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Madre Angelica – (Spanish)
$23.00Add to cartIn 1981, a simple nun, using merely her entrepreneurial instincts and $200, launched what would become the world’s largest religious media empire in the garage of a Birmingham, Alabama, monastery. Under her guidance, the Eternal Word Television Network grew at a staggering pace, both in viewership and in influence, to where it now reaches over a hundred million viewers in hundreds of countries around the globe.
Raymond Arroyo combines his journalist’s objectivity and eye for detail with more than five years of exclusive interviews with Mother Angelica. He traces Mother Angelica’s tortured rise to success and exposes for the first time the fierce opposition she faced, both outside and inside of her church.La historia extraordinaria de la Madre Angelica, fundadora de la multimillonaria Cadena de Television Eternal World y “la catolica mas influyente de Estados Unidos”, segun la revista Time.En 1981, un ao despues de que Ted Turner creara CNN, una sencilla monja, solo con sus instintos empresariales y doscientos dolares, fundo en el garaje de un monasterio de Birmingham, Alabama, lo que se convertiria en el imperio religioso de medios de difusion mas grande del mundo. Bajo su guia, la Cadena de Television Eternal World (EWTN) crecio a un ritmo asombroso, tanto en numero de televidentes como en influencia, hasta el punto de que ahora llega a mas de cien millones de televidentes en cientos de paises de todo el mundo.Nacida como Rita Rizzo en Canton, Ohio, en 1923, la Madre Angelica fue abandonada por su padre y criada en la pobreza por una madre que padecia de depresion. De joven, Rita sufrio fuertes dolores abdominales que los medicos pensaron que se debian a un “problema de los nervios”, pero sus sintomas desaparecieron cuando una mistica de su localidad rezo por ella. Al darse cuenta del poder de la oracion, Rita juro dedicar su vida a Dios y se hizo monja de clausura, con la esperanza de pasar toda su existencia lejos del mundo. Pero muy pronto, la fe de Rita la impulso a realizar obras increibles, desde establecer un monasterio en Alabama hasta dar inicio a la primera cadena catolica de television por cable. Confiando unicamente en “la providencia de Dios”, la Madre Angelica construyo un imperio sin prestar atencion a presupuestos ni a campaas de recaudacion, y logro lo que ni los mas altos prelados de la Iglesia Catolica habian logrado hacer.
Raymond Arroyo combina su objetividad periodistica y su habilidad para captar los detalles en los mas de ci -
Gospel Of Cesar Chavez
$16.95Add to cartOnce asked to explain how he had sustained himself over so many years of struggle, Cesar Chavez responded: “I don’t think I could base my will to struggle on cold economics or some political doctrine. For me, the base must be faith.”
In evaluating the life and struggles of Cesar Chavez, one of the most recognized Latino leaders in the United States and the first labor leader to successfully organize and unionize U.S. farm workers, many historians, journalists, and other writers have largely missed one significant factor of his life-his faith and deep spirituality. The Gospel of Cesar Chavez uses the prolific leader’s own words to express his profound faith and the way it shaped his life and leadership.
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Jesus : A Historical Portrait
$18.99Add to cartQuestions about the life and times of Jesus Christ, one of the most written about people of all time, continue to intrigue us two millennia after his death. Between the vagueness of the canonical Gospels and the sensational claims made in modern films and books, what is a Christian to believe about the only Son of God?
Employing a popular take on current New Testament scholarship, Jesuit scholar Father Daniel Harrington explores difficult as well as less complicated issues surrounding the life of Christ.
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Life And Work Of A Priest
$19.95Add to cartA famous, former vicar and now ‘jobbing’ bishop deftly illustrates how the glory of God, the pain of the world, and the renewal of the Church underpin the priest’s many roles, including spiritual explorer, friendly irritant, creative leader, and mature risk-taker.
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Nacido De Nuevo Catolico – (Spanish)
$16.95Add to cartDavid Currie was raised in a devout Christian family whose father was a fundamentalist preacher and both parents teachers at Moody Bible Institute. Currie’s whole upbringing was immersed in the life of fundamentalist Protestantism – theology professors, seminary presidents and founders of evangelical mission agencies were frequent guests at his family dinner table. Currie received a degree from Trinity International University and studied in the Masters of Divinity program.
