Background
Rupp, Joyce M. was born on June 8, 1943 in Cherokee, Iowa, United States. Daughter of Lester P. Rupp and Hildegard A. Wilberding.
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The Cup of Our Life: A Guide for Spiritual Growth
(Explores how the cup is a symbol of life, with its emptin...)
Explores how the cup is a symbol of life, with its emptiness and fullness, its brokenness and flaws, and all of its blessings.
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(The Cosmic Dance: An Invitation to Experience Our Oneness ) Author: Joyce Rupp Oct-2010
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The Cup of Our Life: A Guide to Spiritual Growth
(Joyce Rupp's bestselling contemporary classic has sold ov...)
Joyce Rupp's bestselling contemporary classic has sold over 200,000 copies. This new edition continues a fifteen-year tradition of helping individuals and groups pray. Now with a new preface and fresh design, The Cup of Our Life is available to anyone seeking a more intimate and disciplined life of prayer. Joyce Rupp, the bestselling Catholic woman writer today, illustrates how the ordinary cups used each day can become sacred vessels that connect readers with life and bring them into closer union with the Divine. She explores how the cup is a rich symbol of life, with its emptiness and fullness, its brokenness and flaws, and its many blessings. With daily devotions for six weeks, this book is ideal for individual usage as well as group usage in parish settings, religious communities, and small Christian communities.
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Rest Your Dreams on a Little Twig by Rupp, Joyce (2003) Hardcover
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Your Sorrow Is My Sorrow: Hope and Strength in Times of Suffering
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"Everyone can find their struggles and sadness hidden in the folds of Mary's robe of sorrows," says Rupp. Using the seven sorrows of Mary as a format in this audiobook, she guides the listener to journey with Mary in the various events in her life. Rupp uses the sorrows to examine many tribulations, such as being a refugee, losing a child, illness, pain, grief or coping with death. Through her creative words, she provides an oasis of strength and wisdom in what we find most demanding or tragic. "You must trust that the enduring courage you need will be there for you. I understand your difficult situation. Your sorrow is my sorrow. You are not alone." The book is a blessing in allowing us to examine Mary's sorrows, to see how her faith allowed her to keep going during the most difficult of times and to see how Jesus gave her the strength to endure. In this, it offers a template for our own lives. Beautiful prayers grace the end of each sorrow and every chapter concludes with ideas for personal reflection and/or group discussion drawing us to healing and deep peace.
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The Cup of Our Life
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The Star in My Heart: Experiencing Sophia; Inner Wisdom
(Joyce Rupp reflects on her personal awakening to the femi...)
Joyce Rupp reflects on her personal awakening to the feminine wisdom of Sophia and encourages us to explore Sophia's quiet guidance and come away refreshed.
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Your Sorrow Is My Sorrow: Hope and Strength in Times of Suffering
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With the exquisite prose and poetry that has always graced her writing, Joyce Rupp mines the multiple meanings of important images in the Bible, in order to get us through our own rough moments. Included are: the prophecy of Simeon, the flight into Egypt, Jesus lost in the temple, Mary seeing Jesus carrying the cross, Mary at the foot of the cross, Mary receiving Jesus' dead body, and Jesus being laid in the tomb.
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Prayers to Sophia: A Companion to "The Star in My Heart" by Joyce Rupp (2010) Paperback
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Praying Our Goodbyes Hardcover - March, 1988
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The Cosmic Dance: An Invitation to Experience Our Oneness by Joyce Rupp, Mary Southard (Artist)
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Rest Your Dreams on a Little Twig Hardcover February 1, 2003
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Dear Heart, Come Home: The Path of Midlife Spirituality
( Joyce Rupp shares her own midlife journey—its ups and d...)
Joyce Rupp shares her own midlife journey—its ups and downs—with such honesty and insight that you will surely identify with and benefit from the discoveries she has made along the way. Among them we can find wisdom in the wounds we've carried from birth onward, and these wounds can heal; past regrets must be let go lest they cling to us and drain our energy for life; the loving part of us can always out-wrestle the hating part; surprises of beauty and talent in us wait to be discovered and shared; some of what we thought to be unbreakable truth is now shattered pottery and unmendable; and our struggle to name God and to find a spirituality that enlivens and enriches our existence is less complex than we first thought.
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Rest Your Dreams on a Little Twig
(Her books have sold hundreds of thousands--now Joyce Rupp...)
