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Marguerite Centre
Marguerite Centre is a spirituality and conference centre in Pembroke Ont., Canada. We are located in the Upper Ottawa Valley along the Ottawa River.
We provide space for people to explore and learn, balance and grow, through our core work of hospitality.
We are committed to a holistic, ecumenical and inter-religious ministry from a Catholic perspective. We are dedicated to the values of contemplation and community, earth literacy, the local economy and sustainability. In small, daily ways, we are working toward the transformation of ourselves and our world.
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Book Store
The store has a wide range of contemporary spiritual books, cds and cards. In addition, we will be happy to order special requests for you. Simply let us know by contacting the Bookstore Manager, Jacquie Wolgemuth Shop at our Book Store or Shop by Mail
Book ReviewsEcoholic: When you're
addicted to the planet David Suzuki says, "This book is for people who want to do something to lighten their impact on the planet. The small steps cost us little in the way of effort, money or time, but the cumulative effects can be enormous." Billed as your guide to the most environmentally friendly information, products and services in Canada, Ecoholic is a directory for the best green products for home, garden, office and recreation. It outlines current information on growing and buying toxin-free foods. It lists alternative energy suppliers, local and national environmental groups, incentives and rebates for greening your home, and much more. Encountering the Other V anier says in his introduction to this book, "When we encounter, we come to know. When we come to know, we are able to understand. When we understand, healing and peace can really grow. "For me, the message of the Gospel is that each one of us has a gift to give; each one is precious; each one needs to be loved and to belong." The reflections in this book come from talks that Vanier gave at a conference that gathered people from many religious backgrounds and nationalities to encounter difference and to explore and celebrate that difference. Jean Vanier founded L'Arche, now an international organization creating communities with people who have developmental disabilities. Overcoming Life's Disappointments Harold Kushner turns to the experience of Moses to find life's requisite lessons of strength and faith. Moses towers over all others in the Old Testament: he is the man on the mountaintop to whom God speaks, but he is also deeply human, someone whose soaring triumphs are offset by frustration and longing. His people ignore his teachings, he is denied entrance to the Promised Land, his family suffers. But he overcomes. From the life of Moses, Kushner gleans principles that can help us deal with our problems. We can learn resilience, how to weather the disillusionment of dreams unfulfilled, the pain of a lost job or promotion, a child's failures, divorce or abandonment, and illness. We can learn how to meet all disappointments with faith in ourselves and the future, and how to respond to heartbreak with understanding. Practicing Peace in Times of War W ith war and violence flaring all over the world, many of us are left feeling vulnerable and utterly helpless. In this book, Pema Chödrön draws on Buddhist teachings to explore the origins of aggression, hatred and war, explaining that they lie nowhere but within our own hearts and minds. She goes on to explain that the way in which we as individuals respond to challenges in our everyday lives can either perpetuate a culture of violence or create a new culture of compassion. "War and peace begin in the hearts of individuals," Chödrön says, and goes on to offer practical techniques any of us can use to work for peace in our own lives, at the level of our habits, thought and action. The Cosmic Dance;
An Invitation
to Experience Our Oneness The best-selling author of May I Have This Dance? joins with the artist of the Earth Calendar to create an inspiring book that will sing in your soul and make you feel alive. Through powerful prose and poetry, Joyce Rupp makes it easy for us to experience our unity with each other and all of life. She calls us to live compassionately with each person and particle of creation. She challenges us to hear the pain of the planet and to care for the earth and all its inhabitants. Most of all, she draws us to fuller enjoyment and appreciation of life and its unbreakable goodness in ourselves and in everyone and everything around us. Beautiful full-colour art by Mary Southard stirs our souls with feelings of awe, gratitude and love. The Emerging Christian Way It is trust and loyalty that transform us. Beliefs may precede them or follow them or remain quite unconnected to them. But beliefs do not save us, do not transform us. Trust and loyalty do. This combination of trust and loyalty is the centering in God that is the primary meaning of faith. This centering is the purpose of Christian life. This is the vision at the heart of a transformation-centered Christianity. - Marcus Borg 
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