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  • Whispers Of Mary

    $24.99

    SKU (ISBN): 9781954882393ISBN10: 1954882394Gayle SomersBinding: Cloth TextPublished: April 2024Publisher: Ascension Press

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  • Saint Pauls Nephew To The Rescue

    $17.95

    Saint Paul is imprisoned, and angry men are plotting to kill him. Saint Paul’s nephew overhears their evil plan, and even though he’s small and afraid, he knows he needs to do something to stop them.

    In this exciting, illustrated story, based on true events from Saint Paul’s life as recounted in the Acts of the Apostles, children will learn about heroism in the face of danger and what it means to be a Christian witness. St. Paul’s Nephew to the Rescue will captivate the imagination of young readers and inspire them to live courageous lives, doing all things through Christ who strengthens us.

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  • Saint Joseph And His World

    $19.95

    There are few subjects so challenging” to authors as St. Joseph. So says scholar Scott Hahn in his foreword to this book. Yet the pages that follow give not merely glimpses, but vistas, of St. Joseph’s world. Hahn continues: “You’ll learn about Nazareth – and how it was created almost ex nihilo shortly before Joseph’s birth. You’ll learn about religious practice and education in that place and time. You’ll travel to Egypt and encounter the fascinating settlements of Jews in that land. You’ll also find out how a carpenter worked in those days: what tools he used, what items he crafted, where he got his training, and how he got to and from his job sites.” This book provides an imaginative entry into one of the most important lives in all of history – a life too often obscured by later legends.

    Scott Hahn says in his forword – What we discover between the lines is that there were, in the first century bc, two guiding hands in history: there was the providential hand of the Lord God working God’s will, and there was the demonic hand of Satan manipulating the mad King Herod. As a result, there were two rival accounts of kingship, two rival ideas of temple-building, and two rival stories of salvation. Joseph was not the only Jew to recognize this dualism, but he was perhaps the most important one. Those who recognized it were forced to make difficult choices-and face terrifying consequences.

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  • Joseph : The Man Who Raised Jesus

    $18.99

    Who was St. Joseph? Was he just a passive, incidental figure in the drama of salvation? On the contrary, in every way that Jesus needed a father, St. Joseph was that for him. And how overwhelming it must have been for Joseph to be asked to stand in the Father’s place! No man has ever been asked to do so in such an unthinkable way. Every priest, and certainly every man who is a father (biologically or otherwise), should take this to heart.

    Caster’s book will provide a unique, in-depth presentation of Joseph from the perspective of the evangelical counsels and the theological and cardinal virtues. Each section will begin with an explanation of what each counsel or virtue means and then show how Joseph models it for us.

    The descriptions of St. Joseph’s life and character found in this book, while rooted in the Scripture passages that mention him, are chiefly inspired by Jesus, who spent the majority of his life at home with Joseph and Mary. For years, the three of them lived, prayed, celebrated, studied, and shared, all the while uniting their lives more intimately with God’s own. Those years in Nazareth were a real preparation for the foundation upon which Jesus would build his saving ministry. And as much as Joseph and Mary offered Jesus, he offered them an ever-expanding awareness of the God that had changed both their lives. The reciprocity of love that perfectly defines the home in Nazareth is the very pattern for all family life-and therefore of the Church itself.

    Let Fr. Gary Caster introduce you to the man who risked everything to care for Mary and her Son, safeguarding them from harm and cherishing them with a pure and true love. Joseph was a flesh-and-blood testimony of what it means to live according to the Father’s will with one’s mind and heart centered on Christ.

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  • Mary As The Early Christians Knew Her

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    SKU (ISBN): 9781612613437ISBN10: 1612613438Frederica Mathewes-GreenBinding: Trade PaperPublished: February 2013Publisher: Paraclete Press Print On Demand Product

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  • Women Of The New Testament

    $9.99

    This book tells us the story of 10 women mentioned throughout the New Testament in a way for the reader to reflect and learn from their impact in our faith. This new approach to biblical study will strengthen not only our faith, but our way of life. Each chapter begins with a prologue and a narration of their role in the Bible, the concept of their situation, references to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, questions for personal reflection and a prayer. The women include:
    Mary, mother of God
    Mary Magdalene
    The Samaritan Woman
    Priscilla
    Lazarus sisters
    Ann, the Prophetess, among others.

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  • Mothers Lovers Priests Prophets And Kings

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    Mothers, Lovers, Priests, Prophets, and King provides a doorway to enter into the world of the Old Testament for both the casual and the more experienced reader. The newcomer to scripture will find an easily accessible group of stories about people who look and act just like the characters we know today and whose encounters with God leave us wondering what God has in store for us. The more experienced reader will come to know the God of the Old Testament more closely and see there the One who came to dwell with us as Jesus Christ. Both readers will take away from the book a deeper appreciation of the nature of scripture as a Living Word, a greater understanding of the connection between God in the Old Testament and God in the New, and a better awareness of the multifaceted nature of God’s interaction with us. This book helps readers begin to answer the questions: Who is the God we meet in scripture? Who is God for me now? How is God revealed in the patterns and experiences of my life?

