Carmen Acevedo Butcher’s Followers (21)

Carmen Acevedo Butcher

edit data

Combine Editions
Carmen Acevedo Butcher’s books

Average rating: 4.22 · 1,040 ratings · 153 reviews · 21 distinct works • Similar authors

	Hildegard of Bingen: A Spiritual Reader 3.89 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Practice of the Presence: A Revolutionary Translation by Carmen Acevedo Butcher by Carmen Acevedo Butcher (Translator), Brother Lawrence (Original Author) 4.41 avg rating — 91 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Man of Blessing: A Life of St. Benedict 3.99 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Incandesence: 365 Readings With Women Mystics by Carmen Acevedo Butcher, Phyllis Tickle (Foreword) 4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Following Christ: A Lenten Reader to Stretch Your Soul 4.41 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Little Daily Wisdom: Christian Women Mystics 4.50 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	St. Hildegard of Bingen : A Spiritual Reader(Paperback) - 2013 Edition 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God of Mercy: Ælfric's Sermons and Theology 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eighteen Sermons by Aelfric liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1991	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Origins and Development of the English Language by Jahn Algeo (2012-07-31) by Carmen Acevedo Butcher, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Carmen Acevedo Butcher…

Quotes by Carmen Acevedo Butcher (?)

“Every earthly revelation has a spiritual significance. I believe that if we humans were more spiritual, we wouldn’t need visions. These are given whenever someone hasn’t quite grasped an invisible spiritual lesson and needs a visual to go with it. We must learn to pull off this rough husk and feed on its sweet kernel.”
― Carmen Acevedo Butcher, The Cloud of Unknowing: With the Book of Privy Counsel

6 likes

“SURELY YOU SEE from this that you shouldn’t take your own experience as the rule of thumb by which you judge other contemplatives. For example, those who must work really hard to reach the peak of contemplation, and then only get there occasionally, might make the mistake of using their own experience as the standard for other contemplatives. We must remember that not everyone has a difficult journey to the exceptional ecstasy. Some walk a simple path, routinely meeting the miraculous in the ordinary. On the other hand, these contemplatives must not make the opposite assumption that their experience is universal. Not everyone feels the joy of contemplation whenever they wish. Avoid both close-minded ways of thinking, for you can’t judge another’s unique contemplative experience by your own. Besides, you can’t know God’s wisdom; someone who has struggled a long time with prayer only to know the extraordinary transcendent moment may one day have these moments whenever they want and as often as they want. Moses is a good example of this. To start with, he only rarely caught a glimpse of the Ark’s form and not without first working awfully hard on the mountain. But later, when the Ark was kept in the valley, Moses could see it as often as he liked.1”
― Carmen Acevedo Butcher, The Cloud of Unknowing: With the Book of Privy Counsel

2 likes

“I also want to make this clear. In the contemplative work I’m describing, you don’t need to scrutinize the infinite characteristics of God any more than your own complicated nature. No name, no emotion, no thought is more like the everlasting nature of God than the experience you have, see, and feel in the blind and loving observation of the word is. Call God what you like: Good or gentle Lord; sweet, merciful, or righteous; wise or all-knowing; mighty or omnipotent; learning or wisdom; courage or strength; love or charity, or anything else, and you’ll find that all of these are hidden and included in this little word, is. God’s very essence is each of these and all of them together and also any other descriptions you could choose for him.3 You could add 100,000 similar loving words for God to this list, as many as you want, but altogether they’re not as good as is.4 If you say them all, you don’t add to is, and if you say none of them, you take nothing from is. So be as simple in your loving contemplation of God’s being as you are in the naked contemplation of your own self. Don’t analyze his being or yours. Let go of thinking, push it from you, and worship God with all that you are, as you are, embracing him as he is, for himself only, nothing more, because the happy essence both of God and of you is God.”
― Carmen Acevedo Butcher, The Cloud of Unknowing: With the Book of Privy Counsel

0 likes

See all Carmen Acevedo Butcher's quotes »

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
Catholic Thought: Currently Reading	598	379	Mar 30, 2024 10:04PM

Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Carmen to Goodreads.