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Traveler Toward The Dawn
$10.95Add to cartThis inspirational book is great for anyone considering themselves a seeker (of truth, faith, light, God, Eternity).
In the end, Fr. O’Malley dies of cancer and the reader will instinctively understand that this was his way of the cross, sadness mixed with understanding that the way of the cross is never easy. -
Spiritual Exercises
$29.95Add to cartThe most scholarly of the remarkable nuns of Helfta composed these meditations, rituals, prayers, instructions on how to pray, chants, hymns, and litanies in the late thirteenth century. Her mastery of poetic prose attests to the level of women’s education in the highly cultured abbey she entered as a child of five and never, so far as we know, left even once.
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Life Of Mary Magdalene And Of Her Sister Saint Martha
$24.95Add to cartThe cult of the penitent Magdalene grew rapidly in western Europe in the Middle Ages, as a number of shrines and church dedications attest. This medieval narration, tracing in imaginative detail the lives of the two sisters after the Resurrection of Christ, provides a model for christian women.
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Saint Francis Of Assisi
$14.00Add to cartFrancis of Assisi is, after Mary of Nazareth, the greatest saint in the Christian calendar, and one of the most influential men in the whole of human history. By universal acclaim, this biography by G. K. Chesterton is considered the best appreciation of Francis’s life–the one that gets to the heart of the matter.
For Chesterton, Francis is a great paradoxical figure, a man who loved women but vowed himself to chastity; an artist who loved the pleasures of the natural world as few have loved them, but vowed himself to the most austere poverty, stripping himself naked in the public square so all could see that he had renounced his worldly goods; a clown who stood on his head in order to see the world aright. Chesterton gives us Francis in his world-the riotously colorful world of the High Middle Ages, a world with more pageantry and romance than we have seen before or since. Here is the Francis who tried to end the Crusades by talking to the Saracens, and who interceded with the emperor on behalf of the birds. Here is the Francis who inspired a revolution in art that began with Giotto and a revolution in poetry that began with Dante. Here is the Francis who prayed and danced with pagan abandon, who talked to animals, who invented the creche.
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Story Of A Soul
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Few spiritual figures have touched as many readers in the past century as Saint Therese of Lisieux, the saint popularly known as the Little Flower. Though she was only twenty-four years old when she died, her writings have had tremendous impact making her one of the most popular spiritual writers in the twentieth century. Her autobiography, The Story of a Soul, has been a source of priceless inspiration ever since it was written, and has become the great spiritual bestseller of our time. A hundred years after her death in 1897, millions of copies have spread throughout the world and it has been translated into more than fifty languages.The reason for the continued success of her autobiography is, quite simply, that it is unlike any work of devotion and spiritual insight ever written. Once it is read, it cannot be forgotten. Its appeal across cultures and generations has been extensive, moving both peasants and popes, men and women, young and old-people of every kind of intelligence and education succumb to its spell. Yet it is not a conventional work of religious devotion; instead it is in many ways a supernatural book. In the words of Pope Pius XI, St. Therese “attained to the knowledge of supernatural things in such abundant measure that she was able to point out the sure way of salvation to others,” and it is especially in The Story of a Soul that she has pointed out this sure way to the generations that have followed her. As Therese herself said of this book just prior to her death, “What I have written will do a lot of good. It will make the kindness of God better known.”
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Legacy Of Thomas Merton
$34.95Add to cartWhen he entered Gethsemani Abbey in 1941, Merton embraced a hidden life . By the time he died nearly thirty years later, he was well known as `a witness to life’, a friend of people around the world, and a keen observer of both church and society. Those who knew him and who have studied his published works reflect here on his influence on Church and society.
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3 Treatises On Man
$34.95Add to cartThree treatises by twelfth-century Cistercians, who reflect on the human person as the image of God and capax Dei, capable of God, of being reformed to the divine Image. Of the three-Isaac of Stella, an anonymous Cistercian, and William of Saint Thierry- only the last discusses the nature (‘the physics’) of the body as well as of the soul, giving us an insight into medieval medical theory as well as to theological anthrology.
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Monastic Journey By Thomas Merton
$24.95Add to cartWritten during the last decade of Merton’s life, these articles reflect his mature thought on monastic life in community and in solitude. Appealing to the monastic dimension in all of us, his reflections have meaning for those living outside as well as inside monastery walls, fellow travellers on the same journey he took, aware of the fragility and imperfections, as well as the great potential for growth and love, within each human person.
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Miraculous Medal : The Story Of Our Lady’s Apperances To Saint Catherine
$9.95Add to cart“Sister, it couldn’t have happened! It was all a dream, like the other time,” the priest declared. But Sister Catherine was sure she had truly seen Our Lady…and then Our Lady appeared to her again! Would the priest ever believe her? Would he ever have the Medals made as Our Lady had asked? This wonderful story captures what happened when the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to St. Catherine Laboure and the beginning of the Miraculous Medal.
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Children Of Fatima
$11.95Add to cartEvery young Catholic should know the story of Fatima. The examples of the three children who were integral to the events, the message of love and repentance, and the many miracles of Fatima will teach your student the way to holiness. The events at Fatima have been called the most miraculous occurrences since Biblical times, with effects that spread across the entire globe. Through these events and their effects, God has communicated His love and His forgiveness to the whole world.