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A place where no one is ever hungry, afraid, or alone. A golden land of beauty, laughter, and joy.
Could there really be such a place?
This is the question our protagonist, a little lamb, asks when a mysterious kindly Shepherd appears, promising eternal happiness in a world to come.
Yes, our home is indeed a paradise, and the Father has prepared a place for each of us.
As the lamb grapples with this joyous revelation, he learns to ignore the scoffing of worldly leaders, who boast of their own plans and claim that Heaven is a myth. The lamb believes the Shepherd and is determined to find the way to this wonderful place.
The way is simple. The Shepherd tells him: “I am the Way.” And the lamb eagerly follows Him. But while simple, the way is not easy. The lamb faces many obstacles on the path to happiness, including his own weakness and temptations. As his memory of the Good Shepherd fades, will he overcome the allure of the world to follow the true path once again?
With whimsical storytelling and colorful imagery, this picture book gently introduces children to the challenge all Christians face during their lives. Parents and children alike will ask whether they have the courage to follow Jesus when the path before them becomes steep and rocky.
Inspired by the parable of the Good Shepherd, who goes into the wilderness to rescue the sheep that strays, this tale of faith and forgiveness is sure to inspire greater love and devotion for the kindly Shepherd, who is always ready to find us and lead us home.
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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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Sacred Space Retreats And Reflections For Daily Life
$9.99Add to cartAN ESSENTIAL COMPANION FOR SACRED SPACE READERS
For more than a quarter century, the Irish Jesuits of Sacred Space have invited readers to carve out moments of stillness amid the constant churn of modern life. Designed to strengthen and deepen your faith, this special edition of seasonal retreats and reflections is an indispensable resource for newcomers and longtime fans of Sacred Space. Full retreats for Advent and Lent provide a structured path to meaningful contemplation and welcome renewal, and a selection of prayers and Ignatian-inspired readings are perfect for year-round inspiration.
Whether used alongside the annual Sacred Space: The Prayer Book or as a stand-alone treasure of spiritual insights, this companion volume has the power to deepen your relationship with Jesus.
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Praying With The Church Through Advent
$18.95Add to cartAt the beginning of every Mass, the priest-celebrant says, “Let us pray” and then offers a prayer to God the Father, through Jesus Christ, in union with the Holy Spirit. This Opening Prayer is called the Collect. During Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter, this prayer is specific to the day; in the season of Ordinary Time, the Collect for each Sunday is repeated during the following weekday Masses.
In Praying with the Church through Advent, Fr. Edward Looney offers a short daily meditation and reflection questions on that day’s Collect to help you better appreciate the richness of these liturgical texts and apply them to your life. Journaling pages are included to aid you in your Advent journey so that you may more fruitfully contemplate the liturgy and incorporate the spiritual lessons it offers.
Fr. Looney invites you to spend a few minutes considering these meditations over a cup of coffee, or while resting in the Lord’s Presence, and praying with them before or after Mass. The reflections and questions may also be used for group discussions. In these absorbing passages, you will find:
*A greater appreciation for the prayers of the Mass during Advent — and throughout the year
*The secret to receiving the gifts that God is waiting to give you through the sacraments
*How to create space for Christ and welcome Him into your heart and your home
*Ways to deepen your prayer life and your relationship with God amid difficulties and dangers
*How to break free from darkness and sin and live in the joy and freedom of God’s light
*Practical tips for living your faith through works of charity in every seasonWhile you ponder these penetrating prayers, you will learn how to walk more closely with Our Lady and the saints, from biblical heroes to contemporary figures. By developing a more fervent devotion to the Blessed Mother, you will grow in greater love of her Son. As you enter into the mystery of the Word-made-flesh through these reflections, you will encounter Jesus’ Presence in the Holy Eucharist anew and experience the life-changing power of His love so that you may be restored in mind, heart, and soul as never before.
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Christmas Book : The History, Traditions, And Customs Of Everyone’s Favorit
$17.95Add to cartNothing warms the heart like Christmastime. All of us have precious memories of yuletide cheer, from the excitement of anticipation to the frenzy of preparations to the heartfelt family moments.
Buoyed by the “contagious joy” of Christmas among his congregations in Buffalo and Boston, Fr. Francis X. Weiser compiled a treasure trove of Christmas lore to enrich holiday celebrations for generations to come. Fr. Weiser, who was born in Austria and emigrated to the United States, had long been fascinated by American Christmas culture, which he saw as a consolidation of all the most beloved traditions from the nation’s diverse immigrant communities.
He relied on interviews with parishioners, once-lost documents, and well-known material culture to get to the root of such cherished customs as Nativity plays, gift giving, and Christmas caroling.
In addition to exploring the cultural origins of beloved Christmas traditions, Fr. Weiser reveals their spiritual significance and explains their symbolism, including:
*Why the first Christmas Mass is at midnight
*The beginnings of Christmas caroling and the stories behind beloved carols
*How Christmas lights represent Christ, the Light of the World
*The true Christian origin of the Christmas tree, and the connection between the evergreen and eternal life
*How various cultures honor St. Nicholas
*How pre-Christian traditions gained new significance in light of the Incarnation
Fr. Weiser considered holiday celebrations at home a “radiation of the liturgy,” a beautiful opportunity to cultivate the domestic church in family life.
Packed with historical and liturgical references, literary excerpts, and charming anecdotes, this book will become a family favorite that’s revisited year after year in homes that welcome it.
Join Fr. Weiser as he embarks on a tour of the jubilant celebrations that manifests the sublimity of the Incarnation in the American melting pot, from sea to shining sea.
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Christmas In Heaven
$17.95Add to cartIn charming rhyming verse, Christmas in Heaven tells the poignant story of a little boy who is sad because his grandmother has passed away. It is Christmastime, and the boy asks his grandfather where his grandmother might be. The grandfather responds by telling the boy his fondest hope–that his grandmother is in Heaven.
The boy closes his eyes as his grandfather describes that Christmas is Jesus’ birthday and that a great, festive party is taking place in Heaven. It’s a scene filled with angels and saints, music and laughter, joy and love, and most of all, abundant life!
This beautiful little book will give children an unforgettable vision of Heaven while strengthening in them the theological virtue of hope — a hope that will assist them throughout their lives in dealing with fear, grief, pain, and suffering.
It will also introduce them to the incredible world of the saints. Indeed, the most beloved saints and angels make appearances in Christmas in Heaven, all doing the things they’re best known for:
*St. Honore, patron saint of bakers, is making Jesus’ birthday cake
*St. Cecilia, patron saint of music, is leading the choir
*St. Lucy, patron saint of the blind, is lighting the Christmas tree
*St. Gabriel is blowing his horn
*St. Nicholas is leaving presents under the tree
*St. Therese is giving out flowers
*St. Francis is surrounded by little animals
*St. Patrick is handing out shamrocksThe book includes a helpful two-page glossary with short descriptions of each saint depicted.