This book was written as an explanation to his fundamentalist and evangelical friends and family about why he became a Roman Catholic. Currie presents a very lucid, systematic and intelligible account of the reasons for his conversion to the ancient Church that Christ founded. He gives a detailed discussion of the important theological and doctrinal beliefs Catholic and evangelicals hold in common, as well as the key doctrines that separate us, particularly the Eucharist, the Pope, and Mary.
“David Currie has written what may turn out to be the work on this nettlesome topic of Evangelicals being received into the Catholic Church. With great charity and lucidity, he pursues every conceivable topic – biblical, ecclesiological, theological, and historical – that arises in the discussions on this matter.”
-Thomas Howard, Author, Evangelical is Not Enough“Currie has given us a work which is eminently intelligible, readable and personal. This book makes an especially happy marriage of the ‘head’ and the ‘heart’ in explaining the when, the why and the how of his pilgrimage. It should serve as a paradigm for the movement of ‘Everyman’ toward God and the Church His divine Son founded.”
-Rev. Peter M.J. Stravinskas, Editor, The Catholic Answer“Currie’s book is a must read. Seldom is something so deep explained so clearly as Currie does in this wonderful work. Get it and get a copy for a friend.”
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Martin Luther King
$16.00Add to cartForty years after Dr King’s death his message remains as radical and relevant as ever.
‘A clear, well researched, and ground breaking text. Harding unites the objectivitiy of a scientific investigation with an empathy for justice, and marshals a compelling argument for a re-articulation of the heroic dimensions of Martin Luther King, Jr.’ – Dwight Hopkins
In these eloquent essays, noted scholar and activist Vincent Harding reflects on the forgotten legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr and his message for today. While many prefer to embrace the ‘safer’ message of King’s stirring ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, Harding writes passionately of King’s later years, when his message and witness became more radical and challenging to the status quo at every level. The widening of King’s message and tactics reflected an expansion of his critique of American injustice and his solidarity with the oppressed. It was this vision, in 1968, that brought him to Memphis, where he paid the final price for his prophetic witness. It is that ‘inconvenient hero’ who speaks so urgently to the challenges of our time.
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Your Life In The Holy Spirit
$15.95Add to cart1. Who Is The Holy Spirit?
2. The Importance Of Pentecost
3. The Holy Spirit And Prayer
4. The Spirit Of Truth
5. The Spirit Of Holiness
6. Evangelization: Where’s The Power?
7. Building The Church
8. The Spirit As Guarantee Of Our Inheritance
9. Unity: The Spirit’s Greatest Gift
10. The Spouse Of The Holy SpiritAdditional Info
Your Life in the Holy Spirit offers a popular and comprehensive explanation of the role of the Holy Spirit in the Christian life. In this book, a new edition of Hearts Aflame, best-selling author Alan Schreck presents the Spirit as the “friend closest to our heart,” who leads us in prayer, directs our mind with truth, and makes us holy. Schreck shows how the Spirit equips us to draw others to Christ, build up the church, and generate unity among its members. Readers will learn how to renew their life in the Holy Spirit, understand and receive spiritual gifts, and grow in love, joy, peace, and other fruits that are the sign that the Spirit dwells in us. -
Dilemma Of Divorced Catholics (Revised)
$8.95Add to cartFew aspects of the Church’s teachings are as misunderstood – or as misrepresented – as that involving marriage and divorce. In this book, Father John Catoir spells out clearly, concisely and faithfully what the Church really has to say on the subject. This updated edition of a Catholic classic couldn’t have come along at a better time.
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Mestizaje : Re Mapping Race Culture And Faith In Latina Latino Catholicism
$30.00Add to cartThe concept of Mestizaje–a reference to the distinctive biological and cultural intermixture that occurred in the “New World”–has become a foundational category in U.S. Latina/o theology. This book traces the subversive and innovative ways in which Catholic theologians, such as Virgilio Elizondo, Orlando Espin, Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, and Pilar Aquino, have turned this concept into a powerful framework for articulating the experiences of faith of Latina/o communities. At the same time the author examines some of the limitations and contradictions inherent in this concept and explores new language for describing the vibrant and complex ethno-cultural and religious identity of Latina/o communities today.
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Way Of Humility
$19.95Add to cartIn addition to his eighty-six Sermons on the Song of Songs and the Sermons on the Liturgical Year, in which he follows the calendar from Advent through autumn, Bernard of Clairvaux composed these ‘sermons on various subjects’. His choice and handling of subject matter provides insights into Bernard the abbot more than to Bernard the public figure and renown preacher.
