77 Soundbytes of Love: The Philosophical Spirituality of Ronda Chervin

By Ronda Chervin

This book is an anthology of soundbytes — 77 to be exact — drawn from almost one hundred philosophical works of Ronda Chervin written over the past half century. Why 77? It’s a number signifying the triumph of the spirit over matter and the personal freedom to pursue things of interest. That’s the goal for our readers – to set their souls free to partake in a spiritual journey to a more authentic self. Readers will engage a soundbyte a day, journaling as they go, trying to live by the spiritual truth expressed over the course of their time with it before advancing to the next soundbyte.

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TESTIMONIALS

“Dr. Ronda Chervin, the ‘Expert of the Experts,’ has done it again with an outstanding book that evolves around her expertise of bringing all her past writings into the current society of group discussions or personal reflection. The book was used as a personal reflection with journaling, and it transpired into a weekly group discussion with its members. A great book to discuss in groups or for personal use. It is very educational and helps the reader grow spiritually, feeding the mind with ‘Truth, Logic and Wisdom’ for today’s society.” – Alicia Harley is a wife, mother, and spiritual leader. She is the author of Spiritual Dreams for Our Journey to Eternity.

“A synthesis of over half a century’s publications on practical wisdom from a philosopher intent on helping others improve their lives.” – Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, co-author with Ronda Chervin of Catholic Realism

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ronda Chervin, PhD, is a professor of philosophy, widow, grandmother, and great grandmother. She has taught at Loyola Marymount University, St. John’s Seminary of Los Angeles, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Our Lady of Corpus Christi, and Holy Apostles Seminary and College. She is the author of numerous books about Catholic living and presents on EWTN and Catholic Radio. Most well-known of her books are The Way of Love, Treasury of Women Saints, Avoiding Bitterness in Suffering: How our Heroes in Faith Found Peace amid Sorrow, and, most recently, with co-author Albert Hughes: Escaping Anxiety on the Road to Spiritual Joy. 

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Talkaholics: Fate or Work-in-Progress

By Ronda Chervin

Why would I ever think I talk too much? Here are some tiny stories to show you why:

“Ronda,” asked my spiritual director, “what would it be like if you joined a table (at the seminary where I was teaching and took my meals) and didn’t talk first?”

“Ronda,” a co-professor at a university told me: “when you interrupt me while I am talking it feels as if you think nothing I am saying is important, only what you say!”

“Ronda,” a mentor asked me: “how many sentences do you enunciate which start with the word I”?

“Ronda,” someone said: “it’s as if when I talk your foot is on the brake, but ready in a second to jump onto the accelerator to say what you wanted to say, not as a response, but just what you happen to think is more important.”

During a conversation with another talkaholic, David Dowd, a co-author of mine of the book “Always a New Beginning, ” we joked this way: “How about we start a group called Talkaholics Anonymous?”

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TESTIMONIALS

“How is it that in a society where so many people are experiencing an absence of meaning in their life, there seems to be an epic amount of talking taking place? And this verbosity tends to be rather shallow. It’s light years away from, and not even remotely similar to, the depth of conversation of the ancients; such as we witness in the Socratic Dialogues of Plato. No… the garrulousness of our times is more of a symptom than a solution to the emptiness people are experiencing. Thus, the popularity of books such as The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren; or Victor Frankl’s classic… Man’s Search for Meaning. In this little book, Talkaholic, Dr. Ronda Chervin, the most published Catholic philosopher in the USA (80 books and counting!), takes on this explosion in loquacity and, to use contemporary parlance… “crushes” it! Dr. Chervin, a master of existential/philosophical analysis, walks the reader through this fascinating question of talkaholism, and in the process, witnesses to the truth of Jesus’ profoundly insightful statement: ‘A man is not debased by what goes into his mouth, but by what comes out of it. For what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart.’ (Matthew 15:11, and 15:18).” – Fr. Lawrence Edward Tucker, SOLT, author of The Prayer of Jesus Crucified; Adventures in the Father’s Joy! (CMA Book Award); To Whom the Heart Decided to Love (CMA Book Award); The Redemption of San Isidro (CMA Book Award); and Masters of Interior Space

“This book is the cat’s meow! It will be the talk of the town!” – Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, author of The Narrative Spirituality of Dante’s Divine Comedy

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ronda Chervin, PhD, is a professor of philosophy, widow, grandmother, and great grandmother. She has taught at Loyola Marymount University, St. John’s Seminary of Los Angeles, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Our Lady of Corpus Christi, and Holy Apostles Seminary and College. She is the author of numerous books about Catholic living and presents on EWTN and Catholic Radio. Most well-known of her books are The Way of Love, Treasury of Women Saints, Avoiding Bitterness in Suffering: How our Heroes in Faith Found Peace amid Sorrow, and, most recently, with co-author Albert Hughes: Escaping Anxiety on the Road to Spiritual Joy. 

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Charles Rich: Give Me Your Heart–Preparing for Eternal Life

Ed. by Ronda Chervin

How about a book for the elderly by a sage who was still making disciples in his nineties?

Who was this Charles Rich, anyhow? One of the most fascinating Hebrew-Catholics of all times was Charles Rich (1899-1998). Born in Hungary in a Jewish village similar to the one in Fiddler on the Roof, Charles was noticed by the rabbis as an extraordinarily religious boy. He loved to stay in the forests to pray alone. His father joined one of the many waves of Jews who went to America to seek better opportunities. After establishing himself in New York City, he sent for the family.

This was the beginning of a very dark time for Charles. He found it impossible to be close to God in the teeming city and among the strict legalistic rabbis he had to study with. Eventually, he lost his faith. He worked as a waiter by night and spent 8 hours a day at the 42nd St. public library searching world literature, philosophy, and religious writings searching for the God he had lost.