Christmas in Heaven combines a delightful teaching on the saints with a sweet story of a boy who, through the eyes of faith, gets to see his grandmother again in Heaven. It is sure to tug at the heartstrings of readers young and old, bringing yuletide joy to all.
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Stigmatists : Their Gifts, Their Revelations, Their Warnings
$29.95Add to cartThere have been very few books that offer a serious, reliable, thoughtful look at stigmatists, and specifically, what I call visionary stigmatists. Interestingly, almost all Church-approved stigmatists have been just that: visionaries as well as stigmatists. This book focuses on Church-approved stigmatists and their visions, revelations, and prophecies and warnings. In some cases, the prophecies and warnings relate to the End Times and Second Coming of Christ. That includes the striking revelations of the likes of Saint Faustina (1905-38), the first canonized saint of the new millennium. One might rightly interpret the mark of the stigmata (sometimes invisible stigmata, as in the cases of Saints Faustina and Catherine of Siena) as a heavenly/Church affirmation of these saints’ authenticity, likewise adding a certain authenticity to their claimed visions.
It is interesting that many people, including Protestants and even non-Christians, are intrigued by stigmata. It seems that nearly everyone finds claims of stigmata fascinating; there doesn’t seem to be a lot of scoffers. Anytime the notion of stigmata is raised, including by Hollywood (albeit sensationally), eyes are wide open.
This book opens with a comprehensive overview of the phenomenon of stigmata, beginning with the words of St. Paul that some believe might be the first recorded case of stigmata. Aside from St. Paul, Saint Francis (1182-1226) is believed to be the first stigmatist. The opening chapter looks at the data and cases that we know of. Thereafter, the book provides individual chapters focused on figures from Catherine of Siena to Anne Catherine Emmerich, Gemma Galgani, Padre Pio, and more, finishing with Saint Faustina.
Notably, not all of these stigmatic saints had visions of the Final Days. They need not to have changed history. Some of the special visions were along the lines of St. Francis’s transformational conversations with Jesus at the San Damiano cross, which nonetheless had a significant larger purpose: “Francesco,” said Jesus, “ripara la mia Chiesa.” (“Francis, repair my Church.”)
Francis did just that. That was a historic moment for the Church and the faith. Unlike the likes of Martin Luther, Francis endeavored upon a genuine reformation.
These stigmatists and their revelations have spoken to us in profound ways from the time of Christ to the Middle Ages to literally the end times. Truly, there is no more crucial time than now to take a prayerful look at what th
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Contemporary Catholic Poetry
$35.00Add to cartFeaturing 23 contemporary Catholic poets, from Julia Alvarez and Carolyn Forche to Timothy Murphy and Franz Wright, this anthology is an essential collection that captures the spectrum of the Catholic experience.
Editors Ryan Wilson and April Lindner have collected the work of Catholic poets born in 1950 and afterward. Featuring diverse styles, aesthetics, and forms, this selection demonstrates “the myriad ways the Church has left its mark on the imaginations of these notable contemporary poets.” A treasury of vibrant beauty–this collection explores the personal, practical, and political, of faith, nature, life, and lament–a welcome gift to all lovers of poetry and language.
“Poems represent the world and the people who inhabit it: they introduce us to plants, animals, human characters, and highly specific places. They show us striking images that may be familiar to us or entirely eldritch, tell us about experiences that might be akin to our own or quite different from our own. They delight us, seduce us, inspire us, instruct us, mock us, condemn us, console us, and mourn us. They challenge us, protest against us, and, sometimes, they baffle us. They celebrate the glories of the created world and its people, and they commemorate momentous occasions; they also curse the cruelty and the horror of the world and its people, and they lament catastrophes. They imagine other people’s lives and other worlds. They invoke deities and absences. They also speak intimately of heartfelt truths, describe local haunts, and address ordinary people directly. They meditate on living, on dying, and on the passage of time. They tell us stories, they tell us lies, and they tell us stories that reveal the truth through lying, to paraphrase the great painter Pablo Picasso. They enchant us with beauty and appall us with terror. Above all, poems remember. Each poem is, on a fundamental level, an act of remembrance, a kind of handprint pressed against the wall of Time.”–from the Preface of Contemporary Catholic Poetry
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Contemporary Catholic Poetry
$25.00Add to cartFeaturing 23 contemporary Catholic poets, from Julia Alvarez and Carolyn Forche to Timothy Murphy and Franz Wright, this anthology is an essential collection that captures the spectrum of the Catholic experience.
Editors Ryan Wilson and April Lindner have collected the work of Catholic poets born in 1950 and afterward. Featuring diverse styles, aesthetics, and forms, this selection demonstrates “the myriad ways the Church has left its mark on the imaginations of these notable contemporary poets.” A treasury of vibrant beauty–this collection explores the personal, practical, and political, of faith, nature, life, and lament–a welcome gift to all lovers of poetry and language.
“Poems represent the world and the people who inhabit it: they introduce us to plants, animals, human characters, and highly specific places. They show us striking images that may be familiar to us or entirely eldritch, tell us about experiences that might be akin to our own or quite different from our own. They delight us, seduce us, inspire us, instruct us, mock us, condemn us, console us, and mourn us. They challenge us, protest against us, and, sometimes, they baffle us. They celebrate the glories of the created world and its people, and they commemorate momentous occasions; they also curse the cruelty and the horror of the world and its people, and they lament catastrophes. They imagine other people’s lives and other worlds. They invoke deities and absences. They also speak intimately of heartfelt truths, describe local haunts, and address ordinary people directly. They meditate on living, on dying, and on the passage of time. They tell us stories, they tell us lies, and they tell us stories that reveal the truth through lying, to paraphrase the great painter Pablo Picasso. They enchant us with beauty and appall us with terror. Above all, poems remember. Each poem is, on a fundamental level, an act of remembrance, a kind of handprint pressed against the wall of Time.”–from the Preface of Contemporary Catholic Poetry
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Living Liturgy 2025 Sunday Missal
$14.95Add to cartLiving LiturgyTM Sunday Missal combines essential liturgical content with the finest presentation on the market today. This annual, single-issue Sunday Mass pew resource is compatible with any hymnal program and affordably priced for parishes. Includes art by Ruberval Monteiro da Silva.
*Gospel reflection for each Sunday
*Readings and congregational dialogue in large, 13-point, bold type
*Two-color text in sense lines
*High-quality cover and paper
*Includes the Rite of the Liturgy of the Word and the Rite for Distributing Holy Communion Outside Mass
*Musical psalm settings from The Collegeville Psalter by Paul Inwood
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Mother Angelicas Keys To The Interior Life
$18.95Add to cartFor years, Mother Angelica blessed viewers with her timeless wit and wisdom. Now, this beautiful collection provides highlights of her trademark compassion and down-to-earth advice.
