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Consecrated Phrases Third Edition
$29.95Add to cartConsecrated Phrases has been a standard and valued reference work for theology students for many years. This new third edition is expanded by more than fifty percent from the previous edition. It includes many new entries, while entries from earlier editions have been expanded and extensively cross-referenced. The resulting volume functions better as a reliable guide to translation and a primer on the tradition out of which the consecrated phrases arose. The third edition contains many entries from canon and civil law, as well as terms from philosophy and theology.
While Latin has often been called a dead language,” Consecrated Phrases demonstrates convincingly that the tradition continues not just to live but to thrive. This book will aid generations of students yet to come in understanding, appropriating, and developing the best of that tradition.
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World Christianity Encounters World Religions
$29.95Add to cartSynthesizing the thinking of the most prominent scholars, professor Edmund Chia discusses practically everything that should be known about Christianity’s encounter with other religions in this comprehensive a book. Topics include:
-the invention of the idea of World Religions and World Christianity
-the Bible and the church’s attitude toward other faiths
-Vatican II, Asian Christianity, and interfaith dialogue
-the what, why, when, and how of dialogue
-the global ecumenical movement
-theologies of religious pluralism
-cross-textual hermeneutics
-comparative theology
-interfaith worship
-religious syncretism
-multiple religious belonging
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Setting Captives Free
$29.35Add to cartIn this new volume, Fr. Gallagher explores additional understandings and applications of the Ignatian rules. These personal reflections have arisen from the delight–and the labor–of learning and sharing the rules, witnessing the joy and hope they have given to so many. These Ignatian guidelines set captives free from the discouragement and sadness of spiritual desolation. They offer hope precisely where persons may have felt hope was not possible–and so release new energy for the spiritual journey.
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Way Of Ignatius
$14.99Add to cartA deep prayer life is not just something for mystics or religious specialists. It’s for everyone, and everyone has a capacity for it. There is a great thirst for spiritual depth among Christians and seekers. This is a popular introduction to prayer and the spiritual life–a guide for Lent and the rest of the year–in the tradition of Ignatius Loyola. Simmonds also explores Ignatian influence on the life of the seventeenth-century Yorkshire woman, Mary Ward. The Ignatian tradition is hugely adaptable to different approaches. At its heart is personal encounter with Jesus, helping people to pray with the Scriptures in an imaginative way. This book includes questions to aid reflection and discussion at the end of each chapter, and also looks at the way in which the Passion and resurrection of Jesus are woven into the patterns of human life.
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Things He Did
$13.99Add to cartOne extraordinary week. Jesus rides a colt into Jerusalem. He shows righteous rage in the temple. He eats with the wrong sort of people. He lets a woman anoint him with oil. He washes his disciples’ feet. He breaks bread and shares wine. He prays passionately in the garden. He allows himself to be arrested. Jesus stands in the prophetic tradition of those who embody what they teach. The things he did were carefully planned. And in this riveting book, Stephen Cottrell draws out their political and religious significance as Jesus moves towards his greatest and final act – his death and resurrection.
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Theology Of Conversation
$34.95Add to cartSometimes described as “a theologian’s theologian,” David Tracy’s scholarship has impacted countless thinkers around the globe. The complexity of his thought, however, has often made engaging his work into a daunting challenge. Combining analysis of the most influential features of Tracy’s theology (theological method, the religious classic, public theology) with a retrieval of his more overlooked interests (Christology, God), Stephen Okey presents the essential themes of Tracy’s career in accessible and insightful prose.
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Moral Vision : Seeing The World With Love And Justice
$33.99Add to cartIn this new textbook two Catholic ethicists with extensive teaching experience present a moral theology based on vision–the idea that how we see the world shapes our choices and actions.
David Matzko McCarthy and James M. Donohue draw widely from the western philosophical tradition while integrating biblical and theological themes in order to explore such fundamental questions as What is good? The book’s fourteen chapters are short and thematic. Substantive study questions engage with primary texts and get students to apply theory to everyday life and common human experiences. The book is accessibly written and flexible enough to fit into any undergraduate or seminary course on ethics.
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For God So Loved
$12.99Add to cartFor God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16 is a Bible verse that many of us are so familiar with it has almost become rote. Sometimes our Christian practices and observances can become a matter of routine too.
