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Desist Detrans And Detox
$21.95Add to cartIn this actionable analysis of one of the most damaging movements of the modern age, renowned author Maria Keffler makes a compelling case that what lies at the core of the transgender phenomenon is a crisis of identity, and that only a loving but firm reality check can staunch the hysteria.
Keffler makes unassailable arguments: Maleness and femaleness are immutable biological facts. Masculinity and femininity are personality constructs, conditioned by societal norms.
But “gender,” the term favored by activists, has no solid definition. The language introduced by gender ideology is entirely subjective, which allows emotions to redefine reality. The very premise of the ideology is flawed and requires mental gymnastics of its adherents.
Keffler outlines the disturbing parallels between cults and gender ideology: recruitment tactics that prey upon insecurities, indoctrination in nonsensical beliefs that must never be questioned, requirements to shun nonbelievers, and in-group newspeak which cultivates a sense of belonging.
She exposes the cult of gender ideology with journalistic detail, digging into aspects the mainstream media chooses to ignore. She investigates:
*The origins of modern gender ideology in the 1960s
*How the obsession to “affirm” gender identity leads to medical negligence in overlooking mental health issues
*The role of bullying and peer pressure in the gender cult
*The rapidly growing community of detransitioners and their insightful firsthand testimonies
Keffler also provides a manual for parenting children during the time they are most vulnerable to predatory gender activism. She instructs parents in navigating this brave new world, including discerning fact from fiction, setting boundaries regarding names and pronouns, how to find a trustworthy therapist, and how to determine what vulnerabilities led the child to the gender cult in the first place.
The book includes an abundance of resources for parents whose children are currently in the throes of or recovering from gender dysphoria. Central to her approach is unconditional love and forgiveness, with a focus on moving forward together.
Packed with statistical data, reasoned arguments, and practical advice, Desist, Detrans, and Detox equips readers to prevent, work through, and heal from the “medical scandal of the 21st century.”
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Family Faith Under Fire
$18.95Add to cartIn our toxic culture, it increasingly seems as if raising children in the Faith is a losing battle. Perhaps your spouse wishes you were more “fun” than religious, or your peers challenge you in your beliefs. Concerns related to faith can become touchy topics for today’s believers, especially when questions arise regarding your views on family life or your approach to raising children.
With his rare voice of reason and characteristic humor, popular television and radio host Dr. Ray Guarendi provides you with sound practical and spiritual wisdom and expertise as a clinical psychologist and father of ten. In these engaging pages, Dr. Ray addresses numerous issues, such as:
*How can I live my Faith better, especially with those closest to me?
*What to do when children ask: Why do we have to go to church when Dad doesn’t?
*How can we get our toddler to behave during Mass?
*Should adolescents be required to go to Mass if they don’t want to?
*What should I do when my adult children and grandchildren aren’t living the Faith?Additionally, Dr. Ray lays out ways in which parents can witness to their beliefs, even in broken marriages. You will also learn how to respond when your children’s faith is threatened at school or through peers who don’t share your beliefs, to protect them from unhealthy influences and mindsets.
Moreover, you will find tips for increasing your focus during Mass, concrete advice on setting an example for your children, and ways to help teenagers develop reverence for God at Mass.
Above all, you will learn who you are as a child of God and how to open your heart to His mercy and healing, regardless of your past experiences or how wounded you are now. Let Dr. Ray show you effective ways to live your Faith and share it convincingly and peacefully with those you love.
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Nursery Of Heaven
$14.95Add to cartMiscarriage, stillbirth, and infant loss happen more often than we realize, leaving many to suffer in isolation. This unique companion will help those grieving from child loss as they search for comfort and meaning. Couples will encounter the experiences of holy people who suffered loss, such as Sts. Louis and Zelie Martin, St. Gianna Molla, and Servant of God Chiara Corbella Petrillo. Parents will also receive hope and consolation from firsthand stories of modern-day parents who have experienced similar losses.
In these moving and cathartic pages, you will explore:
*The importance of being patient with yourself in recovering from your trauma
*Ways to eliminate triggers and find solace in your pain
*The essence of mourning and the significance of even the briefest life
*How to find God amid your sufferings and begin to trust again
*Ten things not to say to someone who is grieving the loss of a child
*Four ways family and friends can support those who are sufferingAlong with beautiful prayers, such as “Blessing of Parents after a Miscarriage or Stillbirth” and “Order for the Naming of an Infant Who Died before Birth,” and various Scripture passages and novenas, this book provides reflections and practical wisdom for pastors, family, and friends to help those grieving the loss of a child to find healing. By journeying with others who share your grief, you will find new courage and hope as you await the joyful reunion with your child in Heaven.