Mother teaches how to truly love and forgive amidst life’s many challenges. She provides guidance on how to live Catholicism in the modern world and grow in your personal relationship with God. With this candid and inspired expression of the Faith, you will feel your devotion to our Eucharistic Lord and the Blessed Mother deepen, and find healing in the transformative power of suffering that leads to joy.
With this spiritual master to guide you, you will also learn how to open your heart to the gifts of the Holy Spirit and be filled with the courage you need to boldly live out your faith.
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Born To Do This
$11.95Add to cartBorn to Do This is a personal, thirty-day retreat for those seeking the courage and faith that St. Joan of Arc exemplified throughout her life. Six hundred years after her birth and a century after her canonization, she remains one of the most intriguing and popular saints in history.
In this easy-to-use devotional, the life and words of St. Joan of Arc will help you to grow in courageous faith–the kind of faith that empowered St. Joan to answer God’s call, defeat her enemies, endure martyrdom, and ultimately restore her reputation. With diverse patronages ranging from the United States Armed Forces to prisoners, from those ridiculed for their faith to the entire population of France, this icon of courage and women’s empowerment captures the imagination of today’s Catholic like few saints can.
This little book is perfect for busy people who admire St. Joan of Arc and desire an inspirational read to help navigate the difficulties and challenges of life. The book contains:
*a timeline of important events in Joan’s life and a map of containing important landmarks associated with Joan’s life,
*a brief introduction to her life and times, and
*daily opportunities to read, reflect, and pray over her words and story, contained in short yet substantial morning and evening reflections drawn from court transcripts and other contemporary documents.
As the six hundredth anniversary of her martyrdom approaches, the inclusion of the Maid of Orleans in Ave’s Great Spiritual Teachers series brings the inspiration of St. Joan’s own words and life story to those who admire her courage and hope to emulate her in virtue. A special novena is included at the end of the book for those who wish to invoke her intercession.
Each book in the Great Spiritual Teachers series provides a month of daily readings from one of Christianity’s most beloved spiritual guides. These easy-to-use books are the perfect prayer companion for busy people who want to root their spiritual practice in the solid ground of these great spiritual teachers.
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Mission Ready Friendship
$15.95Add to cartWhether we know it or not, we all have family members or friends who are fighting hidden battles of doubt, alienation, isolation, guilt, compulsions, grief, or hopelessness. But often we don’t know exactly how to offer the Good News of Jesus to them in these struggles–at least not beyond offering our “thoughts and prayers.” Mission-Ready Friendship is a roadmap for how to truly befriend your friends, not by solving their problems for them but by going deeper to become the friend Jesus created you to be.
Jason J. Simon grew up in a faithful home but wandered into darkness through his high school and college years. For years, he struggled with shame and despair until Chip, a guy he met while eating donuts after Mass, noticed that darkness and disrupted it by being an intentional, thoughtful friend. This relationship changed Simon’s life and eventually inspired him to lead the Evangelical Catholic, a national organization dedicated to helping people discover how God is already at work in the lives of our innermost circle.
This book spells out simple and incremental practices any Catholic can use to develop deeper, more purposeful friendships. You will learn how to:
*become more invested, curious, and empathetic toward others;
*pray for the people God has placed in your life;
*be ready for the ways God is prompting you to build deeper friendships; and
*bring intentionality to your relationships to accompany them closer to God.Jesus himself used these practices with his followers and sent each of them to use mission-ready friendship to share his good news with others. It’s a simple but powerful approach to relationships that promises to change lives, including your own.
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Find Peace In Advent
$15.95Add to cartIs it really possible to find peace during one of the busiest and stress-filled times of the year? Catholic author and self-described “recovering worrier” Gary Zimak offers a practical, scripture-based approach to Advent so we can make room for Jesus in our chaotic, busy, and fast-paced lives.
While most Catholics have an awareness of Lenten practices, we often don’t know what to do during Advent–even if we know both seasons are times of preparation. On top of this, the holiday season arrives with its own busy rhythms with family and friends. Many of us know that Advent is supposed to be a special season, but we are so pre-occupied with getting ready for the holidays that we fail to benefit from it.
Find Peace in Advent! will enable you to deepen your relationship with Jesus and find peace during one of the most stressful times of the year. This book, which uses a similar approach to the bestselling Give Up Worry for Lent!, requires only a few minutes of reading each day and helps you grow closer to Jesus and experience the peace that only he can give. The daily readings and reflections are easy to digest and connect to the daily Mass readings and the rhythm of the Advent season. With each entry, Zimak guides you to ponder foundational truths of faith and apply them to your own life with four simple steps:
*Read
*Reflect
*Respond
*PrayAs you continue to meditate on scripture and practice the simple action steps at the end of each reflection, you will find it easier to let go of your stress and worries and instead take small steps to deepen your relationship with God and make him the center of your life.
There is no better time to seek interior peace than Advent, which is a time to prepare to celebrate the many ways Jesus reaches into our lives. This four-week process is more than a survival guide to a busy season–it is a journey by which we learn to walk with Jesus, the one who guides our feet onto the path of peace.
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Vessels Of Love
$16.00Add to cartHave you ever thought of yourself as a “vessel of love?” This image speaks to what I envision for the elderhood years. The vast life experiences of the past provided countless opportunities for our love to grow and mature. The persons we have known, what we have done or had done to us, the beliefs stretching our minds and hearts, what we gained and what we shed, the results of our choices and decisions, our deliberate participation in the evolving history of the world–all this and more we bring with us into the final decades.
During this lifetime, whether we’ve been aware or not, a Presence of immeasurable love has been flowing through those experiences, quietly filling the vessel of our inner being. Like vats of matured wine, our ripened goodness has readied itself to move outward. The Beguine mystic, Mechthild of Magdeburg, trusted that “the great flood of divine love never ceases. …It flows on and on effortlessly and sweetly and without failing until, finally, our tiny vessel becomes full and spills over.” Now is the efficacious time to tend “our tiny vessel” so this graced goodness strengthens in us and benefits the life of those we encounter
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Mananitas The Beautiful Celebration Of Our Lady Of Guadalupe
$14.99Add to cartREDISCOVER THE MIRACLE OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE
Connect the present with the past in this beautiful, bilingual children’s book that artfully intertwines the miraculous apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe in 1531 with the observance of her feast by a modern-day family. Perfect for young readers, this book opens an imaginative gateway to understanding the cultural traditions of Las Maanitas and why this celebration continues to be important to so many people of faith.
REDESCUBRE EL MILAGRO DE NUESTRA SEORA DE GUADALUPE
Conecte el presente con el pasado en este hermoso libro bilingue para nios que teje ingeniosamente las apariciones milagrosas de Nuestra Seora de Guadalupe en 1531 con la celebracion de su fiesta por parte de una familia moderna. Perfecto para lectores jovenes, este libro abre una puerta imaginativa para comprender las t radiciones culturales de Las Maanitas y por que esta celebracion sigue siendo importante para tantas personas de fe.
