RON KNOTT BOOKS - Homilies and Spirituality

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A Passion for Personal and Vocational Excellence A collection of homilies given at Baccalaureate Masses at Bellarmine University. Themes are aimed at young men and women about to embark on a new phase in their lives, themes such as making wise choices and decisions, being good and good at it, building a life on a solid rock, integrity, creating oneself and more. (66 pgs.)

Preaching Good News to the Poor A collection of homilies given at The Little Sisters of the Poor St. Jospeh’s Home for the Aged where I celebrate Mass and hear confessions. One day, as I was reflecting back on my years of preaching there, I decided to put most of those homilies into a book so that the Little Sisters and some of the Residents could use them for further reflection since I had worked so hard on them in the first place.

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One Heart at a Time This collection of homilies answers the question that so many people asked me after reading An Encouraging Word: “Where does one go after one grasps the fact that God loves us without condition?” The answer is simply this: after conversion comes transformation. In the first book, I spoke of "conversion” as waking up to the fact that we are loved by God, without condition. In this second book, I speak of “transformation” as that gradual change which is possible within us once we have been awakened to and cooperate with God’s unconditional love. (144 pgs.)

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Sunday Nights One of the many choices facing young adults in every age is whether to embrace or discard all or part of their religious upbringing. Most of them, especially during the turmoil of adolescence, go through some degree of rebellion. Some do not make it through that period of sorting and sifting, but many do make it, and begin their own personal faith journeys. It is to this group that I have especially addressed this collection of homilies, almost all of them delivered in St. Robert Bellarmine Chapel. (125 pgs.)

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The Little Community That Could The Story of a rural eco-friendly Family Life Center A small, rural Catholic community in Meade County, Kentucky, embarks on an ambitious project to renovate a vacant school building into a Family Life Center. With the help of the Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute at University of Louisville they were able to make the building completely eco-friendly with the use of geothermal and solar energy systems. This book explains how the entire project led to the parish's reconnection to it's history and a revitalization of the community itself.

An Encouraging Word Ronald Knott’s homilies have been gathered together so that they might give an encouraging word to all who look to Christ as a source of healing and hope. They have been arranged in view of the unfolding of the Christian mystery: from anticipation of Christ’s coming, through his life, ministry, and death, to his resurrection and new life in the church through the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. ... these words will be all the more profitable when read together with those passages from Scripture which they seek to illuminate. – from the Foreword by Michael Downey (143 pgs.)

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For Your Good and for MinePreaching, Teaching and Writing This book features 2 Parish Mission presentations, one titled Consciously Christian, Deliberately Catholic which challenges Catholics to renew their faith and commitment to a human, imperfect Church, and the other, Sent to Shine, which calls believers to spiritual and personal growth by letting go of apathy and self-doubt and embracing change. This book also includes some addresses given to lay and clerical groups as well as some homilies and readers’ favorite reflections taken from the author’s blog.(230 pages)

The Lord Is Close to the Brokenhearted The Blue Christmas Mass is a tradition begun in 2011 at Our Lady of the Woods Chapel by Fr. Ronald Knott, chaplain at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Ky. It was the result of an article he wrote for The Record which noted that for many the Christmas season can be more depressing than uplifting and be a time of sadness. This book is a collection of Fr. Knott's homilies given at the past five Blue Christmas Masses. He offers them as a comfort to those who find Christmas a painful time.(42 pgs.)

You Just Can’t Make This Stuff Up!Life Lessons from 55 years of Priestly Ministry This book is a sequel to Father Knott’s 2020 book, I Just Had to Laugh. This new endeavor relates more amusing episodes, personal anecdotes, and lessons learned regarding his experiences from childhood through his 55 years of priestly ministry.

St. Theresa Family Life Center The renovation of the vacant school building at St. Theresa in Rhodelia, KY., into a Family Life Center was the impetus to reexamine the parish’s roots as they look forward to the future. This book traces the history of the parish and the parish school acknowledging the men and women who led the community from its beginning in the late 1700s to 1950. It also contains a guide to the Hallway Museum Gallery which features over 200 historical photos of parishioners and those who served there.

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I Just Had to Laugh Amusing Anecdotes, Humorous Stories and Outrageous Episodes from 50 Years of Priestly Ministry I could not put this book down – so many funny stories. You will get a real kick out of reading the book, I promise! I have never enjoyed editing a book so much! – Tim Schoenbachler, Editor (97 pages)

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Our Journey of Lent The liturgical season of Lent calls christians to take a journey of renewal in order to deepen their relationship with God and one another. Father Knott, using the scriptures of the Lenten season, invites us to places where we can encounter God - the desert, the mountain, the well, the doctor and the grave. In these places we gain new insights and new perspectives for our journey of personal growth and change. (52 pages)

Between Courage and Cowardice - Choosing to Do Hard Things for Your Own Good Father Knott takes us on an autobiographical journey of personal and spiritual growth. He shares his transforming life experiences in the hope that they will encourage those who seek to become their best selves to face their fears and choose the often difficult path. (135 pages)

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Affirming Goodness A collection of the most memorable and universally themed articles from my weekly column, An Encouraging Word, which began appearing in my diocesan newspaper, The Record, in 2002. My goal was to be a voice of God's affirmation and encouragement for ordinary people going about their daily lives. This is a book deals with such topics as hope, courage, forgiveness, gratitude, holiness, fear, trust and more. 70 article sand a collection of the nearly 200 thought-provoking quotes cited in the articles in the book. (200 pgs.)