Her books have sold hundreds of thousands--now Joyce Rupp's first collection of poetry! Joyce Rupp has gently guided thousands towards a deeper understanding of personal and universal spiritual truths. Now, in her first collection of poetry, Rupp shares her own awakening to the spiritual realities in nature, affirming the inner journey and challenging the way we live our lives. She encourages US to trust our own fragile dreams for inner growth--just as a bird rests itself on a small twig and trusts it for support.
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Inviting God in: Scriptural Reflections and Prayers Throughout the Year Paperback - August 1, 2001
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The Cosmic Dance: An Invitation to Experience Our Oneness
(Through powerful prose and poetry, Joyce helps us to know...)
Through powerful prose and poetry, Joyce helps us to know 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 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-color art by Mary Southard accompanies the text. Together they fill our souls with feelings of awe, gratitude, and love. The Cosmic Dance is a melody that each of us is dimly aware of; after reading this book, we will hear it sing.
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Prayers to Sophia: A Companion to "The Star in My Heart"
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This work aids readers in reaching new spiritual depths through the exploration of feminine images of the divine. This book of meditative prayers offers 50 entries that include a verse from biblical wisdom literature and conversation starters for women's book groups.
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Fresh Bread: And Other Gifts of Spiritual Nourishment
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This popular classic introduced a hungry world to Rupp's unique brand of spiritual nourishment: prose, poetry, and prayer to help us reflect upon and rejoice in the sacred everyday world that is at once around and within us. This Twentieth-Anniversary Edition includes a new preface that reveals retrospective insights about the budding of Rupp's own spirituality and illustrates the ongoing relevance of Fresh Bread in today's chaotic and fragile world. Over 100,000 copies sold!
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Little Pieces of Light...: Darkness and Personal Growth (Illumination Books)
(A hope-filled book that reaches into the human heart and ...)
A hope-filled book that reaches into the human heart and encourages the reader to approach painful inner darkness as a help rather than a hindrance for personal growth.
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Inviting God in: Scriptural Reflections and Prayers Throughout the Year
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God is always there, always waiting for our invitation to come in. Yet sometimes we need help hearing the knock at the door, putting some time aside, or beginning the conversation. In this collection of scriptural reflections and prayers, Joyce Rupp offers us the encouragement we so often require to stop and pray. Her thoughtful, perceptive reflections on scripture guide us as we open our hearts and ponder the meaning of God's word in our lives. And her poetic personal prayers help us find words for the longings in our hearts. Inviting God In is organized according to the seasons of the church year, from Advent and Christmas, to Lent and Easter, and on through the days of Ordinary Time and particular festivals. Each entry is just one page long, beginning with a verse from scripture followed by a reflection and a prayer. The book begins with an insightful reflection on prayer as "God's Gift to Us," reminding us of those basic truths about prayer that are sometimes easy to forget. One of our best-loved spiritual writers, Joyce Rupp once again sets just the right tone to invite us to pray.
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Praying Our Goodbyes: A Spiritual Companion Through Life's Losses and Sorrows by Joyce Rupp (1-May-2009) Paperback
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Out of the Ordinary: Prayers, Poems, and Reflections for Every Season
(This perennial bestseller is now available in a tenth-ann...)
This perennial bestseller is now available in a tenth-anniversary edition that showcases Joyce Rupp's poems, a new preface by the author, and a new design. Joyce Rupp's characteristic creativity and reverence for the Divine are on full display in this collection of prayer resources for birthdays, holidays, holy days, transitions, and many other occasions, helping readers enter more deeply and reflectively into the liturgical and seasonal celebrations of their lives. Ideal for personal use, or as a gift for loved ones celebrating a landmark occasion, this enduring spiritual classic is an invaluable resource for ministers, spiritual directors, and lay leaders alike, who turn to its prayers, reflections, and rituals for personal and communal occasions both "ordinary" and profound.
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Your Sorrow is My Sorrow: Hope and Strength in Times of Suffering by Joyce Rupp (12-Mar-1999) Paperback
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The Cup of Our Life: A Guide to Spiritual Growth by Joyce Rupp (30-Apr-2012) Paperback
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Joyce M. Rupp
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor in Elementary from Duchesne College in Omaha, Nebraska. 1965
Master of Religious Education from University of Saint Thomas in Houston, Texas. 1975
Studies in spirituality at Creighton University and the University of Notre Dame
MTP from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, California.
1993
Studies in Jungian psychology at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, 1992–1994.