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Every Moment Holy Volume 3 Pocket Edition
$24.99Add to cartFrom the best-selling Every Moment Holy series comes the third volume, A book of liturgies for daily moments across all walks of life written by a range of writers, artists, poets, songwriters, and pastors, edited by Every Moment Holy author Douglas McKelvey.
Every Moment Holy, Volume III: The Work of the People is a book of prayers and liturgies for daily moments across all walks of life. Drawing on a range of writers, artists, poets, songwriters, and pastors (with Douglas Kaine McKelvey both writing and editing), this collection represents a community of believers engaged in the work of reminding all of us that our lives are shot through with sacred purpose and eternal hopes even in the midst of the everyday moments that make up our lives.
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Song Of The Sparrow
$18.99Add to cartThere is a reason why this Franciscan classic has thrived for almost 50 years. Though prayer today is so often depicted as a drab and impersonal practice, Murray Bodo’s heartfelt and honest reflections through the changing seasons of life help unlock the dynamism of prayer-awakening our hearts to sing and be lifted in flight by God’s grace.
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Walking With God
$16.99Add to cartUnlock the mysteries of Scripture by tying together the story of salvation! Written by Tim Gray and Jeff Cavins, Walking with God unpacks the central story woven throughout Scripture and presents it in an easy-to-read, concise manner. Tim Gray and Jeff Cavins take readers on a journey through the “narrative” books of the Bible-the ones that tell the story-and present a panoramic view of God’s glorious plan of salvation. Their expert commentary dives deep into the mysteries of scripture, unlocking its riches and showing how these inspired words are meant for Catholics today. Selling over 100,000 copies, Walking with God is a beloved resource for Catholics longing to understand the story of salvation. Recommended on the top podcast Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)(TM), this book can be used for both individual study and as a guide to further explore the Bible Timeline learning system which is the backbone of Bible in a Year, The Bible Timeline Study, and more! Enter into the scriptures with Walking with God. Witness the fascinating story of our faith unfold, and see how you, at this moment in your life, fit into God’s plan for all of humanity. Reflect on your own or discuss with a Bible study group in your home or in your parish to gain a better understanding of the story of salvation history. Pages: 328 The new edition features all the same content as the beloved prior edition, but with an updated design.
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1 Holy Catholic And Apostolic
$17.95Add to cartWe live in apocalyptic times: secularization, persecution, and atheism abound. In the history of the Church, the faithful relied on councils to unify and help them weather life’s fierce trials. But what recourse do we have when the synods themselves begin sparking confusion and discord?
Cardinal Joseph Zen of Hong Kong was formed during the “wind of Pentecost” surrounding the Second Vatican Council and taught theology and philosophy in seminaries for more than fifty years. In these pages, collected from His Eminence’s homilies, pastoral letters, and addresses, Cardinal Zen breaks open the Gospels and Sacred Tradition to help you remain steadfast in the true Faith and enliven your personal relationship with our Lord.
These wise teachings will safeguard you and provide the spiritual medicine and “rich nutrition” need for fruitful daily living. Cardinal Zen reveals how to transmit the Faith with vitality and love to every generation – even from your own home. Through his insights, drawn from extraordinary real-life experience, you will also glean:
*Three indispensable elements of the Church that lead directly to Christ
*The dangers of the Synod on Synodality
*The “great grace” God has given us and how you can receive it
*Surefire ways to “test the spirit” and discern the truth
*How clergy can embody the Good Shepherd
*How to love and worship God above all and grow in confidence over fearRegardless of where you are on your faith journey, Cardinal Zen reminds you: “Jesus has crazily fallen in love with you with all His heart, has dedicated Himself to you, and will not give up on you.” As you encounter Christ’s transformative presence in your life, you will be empowered with the courage to invite others to loving union with Him.
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Encountering Emmanuel : A Guided Advent Journal For Prayer And Meditation
$11.95Add to cartEmbark on a transformative journey this Advent with Heather Khym, cohost of the Abiding Together podcast, as she extends a heartfelt invitation to embrace stillness and silence amid life’s chaos, allowing God to dwell in the depths of your being. While the world moves at an ever-faster pace, Heather encourages you to pull back from the hustle and create space for our Savior to come into every area of your life–to transform and heal it through his love.
In Encountering Emmanuel, using poignant reflections and accompanying videos, Heather will gently guide you into the areas of your heart where Christ has not yet come–the areas where you’ve shut him out, the places you’ve long forgotten and ignored, or the spaces you’re ashamed to acknowledge. You’ll learn how to invite him in so that he can bring his light, love, peace, hope, and healing into your heart. From the forgotten corners to the shadowed recesses, Heather encourages you to open these spaces to the transformative power of Christ’s love.
Each day will show you a unique way God can come into your life, including the following:
*he comes in the darkness
*he comes to set us free
*he comes to awaken us from slumber
*he comes as a helpless child
*he comes as a gift to the world
*he comes as a person with a face
*he comes to be our foodGod will not force–love never does–but he asks, and we have a choice. Will you open wide your heart to the Savior and give your fiat as Mary did?
Each day you’ll journey deeper into the meaning of Advent with a meditation, stunning art specially created for this book by Josiah Henley of Heart of IESVS, reflection questions, a prayer, and journaling space.
Encountering Emmanuel is perfect for both individual and group use. Free companion videos and a downloadable leader’s guide are available at avemariapress.com.
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Church In The Storms
$24.95Add to cartProlific historian Roberto de Mattei unfurls the sail to help you navigate in tumultuous times
through the stormy waters of worldly events, intellectual movements, apostasies, moral decay, divisions, and persecutions. In these reflections, de Mattei steers you on a voyage from the earliest centuries to the French Revolution, charting the course with fascinating historical details and true stories about key political figures and saints, masterfully relating them to our situation now.In these stirring pages, you will learn:
*Who the real dissidents are – past and present
*The witness of the early Christians and ways we can learn from them today
*The twin pillars of victory according to the vision of St. John Bosco
*The path to authentic reform and the heroic example of the saints throughout the ages
*How the Church rose above the waves amid crises, including schisms and revolutionsDespite the changing tides and pounding waves, you will discover ways the Church weathered storms with Scripture and Tradition as her compasses. You will behold how, in moments of gloom, when all seemed lost, the valor of Catholic heroes restored calm and announced the morning dawn.
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Gods Presence In The Eucharist And In The World
$18.95Add to cart“For there is a real danger facing humanity today that lies in the greenhouse gases of sin, and the global warming of unbelief, as well as in the post-humanist negation of man’s being made in the image and likeness of God, and finally in the breakdown of morality, when no one knows or teaches the difference between good and evil any longer.”
– Cardinal Gerhard MullerFormer prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Cardinal Gerhard Muller guides you on a powerful personal retreat based on one that he has given to hundreds of priests and consecrated religious across the globe. In these life-changing pages, His Eminence will help you grow in union with God personally and find comfort in His love as you learn to discern and place your hope in the Holy Trinity.