Written by Dan Boone, Samantha Chambo, Tara Beth Leach, and Jeren Rowell, this Lenten devotional aims to help you establish an intentional time of spiritual reflection. For God So Loved invites you to join Christ on his final earthly journey as you rediscover the very reason we remember and undertake this same pilgrimage year after year.
For God So Loved contains Lectionary-based reflections and prayers for each day of Lent, from Ash Wednesday through Easter, so that you remain connected and engaged with Christ from his very first step toward the cross.
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Resilient Disciple : A Lenten Journey Through Adversity To Maturity
$14.99Add to cartAlone on an 8-day retreat in the Egyptian desert, Justine Allain Chapman experienced first-hand the physical, spiritual and mental struggle many have endured before her. Our own desert experience may involve attending to challenges that come upon us suddenly–such as an illness or bereavement–or a difficult relationships or patterns of thinking that have long been draining us of life and joy. A Lenten pilgrimage is testing. We have to search within ourselves for answers which lie hidden, to draw on each other’s strengths, to reflect deeply and to trust that we will be enabled to integrate our many experiences. But there is a “bright flame before us, a guiding star above.” And the God, who always calls us to love beyond ourselves, offers tender healing for our brokenness, longing that we may be consoled and renewed. This vividly written book includes wide ranging prayers and scripture readings, along with guides to using the material with groups and in preaching and worship.
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Book Of Common Prayer
$12.99Add to cartThe Book of Common Prayer is one of the most influential books in history. First published in the reign of Edward VI, in 1549, it was a product of the English Reformation following the break with Rome. For nearly five centuries, it has formed the order of worship for established Christianity in England. More listeners have heard these prayers, it is said, than the soliloquies of Shakespeare. As British imperial ambitions spread, the Book of Common Prayer became the primary instrument (at least as much as the King James Bible) of English culture, firstly in Ireland in 1551. When the Puritans fled to America in 1620 it was to escape the discipline imposed by of the Book of Common Prayer, yet the book came to embody official religion in America before and after Independence, and is still in use.
Today it is a global book: it was the first book printed in many languages, from north America to southern Africa, to the Indian sub-continent.
In this Very Short Introduction Brian Cummings tells the fascinating history of the Book of Common Prayer, and explains why it is easily misunderstood. Designed in the 1540s as a radical Protestant answer to Catholic “superstition,” within a century (during the English Civil Wars) radical Christians regarded the Book of Common Prayer as itself “superstitious” and even (paradoxically) “Papist.” Changing in meaning and context over time, the Book of Common Prayer has acted as a cultural symbol, affecting the everyday conduct of life as much as the spiritual, and dividing conformity from non-conformity, in social terms as well as religious, from birth to marriage to death.
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Paul Farmer : Servant To The Poor
$14.95Add to cartBill Gates has called Paul Farmer one of the most amazing people he has ever met. CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta says that “if pure altruism exists in humans, it probably looks a lot like Dr. Paul Farmer.”
In Paul Farmer, Servant to the Poor, Jennie Weiss Block introduces readers to this physician and medical anthropologist of international stature whose Catholic faith has driven him to work untiringly to make a preferential option for the poor in health care. Farmer, with his colleagues at Harvard University and Partners in Health, has been instrumental in bringing the fruits of modern medicine to millions of the poorest people in the world, in places like Haiti, Rwanda, Peru, Russia, Malawi, and West Africa during the recent Ebola crisis. Challenging the conventional wisdom of global health experts, Dr. Farmer has shown it is possible to deliver high-quality medical care on a large scale to settings of great poverty and to build communities around the globe where good health and hope prevail.
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Divine Friendship : Reflections For Lent
$14.99Add to cartMany of us spend our lives searching for something to satisfy our deepest longings. Yet we will never find complete satisfaction in human relationships, possessions, or personal power. As Saint Augustine wrote, “Our hearts are restless until they find their rest in you [God].” Lent offers us the opportunity to deepen our friendship with God. The idea of being friends with God may intimidate some, but the authors of this book provide practical tips for developing a closer relationship with God. Set aside at least 15 to 20 minutes each day to spend with God, the introduction suggests. Read the scripture texts and reflections, and pay attention to what they evoke in you. Then talk to God about your thoughts and feelings just as you would to your best friend. During Lent Jesus invites us to spend time with him and to renew our friendship with him. This encouraging book reminds us that we are beloved children of a God who deeply desires friendship with us. The meditations help us realize that through friendship with God, we will satisfy our hearts’ yearnings.