Career
Joyce has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, a Master of Arts degree in Transpersonal Psychology, and a Master of Religious degree. She lives in Des Moines, Iowa. Joyce Rupp was born on June 8, 1943, and grew up on a farm in Iowa.
In 1962 she joined a religious Order known as the Servites or Servants of Mary and is a facilitator of the community’s ongoing spiritual growth program As part of her work as vocation director for the Archdiocese of Omaha, she began leading retreats for high school and college-age students in 1973. Several years later she started to lead retreats for adults.
Since then, she has traveled extensively, and her international retreats and conferences have taken her to Canada, Europe, New Zealand, Africa, Australia, and Asia.
In she received a Bachelor in Elementary from Duchesne College in Omaha, Nebraska, and in she received her After completing studies in spirituality at Creighton University and the University of Notre Dame, she earned a. She also studied Jungian psychology at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, from 1992 to 1994.
Rupp has become an award-winning author of popular books that have been translated into seven languages. The Circle of Life also received an award for "One of the Best Spiritual Books of 2005" from Spirituality & Practice.
Her best-selling book, Praying Our Goodbyes (Sorin Books, 1988), was reissued in 2009.
She has also been a volunteer for hospice for 15 years. In 2008, along with Margaret Stratman, Rupp became a co-director of a new program called The Institute of Compassionate Presence. This innovative venture seeks to coach participants to bring to life their own innate compassion.
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Fresh Bread: And Other Gifts of Spiritual Nourishment
(This popular classic introduced a hungry world to Rupp's ...)
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Rest Your Dreams on a Little Twig
(Her books have sold hundreds of thousands--now Joyce Rupp...)
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Your Sorrow Is My Sorrow: Hope and Strength in Times of Suffering
( With the exquisite prose and poetry that has always gra...)
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Dear Heart, Come Home: The Path of Midlife Spirituality
( Joyce Rupp shares her own midlife journey—its ups and d...)
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Little Pieces of Light...: Darkness and Personal Growth (Illumination Books)
(A hope-filled book that reaches into the human heart and ...)
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The Star in My Heart: Experiencing Sophia; Inner Wisdom
(Joyce Rupp reflects on her personal awakening to the femi...)
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Out of the Ordinary: Prayers, Poems, and Reflections for Every Season
(This perennial bestseller is now available in a tenth-ann...)
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The Cup of Our Life: A Guide for Spiritual Growth
(Explores how the cup is a symbol of life, with its emptin...)
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Prayers to Sophia: A Companion to "The Star in My Heart"
(This work aids readers in reaching new spiritual depths t...)
-
Your Sorrow Is My Sorrow: Hope and Strength in Times of Suffering
( "Everyone can find their struggles and sadness hidden i...)
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The Cosmic Dance: An Invitation to Experience Our Oneness
(Through powerful prose and poetry, Joyce helps us to know...)
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The Cup of Our Life: A Guide to Spiritual Growth
(Joyce Rupp's bestselling contemporary classic has sold ov...)
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Inviting God in: Scriptural Reflections and Prayers Throughout the Year
(God is always there, always waiting for our invitation to...)
- (The Cosmic Dance: An Invitation to Experience Our Oneness ) Author: Joyce Rupp Oct-2010
- Rest Your Dreams on a Little Twig by Rupp, Joyce (2003) Hardcover
- The Cup of Our Life
- Prayers to Sophia: A Companion to "The Star in My Heart" by Joyce Rupp (2010) Paperback
- Praying Our Goodbyes Hardcover - March, 1988
- The Cosmic Dance: An Invitation to Experience Our Oneness by Joyce Rupp, Mary Southard (Artist)
- Rest Your Dreams on a Little Twig Hardcover February 1, 2003
- Inviting God in: Scriptural Reflections and Prayers Throughout the Year Paperback - August 1, 2001
- Praying Our Goodbyes: A Spiritual Companion Through Life's Losses and Sorrows by Joyce Rupp (1-May-2009) Paperback
- Your Sorrow is My Sorrow: Hope and Strength in Times of Suffering by Joyce Rupp (12-Mar-1999) Paperback
- The Cup of Our Life: A Guide to Spiritual Growth by Joyce Rupp (30-Apr-2012) Paperback
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Fresh Bread: And Other Gifts of Spiritual Nourishment
Membership
She is the co-director of The Institute of Compassionate Presence, a member of the Servite Order, and a volunteer for Hospice.
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