    Individuals and groups will find this book helpful in bible studies, small church groups, and as a way of sparking conversation about our images of God and what our relationship with God looks like. Readers will be able to place themselves in these stories and discover what God has to say to them. Those using the book for individual reading will be able to move from the scripture to the meditation to guiding questions and prayer designed to enhance their experience.

    If you have been looking for a book that concisely, prayerfully and joyfully points to the beauty and truth of God through the stories of God’s people and then lets you discover for yourself the movement of God in your life, this book is for you.

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  • Encountering Paul : Understanding The Man And His Message

    $109.00

    Preface
    Chapter 1: Paul’s World
    Chapter 2: Expectations And Hopes
    Chapter 3: Theological Perspective
    Chapter 4: Truth Of The Gospel
    Chapter 5: Paul’s Letters
    Chapter 6: Disputer Letters
    Chapter 7: The Adversus Judaeos Tradition
    Chapter 8: Finding Paul
    Notes
    Index

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    Fascinating, controversial, yet enigmatic-the figure of the apostle Paul looms large in Christian history. But which Paul is the true one? Is it the Paul who proclaims our freedom in Christ or the Paul who demands that slaves obey their masters? The Paul who works closely with women evangelists, or the Paul who instructs women to submit to the rule of their husbands? Is it the deeply Jewish Paul or the Paul who rejects the Law? Drawing on the literary and historical insights that have revolutionized contemporary Paul scholarship, Tatha Wiley skillfully separates these different voices of Paul and their liberating and oppressive legacies. In her well-crafted work, Wiley not only illumines the authentic, historical Paul but also accounts for his influence in the history of slavery, male domination, and religious exclusivism. Encountering Paul is a welcome addition to the Come and See series.

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  • Worlds First Love (Anniversary)

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    With his characteristic eloquence and brilliance, Fulton J. Sheen presents a moving portrayal of the Blessed Virgin Mary that combines deep spirituality with history, philosophy and theology. All the major aspects and events of Mary’s life are lovingly portrayed in this word portrait that is a never failing source of information, consolation and inspiration. Sheen also gives profound insights into all the Marian beliefs ranging from the Immaculate Conception to the Assumption to the miracle of Our Lady of Fatima.

    While considering the different phases of Mary’s life, Bishop Sheen discusses various problems common to mankind of every age and reveals clearly that every problem can be resolved. He emphasizes the unique dignity, strength and gifts of women and their ability to help heal the world’s problems. Sheen stresses mankind’s need of the Mother of God and her burning love for all her children. The great resurgence of devotion to Mary is God’s way of emphasizing the worth and dignity of every person against the false doctrines that have so confused the modern world.

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  • Phoebe : Patron And Emissary

    $11.95

    Human beings are embedded in a set of social relations. A social network is one way of conceiving that set of relations in terms of a number of persons connected to one another by varying degrees of relatedness. In the early Jesus group documents featuring Paul and coworkers, it takes little effort to envision the apostle’s collection of friends and friends of friends that is the Pauline network. The persons who constituted that network are the focus of this set of brief books. For Christians of the Western tradition, these persons are significant ancestors in faith. While each of them is worth knowing by themselves, it is largely because of their standing within that web of social relations woven about and around Paul that they are of lasting interest. Through this series we hope to come to know those persons in ways befitting their first-century Mediterranean culture.

    Imagine trying to find a window into the life of an individual who lived approximately two thousand years ago in a culture vastly different from our own. Consider the added difficulty when that individual is a woman and the only written record of her consists of two biblical verses (Rom 16:1-2). In this volume Joan C. Campbell takes on the challenge and provides a surprisingly full and rich account of Phoebe of Kenchreai. With Campbell, we visit Phoebe’s hometown, we wander the city streets with her, and we meet her associates. Along the way, we gain insight into the social roles that Paul ascribes to her (sister, “deacon,” and patron) and what these roles entailed in first-century Mediterranean Jesus groups. This book is important reading for anyone interested in the contribution of women to emerging Christianity and for contemporary deacons who seek to understand the biblical roots of their ministry.

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  • Understanding Paul And His Letters

    $27.95

    Understanding Paul and His Letters is a seminal text in that it traces the development of the main lines of Paul’s theology and faith through each of his letters.

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  • Sisters In Scripture

    $16.95

    Uses tools of biblical scholarship, prayer, reflection and the insights of other women to explore the relationships of various women of both the Old and New Testament.