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Created For Joy
$19.95Add to cartIn the face of suffering, is it possible to believe in God? In this heartfelt and thoughtful new book, revered Catholic columnist Sidney Callahan answers yes, offering a reflection on suffering from a Christian perspective. Taking on C.S. Lewis and other traditional writers, she introduces the reader to new insights from fields such as the psychology of human emotion and evolutionary biology. Drawing from her own harrowing experience of a mother’s loss, she shows that Christians view suffering in a different way, with the expectation-in the face of all evidence to the contrary-that we are created to experience joy. Topics include Sept. 11, traditional justifications, a new story of God and creation, Jesus-man of sorrows, suffering and joy in Christian practice, the emotions, prayer, and transformation.
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Silence Solitude Simplicity
$29.95Add to cart“We all need God,” Sister Jeremy says in her first sentence, and readers of all sorts will find here a warm and practical address to that need. The monastic way is not forsaking the world, but for the sake of the world, and Sister Jeremy’s Benedictine wisdom is fundamental human wisdom. Her book is the fruit of decades of practice, and the spiritual journey she recounts is nobody’s but hers-which makes it, paradoxically, something from which everyone can learn. “I did” is much more effective teaching than “one might” or “you should.”
There is nothing musty, cobwebbed, or nostalgic in these pages. Sister Jeremy, in her late 80s, is totally alert to the world around her and within us. She is allergic to sentimentality. Because she has spent so much time in silence-she lived as a hermit for 20 years-she is especially attentive to words and how like a chameleon they can be. Her antennae are sensitive to anything phony. Every sentence glows with her graceful and witty and hospitable spirit. She is an inspired teacher, a trustworthy guide, one of God’s great ones. She shows how a monastic is not on a pedestal or behind a wall, but right in the thick of things with all of us.
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Opus Dei : An Objective Look Behind The Myths And Reality Of The Most Contr
$23.00Add to cartThe first serious journalistic investigation of the highly secretive, controversial organization Opus Dei provides unique insight about the wild rumors surrounding it and discloses its significant influence in the Vatican and on the politics of the Catholic Church.
Opus Dei (literally “the work of God”) is an international association of Catholics often labeled as conservative who seek personal Christian perfection and strive to implement Christian ideals in their jobs and in society as a whole. Founded in Spain in 1928, it now has 84,000 members (1,600 of whom are priests) in eighty countries. But far from running bingo nights at local parishes, Opus Dei has become a center of controversy and suspicion both within and outside the Church. It has been accused of promoting a right-wing political agenda and of cultlike practices, aggressive recruiting, brainwashing new recruits, and isolating members from their families. Its notoriety escalated with the publication of the runaway bestseller The Da Vinci Code (Opus Dei plays an important and sinister role in the novel) and with the previous pope’s much-debated canonization of its founder (often linked with Francisco Franco’s facist regime) and the discovery that convicted FBI spy Robert Hanson was a member of Opus Dei.
With the expert eye of a longtime trusted observer of the Vatican and the skill of an investigative reporter intent on uncovering closely guarded secrets, John Allen finally separates the myths from the facts in Opus Dei. Granted unlimited access to the prelate who heads the organization and to Opus Dei centers throughout the world, Allen draws on a wealth of interviews with current members, as well as with highly critical ex-members, to create an unprecedented portrait of the activities, practices, and intentions behind its veil of secrecy. Allen reveals the remarkable power that Opus Dei commands in shaping Vatican policy and presents a detailed look at the full extent of its network, which includes people in key positions in politics, banking, academia, and other influential arenas. He even describes the arcane rituals-including self-flagellation-performed to preserve and promote a spiritual tradition strange and unsettling to modern sensibilities.
For years, Opus Dei has been the subject of conspiracy theories and dark, uninformed speculation. Opus Dei sets the record straight.
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Benedictine Tradition
$24.95Add to cartDedicated to God and the practices of the Liturgy of the Hours and monastic life, Benedictines have made significant contributions to chant, theology, and the preservation of spiritual works of literature and scholarship. Swan explores the work of major Benedictine figures throughout the ages. From the Spirituality in History series.