Eventually, Charles fell into despair and tried to commit suicide. Three times he tried; three times he failed, being rescued the last minute. Feeling even more of a failure, one day he went into a Catholic Church. Jesus spoke to him directly from a painting telling him that He was God and to trust in him.

Instructed by the Jesuits, Charles became a Catholic and then a lay contemplative, spending hours and hours of the day rapt in prayer. Catholics seeking a deeper prayer life were attracted to him, especially Jewish converts such as myself. Quite a number of books of his thoughts and meditations have been published.

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TESTIMONIALS

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ronda Chervin, Ph.D. is a professor of Philosophy, widow, grandmother, and great grandmother. She has taught at Loyola Marymount University, St. John’s Seminary of Los Angeles, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Our Lady of Corpus Christi, and Holy Apostles Seminary and College. She is the author of numerous books about Catholic living and presents on EWTN and Catholic Radio. Most well-known of her books are The Way of Love, Treasury of Women Saints, Avoiding Bitterness in Suffering: How our Heroes in Faith Found Peace amid Sorrow, and, most recently, with co-author Albert Hughes: Escaping Anxiety on the Road to Spiritual Joy. 

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Purgatory in the Words of Jesus

by Roger Skrenes

TESTIMONIALS

“A handy guide through Christ’s teaching on Purgatory.” – Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, author of The Narrative Spirituality of Dante’s Divine Comedy

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Roger Skrenes studied science as an undergraduate and history as a graduate. He holds a master’s degree in religion and has taught high school in Los Angeles, California, for over thirty years, including six summers in the California Youth Authority (a prison for teenage boys in Whittier, CA). He is the father of three adult children, Mary, Mark and Therese.

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The Sea Lord’s Bookshelf

by Reverend Vincent A. Salamoni, M.S.A.

This book is a catalyst, of a beginning voyage. Here it is a short one, yet a long interesting one. It starts a new genre / category / oeuvre. It is a prototype book. These are commentaries of special nautical books about virtues. The collection includes previews of past and future voyages. In words, it develops a nautical spirituality.

[Only 25 pages!]

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TESTIMONIALS

“You are doing great work!” – Bishop Joseph L Coffey, Vicar for Veterans Affairs, Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA

“Keep up the good work Father. I enjoyed watching your interview.” – Sr. Maria Salerno OSF, PhD. Assistant archivist, Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Fr. Vincent A. Salamoni, M.S.A. (Vincent Gaspar Anthony Rizzuti Salamoni), is a member of the Society of the Missionaries of the Holy Apostles (M.S.A.). Their charism is to promote, form and accompany vocations to the priesthood and other ministries.

He ministered from on board from a dugout canoe in the Peruvian Amazon to on board the USS ENTERPRISE (CVN-65) nuclear air carrier, which is not the starship!

He is retired from in the Chaplain Corps of the United States Navy.

Now, he is a Provincial Emeritus of the MSA-USA and is being through, with, and in, the Mercy Ocean.

An Autobiography (abridged)

CHILDHOOD:

My four grandparents born in Sicily. They went to New York City, in approximately their twenties. They lived in the USA about 50 years and never spoke English. My father was 6 years old when he arrived in NYC. My mother was born in the USA; some of her siblings were born in Sicily. My father was an iconic NYC taxi driver for over 40 years. My mother worked as a seamstress in the NYC garment industry, and afterwards was a full-time housewife. I have three older sisters … extended biological family …

EXPERIMENTAL:

The development of my worldview: Received a bachelor’s degree in psychology. Worked 5 years in the insurance industry. Sailed 2 years in the U.S. Navy as a Radarman / Operations Specialist. Became a Vietnam veteran.

PRIESTHOOD:

Ordained in 1984; theological studies: 2 years in USA, 2 years in Rome. Missionaries of the Holy Apostles (M.S.A.)  2 years in Vicariate Apostolic San José del Amazonas (Peru); 1 year Connecticut; 2 years near Lima, 6 years near Caracas. U.S. Navy, Chaplain Corps: 13 active years: including – Okinawa; USS ENTERPRISE, not a starship, rather an aircraft carrier; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Iceland; Virginia; San Diego, Naval Hospital; Puerto Rico/Virgin Islands et cetera. Emeritus USA-MSA Provincial Animator (Superior) “Pastoral” Pasture

“After a dangerous voyage, at last I am in sight of the port I have been trying to get to for so long. I shall now be able to enjoy my God … and I shall be freed from a heavy load which I just can’t bear.” – Saint Louis of Anjou, on his deathbed

[Cited in THE MERCY OCEAN.]

For the Love of God: The Sacred Heart and the Divine Mercy

Kristina R. Olsen

The purpose of this book is to invite you into the Sacred Heart of Jesus to experience his love, and to introduce you to the Divine Mercy devotion to encounter God’s limitless forgiveness. We show how the Divine Mercy devotion is an extension and completion of the Sacred Heart devotion, and we draw parallels from the lives of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque and St. Faustina Kowalska to highlight many similarities in their lives and work.

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Testimonials

“Exquisite. Beautiful. Inspired and inspiring! This work reached down into my heart and set it aflame. I literally could not put it down, from start to finish.” – Shane Kapler, author of Marrying the Rosary to the Divine Mercy Chaplet and The Biblical Roots of Marian Consecration

About the Author

Dr. Kristina Olsen has a Ph.D. in Theology from Catholic University of America (CUA) and an M.A. in Theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville. She teaches at Holy Apostles College and Seminary and at CUA. Dr. Olsen also holds a D.B.A. in Business Administration (U. of Md.) and an M.S. in Computer Science. She currently works in Information Technology for the City of Philadelphia. She is a member of the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites (OCDS).

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