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Surrounded By Love
$18.99Add to cartFranciscan Murray Bodo illuminates seven key teachings from St. Francis and shows how these teachings are the foundation for Franciscan spirituality today. Beginning with the wonder of the incarnation, he moves through the paradox of evangelical poverty, living the Gospel, repairing God’s house, making peace, the recognition that we are one with all of creation, and the joy and humble service of God. All of these teachings have their roots and destination in the love of God that surrounds all of creation and each individual person.
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Walking The Journey Of Lent Cycle C
$18.68Add to cartWhat could Bamboo possibly have to do with Lent? There aren’t any mentions of bamboo in any of the Gospel stories, is there?
Richard Gribble, CSC uses this unlikely image and many others to help the reader and Bible student discern more about what it means to follow Christ throughout Lent in preparation for the glorious celebration of Easter.The story of Bamboo in the Garden is a good illustration ofwhat the call of the Master, Jesus Christ, may entail and howmuch might be asked of us.Though we face struggle and even death, the promise of the Lenten season is new life and a return to the home where we truly belong.
Each lesson in Walking the Journey of Lent: Reflections on the Scriptures for Cycle C is bolstered by opening and closing prayers, contextual scripture and discussion questions.
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Symbol And Sacrament
$69.95Add to cartThis work comes at an opportune hour: a time in which many complain that contemporary theology lacks a general theory of sacraments. Chauvet charts a reorientation in sacramental theology from the scholastic treatments, which appropriated the metaphysical categories of causality and substance to develop an essentially instrumentalist appreciation of grace, in favor of an approach through the category of symbol.” In this approach the subject is as much “grasped” (and transformed) by the symbolic representation as is the object being interpreted. Chauvet commands a wealth of scholarship which he deploys to powerful effect. His work in developing a foundational theology of sacramentality will remain the standard for years to come. “
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Saint Oscar Romero
$15.99Add to cartKerry Walters explores the Salvadoran archbishop’s journey from carpenter’s son through his early priesthood, his selection as a “safe” bishop who wouldn’t rock the government boat, to his transformation into someone who proclaimed the truth of the Gospel so unswervingly that it led to his assassination.
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Pausas Para La Cuaresma – (Spanish)
$12.99Add to cartSometimes a pause is good for the soul. It gives us the chance to regroup, reflect, and refocus on God. In Pauses for Lent, Trevor Hudson offers a beautifully minimalist book in which he focuses on one word for each day of Lent. You are invited to pause, focus on the word, read a scripture and a brief meditation related to the word, and then offer a prayer. Pausing in this way will help you carve out time for God and refresh your spirit even in the midst of a busy life. You may find yourself sensing God’s presence in a new way and discovering that God wants to meet you in the midst of your life as it is, muddles and all.
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Monastery Journey To Christmas
$14.99Add to cartFull of wonder and joyful anticipation, the Christmas season is the perfect time for Christians to take a break from their busy schedules and ponder the wonderful works of God-in the depths of their heart.Based on the ancient Christian tradition of meditating throughout the 40 days before and after Christmas, this small monastic book follows the rhythm of the Advent and Christmas journey as it takes place in a particular monastery, a place as small and tiny as Bethlehem itself. This book offers a meditation based in a liturgical, biblical, traditional, or literary text for every day from November 15th to January 13th and then February 1st and 2nd.
Best-selling author Br. Victor-Antoine d’Avila-Latourrette will help you fill Christmas with moments of quiet prayer. Experience a deepening faith while awaiting in joyful expectation for the Savior’s coming.
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Elemental Life : Mystery And Mercy In The Work Of Father Matthew Kelty OCSO
$21.95Add to cartFather Matthew Kelty was an especially beloved monk at the historic Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. Perhaps best known as Thomas Merton’s colleague and confessor in the year prior to Merton’s death, Father Matthew was also an enormously gifted spiritual writer in his own right, one whose homilies at Gethsemani attracted a wide following. This is the first book-length study of Matthew Kelty’s life in relation to his spiritual writings and his profound reflections on the virtues of the monastic life in the modern age.