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Stories Of The Eucharist
$18.95Add to cartThroughout the Church’s history, holy men and women have found that one of the best and most reliable ways to get close to Jesus is through the Eucharist. By reading and sharing their stories in our families, we can imitate Jesus in a very important way, extending his mercy again and again, that the kingdom of God might shine a little more brightly in the world.
Stories of the Eucharist invites families to celebrate the transforming power of the Eucharist in our lives by exploring Eucharistic miracles and saints who had deep devotion to the Real Presence of Jesus. This book celebrates in word and illustration forty people and events that reveal how Christ has bestowed graces and even miracles on his people through the Eucharist.
As you read these stories from the span of Christian tradition with your family, you will experience in a new way the power of the Eucharist and teach your children to open their hearts to the greatest mystery of our Faith.
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God The Fathers Love
$16.95Add to cartHow do we cut through the noise of the world to help our children hear the still, small voice of God? The answer is found in the pages of the Bible, God’s living and breathing Word. Introducing our children to Sacred Scripture will help prepare them to encounter God in their lives and to recognize the sound of his voice.
In God the Father’s Love, you will encounter the heart of God the Father for yourself — perhaps for the first time — and find the words and confidence to guide your children along the first steps of their journey with God. This beautifully illustrated book dives into twenty different Scripture passages that reveal God the Father’s love for us. You’ll be guided through the process of reading and relating to Scripture as a family, and conversation starters at the end of each chapter will help spark meaningful discussion and reflection.
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Jesse Tree For Families
$24.95Add to cartThe Jesse Tree is the family tree of Jesus Christ. Its name comes from Jesse, the father of King David, referring to the words of Isaiah: “But a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse, and from his roots a bud shall blossom” (11:1). This prophecy refers to the coming of the Messiah from the family of King David. Over time it became tradition during Advent to review the family of Christ as a way of illustrating the story of salvation.
The Jesse Tree for Families presents a lovely, achievable way to celebrate the liturgical season of Advent with your children. Each day focuses on a specific person from Jesus’ family tree with a meditation perfect for the whole family and a beautifully illustrated portrait, plus an ornament to hang on your family’s Jesse tree. Conversation starters and resources for parents are included, with the goal of helping your family grow in faith so that, together, you can prepare for the arrival of Christmas.
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Intentional Catholic Family
$19.95Add to cartCatholic families today are busy. And not just busy, but B.U.S.Y.! There’s so much to be done. School, sports, shows, recitals, doctor appointments, grocery shopping, bills, jobs, Sunday Mass. All the things! Time to ponder and plan? Are you kidding?!
Intentional Catholic Family is the resource your family has been searching for to help you get more intentional about your faith and reorient your family’s life around what matters most. Beginning with a mission, vision, and goals, and providing a year’s worth of Catholic education and practical inspiration, this book provides families of all shapes, sizes, and kinds with the relevant resources and the roadmap to go do it – to live out your faith according to the unique gifts God has given your family!
Weekly exercises, easily completed around the dinner table on a Sunday evening, keep families on track and provide inspiration all year long. Not only does this book help families foster their Catholic identity, it assists parents and children in shaping a unique family identity.
Intentional Catholic Family is #goals. This book is designed to meet families where they are and to support them in building the awareness, habits, and experiences that, over time, can change lives. This approach engages every family member and offers the best kind of belonging – to be a loved and valued part of a family with a clear identity and necessary role in the world.
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Generous Lap : A Spirituality Of Grandparenting
$20.00Add to cartIn this charming and inspiring work, Kathy Coffey reflects on the spiritual dimensions of grandparenting–how this stage of life may expand our hearts, enlarge our humanity, put us in touch with fundamental aspects of our selves, and allow opportunities for a more generous and fruitful life.
She notes: “God uses this period in human life to transform us. The most cantankerous, self-absorbed jerks suddenly discover a sweeter side. The stern start spoiling relentlessly. The introverts pull out the photos, cute sayings, and stories. Those who thought their physical ailments were paralyzing sprint after the toddler heading for the street or hoist aging bodies up the jungle gym when a grandchild quails at the terrifying steepness of the slide. As ‘the child grows in wisdom, age, and grace, ‘ we get to marvel, and gradually grow into God’s loving self.
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Becoming Wife : Saying Yes To More Than The Dress
$15.95Add to cartWhether you are preparing to be or are already a wife, you likely are immersed in the external reality of marriage. But being wife is so much more: It’s a call to holiness and a vocation of incredible significance.