Cardinal Muller deftly breaks open Sacred Scripture and the writings of theologians and philosophers in addressing misconceptions about the nature of God and divine revelation. Through his penetrating insights and counsel, you will find the enlightening horizon through which natural reason operates. As you begin to perceive and soak up God’s incarnate love and desire for intimacy with you, you will discover:
*How spiritual exercises are a remedy against feeling lost in a boundless universe
*The difference between authentic mysticism and an ego trip, and what true faith involves
*How to overcome low self-esteem and hopelessness and realize you are chosen by God
*What your response should be to God’s divine touch and His loving care for you
*Why belief in the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist is central to our Faith
*The many ways in which God speaks to us in our language and how we should respondIn addition, you will learn the biblical basis for why sacramental grace is offered in person and for the teaching of the Real Presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. You will also see the ways in which the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass connects to the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross, and why it is the most efficacious act we can perform on earth.
His Eminence also discourses on the role of grace and modern-day concerns, such as human dignity; freedom; the roles of bishops, priests, and laity; and how to approach ecumenical efforts. In all, he guides you in how to run the race, fight in the spiritual battle, and, ultimately, relish in your true identity as a child of God.
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Ascencion Planner 2025 Year Of Hope
$44.99Add to cartHow can you center your daily life around the Catholic Faith?
Introducing a new and beautiful Catholic planner designed to help Catholics focus on peaceful planning while integrating their Faith into their daily lives. The 12-month Ascension Planner 2025 is thoughtfully designed for intentional Catholic living.
After selling out last year, the Ascension planner is back again for 2025, and designed to help Catholics build their daily life around the Church’s Jubilee year with the theme “Pilgrims of Hope.”
Whether your pace of life is busy or quiet, this planner will help you stay rooted in prayer, Scripture, and the liturgical year that brings meaning to each day, week, and month.
Discover a Catholic planner unlike any other!
*Lighter in weight AND filled with more content than previous Ascension planners, the 2025 planner features:
*Monthly reflections and prayers by Beth Sri focused on finding hope in the different seasons of life
*Reminders for prayer and Catholic feast days
*Weekly Bible verse and gratitude-themed prayer by Lisa Hendey, keyed to the Bible in a Year reading plan
*Saints’ feast days, liturgical seasons, holy days of obligation, and penitential days marked on the calendar
*An aid to preparing for the Sacrament of Reconciliation
And much more, including:
*Open and flexible weekly space, which can be used for listing prayer intentions
*Two customizable daily trackers and a daily Divine Mercy tracker
*Common Catholic prayers, including infographics on how to pray the Rosary and Divine Mercy Chaplet
*Daily prayer tracker for novenas and more; space for contrition and thanksgiving each evening
*Additional exclusive Jubilee content, including the official letter from Pope Francis and Jubilee dates for 2025
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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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March To Martyrdom
$16.95Add to cartIf there is to be real renewal in Christian life, a culture steeped in the blood of the Lamb, saints must rise up to seed it. Only the witness of sanctity can save us now. More than ever, we need heroic men of God like St. Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and martyr of the early Church, whose life and letters Dr. Regis Martin illuminates in these stirring pages.
No other writer of the Apostolic Age has expressed with such passion, such blazing intensity, an ardent thirst for God as St. Ignatius, traveling in chains across Asia Minor toward the Colosseum. In his fervor, St. Ignatius wrote, “I am God’s wheat, and I am being ground by the teeth of wild beats to make a pure loaf for Christ.” He urgently dispatched poignant letters to the faithful along the way from Antioch to Rome, a journey marked by travail but ending in triumph.
In these precious testaments, you will discover:
*St. Ignatius’s burning desire for holiness, the secret to true and lasting freedom and happiness
*The source of the bishop’s zeal and his encouragement to the besieged Christians of the early Church
*The saint’s fiery exhortation to the persecuted Church in Rome, where he met his death
*Three universal themes found in St. Ignatius’s letters – and how they apply to us today
Dr. Martin brilliantly weaves the wisdom of spiritual authors – from saints to literary, philosophical, and contemporary witnesses – with his own potent reflections.
This book proves that St. Ignatius’s faith was no “bourgeois faith,” with its sniveling insistence on keeping comfort zones undisturbed. Nor was it the mediocre faith of the complacent. Rather, St. Ignatius stood steadfast, like a hard, gemlike flame set ablaze by Christ alone. “Any Christian who is not a hero,” Leon Bloy reminds us, “is a pig.” St. Ignatius was no pig. So where does that leave us?
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2025 The Angels Wall Calendar
$16.95Add to cartOur popular The Angels Catholic Wall Calendar brings God’s Heaven-sent messengers, guides, and guardians to mind throughout each month for the year 2025. This high-quality Catholic Calendar is paying close heed to the classical art tradition and is intended to remind us of and inspire greater devotion to the Angels for every day of the year.
TAN calendars contain special feasts and fascinating Catholic traditions. They are marked with days of Fasting, special Saints Days, and the Sundays of the Liturgical Year for both the New and Traditional calendars.
The 12×12 Wall Calendars allow ample space for personal notes, appointments, and special occasions. With gorgeous Old Master artwork, meditations, and prayers–each one is a labor of love for our designers.
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2025 The Life Of Our Lord Wall Calendar
$16.95Add to cartThe Life of Our Lord Wall Calendar is ready for 2025, as requested by popular acclaim! Designed to suit every taste and inspire greater faith and devotion to Our Lord for every day of the year. This stunning Catholic Calendar features scenes from the public life of Our Lord as He teaches, heals, and ministers to His apostles and followers–urging them all to believe!
TAN calendars contain special feasts and fascinating Catholic traditions. They are marked with days of Fasting, special Saints Days, and the Sundays of the Liturgical Year for both the New and Traditional calendars. The 12×12 Wall Calendars allow ample space for personal notes, appointments, and special occasions. Filled with gorgeous Old Master artwork, meditations, and prayers–each one is a labor of love for our designers.
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2025 Mary And The Saints Wall Calendar
$16.95Add to cartOur most beloved calendar, the stunning Mary and the Saints Wall Calendar is ready to chart your year for A.D. 2025. Carefully selected from classic art tradition, this calendar is designed to inspire greater devotion to the Blessed Mother for every day of the year.
TAN calendars contain special feasts and fascinating Catholic traditions. They are marked with days of Fasting, special Saints Days, and the Sundays of the Liturgical Year for both the New and Traditional calendars.
The 12×12 Wall Calendars allow ample space for personal notes, appointments, and special occasions. Filled with gorgeous Old Master artwork, meditations, and prayers–each image is hand-picked and designed with care.
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2025 Saints Calendar And 16 Month Planner
$18.95Add to cartThe ever-popular 2025 Saints Calendar and Daily Planner is a 16-month calendar ready to use in September. Our spiral-bound design allows plenty of space for daily appointments in a lay-flat format.