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Surrender To Christ For Mission
$24.95Add to cartThis multiauthor book celebrates the bicentenary of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), founded by St. Eugene de Mazenod, and arises from an international conference on French spiritual traditions hosted by the Oblates in San Antonio, Texas, in November 2016. More broadly, this book aims to make available to a wide readership the riches of the important family of French spiritual traditions originating between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries–not least the emphasis on mission to the poor. French traditions have been greatly underestimated in conventional histories of Christian spirituality, but their spiritual wisdom offers much to today’s believers.
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Book Of The Elders
$49.95Add to cartIn the early part of the fourth century, a few Christians, mostly men and some women, began to withdraw from “the world” to retreat into the desert, there to practice their new religion more seriously. The person who aspired to “renounce the world” first had to find an “elder,” a person who would accept him as a disciple and apprentice. To his elder (whom he would address as abba–father) the neophyte owed complete obedience; from his abba, he would receive provisions (as it were) for the road to virtue. In addition to the abba’s own example of living, there was the verbal teaching of the elders in sayings and tales, setting out the theory and practice of the eremitic life.
In due course, these sayings (or apophthegmata) were written down and, later, collected and codified. The earliest attempts to codify tales and sayings are now lost. As the collection grew, they were first organized alphabetically, according to the name of the abba who spoke them, in a major collection known as the Apophthegmata Patrum Alphabetica. A supplementary collection, the Anonymous Apophthegmata, followed. Later, both collections were combined and arranged systematically rather than alphabetically. This collection was created sometime between 500 and 575 and later went through a couple of major revisions, the second of which appeared sometime before 970.
This second revision was published in an excellent new critical edition, with a French translation, in 1993. Now, in The Book of the Elders, John Wortley offers an English translation of this collection, based entirely on the Greek of that text.
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Invites Au Banquet Du Seigneur – (Other Language)
$21.23Add to cartTous les chretiens savent que Jesus a institue une celebration avec du pain et du vin. Certains l’appellent le repas du Seigneur, d’autres l’appellent la cene, la communion ou l’eucharistie. Pourquoi les chretiens participent-ils encore a cette celebration de nos jours? Quel en est le sens? Et qu’est-ce que cela nous apprend sur le ministere de Jesus Christ?
Professeur Christian A. Eberhart repond a ces questions par l’etude des textes fondateurs. Il nous immerge tout d’abord dans les textes du Nouveau Testament qui font reference au dernier repas de Jesus. Puis la quete de sens nous mene dans l’Ancien Testament, ou nous poursuivons la recherche sur les themes de la Paque juive, des rituels sacrificiels et de l’expiation. Ces textes nous offrent des cles determinantes pour la comprehension du pardon des peches a l’oeuvre durant la communion. Pr Eberhart montre aussi que cette celebration instituee par Jesus est un repas ritualise. Par consequent, il explore aussi les fonctions sociales des repas communautaires dans l’antiquite greco-romaine. Au final, la communion apparait tel un puissant symbole, encore pertinent de nos jours, qui transmet l’amour de Dieu et l’ideal d’une societe inclusive.
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How To Think Like Aquinas
$18.95Add to cartIn these pages, you’ll learn St. Thomas Aquinas’s unique powers of intellect and will, and how he can train us to perfect them. Best-selling author of The One-Minutea Aquinas offers here a fully guided, illustrated tutorial of exercises to perfect your intellectual powers of memory, understanding, logical reasoning, shrewdness, foresight, circumspection, practical wisdom, and so much more that lead to happier and holier lives. You’ll also learn:
-The connections between thinking, happiness, and holiness
-How to perfect intellectual powers you may not know you possess
-Why a failure to understand human nature impairs our ability to understand anything
-The three fundamental acts of practical wisdom
-The eight parts of prudence every Catholic should keep in stock
-How training our memories can make us deeper thinkers
-How critical thinking alone is insufficient for reaching the truth
-Why Catholics should cherish reason as well as faith #&8212 and know how to use it!
-How to spot twenty common logical fallaciesHow thinking like Aquinas can inoculate you from twenty damaging isms and worldviews wreaking havoc in our world today.
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Daily Companion For Caregivers
$10.95Add to cartServing as a caregiver for a family member, friend, or any person takes abundant wisdom, patience, courage, and the help of God. These Scriptures or quotes, reflections, and prayers for each day are for those who, by nature, circumstances, or profession, are immersed in tending to the physical, emotional, and/or financial needs of others. Nurses, doctors, police, fire, and military personnel-as well as anyone caring for a loved one-will keep this prayer book close at hand to strengthen their compassion and mercy to heal and to suffer with whomever they help.
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C S Lewis Little Book Of Wisdom
$18.95Add to cartNovelist, poet, critic, lay theologian, and best-selling author of the ‘Narnia’ series, C. S. Lewis’ works have become timeless classics for adults and children around the world.
Here in one concise volume is the essence of his thought on subjects ranging from love and faith to ethics and morality and myth and literature that will throw open the windows of the soul and provide readers with bite-sized nuggets of wisdom and inspiration from one of the best-loved writers of the 20th century.
This lovely little gift book will provide sustenance, wisdom, and hope for both believers and seekers. And, most importantly, it will provide an entry point for those unfamiliar with Lewis that will make them want to explore his fiction and nonfiction works.
Selections from C.S. Lewis’ Little Book of Wisdom:
“If God had granted all the silly prayers I’ve made in my life, where should I be now?”“Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things, but in failing to add new things…”
“Do not dare not to dare.”
“We are mirrors whose brightness is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.”
“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”
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Gotta Serve Somebody
$13.99Add to cartConfused about ‘The Mark of the Beast’? If so, you’re not alone – the mark and the number 666 have been controversial for centuries. Scholars and laymen alike have offered numerous interpretations, ‘calculations’ and wild guesses but while most predictions have failed to materialize, some say we just have to wait.
In this book, Graeme uses the keys recovered in the first two in this series (Dancing in the Dragon’s Jaws and Slouching Towards Bethlehem) to unlock the symbols and ‘times’ of the most infamous and misunderstood mark in human history. Instead of waiting for a world government and/or global banking system that may never eventuate, Graeme believes and shows that The Mark is already here–and has been for the last 2,000 years! We’ve just not recognised it. Digging into the Law of Moses, we find that this mark is actually the beast’s counterpart of marks that God Himself placed 3,500 years ago on the forehead and hand of His people, at the Exodus and in the wilderness, with a numbering system of names as described in the Book of Numbers. Graeme then shows how we have also been hampered by a simple mistranslation of Matthew 18:22. We don’t need a profound theological education or esoteric enlightenment but we do need a basic grasp of Jewish history and the Old Testament, as already understood by 1st Century Jewish believers in Jesus of Nazareth.
The other three books in this series include Dancing in the Dragon’s Jaws (1), Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2), and Silencing the Witnesses (4).
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2 Kings : Studies In Hebrew Narrative And Poetry
$34.95Add to cartOpening with the prophet Elijah’s ascent into heaven and closing with the people of Judah’s descent to Babylonia, 2 Kings charts the story of the two Israelite kingdoms until their destruction. This commentary unfolds the literary dimensions of 2 Kings, analyzes the strategies through which its words create a world of meaning, and examines the book’s tales of prophets, political intrigue, royal apostasy, and religious reform as components of larger patterns.
2 Kings pays attention to the writers’ methods of representing human character and of twisting chronological time for literary purposes. It also shows how the contests between kings and prophets are mirrored in the competing structures of regnal synchronization and prophecy-fulfillment. Much more than a common chronicle of royal achievements and disasters, 2 Kings emerges as a powerful history that creates memories and forges identities for its Jewish readers.
2 Kings is divided into four parts including Part One “The Story of Elisha: 2 Kings 1:1-8:6”; Part Two “Revolutions in Aram, Israel, and Judah: 2 Kings 8:7-13:25”; Part Three “Turmoil and Tragedy for Israel: 2 Kings 14-17”; and Part Four “Renewal and Catastrophe for Judah: 2 Kings 18-25.”
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Psalms : Studies In Hebrew Narrative And Poetry
$49.95Add to cartThe psalms are masterful poems that echo the tenors of community life and worship as they project the scope of the human drama from lament to praise. They chart a profound and vital relationship with God, with all the ups and downs that this relationship implies. Konrad Schaefer’s concise commentary on the psalms relates their poetic elements while respecting their historical context and traditional use in the liturgy and, more importantly, their ultimate value as a springboard to private and communal prayer.
In Psalms, Schaefer focuses on the structure of each psalm, its dramatic plot, the modes of discourse, the rhetorical features, and the effective use of imagery to portray theology and the spiritual life. Schaefer portrays each poem’s inner dynamic to acquaint readers with the poet and the community which prayed and preserved the composition, allowing the believer to transpose it in the contemporary situation.