Becoming Wife explores what it means for a woman to fulfill this vocation. Catholic wife, mother, speaker, and author Rachel Bulman shares – like a friend over a cup of coffee – how being a wife is at once a calling and a purpose. The more a wife makes herself a gift to her husband, to her children, and to the world, the more she inevitably becomes the person God created her to be. She becomes more wife, more woman, more Christian. Thus, she fulfills her identity as a daughter of God and cultivates the soil from which her motherhood comes to fruition.
By exploring the life of the Blessed Mother and the guidance of great minds in the Church, like Saint John Paul II and Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, this book unwraps the gift of becoming a wife and what it means to make a “total gift” of oneself through matrimony.
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Reclaiming Motherhood From A Culture Gone Mad
$18.95Add to cartIn the midst of a culture that is increasingly confused about sexuality, love, life, and our very identity as persons, the Church offers us the truth of who we are. For women, this truth is rooted in motherhood — not just biological but, even more, spiritual — because women are the bearers and nurturers of life. Yet it’s difficult to understand and defend the true value of motherhood when the lies that permeate secular culture have seeped into our own way of thinking, even in the Church.
Reclaiming Motherhood from a Culture Gone Mad helps Catholics to peel back societal assumptions to understand the fundamental misconceptions fueling our culture’s attacks on marriage, motherhood, and the family. Examining current practices in light of these faulty assumptions will empower women in their own motherhood and equip Catholics to combat the culture of confusion by boldly proclaiming God’s vision for our lives.
This book offers a deep dive into what the Church teaches on motherhood and its dignity, equipping us to understand the WHY behind those teachings. It is only by living within a vision that honors the self-gift of motherhood as the pinnacle of womanhood that love, and not self-interest, can begin to reorder our lives.
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Obedience Paradox : Finding True Freedom In Marriage
$12.95Add to cartFew concepts in Christianity are more misunderstood than obedience. Words like submissive, subject, and obedient can appear utterly incompatible with the fundamental equality that Jesus offers to us in baptism. Yet headship and obedience within marriage has been preached authoritatively throughout the Church’s history.
When properly understood and lived out, obedience is, in fact, liberating. The Obedience Paradox illuminates the subject by examining the relationship between husband and wife in marriage as an image of Christ’s relationship to the Church. Presenting the sexual complementarity of husband and wife as an expression of gift, this book probes the meaning and power of receptivity in a relationship.
While a marriage certainly involves mutual giving and receiving, a husband most authentically lives headship when he acts as a generous giver towards his wife. Correspondingly, a wife practices authentic obedience when she graciously receives of her husband’s self-gift. Understanding obedience as the free reception of a gift unveils its unique potential to make us more free and to bring about deeper spiritual union between persons, both human and divine.
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Good The Messy And The Beautiful
$15.95Add to cartGod draws spouses closer to the Heavenly marriage through the sanctifying power of the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony.
However, that means it is not always easy, and it certainly is not like what newlyweds may imagine.
In The Good, the Messy, and the Beautiful: The Joys and Struggles of Real Married Life, Edward and Beth Sri – national marriage speakers – show readers that the struggles of marriage are to be expected and, even more so, they are purifying us to make us saints.
No marriage is perfect, and neither is the Sri’s. This book is packed full of hilarious and relatable stories from their 20+ years of marriage. From their experience, see helpful tips, mindsets, and reminders of how to live out the beautiful vocation of marriage.
In good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, God has an incredible vocation for all for spouses. The Good, the Messy, and the Beautiful goes into the nitty-gritty, explaining what to do when reality hits-when the rubber hits the road.
From discussions about:
*Miscommunication
*Healing
*Intimacy
*Gifts
*And moreYou will dive into new depths of the reality of Catholic marriage-from the messy to the beautiful-in this practical, entertaining, and wise book.
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Peace In Pregnancy
$14.95Add to cartPregnancy is a blessing, an incredible gift from God — and one of the hardest things a woman will ever do. In the midst of this experience, God invites us to offer him the concerns of our hearts, whatever they may be, and to draw close to him through prayer, reflection, and meditation.
Peace in Pregnancy: Devotions for the Expectant Mother is a place of rest to embrace the peace God offers. It serves both new and seasoned mothers, as the effort to embrace a state of peace renews itself with each change in life.
This important resource offers helpful tools for expectant mothers to find peace and comfort, including:
*Reflections to accompany you on the path to peace
*Profound lessons in peace from saintly mothers
*Meditations on the mysteries of our faith, including the Rosary and the Stations of the Cross
*Fine art illustrations to help you discover the therapeutic power of beautyAs a child finds rest in his or her mother’s, so God calls you to rest in him, to trust that he works all things for good for those who love him.