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  • Hail Holy Queen

    $16.00

    SKU (ISBN): 9780385501699ISBN10: 0385501692Scott HahnBinding: Trade PaperPublished: September 2006Publisher: Image

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  • Gospels Of Mary

    $12.99

    Mary Magdalene, Jesus’s Closest Disciple

    Marvin Meyer, one of the foremost scholars of the Gnostic Gospels:

    translates and introduces the Gnostic and New Testament texts that together reveal the story and importance of Mary Magdalene

    includes new translations of the Gospels of Mary, Thomas, Philip, and related texts about Mary Magdalene

    discloses, with Esther A. De Boer, the long-suppressed story of Mary’s vital role in the life of Jesus and in the formative period after his crucifixion
    presents as authentically as possible the real Mary Magdalene

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  • Hidden Women Of The Gospels

    $19.00

    A shepherdess who raced to the manger…a bride who saw Jesus turn water into wine…these are among the more than twenty rich imaginings of women hinted at in the Gospels, whose stories will enthrall and inspire.

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  • Glories Of Mary

    $24.99

    The Glories of Mary, widely regarded as Saint Alphonsus Liguori’s finest masterpiece, has for two and a half centuries stood as one of the Catholic Church’s greatest expressions of devotion to the Blessed Virgin. Written as a defense of Our Lady at a time when Jansenistic writers were ridiculing Marian devotion, this classic work combines numerous citations from the Fathers and Doctors of the Church with Saint Alphonsus’ intense personal piety to produce a timeless treasury of teachings, prayers, and practices.

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  • Job

    $38.00

    SKU (ISBN): 9781580510745ISBN10: 1580510744Daniel BerriganBinding: Cloth TextPublished: May 2000Publisher: Sheed & Ward Print On Demand Product

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  • Crucial Bridge : The Elijah Elisha Narrative As An Interpretative Synthesis

    $16.95

    The Elijah-Elisha narrative (1 Kgs 16:29-2 Kgs 13) is the most underestimated text in the Bible. Far from being a disparate collection, it is actually a carefully crafted double drama that both mirrors life and synthesizes systematically the entire Primary History (Genesis-Kings). In a bold hermeneutical move it transforms the language of historiography-of patriarchs and kings-into the language of prophetic biography.

    This prophetic biography, rooted in historiography, later becomes the evangelists’ primary literary model. The Elijah-Elisha narrative is the crucial bridge between the foundational narratives of Judaism and Christianity.

    Since the 1970s there has been increasing evidence that Scripture texts that at first sight appear fragmented are in fact unified. Judges is a striking example of this. Because of the earlier exegetical models used, Judges was often regarded as a collection of rugged traditions that were independent of one another. Now, however, these apparently disconnected stories are intimately interconnected. Brodie explains that, as with earlier research on Judges, the quest for history-for underlying traditions-has tended to obscure the existing narrative account. In particular, the Elijah-Elisha narrative has often been read as consisting largely of two independent units, two cycles of traditions. The Elijah-Elisha narrative is indeed twofold-it clearly highlights two main prophets-but it is also a careful unity, as closely knit as Judges is now seen to be.

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  • Women In The New Testament

    $15.95

    This is an insightful examination of the personalities, place, and power of women in the New Testament. Thurston gives the cultural and religious context of women in the Greco-Roman world and seeks to show ways in which early Christianity attempted to liberate people from patriarchic oppression and later compromised under the pressure of the dominant society. She looks specifically at the texts of Paul, Mark, John, and the Luke.

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  • Women In The Old Testament

    $12.95

    The women in the Old Testament, too long invisible, have rich stories that are vital to the on-going revelation of God’s relationship with a covenant people. Women in the Old Testament introduces readers to some biblical women. Here, readers meet mothers and wives, queens and slaves, prophets and warriors, powerful women and victims; women whose stories offer us courage and insight.
    In Women in the Old Testament Sister Irene explores not only the lives of such well-known women as Sarah, Deborah, Ruth, Eve, and Naomi, but also those of lesser-known women such as Michal, Tamar, and Jezebel. Each of these women has unique characteristics; each of their stories is food for our imaginations. In addition, Sister Nowell looks at those Bible stories that tell us what it means to be a woman created in the image of God and that portray God in the image of a woman.

    Biblical stories help us imagine the relationship of God with human beings, and they give us words to describe our own relationship with God. This introduction to the lives of biblical women encourages readers-in adult study groups and those who are interested in the many women in the Old Testament-to search for more accounts of biblical women and also to find the narrative of faith reflected in the stories of their own lives.

    Sister Irene begins each chapter with suggestions for readings and includes biblical excerpts.

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  • 1000 Faces Of The Virgin Mary

    $39.95

    In this book the author discusses how Christian images of Mary in theology, piety, dogma, and even in visions acquire new dimensions from being images of the Mother of Jesus in Islam and the female imaging of the Absolute in some of the great religions of Asia. This book relativizes and enhances the Theotokos and her ties with the People of God.

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