anyone who knows Meg Funk would never go to her for easy, `out-there' solutions to their problems. A word of advice: don't miss the appendices."Patricia Henry, OSB, Monasterio Pan de Vida, Torreon, Mexico

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About the Author

Mary Margaret Funk is a Benedictine nun of Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove, Indiana. From 1994 through 2004, she served as executive director of Monastic Interreligious Dialogue, which fosters dialogue among monastics of the world's religions. In addition to the volumes of the Matters Series, she is the author of Islam Is . . . : An Experience of Dialogue and Devotion and Into the Depths: A Journey of Loss and Vocation.

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Product details

Paperback: 168 pages

Publisher: Liturgical Press (September 25, 2018)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0814684599

ISBN-13: 978-0814684597

Product Dimensions:

5 x 0.4 x 7 inches

Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

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Few remain among us who know, practice, and can transmit the deepest, most profound spiritual practices of the Christian tradition with grace and true understanding. Sr. Meg Funk is one of these, a true catechist, formed by a lifetime committed to Benedictine monasticism. Her perspectives on renouncing violence as a personal spiritual practice have been broadened out by lengthy engagement and diaglogue with other spiritual traditions devoted to peace as a transformational practice. Recognizing in her own experience of anger how thoughts and feelings escalate into violence, this master teacher brings forward in accessible ways the wisdom of elders and saints of the faith which enable us through grace to transform anger into calm and potential violence into humility and love. Those who recognize their own as well as our world’s great need for such teachings and welcome guidance on how to put them into practice will find much to drawn upon here. Sr. Meg’s enlightening chapter on peaceful uses of holy water in daily practice is a beautiful example. The bibliography alone is a compact summary of the wisdom embedded in the Christian spiritual tradition.

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