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Domestic Monastery : Creating A Spiritual Life At Home
$10.99Add to cartWhat is a monastery? A monastery is a place set apart–a place to learn the blessings of powerlessness, and that time is not ours but God’s. Our home and our duties can, just like a monastery, teach us those things. The vocation of monastic men and women is to physically withdraw from the world. But the principle is equally valid for those of us who cannot go off to monasteries. Certain vocations offer the same kind of opportunity for contemplation, and provide a desert for reflection.
In ten brief and powerful chapters, Fr. Ron explores how monastery life can apply to those who don’t live in a cloister:
– Monasticism and Family Life
– The Domestic Monastery
– Real Friendship
– Lessons from the Monastic Cell
– Ritual for Sustaining Prayer
– Tensions within Spirituality
– A Spirituality of Parenting
– Spirituality and the Seasons of Our Lives
– The Sacredness of Time
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Prayerfully Waiting : A Catholic Grandmother’s Prayer Journal
$15.99Add to cartA grandmother’s prayers are of significant importance through every age and stage of a grandchild’s development! These prayers are amazing and lovely blessings that can powerfully nurture and help shape a grandchild’s conscience and future life! It is so important to recognize the great gift and role grandparents have in praying for grandchildren in utero.
This grandmother’s prayer journal offers a delightful and unparalleled opportunity to not merely sit back and wait for the wondrous arrival, but instead, to use the time wisely by prayerfully waiting for your grandchild throughout what can be a meaningful and powerful nine-month novena of prayer.
Month-by-month, inspired with holy insights, you will learn, discover, and note the development of your precious “grand-blessing.” Spaces are provided for you to personalize this special unborn baby book, as well as lovingly record your thoughts and prayers as you pray for your grandchild’s first nine months of life.
From beginning to end, you’ll be partnering with St. Anne, the grandmother of Jesus, to swaddle your unborn grandchild with prayer. You’ll journey with Mother Mary, and all the saints, to prayerfully prepare for the little one’s birth.
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Family Guide To Spiritual Warfare
$18.95Add to cartDemons wage war against families because families are vital to God’s plan of salvation. This stark reality requires that your family members become well-trained spiritual warriors who actively secure your home and fight to keep it off-limits to demonic activity.
In A Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare, Kathleen Beckman offers you potent advice from her 12 years of active participation on an exorcist’s team. She shows you how to clean up your household by cultivating in your family a civilization of love and how to withstand the spiritual attacks that inevitably come to destroy the harmonious family life you create.
Beckman reveals how you can recognize diabolical disguises in your home and offers proven means of protection found only in the Church’s arsenal of spiritual weapons.
You’ll also learn the devil’s strategies how he does not necessarily seek to possess but simply to seed your family with the venom of hatred, desolation, envy, and vice. This, she explains, is why it s so important for spouses and children to become schooled in the art of spiritual combat. It’s the only way you can destroy the works of the devil and unmask the hidden evil that weaves in and out of your daily family life.
Along with more than two dozen effective prayers for family healing and deliverance, you’ll also learn:
*How to understand the spirits working for and against your family, and what to do in response to them
*What specific actions to take if you believe your family has come under the influence of demonic activity
*How to use your baptismal, spousal, and parental authority in spiritual warfare
*How curses can become effective and what can be done to counteract them
*The difference between diabolical temptation, oppression, obsession, and possession
*The seven ways your family can wear the full armor of God
*The diabolical counterparts to each of the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes
*The 13 weapons you can use to defend yourself and your family against evil spirits
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Is It Christmas Yet
$8.95Add to cartFamily time is even more important during the holiday season. Make Advent fun and meaningful for both you and your family with the engaging new book, Is it Christmas Yet? Popular children’s author Angela Burrin guides your family through prayer and story time through the holy time of Advent. Each week, Angela leads your family in an opening prayer, asks thoughtful questions, shares a brief story, offers easy conversation starters, and provides closing prayers and songs. With tips for engaging young children, and activities for everyone, this booklet will make your family’s Advent time enjoyable and filled with anticipation for the birth of Christ!
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Strategic Grandparent : Your Most Important And Fun Role Yet
$13.95Add to cartHow can you reach your grandchildren and impart faith to them? You are not alone in this question, and author Michael Shaughnessy wants to give you a proven plan for doing just that. Applying the principles of youth work, The Strategic Grandparent gives you a step-by-step plan for connecting with your grandchildren, engaging them, and making a lasting impact in their lives. You have an important role to play in God’s plan for your grandchildren take the first step today!