This Calendar has become a favorite for home or office with professionals, students, and busy homeschool families.
TAN calendars contain special feasts and fascinating Catholic traditions. They are marked with days of Fasting, special Saints Days, and the Sundays of the Liturgical Year for both the New and Traditional calendars.
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Franciscan Prayer : Awakening To Oneness With God
$21.99Add to cartRigid, formulaic depictions of prayer have often indicated our distance from God rather than our closeness. From Francis to Clare to Bonaventure, Franciscans have discovered how the immensity of God has become intimate and immediate.
In this Franciscan classic, Ilia Delio, OSF shows how the Franciscan way can offer to all Christians an intimate and wholehearted approach to prayer, one that invites us into the freedom of awakening to who we already are in Christ.
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Living Liturgy Year C 2025 Spirituality Celebration And Catechesis For Sund
$24.95Add to cartLiving Liturgy(TM) 2025 provides practical and engaging content from expert authors to enrich your communal prayer and ministry. Trusted by parishes around the country (and world!), Living Liturgy(TM) offers Scripture readings, insightful reflections, robust liturgical formation, and contextual background information for Sundays, solemnities, and additional feasts of liturgical and national importance. This best-selling annual resource is ideal for parish ministers, liturgists, pastors, planning committees, adult faith formation groups, and anyone who wishes to explore the connections between liturgy and life.
An entirely new resource created for each liturgical year, Living Liturgy(TM) gives your team the spiritual preparation they need to serve in their ministries, integrating daily living, prayer, and study in an inviting and easy-to-use format. Original art by Ruberval Monteiro da Silva, OSB, complements the text and invites further reflection on the gospel of the day. This indispensable guide deepens a liturgical spirituality and strengthens the worship experience for the whole parish.
Featured Liturgical Texts
*Collect
*First Reading
*Responsorial Psalm
*Second Reading
*Gospel Acclamation
*GospelFeatured Content
*Reflecting on the Gospel
*Preparing to Proclaim
*Psalmist Preparation
*Making Connections
*Homily Points
*Model Penitential Act
*Model Universal Prayer (Prayer of the Faithful)
*Liturgy and Music
*Living Liturgy
*Prompts for Faith-SharingAdditional Features
*Calendar-dated
*Pronunciation guide
*Full text of readings in sense lines
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Place For Me In Gods Family Tree
$18.99Add to cartAfter a curious little boy learns about family trees at school, he can’t wait to learn about his own roots. He soon discovers his family is much bigger than he expected when his mother introduces him to the many remarkable people who are part of God’s family tree. Rich in color, the book incorporates the Bible Timeline(TM) Learning System-the same one that serves as the basis of the chart-topping podcast, Bible in a Year(with Fr. Mike Schmitz)(TM). More than just a recounting of the genealogy of Jesus, A Place for Me in God’s Family Tree reveals the captivating story of salvation history. Join the journey to discover how we are all living branches in God’s family tree.
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2025 : A Book Of Grace-Filled Days – Readings And Reflections Through The C
$17.99Add to cartA vibrant prayer life unfolds when we regularly open ourselves to inspiration and God’s grace. 2025: A Book of Grace-Filled Days provides a daily prayer experience to help us build and nurture our faith.
Beginning with the start of the church year in Advent 2024 and continuing through the 2025 calendar year, this daily devotional notes major feast days, saint commemorations, and holidays. Each page combines readings from the Scripture of the day with reflections to offer a few minutes of solace for quiet prayer and meditation. 2025: A Book of Grace-Filled Days is an accessible and insightful way to deepen our connection to God’s loving presence and fill each day with a touch of grace.
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2025 Saint Joseph Sunday Missal Prayerbook And Hymnal
$4.25Add to cartPerfect Worship Aid for Personal or Parish Use…A Missal with a Rich History Meets Today’s Need
For over 50 years, the New St. Joseph Sunday Missal Prayerbook and Hymnal has accompanied countless Catholics in countless parishes as they approach the table of the Lord each Sunday.
This Missal serves as a welcome companion to help the faithful participate more fully in the Mass our greatest prayer.
With this compact, personal Missal, the faithful will have at their fingertips the complete readings and prayers for all the Masses celebrated on the Sundays and Holydays of the Church Year. In addition, this Missal includes all the celebrations of the Sacred Paschal Triduum.
Valuable Features:
*Clear, Easy-to-Read Type
*Two-color Order of Mass with Complete Prayers and Short Explanatory Texts
*Over 50 Illustrations
*Treasury of Prayers, including Illustrated Rosary and Stations of the Cross
*Pastoral Help: Christ’s Presence in Liturgical Celebrations
*Major PracticesWe invite and encourage you to enrich your Sunday worship in church or at home with your personal copy of our NewSt. Joseph Sunday Missal Prayerbook and Hymnal for 2025.
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Logic That God Exists
$14.95Add to cart“When people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing, the problem is that they will believe in anything.” – C. S. Lewis
Business luminary Bob Trussell uses plain language and simple logic to merge scientific theory with philosophy, religion, and the Bible to make an air-tight case for belief in God and all that that can mean for your current life and the life to come. He contends that while most Americans possess some level of belief in God along the scale of zero to one hundred, those with greater belief live happier and more hopeful and peaceful lives on this earth.
The Logic That God Exists leads you step-by-step through a train of reason that shows not only that God might exist but that He must exist. The book explains in scientific terms how everything cannot come from nothing, how paintings must have painters, computer code must have programmers, and how therefore creation must have a Creator.
In these fascinating pages, you will also discover:
*How the laws of nature prove God’s existence
*Why your DNA points to a Creator
*Three barriers against belief and how to overcome them
*Evidence of miracles in the Bible – and todayTrussell masterfully condenses the logical proofs into understandable lists and summarizes how these truths relate to our modern experience. Also contained is a beginner’s guide to applying the Christian faith to your daily life. Above all, you will discover why you are here and how to attain the true fulfillment of all your desires – now and in eternity.
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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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Power Of Reparation
$18.95Add to cart“The world will be saved when we have a sufficient number of souls devoted to reparation and not before.” – Fr. Raoul Plus, S.J
The great Jesuit Fr. Raoul Plus lived and wrote in an era of immense suffering – war, early death, religious indifference – that coexisted, not surprisingly, with robust Catholic faith and practice. He called for spiritual maturity before greater scientific advancements.
In this spiritual masterpiece, Fr. Plus explains every facet of reparation for individual penitents and offers simple, practical ways you can help repair what is falling into ruins in our Church and in our world. You will find inspiring answers to all the key questions about reparation, including:
*What reparation is and why it matters
*Why everyone should make reparation
*How reparation should be made (and what to avoid!)