Psalms is for those who would like to pray the psalms with more intensity of meaning; for those willing to touch the biblical world and taste of its fruit in the Word of God; and for devoted readers of the Bible to become more expert as it helps experts become more devoted.
Chapters are Introduction,” “Book One (Psalms 1-41),” “Book Two (Psalms 42-72),” “Book Three (Psalms 73-89),” “Book Four (Psalms 90-106),” and “Book Five (Psalms 107-150).”
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Liturgy And Secularism
$29.95Add to cartCan Christian worship engage our secular culture? Should it? While engaging thinkers in philosophy, history, religious anthropology, and liturgical theology, liturgical theologian Joris Geldhof argues that such engagement is necessary-that our liturgy and faith should embrace our modern culture. He shows that liturgy itself is an immensely resourceful reality that appeals to any human being, regardless of sociocultural and intellectual circumstances. If properly understood, the liturgy can provide a powerful dynamic that helps people overcome any binary, including the unfortunate one between the “left” and “right” within the Catholic Church.
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Renouncing Violence
$16.95Add to cartWritten from her deep experience in the monastic tradition, Sister Mary Margaret Funk shows us that, with faith and our given vocations, we are more than strong enough to resist and renounce the violence in the world around us. This book offers, both for personal use and for the broader community, a teaching for our troubled times, a teaching that empowers the reader to renounce violence in all its bold and subtle forms. As a concrete example, Funk retrieves the practice and symbolism of using holy water to bless, cleanse, and free us from violence wherever it is emerging–in our personal lives and in our world. This practice has thrived in the monastic tradition and has a language with a voice.
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Augustus Tolton : The Church Is The True Liberator
$14.95Add to cartFather Augustus Tolton was the first identified black American ordained to the priesthood in the United States. He was born into slavery and escaped to freedom with his mother and siblings under harrowing circumstances. Throughout his life he displayed a great devotion to the Lord and the Catholic faith despite facing racism within the Church at nearly every turn. Still, he felt and preached that the Catholic Church’s teaching that all people are children of God regardless of race made it the true church for African Americans in the United States following the Civil War. In Augustus Tolton, Joyce Duriga brings to light his quiet witness as a challenge to prejudices and narrow-mindedness that can keep us insulated from the universal diversity of the kingdom of God.
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Finding Our Way To God
$32.99Add to cartFinding Our Way to God offers an approach to spiritual direction using mental prayer that can be used to create healing and peace when conducting guidance sessions with seekers.Based on the teachings of St. Alphonsus Liguori, the founder of the Redemptorists, Fr. Dennis Billy’s approach examines the moral life in the context of spiritual direction. While thoroughly Catholic, St. Alphonsus was so pastoral – focusing on the poor and marginalized – that the approach can be easily learned and used by adherents of other religious, philosophical, and ethical traditions.
In Finding Our Way to God, Fr. Dennis Billy:
*Teaches active listening, which is essential for spiritual directors.
*Emphasizes the continuity between a person’s spirituality and morality through growth in the virtues and gifts of the Holy Spirit.
*Provides an understanding of how the model of spiritual direction can be adapted to meet the needs of a wide variety of people.
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Stumbling In Holiness
$29.95Add to cartIn Stumbling in Holiness, professor and theologian Brian P. Flanagan addresses the ways in which both holiness and sinfulness condition the life of the pilgrim church. The book is rooted in a liturgical-theological explanation of how the church prays through its continuing need for repentance and purification, as well as its belief in its present and future participation in the life of the Holy One. After reviewing some of the ways in which past theologians have tried to explain the coexistence of ecclesial holiness and sinfulness, Flanagan suggests that, even if we can have confidence that God will fully sanctify the church in the reign of God, our ecclesiology must always attend to both the sanctity we already experience in the church and the sinfulness that is part of our continuing journey toward that reign.
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Everyday Life At La Trappe Under Armand Jean De Rance
$29.95Add to cartThis is an annotated translation of the classic Description de l’abbaye de La Trappe, the most important eye-witness account of life at the abbey of La Trappe under Armand-Jean de Rance. The work includes a map showing the physical layout of the abbey and detailed discussions of the monks’ daily life and practice. It was written by Andre Felibien des Avaux for Jeanne de Schomberg, duchess of Liancourt, in 1671, with a new and enlarged edition being published in 1689. That is the edition translated here, with copious notes to help the reader appreciate Felibien’s account.