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Reclaiming Sundays : Pray, Play, Serve, Rest, Refresh, And Celebrate
$16.99Add to cartBest-selling Catholic author Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle encourages Catholic families to reclaim a significant tradition: setting apart Sundays as a day of true rest, teaching, and simply spending precious time together. In thirteen creative chapters Donna-Marie presents fun and meaningful ideas inspired by the seasons (both natural and liturgical), holidays, saints days, and holy scripture, to help keep Sundays special, just as God said we should!
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Saint Monica Club
$14.95Add to cartIf you have ever loved someone who left the Faith, you know the ache of wanting that person back at the table. When we feel this ache, the one intimately known to Saint Monica for years, we begin to learn how to love as God loves.
In this book, Maggie Green shows how you can faithfully follow the example of Saint Monica, whose prayers, tears, and witness eventually led to the conversion of both her husband and her son, Saint Augustine, Doctor of the Church. This isn’t a book on how to win your “prodigal” child back ?it’s a book on how to wait for them, how to be okay with planting the seeds and laboring in the vineyard without necessarily seeing the harvest. Read these pages, and you’ll come to see how the Holy Spirit is at work in each of us, calling us all home and encouraging our witness to each other.
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How To Catholic Family
$15.95Add to cartThis book is a practical, encouraging guide for the rest of us: Catholic parents that want to impart the faith to their children but arent quite sure where to start. Topics include leading by example, having conversations about faith, reading the Bible as a family, learning about the Saints, praying together, learning what the Mass means, celebrating special/feast days and liturgical seasons (Advent, Lent), and finding community with other Catholic families. The books emphasis is on making this a doable task and, with humor, the authors let the reader know that there will be plenty of fails along the way but not to give up trying to develop a faith-filled family life.
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Praying For Your Special Needs Child
$15.95Add to cartTake it from people who know! Being a special needs parent comes with deep, often unexpected challenges that can shake your faith to the core. Drawing from their personal experience, David and Mercedes Rizzo share openly the myriad challenges of parenting a special needs child, while offering grace-filled counsel on practical steps you can take and suggested prayers to invite God into your situation. Topics include finding doctors and specialists who will treat your child with respect and kindness; advocating for your childs individualized education plan; preparing your child to receive the Sacraments; giving attention to your marriage and your other children; and preparing your child for adulthood.
Face your challenges with the power of prayer! For every parent and caretaker of a special needs child, this resource will build your faith and offer practical ways to incorporate hope and prayer into your daily life. -
Being A Grandparent
$18.99Add to cartDr. Ray has spent his career helping to strengthen families through a combination of Catholic theology, common-sense insights and wry humor. Now, having become a new grandpa himself, Dr. Ray is turning his attention to the joyful, rejuvenating and sometimes complicated subject of grandparenting.
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Praying For And With Your Spouse
$15.95Add to cartGod wants to fill your marriage with the love that comes from his very own heart. Praying for (and with) Your Spouse will show you how to let God take every part of your relationship to the next levelfrom living each day with your joys and struggles to working out your decisions and disagreements to setting aside time for love and romance. Prayer, in marriage, is more than checking off a box. It is time spent in the presence of the Author of love himself. Every time we pray for and with our spouse, God gives us greater insight into what it takes to love each other bettermore deeply, more honestly, more authentically, and more passionately. Every time we pray for and with our spouse, we open our hearts to a love that can satisfy our deepest longings and allow our marriage to be a light to the world.
This book will help you discover the simple steps you can take to invite God to renew and refresh your love for one another. As you pray together and for one another, youll find out how much joy God has in store for you and your spousein this life and in the next! -
Catholic Grandparents Handbook
$16.95Add to cartWhats the difference between being a grandparent and being a Catholic grandparent? Youll find the answer to this questionand much morein The Catholic Grandparents Handbook. This book offers ideas and inspiration on how you can incorporate faith, hope, love, and fun into your relationship with your grandchildren. Topics such as the importance of prayer, sharing faith, passing on family history, and preserving family traditions are explored. Youll also find valuable advice on helping grandchildren through difficult times, dealing with grandchildren who are unchurched, and building strong relationshipseven when grandchildren live far away. Whether you are an experienced grandparent or awaiting the arrival of your first grandchild, this handbook will support and affirm you as you grow in your role as a Catholic grandparent.