*Why devotion to the Sacred Heart and the Holy Eucharist are vital to reparation
*Why our Lord wants reparation to be the foundation of Christian livingFr. Plus’s work is replete with compelling anecdotes that illustrate how developing a spirit of reparation is critical to advancing spiritually. Fr. Plus provides rich insights and examples from our Lady and saints who lived lives of sacrifice, including John the Evangelist, John Vianney, Mary Magdalene, Margaret Mary, and several modern saints.
Through a dozen scriptural passages that Fr. Plus unpacks, you will learn the theology behind reparation and how to teach it to others. You will also learn how to develop a spirit of reparation according to the circumstances of your life, how to compensate for the sins of others, and why spiritual direction is advised for discerning the types of reparation most suitable for you.
Above all, you will experience the Call of the King to discover the path that leads to the ultimate goal – joy with the Lord in the afterlife. Each page invites you to enter into Christ’s Heart by sharing in His work of redemption, even in the most seemingly insignificant ways.
This book, which covers priestly, religious, and lay reparation, includes Pope Pius XI’s celebrated encyclical on reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Miserentissimus Redemptor, as well as a treasury of approved reparation prayers: your complete guide to the nature and practice of reparation.
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Charles Carroll : Catholic Of The American Revolution
$21.95Add to cart“I have lived to my ninety-sixth year; I have enjoyed continued health, I have been blessed with great wealth, prosperity, and most of the good things which the world can bestow-public approbation, esteem, applause; but what I now look back on with the greatest satisfaction to myself is, that I have practiced the duties of my religion.”
So wrote Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving Signer of the Declaration of Independence, of his Roman Catholic faith just before his death in November 1832. These last words, recorded by Carroll’s friend and confessor, Father Constantine Pise of Georgetown, were not the pious hyperbole of an old man. For the last Founding Father, who, next to his Bible, cherished Thomas a Kempis’s Imitation of Christ as the greatest of books, was a courageous witness to the Roman Catholic Church throughout his life and strove, like Thomas, to find union with God in humility and self-denial, and especially in frequent reception of the Blessed Sacrament. It is cause for great joy to think that a Signer of the Declaration of Independence was intensely devoted to the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
In this fascinating book by historian Fr. Charles Connor, you’ll come to know Charles Carroll, his role in founding the American Republic, and the role his Faith played in his life.
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Back In 7
$19.99Add to cartThis is the sixth book in a series of seven with a breakthrough exegesis of the Book of Revelation. This book covers 22 “signs of the times” of Jesus’ return and of the end of the age which we are supposed to recognise them when we see them. However, 10 have already happened in the last 50-100 years and 10 more are happening around us today. This leaves only two to come and one is the actual, visible return of Christ. We need to catch up.
The Book of Revelation reveals seven of these signs – trumpets them so to speak – which any 1st century Jewish teenager would have easily recognised as an extraordinary, world-wide repeat of the fall of Jericho. In that day c. 1400 BC when the seven trumpets sounded, “the walls came a-tumblin’ down” as we still sing today, opening the way for the children of Israel into the Promised Land; in our day, the seventh trumpet blast is about to destroy the defences of the whole world and the meek will inherit it, renewed.
Graeme seeks answers to questions few think to ask: where in the Old Testament did John find all of his images and metaphors, and what did they mean there? Why does God choose the signs that He does? Why seals, trumpets, and bowls? What else would a 1st century Jewish teenager have already known and readily recognised? This book offers the answers.
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Sacred Heart Gems
$16.95Add to cartThe Marian Fathers and, more importantly, the magisterium of the Catholic Church teach that there is no contradiction or competition between the message of the Sacred Heart as revealed to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque and the Divine Mercy message and devotion as revealed to St. Faustina Kowalska. Devout Catholics know this. After all, it’s the same Jesus who revealed His Sacred Heart to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque and, centuries later, revealed the Divine Mercy message and devotion to St. Faustina Kowalska. While each respective message has a distinct emphasis — for example, the message of the Sacred Heart focuses on reparation while the Divine Mercy Message and Devotion focuses on living a spirituality of trust in God’s unfathomable mercy — each message comes from the same source, the Divine Person of Jesus Christ. There are lots and lots of other saints, blesseds, venerables, servants of God, and popes who loved the Sacred Heart and wrote about it. Each of the 366 days contains an invocation from the Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
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Im Not Being Fed
$14.99Add to cartIn I’m Not Being Fed!: Discovering the Food that Satisfies the Soul, Jeff Cavins explores the reasons why many Catholics do not seem to understand and appreciate the Holy Eucharist-and why some have even left the Church, saying that they simply weren’t being fed and that they longed for a more personal, spiritually nourishing relationship with Jesus.
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Pocket Guide To Prayer
$24.99Add to cartDevelop a daily habit of prayerful conversation with the Lord with Pocket Guide to Prayer.
Pocket Guide to Prayer is a beautiful, inspiring book written by Edward and Beth Sri, with contributor Fr. Mark-Mary Ames, CFR, that gives anyone confidence in knowing God and building a relationship with him. As an “on-ramp” into understanding the various tools for prayer that the Church offers us, this pocket guide will help Catholics build a fulfilled and deeply satisfying prayer life.
This short but complete guide helps Catholics enter into prayer with more consistency and devotion. It empowers anyone on their faith journey to prioritize daily conversation with God.
Filled with insight on many facets of prayer, Edward and Beth with Fr. Mark-Mary show Catholics how to:
*Get started with prayer
*Understand vocal prayer, meditation, and contemplation
*Learn how to respond to distractions, dryness, and other common struggles experienced in prayer without being discouraged
*Shape their lives around a habit of prayer
*Build a life of prayer in the family and the home
*Understand popular devotions
*And more!
Through practical tips and personal stories, Pocket Guide to Prayer empowers Catholics to approach the Lord in their daily life through prayer each and every day.
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After Christendom
$18.95Add to cartWe are living through the greatest catastrophe since the fall of the Roman Empire. Western civilization isn’t dying: it’s already dead. Christendom is no more. What we see around us now isn’t Christian. It’s not even a civilization. It’s a walking corpse.
That’s the bad news. The good news is that the West can be reborn someday. We know this because it died once before. Who brought it back? The mystics, the martyrs, and the missionaries. Now they must save the West once again.
In this prescient work, Michael Warren Davis examines just how bad the situation is and how much worse it’s going to get. He weaves together examples from history and literature to illustrate how societies fell and how various saints helped them rise again. Throughout, he reflects on the transformative power and benefits of persecution and suffering to show how Christians can survive and indeed flourish in the new Dark Age that’s descending.
These penetrating pages will help you move from a “Culture War” mindset to one of answering the Great Commission. You will learn how to form intentional Christian communities to ward off spiritual isolation and come to understand what St. Augustine, the chief architect of Christendom’s first renaissance, taught about why God allows the City of Man to fall in the first place. Additionally, you will discover:
*The only weapon in your arsenal (can you guess?)