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When Wisdom Speaks
$18.95Add to cartFemale voices of the Bible have been silenced throughout much of history. What would it be like to get to know the women of the Bible as real, living figures whose lives can challenge our own? What can we learn from their faith journeys? What would it be like to pray alongside them? Two lively spiritual directors take us into the world of the women of the Bible. Provoked by the desperation of the Canaanite woman, empowered by Mary’s fiat, affirmed by the loyalty of Mary Magdalene and challenged by Ruth’s fidelity, Doucet and Hebert enter into a new sisterhood with these active and contemplative holy women who emerge out of history. All of the stories link these holy women from the past with contemporary women, all of them longing after God’s own heart.
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Bad Catholics Guide To Wine Whiskey And Song
$29.95Add to cartView Catholic life from a unique perspective: through a shot glass. Starting with the wines, beers, and liquors made around the world by monks, the authors explore everything from Irish history to the secrets of the Knights Templar, with drinking games, food, and cocktail recipes, and rollicking drinking songs. This A-Z dictionary of alcohol serves at once as a bartender’s guide, a party planner, and a screwball catechism.
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Essential Writings : Spirituality Dialogue Culture
$24.95Add to cartTheologians and leaders from many Churches and from the major world
religions, including the last four popes, have acknowledged the spiritual gifts
poured forth through Chiara Lubich as unique in Christian history. Her “spirituality of unity” has the ultimate goal of bringing about on earth the unity for which Jesus prayed to his Father: “May they all be one” (John 17:21). This volume gathers her essential writings and presents them in a systematic fashion for the first time. It is a “summa” of the charism of unity, which will lead readers to ponder, understand and experience a spirituality particularly suited to the era in which we live. -
Ministerio De La Comunion – (Spanish)
$9.95Add to cartPractical advice and vital theology for Eucharistic ministers.
El ministerio de la Comunion ofrece consejos practicos y teologia vital para ministros de la Eucaristia. Este libro, actualizado con las mas recientes normas y leyes liturgicas, es una guia excelente para tanto las personas que sirven a la gente de Dios como para las que los ayudan a prepararse para el ministerio.
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Introduction To The Bible
$17.95Add to cartCatholics are often reluctant to begin reading the Bible, this for various reasons. Perhaps we hang on to the notion that the Bible is a book meant for display, for recording the dates of family members’ births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths. Or perhaps we once attempted to read the Bible and discovered there a culture entirely different from ours-and came to the conclusion that the Bible had nothing relevant to say to us in this place and time. Attentive to these and the many other reasons Catholics might give for not reading Scripture, Stephen Binz offers practical explanations that will make the Bible less foreign and more familiar.
Introduction to the Bible allows readers to discover how the Bible came to be, how to choose a Bible translation, how to interpret the Bible within Catholic tradition, and how to benefit the most from Bible study. Readers will find practical explanations that will make the Bible less foreign and more familiar.
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Reading The Bible As Gods Own Story
$15.95Add to cartHow should Catholics read the Bible? Beyond the history and literature of the Bible, Catholics need to discover God’s own story-and his way of looking at the world. Noted Scripture scholar William Kurz draws from the writings of two church fathers, Sts. Irenaeus and Athanasius, to show how we can read the Bible as the story of God-with the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ as its climax. Like a good mystery novel, when we know how the story ends, we can read it again from the beginning in order to search for important clues that will help us see God’s plan for the world and how we fit into that plan. Kurz examines passages from both the Old and New Testament to demonstrate that, as we approach the Bible in faith, we bring new life and meaning to Scripture.
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Praying Throughout The Day
$17.99Add to cartCombating their distorted sense of time and space, anyone with addictions will find comfort in this hourly structure that nourishes them from the start of the day, through their working hours, and into the safety and peace of nighttime. Praying Throughout the Day uses the format of the Church’s Liturgy of the Hours as a framework for people with adductions to pray their way through each day, hour by hour. Guided by Scripture and the saints, readers will become immersed in salvation history and empowered to move from one struggle to the next.
This book combines the best wisdom of spiritual formation, i.e., regularity in prayer, with modern methods of addiction recovery, and will appeal to those with addictions of all kinds. In addition to those with addictions or in self-help programs, this book will be most useful to counselors, retreat directors, pastoral ministers, chaplains, and all healing professionals. -
Reform Of The Papacy
$14.95Add to cartCatholic Press Award-winner. With the ascendancy of a new pope and his papal visit to the U.S. in 2009, the future of the Catholic church is again on the minds of many. In this influential bestseller, John R. Quinn, who served as Archbishop of San Francisco, makes a clear and bold case for reform within the Catholic Church, particularly of the policies and procedures of the Roman Curia.
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Most Famous Man In America
$25.00Add to cartNo one predicted success for Henry Ward Beecher at his birth in 1813. The blithe, boisterous son of the last great Puritan minister, he seemed destined to be overshadowed by his brilliant siblings–especially his sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, who penned the century’s bestselling book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” But when pushed into the ministry, the charismatic Beecher found international fame by shedding his father’s Old Testament-style fire-and-brimstone theology and instead preaching a New Testament-based gospel of unconditional love and healing, becoming one of the founding fathers of modern American Christianity. By the 1850s, his spectacular sermons at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights had made him New York’s number one tourist attraction, so wildly popular that the ferries from Manhattan to Brooklyn were dubbed “Beecher Boats.”
Beecher inserted himself into nearly every important drama of the era–among them the antislavery and women’s suffrage movements, the rise of the entertainment industry and tabloid press, and controversies ranging from Darwinian evolution to presidential politics. He was notorious for his irreverent humor and melodramatic gestures, such as auctioning slaves to freedom in his pulpit and shipping rifles–nicknamed “Beecher’s Bibles”–to the antislavery resistance fighters in Kansas. Thinkers such as Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, and Twain befriended–and sometimes parodied–him.
And then it all fell apart. In 1872 Beecher was accused by feminist firebrand Victoria Woodhull of adultery with one of his most pious parishioners. Suddenly the “Gospel of Love” seemed to rationalize a life of lust. The cuckolded husband brought charges of “criminal conversation” in a salacious trial that became the most widely covered event of the century, garnering more newspaper headlines than the entire Civil War. Beecher survived, but his reputation and his causes–from women’s rights to progressive evangelicalism–suffered devastating setbacks that echo to this day.
Featuring the page-turning suspense of a novel and dramatic new historical evidence, Debby Applegate has written the definitive biography of this captivating, mercurial, and sometimes infuriating figure. In our own time, when religion and politics are again colliding and adultery in high places still commands headlines, Beecher’s story sheds new light on the culture and conflicts of contemporary America.
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Blessed Among All Women
$27.95Add to cartWinner of three Catholic Press Awards. The best-selling author of All Saints presents this new collection of devotional sketches on history’s greatest women. From Joan of Arc to Anne Frank to Mary Magdalene, Ellsberg offers insights into the lives of women that inspire us.
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Spiritual Consolation : An Ignatian Guide For Greater Discernment Of Spirit
$19.95Add to cartWhat does God want for our lives? How can we assess when feelings, even pleasant ones, are signs that God is calling us in a particular direction? In Spiritual Consolation, Fr. Timothy Gallagher introduces us to the teachings of Ignatius of Loyola on this crucial question. Through the use of real-life examples and the Ignatian principles from the Second Rule, Fr. Gallagher shows how all of us, especially those with busy religious lives, can learn to hear and follow God’s leading.
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Dwelling In The Household Of God
$29.95Add to cartIn her remarkable first book, God Dwells With Us: Temple Symbolism in the Fourth Gospel, Mary L. Coloe, P.B.V.M., explored the profound insight of John’s Gospel expressed in Jesus’ invitation to his disciples: “Make your home in me, as I make mine in you” (John 15:4). For the gospel’s author and audience, the dwelling of God among humans was, above all, the Jerusalem Temple. The gospel traces how-after the trauma of the destruction of the Temple-the Johannine community came to expand and deepen its knowledge of God’s dwelling among humans, finding it now in the person of Jesus and in the community of believers.
Dwelling in the Household of God moves us from seeing God’s dwelling place as the Temple to seeing God’s dwelling place within the community of believers. The starting point now is an image in John 14:2: “my Father’s house,” which is given its Old Testament meaning of “my father’s household.” Our awareness thus moves, like that of the first Christians, from understanding “My father’s house” as the Temple (John 2:16) to “My Father’s Household” as a community of believers drawn into Jesus’ own divine filiation. Coloe invites us to re-read the gospel from the post-Easter perspective of those who have become brothers and sisters of Jesus and living Temples of God’s presence. What emerges is nothing less than a profound mysticism of the mutual indwelling of God and believers.
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Power Of Solitude
$16.95Add to cartIn the hustle and bustle of modern life the word “solitude” may provoke a sigh of relief or the anxiety of loneliness. Dr. Kidder has found that a significant dimension of our spiritual lives is most deeply encountered in solitude. Married, single, or recently divorced — all of us can find opportunities for solitude that offer a unique opportunity for personal growth and encounters with God. Themes include: romantic allure as a substitute for spirituality; the loner syndrome; cultural conditioning; coupling, co-habitation, and community; fear of loneliness; overachieving; the search for intimacy; the search for sexual fulfillment; Biblical roots; Jesus, the solitary person; Mary and the Annunciation; Mary Magdalene in the Gospels, the Gospel of Thomas, and the DaVinci Code; Augustine, Luther, and Calvin; evangelicalism; prayer, song, drama; spiritual direction; meditation; tending to the body; vows and covenants of temporary/long-term abstinence; and coping with opposition.
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1-2 Thessalonians
$29.95Add to cartThe letters First and Second Thessalonians are traditionally associated with the Pauline foundation of the Macedonian Church at Thessalonica. The first is seen as representing Paul’s earliest epistolary efforts and as providing two successive moments in his long relationship as advisor to that community. Soon after leaving the area for the southern province of Achaia, Paul addresses the concerns of the new Gentile converts and at a later period responds more directly to queries received from the thriving and successful community. The second document, written in Paul’s name and at a later date, attempts to calm the apocalyptic fervor of the community by reiterating its traditional eschatological and Christological teaching.
After treating these introductory matters, this study provides a new translation of each section of the canonical text, explains in notes the pertinent textual and linguistic features of the text, and then offers in a series of interpretive messages a literary, rhetorical, and thematic analysis of the biblical documents. The constant concern of this commentary is to provide assistance to modern readers in discerning the relationship between the authors and their intended readers. Short bibliographies suggest other important modern studies. Includes an updated bibliography as an appendix.
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Galatians
$39.95Add to cartPaul’s Letter to the Galatians has played a major role in the history of theology, especially in the Church’s teaching on grace, faith, and justification. This commentary argues that Paul’s doctrine of justification by faith is essentially social in nature and has important ecumenical implications for the Church today. In its original setting, Galatians established a foundation for the unity of Jewish and Gentile Christians: all are justified by the faith of Jesus Christ.
In addition to illuminating the historical situation that led Paul to write his Letter to the Galatians, this commentary pays careful attention to the rhetorical structure of this letter and its theological message. The author provides a fresh translation of Galatians, critical notes on each verse of the text, and a careful commentary of the letter in light of Paul’s theology.
Theories abound on the question of Galatians, why it was written, what it says, and what the implications of that message are. Yet few scholars have devoted themselves at length to this letter. What sets this work apart is the extent and detail of its scholarship. Includes an updated bibliography as an appendix.
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With This Ring (Revised)
$9.99Add to cartThis popular book helps newly married couples build a solid foundation for their life together and avoid “traps” that can undermine their marriage. With candor and creativity, the book pinpoints over twenty crucial areas of necessary adjustment for each spouse. It offers guidance for communicating effectively, accepting each other’s faults, enjoying sexuality, getting along with in-laws, building a spiritual relationship, and much more.
Since no single approach will be right for all couples, newlyweds are actively involved in finding a solution that works best for them. Valuable exercises help them respond constructively to the complex issues of the early years of marriage. 5
Renee Bartkowski is enjoying over thirty-five years of fulfilling satisfying married life. She is the author of the bestselling book Prayers for Married Couples. -
Catholic And Ecumenical
$51.00Add to cartA Church To Change
A Changing Church
Uniform No Longer
Estranged Sisters
Reform To Reformation
Reformation In England
Leaning Toward The Future
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Ecumenical consciousness has not always been part of the Catholic experience. Frederick M. Bliss, S.M. traces how the concern for ecumenism came about-from uneasy tension to confidence in the true grace of catholicity. This new edition follows significant developments in dialogues with the Catholic Church up to 2006 and suggests likely trends of continuing change. It studies the forces that had an impact on the Second Vatican Council, forces that continue to steer the church into relationships with other Christian communities, other religions, and the world. -
Catholic And Ecumenical
$145.00Add to cartA Church To Change
A Changing Church
Uniform No Longer
Estranged Sisters
Reform To Reformation
Reformation In England
Leaning Toward The Future
Additional Info
Ecumenical consciousness has not always been part of the Catholic experience. Frederick M. Bliss, S.M. traces how the concern for ecumenism came about-from uneasy tension to confidence in the true grace of catholicity. This new edition follows significant developments in dialogues with the Catholic Church up to 2006 and suggests likely trends of continuing change. It studies the forces that had an impact on the Second Vatican Council, forces that continue to steer the church into relationships with other Christian communities, other religions, and the world. -
101 Questions And Answers On Eastern Catholic Churches
$14.95Add to cartThis book, another of the informative and reader-friendly 101 Questions & Answers series, provides an introductory look at the theology, practices and structure of the Eastern Catholic Churches, with a comparison to the Latin Rite Church. Although the author emphasizes the Byzantine and Maronite Churches, he takes into account all the ritual Churches.Written with Roman (Latin) Catholic readers in mind, this book answers questions on the differences and similarities between the eastern Catholic and Roman Catholic Churches that believers may have wondered about or never had the opportunity to ask, e.g., Why do Eastern Catholic babies get to go to communion?; Are the saints in the East different from those in the West?This overview book paves the way for readers to address Pope John Paul II’s directive in Orientale Lumen with regard to learning about the East.
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Faith Of Our Fathers
$12.00Add to cart1. “No Creed But Christ”?
2. A Corporate Confession
3. Faith And Godliness
4. Access To The Father
5. Almighty Creator
6. God Of God
7. For Us And For Our Salvation
8. Crucified For Us
9. The Resurrection
10. The Ascension
11. Ascended And Coming Again
12. The Holy Spirit
13. Filioque
14. Who Has Spoken By The Prophets
15. One Church
16. One Baptism
17. The Life Of The World To Come
18. Key Players And The Historical Context
Further ReadingAdditional Info
It’s not whether you have a creed or not, just which.
“No creed but Christ.” This claim tries to remove the mess of doctrinal controversy. After all, doesn’t everyone know that “doctrine divides?” But would avoiding creeds and confessions really clear away confusion? What do you believe about Jesus? Was he really God? The answers to these important questions make a creed, even if it’s only poorly worded or false. Creeds are unavoidable.
As the church’s first “official” ecumenical creed, the Nicene Creed has protected and shaped the life of God’s people for centuries. L. Charles Jackson’s popular study walks readers through every line of the Nicene creed, highlighting its history and contemporary application, and revealing its grounding in Scripture. It shows us a Nicene Creed that is pastoral, practical, and personal. -
4 Times Peter
$15.95Add to cartBecause he plays such a prominent role in the New Testament and the tradition of the church, the apostle Peter has been the focus of much scholarship over the centuries. One wonders whether there can be anything more to say about Peter. Indeed, there is. In Four Times Peter Richard Cassidy takes a narrative critical look at Peter in the story of each gospel individually (rather than studying Peter via a side-by-side analysis of the gospels). Cassidy looks first to the character of Jesus in each of the gospels and then to the group of apostles as a whole before turning to Peter.
In the end, Four Times Peter allows an intriguing portrait of this apostle to emerge. Readers discover a portrait of Peter that would have been familiar to the earliest Christian communities. And it is this ancient portrait that gives modern readers a refreshing new sense of Peter.
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Road To Vatican 2
$17.95Add to cartThe Second Vatican Council is considered by most theologians to have been a decisive moment in the history of the Catholic Church. It produced a charter for the Church of the twentieth century and beyond and spawned thousands of books, articles, conferences, and doctoral theses over the last forty years. Part of the Council’s fascination lies in the many “stories” that surround it. In THE ROAD TO VATICAN II, author Maureen Sullivan tells the story behind the story by revealing how the Church moved from the rigid, hierarchical model espoused by Pius IX at Vatican I (1869-70) to the collegial, “communio” model that emerged under John XXIII at Vatican II (1962-65). She recounts the events and trends leading up to the Council and demonstrates how it became possible, in the four brief sessions that took place from 1962-65, for over 2,500 bishops-who often disagreed on the most critical issues-to produce sixteen documents that touched the very essence of the Catholic faith. THE ROAD TO VATICAN II is written-not for other theologians-but for men and women who are eager to have a more in-depth understanding of a watershed event that shaped their faith. The author focuses on the contributions of important theologians whose efforts over the years laid the groundwork for the Council and she documents their influence on many of the key documents that emerged. Sullivan argues that these theologians were indeed prophets among us, offering a renewed vision of the faith, a methodology to facilitate the theological endeavor, and a language of life rediscovered in the New Testament that could speak to contemporary men and women. These prophets often suffered because of their convictions, but Sullivan maintains that they were instruments of the Holy Spirit in our midst-and their story needed to be told.