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In Defense Of Purity
$17.99Add to cartHildebrand Press
A probing meditation on the nature, value, and beauty of purity, In Defense of Purity is not a book of sexual ethics, nor a “how-to” guide to purity-but for readers with open minds and hearts, the book promises to be transformative. Hildebrand’s insights on love, marriage, and sexuality offer fresh wisdom to people in any stage of life.
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Catholic Family Prayers
$11.99Add to cartToo often, the noises and pressures of the world drown out the still, small voice of our heavenly Father. This little book will help Catholic families take advantage of quiet moments&mdashin the mornings, at mealtimes, throughout the day, and at night-to join together for times of thanksgiving, intercession, petition, praise, and all sorts of prayer, drawing closer to the Lord and to each other.
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Prayers And Reflections For Newlyweds
$15.99Add to cartIt’s a miracle! God created the miracle of marriage so we might realize and cherish God’s love for each other even more…. The ultimate love story. -From Prayers and Reflections for Newlyweds
Inside are reflective meditations, Scripture, prayer, discussion questions, and activities for the two of you, all designed to help you create new memories together as husband and wife.
Newlyweds, use this book to help you celebrate falling in love, getting engaged, the joy of the wedding day, and a long future together as a married couple-all surrounded by God’s grace. View sample pages. Hardcover
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Blessings And Prayers For Married Couples
$14.99Add to cartHere is the perfect resource for encouraging married couples to engage in the spiritual discipline of daily prayer as a means of affirming the blessings and intimacy of their relationship.
The seven sections of the wedding vows serve as the framework upon which hang the enduring values that need to be renewed through the decades with scripture, reflections, and questions.
This inspiring book provides an aid to couples for continuing to find praying together a natural act for a lifetime of love. It will make a thoughtful gift, whether for newlyweds, couples celebrating their anniversaries, or Marriage Encounter participants.
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Men Women And The Mystery Of Love 2nd Ed.
$21.99Add to cartIn 1960, Fr. Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II) published a philosophy of personalistic marriage, in which each partner prioritizes the well-being and self-realization of the other.Edward Sri makes this life-changing work, “Love and Responsibility,” accessible to every reader. He emphasizes the practical nature of the book, offering actionable advice on issues such as authentic love, pornography, friendship, intimacy and much more. This seminal analysis brilliantly sheds light on the mysterious dynamics between men and womenand challenges us to live out those relationships better.
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5 Steps To Building Unity In A Marriage
$7.95Add to cartIf you are looking to strengthen the relationship in your marriage, this short book is for you. The Kelleys share their thoughts about building unity in a marriage in a simple, but powerful way. The steps are all based on love referred to as the Art of Loving: be the first to love; see and love God in the other; enter into what the other is living, making yourself one with him or her; love those who hurt you. By the end of this short read, you may end up full of gratitude as the Insights and Examples lead you from a discovery of your own sense of being loved and feeling love for your spouse, to a desire to reach out with love to others.
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Hope And A Whole Lotta Prayer
$22.99Add to cartAre you blessed with perfect teens? Teens who never argue, disobey, or talk back? Teens who do as they’re told the very first time, or even before you ask? If your answer is “yes,” then you can move on. This book isn’t for you.
If, however, your answer is “keep dreaming,” “I wish,” an eye roll, or any variation of the word “no,” then this might be the book for you. A teenager’s life is full of change, turmoil, fights, hormones, overreactions, and ideas that seemed liked good ones at the time- But so is the life of a parent of a teen, and some days you just have to throw up your hands and ask God for help.
This book will give you 365 days of reflections and prayers to help you get through a year of “What were you thinking?!”
With God’s help, you might just find you can do all things – even raising a teenager.
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Family The Church And The Real World
$14.99Add to cartFamily life is both messy and holy!
If you embrace only the holiness, or if you just get lost in the messiness, then you miss the fullness of the experience that is living as a family – both in the domestic church and the Institutional Church. Here you’ll find inspiration from Scripture and modern advice that does more than just tell you how family life is “supposed” to be. This book gives you real, practical wisdom on how to navigate the holy messiness of family life.
Insights have been gathered from experts in every area of family life, including: Dr. Sean Reynolds, Dr. Greg and Lisa Popcak, Lisa Hendey, Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle, Dr. Don Paglia, Christopher West, Fr. Andrew Wisdom, Dr. Tom Neal, and Greg and Jennifer Willits. You’ll discover that Catholic Church teaching on marriage and family is rooted in our ultimate calling – to love with all we can muster, even through those messy moments.
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Gift Of Self
$9.75Add to cartThese pages were written by one hand and many hearts … by separated spouses faithful to the sacrament because they are convinced this total gift of self is not an anachronism imposed by the Church to be accepted with patient resignation, but a path of sanctification lived out in the joyous paradox of the Gospel. This book, besides offering numerous points for reflection on the theme of separation, proposes a true and proper path subdivided into stages for groups of people who, living with the suffering of a spouse’s separation, wish to remain faithful to the sacrament of their marriage. Among the many suggested prayers and meditations, one in particular, the renewal of the Yes, has captured the attention of many churches both at home and abroad. The “Marriage Vows Renewal,” included in the last stage, is promulgated by the Pontifical Council of the Family. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops published a recommendation for the book on their Marriage Resource Center: “The greatest strength of Campanella’s book is her articulation of the vocation of the separated person to live out his or her marriage vows as a particular witness of God’s eternal love for fallen humanity, and the practical path she offers to the realization of this call. Although she does not include personal details of her own situation, it is apparent that Campanella has walked this path herself. This imbues a sense of hope and inspiration to the reader.”
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Project Holiness : Marriage As A Workshop For Everyday Saints
$19.95Add to cartProject Holiness: Marriage as a Workshop for Everyday Saints celebrates the holiness of the ordinary and the goodness of married discipleship. Vatican II’s Lumen Gentium reminds Catholics of the universal call to holiness. Each person-lay and ordained alike-shares this vocation to holiness, this call to sainthood. For most adult Catholics, it is within the context of vowed, married life that the joyful and challenging path to sainthood is traveled. Based on an extensive qualitative study of long-lasting Catholic marriages, Bridget Burke Ravizza and Julie Donovan Massey examine the virtues, values, and practices that ground flourishing marriages and lead married partners to holiness.
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To Have And To Hold
$22.99Add to cartThis 365-day devotional assists couples to prioritize prayer together. By combining a passage from Scripture with a pertinent, heartfelt prayer, and thought-provoking reflection, it will give couples prayers they can say together on relevant topics. These themes bring focus and over time, will allow couples to develop stronger bonds with each other. The cliche is true: couples who pray together, stay together.
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Journey Of Faith
$20.99Add to cartHopefully, the reader will gain some insight into the world of spirituality for the years to come and will be motivated to have a closer connection to God and not to religion as such. There are many questions asked but the answers are up to the reader. Richard Money doesn’t expect Journey of Faith to be a record-breaking novel. In fact, the only reason it is being written is because so many people have told Richard over the years that he has a book in him. When is he going to get it out? Well, here it comes, for better or for worse. Journey of Faith is comprised of many incidents in his life that he believes may show not what he has done, but what he has become with the Grace of God. If you are looking for a religious experience, we don’t think you will find it here, although you may. We are not making any promises. Journey of Faith will stimulate the mind to see the real messages of Jesus. What makes this book unique is the ingredients of life, and the events of a married priest after being married, and the training of priests of sixty years ago. If you are seeking the meaning of life and the working of the Holy Spirit this book will truly bring light into your life. All people seeking the Holy Spirit in their lives this is for you. Not only the religious but those on the fence, as it were who may doubt the workings of God in their lives. This book is to be a bridge between God and Man, and to see the manifestations of God in our lives. This is our life in the Journey of Faith.
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Catholic Handbook For Engaged And Newly Married Couples
$16.95Add to cartIn this practical guide to marriage, learn the “secrets” of building a sound, spiritual relationship with your fianc or spouse from toothpaste in the sink to natural family planning.
In the Foreword, Father Kenneth Baker praises the book as both practical and faithful: “This handbook is outstanding both for its practicality and for its fidelity to the Catholic faith. It is practical because it offers good suggestions on most aspects of married life, such as the wedding, the honeymoon, the relationship between husband and wife, in-laws, finances, raising children, sexual relations, practicing the faith, and developing a spiritual life of personal relations with God.
The handbook is also thoroughly Catholic. It offers excellent advice on how to live the Catholic faith as a married man or woman. There is no waffling here, no dissent, no ambiguity. The author spells out clearly what the Catholic Church expects of married people in the areas of married life, sexuality, and family life.”
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Getting The Marriage Conversation Right
$8.95Add to cartGetting the Marriage Conversation Right: A Guide for Effective Dialogue teaches you how to promote and defend traditional marriage in non-religious terms. It’s a great “how to” guide to answer those tough questions you’ve struggled with. Author William B. May shows you how to navigate the pitfalls and avoid making this a gay vs. Christian issue. May brings into the legal definition of marriage the rights of children, and provides sensible guidelines on how to avoid common traps that hinder communications for advocating public policy about marriage. Getting the Marriage Conversation Right includes a substantial section of FAQs at the heart of the conflict. Marriage is the only institution that unites kids with their moms and dads, and that has been recognized by every culture, society, and religion, each according to their own competencies. Getting the Marriage Conversation Right shows how to get that interest recognized in laws, societal institutions, and individuals, and begin to rebuild a marriage culture.
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Catholic Family Advent
$13.99Add to cartFor many families, the four weeks leading up to Christmas can be a time of great stress, unrealized dreams, a commercial blur, and a financial burden. Susan Hines-Brigger, the mother of four children, knows well that the days counting down to Christmas can easily become for parents and grandparents a nightmare of whiny behavior, crowded to-do lists, and a less-than-spiritual experience. That’s why this mother who has seen and heard it all in her own home during Advent created this resource with prayers and activities: She wants to put Christ back into the family holiday celebration and help families-even hers-become holier. Using A Catholic Family Advent on a daily basis will give Catholic families time together to pray, reflect on Scripture, and do a simple activity together. This daily source of inspiration can be used in the family setting as prayer before or after meals, as morning and evening prayer, or as family time in front of the Advent wreath or Christmas creche.
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Infertility Companion For Catholics
$16.95Add to cartOne in every six Unites States couples experiences infertility but Catholic couples face additional confusion, worry, and frustration as they explore the medical options available to them. Filling a major void in Catholic resources, this book describes the Church’s teaching on reproductive technologies and provides a rich spiritual perspective on the emotions and faith involved in embracing the cross of infertility. The authors both experienced periods of being unable to conceive and they walk in solidarity with readers, compassionately coaching them through the challenging landscape of infertility.
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Handbook For Todays Catholic Family (Revised)
$6.99Add to cartOver the years, thousands have turned to the Handbook for Today’s Catholic Family as a guide to Catholic family living. This revised edition offers families and pastoral-care providers a profound and serious resource for Catholic-family life. Updated with topical reference citations to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the Handbook also contains new material for blended and single-parent families. It stresses the significance of prayer, sacraments, and traditions that can build a stronger Catholic identity.
Now more than ever, building a strong foundation is vital to faith formation, and this begins in the home. No family should be without the Handbook for Today’s Catholic Family, the perfect tool for transforming life together into an experience of peace and joy.
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Holy Sex : A Catholic Guide To Toe Curling Mind Blowing Infallible Loving
$19.95Add to cartHoly Sex! unveils Christianity’s best-kept secret, and does so in an informative, solidly grounded, and delightful way. Want to know your Holy Sex Quotient? Ever wonder why Catholics have better sex more often? From a presentation of the Church’s actual teachings on sex to The Infallible Lover’s Guide to Pleasure to Natural Family Planning to a Q&A section on overcoming common problems, this book truly empowers couples to take their relationship to the next level of fulfillment and soulful satisfaction.
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Yearbook Of Seasons And Celebrations
$10.95Add to cartThis practical book offers families meaningful and fun ways to celebrate the liturgical year alongside the four seasons. It includes interesting facts about commonly celebrated traditions, activities for families to enjoy together, and tasty recipes to mark special times of the year. A Yearbook of Seasons and Celebrations is also a great resource for catechists, Catholic school teachers, youth group leaders, and other parish staff looking for activities that bring the liturgical year into the home, classroom, and gatherings.
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With This Ring (Revised)
$9.99Add to cartThis popular book helps newly married couples build a solid foundation for their life together and avoid “traps” that can undermine their marriage. With candor and creativity, the book pinpoints over twenty crucial areas of necessary adjustment for each spouse. It offers guidance for communicating effectively, accepting each other’s faults, enjoying sexuality, getting along with in-laws, building a spiritual relationship, and much more.
Since no single approach will be right for all couples, newlyweds are actively involved in finding a solution that works best for them. Valuable exercises help them respond constructively to the complex issues of the early years of marriage. 5
Renee Bartkowski is enjoying over thirty-five years of fulfilling satisfying married life. She is the author of the bestselling book Prayers for Married Couples. -
Heart Of Motherhood
$16.95Add to cartWhen dirty dishes and laundry pile up, it’s easy to believe that the call to sanctity is for someone else. But this inspiring book written by a Catholic mother of five and based on the teachings of Mother Teresa shows us how faith can support mother’s in their most holy task-raising children.
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Sharing The Faith With Your Child (Expanded)
$7.99Add to cartWith practical wisdom the authors of this handbook show parents how their daily lives, experiences, and relationships reinforce their role as parents. The book includes chapters on Parenting, Being a Family, Being Catholic Family and Rearing Children in a Christian Family.