*What role laughter played in the early Church’s victory
*How to attain xenitia, the first stage of spiritual development
*Methods to grow in union with Christ through meditative prayer
*The fruits of street evangelization and your call to go into the vineyard
*How drawing from Eastern Christianity can help renew our culture againAbove all, you will find out how you can respond to the crisis of the early twenty-first century with the wisdom of the ages – to testify to your Faith, help restore beauty, and cultivate authentic love in the modern world. For, according to Davis, every Christian has a role to play. All are called to share their faith person-to-person to help rebuild the Church, and once again the tears of mystics, the sweat of missionaries, and the blood of martyrs will become the seed of the Church. Despite the darkness, by imitating their witness, you will find unshakable peace and joy in the face of what is to come.
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Keeping Hope Alive
$25.00Add to cartFor over fifty years, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., a Baptist minister, activist, and organizer, has worked for civil rights, peace, and the promise of true democracy. From his years in the Civil Rights movement, his work as founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, and as an international ambassador for human rights, he has left an indelible mark on the history of our time. These speeches and sermons, delivered both to the downtrodden and the powerful, from Senegal and Bangkok to Chicago include the famous speeches he delivered at the Democratic Party conventions of 1984 and 1988 following his historic campaigns for the presidential nomination.
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Touched By This Place
$35.00Add to cartIn Touched By This Place, Benjamin Valentin brings readers on his journey to answer the question, “Can you tell us where exactly this work was born?” Paying particular attention to Spanish Harlem, where he grew up and lived for twenty-seven years, Valentin encourages readers to recognize how the reality of place as source or wellspring influences and is influenced by human thought, experience, memory, identity, and activity.
Joining a broader movement of place studies in the humanities and social sciences, Touched By This Place calls Christian theology to return to place and places-based thinking and demonstrated this return with a careful attention to and love for the place one calls “home.”
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Oblate Life
$39.95Add to cartRecognizing that Benedictine oblates are a diverse and ever-changing lot, found throughout the world in a wide variety of circumstances, The Oblate Life embraces this richness of oblate expression and offers guidance for lifelong spiritual formation in the Rule of Saint Benedict. Drawing deeply on the wisdom of monastics and oblates from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, The Oblate Life is designed as a perpetual source of aid, inspiration, and enlightenment for men and women oblates and candidates as well as oblate directors.
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Sound Of Silence
$18.95Add to cartThis book is a memoir of an unlikely relationship between the author, Karen Hall – a television writer and producer of hit shows like M*A*S*H, Hillstreet Blues, Moonlighting and The Good Wife – and conservative Jesuit biblical scholar Fr. Paul Mankowski, SJ, who died in September 2020. It exposes the silencing of Fr. Mankowski by his religious order for airing its dirty laundry and for upholding the two-thousand-year magisterium of the Catholic Church. With the same page-turning prose that brought her singular Hollywood success, Hall reveals how Fr. Mankowski was “canceled” long before the dawn of today’s pervasive Cancel Culture took root.
If you’re tired of modernists overrunning the Church and silencing those who are striving to
safeguard it, or if you’ve ever been criticized for defending Catholic teaching or standing for the integrity of the liturgy, this book is for you. Fr. Mankowski, as Hall describes him, was a brilliant, hilarious, pugnacious (a former boxer!), sometimes scathing, and yet convivial and loyal friend. In these candid and revealing pages, you will learn harrowing details of his heroic suffering due to leadership failures and abuses in his community which sometimes left victims dealing with PTSD and other mental health issues.You will also discover never-before-told facts about:
*Fr. Mankowski’s draconian suppression by errant members of his own order
*Hall’s own journey from agnosticism to rediscovering the Faith of her youth
*How the “straw man fallacy” was applied to Fr. Mankowski
*Actual letters from Fr. Mankowski’s superiors – and his replies
*Excerpts from Fr. Mankowski’s articles defending Catholic truth and his silencing as a result
*Hall’s show Vows, based on Fr. Mankowski, and his impact on her book, Dark DebtsAs you read about the friendship and dialogue between Hall and Fr. Mankowski, you will be
struck by their shared passion for truth, the Faith, writing, storytelling, and supporting each other in prayer. Tragically, you will also see how certain prominent and heretical members of the Jesuit order continued to malign him after his death. Above all, you will observe the boundless love Fr. Mankowski felt for the Church and his willingness to suffer to help effect reform in his order. It was his faithful witness that inspired Hall to pen these captivating pages and bring to light the true story of an unsung hero, a story that is sure to inspire others suffering persecution in the priesthood and in rel -
Return To The Center
$28.00Add to cartA new edition of a classic work of spiritual discovery.
“I sit here on the veranda of my cell, watching the sun set behind the trees, and recall the day, nearly fifty years ago, when I watched the same suns setting over the playing-fields at school. My cell is a thatched hut surrounded by trees. I can listen to the birds singing as I did then, and watch the trees making dark patterns against the sky as the light fades, but I have travelled a long way both in space and time since then. . . .”
Bede Griffiths (1907-1993), a British-born Benedictine monk, moved to India in 1955, adopted the appearance of a Hindu sannyasi–one whose whole life is focused on the search for God–and became one of the great pioneers of East-West dialogue.
In Return to the Center Griffiths offers the fruits of a lifetime spent in prayer and meditation. He believes that modern humans have lost touch with the center of their own life, and therefore with life itself. This center is “the place of meeting where the different religious traditions of the world have their source, and the ultimate meaning of human existence is to be found. . . . For a Christian this is manifested in the person of Jesus Christ.” Griffiths illuminates the way for us each to find our own way back to the center by looking at the truths of Hinduism and Buddhism through a Christian lens. In these short reflections he reflects “on what India has done to me, on how my mind has developed, on the changes which have taken place in my way of life and in the depths of my soul.”
This edition is augmented by an additional chapter that narrates his move from England to India, describing what he was seeking and what he found. In addition, a lengthy introduction by Cyprian Consiglio, former prior of New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur, offers a biographical profile of Griffiths and assesses his significance as a “Christocentric perrenialist.”
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Vatican 2 At 60
$32.00Add to cartMarking the 60th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) here are original essays by leading Catholic theological scholars. They address the historic and current significance of the Council, key documents and themes, and the Council’s ongoing challenge for renewal in the Catholic Church of the twenty-first century.
Contents
1. A Council for a World Church, Catherine E. Clifford
2, The Unfinished Business of Lumen Gentium, Paul Lakeland
3. Reform in Motion: Vatican II and the Liturgy, John F. Baldovin, SJ
4. Lumen Gentium, Synodality, and the Universal Call to Participation, Brian P. Flanagan
5. Dei Verbum and the Roots of Synodality, Ormond Rush
6. Being the Church in the World, Marcus Mescher
7. Gender and Ecclesiology since Vatican II, Elyse J. Raby
8. Nostra Aetate Journey to Interfaith Dialogue, Celia Deutsch, NDS
9. The Spirituality of the Second Vatican Council, Gerald O’Collins, SJ
10. Synodality: An Enduring Legacy of the Council, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy