Holiness for Housewives And Other Working Women edition by Hubert van Zeller Religion Spirituality eBooks
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Housewives learn how you can stay serene — and even find God —amid the dishes and the diapers! This unique spiritual guide will help you grow holier and more prayerful as you perform the most menial household chores — not in spite of those chores, but in the midst of them.
Written especially for women in charge of households, Holiness for Housewives will help you better understand and respect your vocation as a housewife — and discover in it your own God-given path to sanctity.
These pages will show you how to find meaning in even the most boring work; pray in the midst of a bustling household; bear the stress of those long days in which the work never seems to end; develop a greater awareness of God’s presence — even amid the diapers and the dirty dishes; learn to rely more on your will and less on emotions when life seems to be an endless round of drudgery; and handle your burdens and sorrows with prayers that are especially fashioned for housewives.
Let Holiness for Housewives show you how to find and savor the lasting pleasures that await you in your noble, God-given vocation as a housewife!
Holiness for Housewives And Other Working Women edition by Hubert van Zeller Religion Spirituality eBooks
Dom van Zeller is one of the few priests writing for lay people who really gets it. Nothing here about "If you were really devout you'd find an hour every day for prayer" (while your children do what, exactly?). Here is genuinely valuable spiritual advice for mothers of families. Highly recommended.Product details
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Holiness for Housewives And Other Working Women edition by Hubert van Zeller Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
i love the insight in this book. It has drastically changed the way I look at prayer. The language is moderately heavy. I find that I have to read it more slowly than other books to let the information digest. Great reading for stay-at-home moms who want to deepen the quality of their prayer life.
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I admit that this book wasn't what I was expecting when I first came across it. But it has turned out to be the richest and wisest book on the vocation of wife and mother that I have read. A mere 63 pages of text, it is not written in a light, chatty style with "dust jacket sound bites" but rather as an experienced spiritual director speaks to a soul, with directness, depth, and understanding. And it's not to be read in one sitting, but each section taken a little at a time to meditate upon and internalize.
It is divided into three sections
1) Your special vocation as a housewife
2) How to pray amidst your daily duties
3) How to grow holier day by day
and each are further divided into subsections such as "Don't be misled by a false notion of holiness," "Learn the two ways to pray and work," and "Beware of the temptation to run away." Though there are no personal stories such as one might find in a woman's or parenting magazine to chuckle over and say "Oh, yeah I've been in that situation," each topic goes to the deepest parts of what marriage is - a vocation, one's personal way to holiness - and how to let this vocation be one's means of sanctification in a practical way (such as how to respond to the constant interruptions and ruined plans). It helps to give a picture of what holiness truly is instead of some false image of praying in a quiet chapel all day, and practically how to advance in this particular path of sanctification.
I think a some misunderstandings in a previous review do need a response briefly. First, when speaking of religion as consolation, he is warning not to let that be the sole substance of what religion is to a soul. He warns that it not fall into the trap of being either an contrived emotional experience to just along in life, or the other side which is just a dry, routine practice without spiritual depth. Second, a more careful reading would show that after saying one must obey a superior, only two sentences later he states that, "No superior, no husband, can command you to do what is wrong." He certainly isn't advocating blind obedience to go along with something immoral (clear if one reads the text), but rather how obedience, even when it seems unreasonable (NOT immoral) to us, to God, His Church, and even our husbands on occasion (!), can be acts of love and even liberty.
I wish every parish had a spiritual director with as much wisdom as van Zeller.
I absolutely love this book. I just got it today and I cannot put it down. I think it's a must read for anyone who stays at home or works, or does anything else for that matter. It's refreshing to know that you are exactly where you are supposed to be and it's a great reminder to trust in our Lord.
This book is so practical and useful. Without talking down to anyone or making me feel guilty about the prayers I am not praying, Van Zeller incorporates practical tips for handing over our time and dedicating our tasks to the Lord. Don't be fooled by the title - it's not just for housewives!
I've always hated those guilt-tripping "holiness" books that are geared toward some imaginary type of person that the author thinks should exist but I've never encountered. You know, the kind of mom that has endless quiet hours for Scripture reading and daily prayer. If you don't read your Bible for 30 minutes a day and have daily formal devotions, you aren't living up to your calling. Even if your calling includes waking every three hours at night and changing endless diapers and making endless meals and cleaning endless messes. (Don't you know you're supposed to get up at 400 am to do it, if the kids are too noisy during the day?!) With a wave of the hand and a "pfft!" I have always dismissed these books or sermons as completely impractical and a burden on the faithful. "God knows what my calling is and I will not feel guilty for not having devotions every single day!"
Well, this book isn't anything like that. Dom Zeller writes as though he has lived in my brain at some point. Every excuse, every rationalization, every resolve, he somehow knows. And yet he writes with such understanding and love, with encouragement and practical advice, that rather than instill guilt, it inspires me to cultivate my interior life.
What he does is he explains the inherent dignity that is motherhood and housewifery, and shows practical ways that I can actually USE the "drudgery" and constant interruptions as occasions for submitting my will to God's. He goes against these false notions of theoretical "holiness" that require one to resemble a hermit, and teaches how to "pray without ceasing" in a way that is actually doable. Best of all he does not impose any one method on all, but gives principles to easily apply to my particular situation. Whereas other authors merely make you feel like giving up before you even start, this book makes you think "Hey, I can do that. I'll start now!"
So pleased with this book. It comes with advice and an examination of conscience for mothers. I needed this and found it at the right time. Traditional mothers in this modern age will benefit greatly from this book. I was suprised to know how similar the vocations of motherhood and cloister are. Inspiring, encouraging, and will help you.
Dom van Zeller is one of the few priests writing for lay people who really gets it. Nothing here about "If you were really devout you'd find an hour every day for prayer" (while your children do what, exactly?). Here is genuinely valuable spiritual advice for mothers of families. Highly recommended.
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