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365 Santos – (Spanish)
$14.99Add to cartLa vida de un santo es la vida de una persona comun bien llevada. Y esa es la vida que los lectores descubriran en esta coleccion encantadora y por momentos sorprendente de palabras y sabiduria de los santos a traves de los tiempos. Un libro hermoso e inspirador, 365 Santos revela como vivian los santos, detallando sus esperanzas, miedos, alegrias y tristezas, y tambien sus menos conocidos idiosincrasias y dichos. Ingenioso y asombroso, simple y sublime, 365 Santos ofrece un ano entero de meditaciones y sugerencias practicas para emular a los santos hoy en dia.
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Infant Baptism In Historical Perspective
$54.99Add to cartThese important and incisive essays, spanning more than two decades of research and engagement, probe facets and episodes of infant baptisms’ fortunes over twenty centuries. The story of paedo baptism is traced from its shadowy beginnings as a variant of faith-baptism, through inflated Reformation defenses as it monopolized baptismal thought and practice, to biblical and ecumenical reevaluations and hopeful contemporary rapprochements across divisive waters.
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Unfolding The Mystery
$17.95Add to cartThe Liturgy is the summit and source of the Church’s life, said the Second Vatican Council, and the liturgy unfolds its riches within an annual pattern: the Church’s year. Here our life, lived in time, can meet and mingle with the life of Christ communicated in time. In Benedictine monasteries, the liturgical year shapes the whole life of the community. In these community conferences and homilies, a Benedictine abbot shares with fellow monks and fellow Christians something of the wealth of the mystery of Christ as the liturgy unfolds it.
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Ministerio De Los Lectores (Revised) – (Spanish) (Revised)
$9.95Add to cartEmphasizing both spiritual and speaking preparation, this book will help experienced and beginning lectors in the ministry of proclaiming the word of God. Wallace offers insight to various understandings of the lector’s work (job, ministry, vocation), and reflects on the mystery of God who speaks to–and through–us in the Word. Includes ideas for ongoing technique development, as well as a guide to meeting the needs of the text, listeners, and liturgical setting.
Divided into three parts, this work begins with Part One, The Lector–What’s in a Name?
Sections in Part Two, God’s Word Spoken to Us are: “The Word of the Lord,” “The Word of God and the Bible,” “The Word of God and the Liturgy,” “The Word of God and the Lectionary,” and “The Word of God and the Lector.” Sections in Part Three, God’s Word Spoken Through Us are “Spiritual Preparation,” “Speaking Preparation” (includes “The Requirements of the Text,” “The Requirements of the Listeners,” “The Requirements of the Setting”), “From Skill to Art: Three Suggestions.” Concludes with a Final Word.
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Eucharistic Vision And The Spirituality Of Saint Francis Of Assisi
$12.95Add to cartDevotion to the Sacrament of Christ’s Body and Blood lies at the heart of the spirituality of St. Francis, and his vision was to inspire the Church’s development over the succeeding centuries. Writing in this Franciscan tradition, Brother Mark offers his own insights on the Eucharist and St. Francis, insights that were first shared at an annual retreat of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal.
This book provides a unique series of meditations for Eucharistic devotion. Although each is a separate reflection on the Eucharist in the life of the Church, there is an implied centrality of the sacramentin the life of any Catholic wishing to deepen the life of prayer. In this, St.
Francis can be our model and our guide. Just as in the thirteenth century his example helped to renew the life of the Church, which was confronted by many crises, so in our own day the Church, hedged about with conflict and compromise, and with declining vocations, is seeing a revival of devotion to the Blessed Sacrament as perhaps the first sign of renewal. -
Changes : Prayers And Services Honoring Rites Of Passage
$16.95Add to cart* Fresh liturgical material that addresses a variety of pastoral needs long neglected by the church.
* The Rite of Passage for Young People and Their Parents provides authorized texts for a service long in popular use in many congregations as a complement to Confirmation.
* Ideal for family and home use, as well as church use.These long-awaited rites have been under discussion by the church for more than six years and have now been authorized for official trial use. Included are pubic rites, together with prayers for individual and family use, for all of the major stages of human development, from early childhood to retirement. In addition, a new collection of prayers and a simple rite for remembering the departed provide an important pastoral resource for human grieving in the weeks and months following the death of a loved one.