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Liturgical Sermons The Durham And Lincoln Collections Sermons 47-84
$59.95Add to cartAelred, abbot of the Yorkshire Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147 to 1167, wrote six spiritual treatises, seven historical treatises, and 182 liturgical sermons, many of which he delivered as chapter talks to his monks. Translations of the first twenty-eight of these sermons appeared in CF 58 in 2001, translated by Theodore Berkeley and M. Basil Pennington, and sermons twenty-nine through forty-six appeared in CF 77 in 2015, translated by Marie Anne Mayeski. The current volume contains thirty-eight sermons for feasts from Advent through the Nativity of Mary, taken from the Durham and Lincoln collections, edited by Gaetano Raciti in CCCM 2B and 2C.
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Mystery Of Faith
$16.99Add to cartWould you like to not just go to Mass, but learn to live the Eucharist?
Now comes a clear and compassionate voice of encouragement, reflection, and inspiration.
“I am really shaken when I begin to realize that in the palm of my hand is the one true God who rules the world, the One upon whom every nerve and tissue depends. Finally I may get to see that He allows me to adore Him in the palm of my hands at least for a moment as He only has me. He only has me. I am everything for Him. I need Him to be everything for me. He comes to me in an unexpectedly riveting way. I try to respond to these unusual words of His love. After all, I have nothing, nobody; truly I have only Him. If I lost Him, I would not be able to live.”
First appearing in its original Polish in late 2007, The Mystery of Faith is now available in the US, England, Russia, Lithuania, Germany, and Italy. This book is impacting Catholic spirituality all over the world.
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Living Nativity : Preparing For Christmas With Saint Francis
$14.99Add to cartWho came up with the idea of using nativity scenes to celebrate Christmas? Many might be surprised to learn that Francis of Assisi, the well-known thirteenth-century saint, is credited with creating the first nativity scene. The Living Nativity introduces readers to Saint Francis and his joyous reenactment of the birth of Jesus, complete with a manger and animals. The Living Nativity explores how nativity sets, Advent wreaths, candles, carols, Christmas cards, and other traditions help prepare our hearts for the God “who bends low to enter our world and our lives.” Prayer poems for each day of the season lead readers to deepen their spiritual journey, and the book provides a guided pattern for individuals and small groups to share reflections and experience activities that open their hearts to the Christ child. The Living Nativity provides a prayer, meditation, and reflection questions for each day of Advent. The Leader’s Guide includes suggestions for worship, discussion questions focused on the readings, and guidance for a mini-retreat on a theme of the week.
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Rites Of Passage
$29.95Add to cartRites of Passage is a much-needed, practical homiletic resource for priests and deacons who preach Christian baptisms, weddings, and funerals. The three authors, a religious priest, a diocesan priest, and a permanent deacon, draw from the scriptural and liturgical resources available to the preacher for these three important ritual moments to suggest ways to build an effective homily. This book will serve as a helpful and engaging resource for priests and deacons in parish life and as a blessing to the faithful.
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Sauntering Through Scripture
$19.95Add to cartThe Bible presents a landscape rich with characters whose stories and prophecies, wisdom and woes, parables and prayers describe our very human struggle to know and respond to the love of God. Repeated reading and retelling make these texts familiar, and yet we encounter them anew in these fresh, intimate, and sometimes startling reflections by master storyteller Genevieve Glen,
Sr. Genevieve writes with a vivid and poetic imagination. Drawing on her life of monastic prayer and the practice of Lectio Divina-a life saturated in Scripture-she pulls us deeply into these stories. Sauntering through this holy ground with her we enter small villages and busy towns, sheepfolds and gardens, a nomad’s tent and a rich man’s house, a stable in Bethlehem and the great temple in Jerusalem. Most of all we encounter the transforming message and mercy of God in Jesus Christ.
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Gospel Of Luke (Reprinted)
$26.99Add to cartIn this addition to the successful Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture series, Fr. Pablo Gadenz examines the Gospel of Luke from within the living tradition of the Church for pastoral ministers, lay readers, and students alike. Gadenz explains the biblical text clearly and concisely in light of recent scholarship and pays particular attention to the themes, theology, and Old Testament background of Luke’s Gospel. Sidebars explain the biblical background and offer theological insights from Church fathers, saints, and popes, and reflection and application sections offer suggestions for daily Christian living.
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Gift Of An All Catholic Christmas
$41.60Add to cartLaura Bethel Title
The “perfect gift” to give to your loved ones, family & friends for Christmas. The Gift of an All Catholic Christmas will be a cherished favorite from year to year. The pages are filled with beautiful imagery and colorful graphics that leads you to the true meaning of Christmas. This book is perfect for all ages and will be “the special gift” you are looking to give. There are three beautiful sections: The Bible excerpts of the first Christmas, The Traditional Catholic Prayers relating to Christmas, and everyones favorite Holy Christmas Songs.
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Catholic Traditions And Treasures
$19.95Add to cartNew converts and cradle Catholics alike are often perplexed by the myriad of devotions, traditions, practices, and beliefs that the Catholic Church has accumulated over the past twenty centuries. Why pray to St. Anthony to find something lost? Why keep a St. Christopher medal in your car? Or why bury a statue of St. Joseph – upside down! – in your yard when selling your house?
In Helen Hoffner’s lovingly-illustrated, encyclopedic Catholic Treasures and Traditions, you’ll find succinct – and sometimes amusing – answers to these and hundreds of other questions. This delightful book explains the origin and nature of most of the common traditions of the Catholic Faith, as well as the source and meaning of many of the quaint and obscure ones.
From Forty Hours to First Fridays and from Holy Hours to Holy Days, you’ll find in these pages an informative, delightful compendium of the Catholic way of life, including information about:
Novenas * Penance * Prayers for the Dead * First Fridays * Votive Candles * Religious Medals * St. Francis Statues * Bathtub Madonnas * Holy Cards * Crucifixes * House Blessings * Prayer Corners * Advent Calendars * Jesse Trees * Marian Apparitions * Vestments * Icons * Divine Mercy * The Sacred Heart * The Liturgical Year * Holy Days * Religious Orders * The Holy See * The Roman Curia * The Divine Office * Holy Oils * Genuflecting * Relics * Stations of the Cross * The Sacraments * The Angelus * Litanies * Patron Saints
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Rethinking Mary In The New Testament
$17.95Add to cartCatholics and non-Catholics alike may be tempted to assume they already know everything there is to know about Mary. Whatever your degree of knowledge and personal devotion to the Mother of God, this book will help you see Mary with new eyes and greater appreciation.
Renowned author and theologian Edward Sri deftly leads the reader through a detailed study of Scripture and makes insightful connections to deepen and transform our understanding of Jesus’s Mother. Readable, compelling, and inspiring, this book will renew your vision so that you, too, can rethink Mary – the Mother of God and our mother.
Topics include:
What was Mary’s life like before the Annunciation?
Mary as Daughter Zion
What does it mean to call Mary “full of grace”?
What is the biblical basis for the Catholic belief that Mary is a perpetual Virgin?
Mary as Queen Mother
Mary as model of faith
Mary at the foot of the Cross
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Finnian And The Seven Mountains Volume 1
$5.99Add to cartSeeking to avenge the death of his parents at the hands of Viking marauders, a young man named Finnian leaves his monastic school in Ireland to find a legendary sword rumored to have the extraordinary power to defeat evil.
Join writer Philip Kosloski, and artists Michael LaVoy and Jim Fern (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, X-MEN ANNUAL, and CROSSING MIDNIGHT) on an epic adventure that begins on the mysterious island of Skellig Michael, where the sword was last seen.
Will Finnian find the mythical sword and lead the way to victory? Or will the Vikings continue to destroy innocent villagers?
Find out what happens in this epic first chapter!
Rated – Ages 10+ (contains some mild comic violence)
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Dawn To Dusk
$25.83Add to cartAll of us will experience ageing and our responses to its inevitable symptoms will require a rethinking of our attitudes to prayer, liturgy, relationships and community, including Church. In this book, the author reflects on his own experience of ageing and how the process has affected the development of his own spirituality.
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Gospel According To Luke Part Two
$17.95Add to cartThe Gospel of Luke demonstrates the universal nature of Jesus’ mission. In Part Two of this study (Luke 12:1-24:53), readers travel with Jesus from the region of Galilee to the city of Jerusalem where Jesus will enter into his passion and resurrection. Luke’s focus on God’s faithfulness will encourage you to trust. Commentary, study and reflection questions, prayer and access to recorded lectures are included. 5 sessions.
