Holidays category: 1566 books

25 Stockings to Christmas is a devotional advent journey suitable for all ages. Beginning on the 1st December and journeying through to Christmas Day, this book is packed with inspirational thoughts and creative ideas to bring real meaning to your Christmas experience. There are nine different ‘times’...

Do you have unanswered questions about Christmas?  What does it stand for?  Why do we celebrate it?  Discover the origins of the various aspects of Christmas, including: how the giving of Christmas cards came about, who made the Christmas tree popular?, how far back Christmas decorations...

Tundra animals hear of the birth of the Christ Child and desire to give the new born babe a gift. An angel advises the animals on what that special gift should be and the gift givers experience a startling change as the gift is being delivered. This book along with its companion book, The Easter...

250 recipes and tips for an unforgettable holiday--Southern style! In the South, Christmas means family--and elegant celebrations that create memories for a lifetime. Southern Living Christmas at Home gathers the best ideas for holiday celebrations from the beloved magazine dedicated to America's South.

Every year, poet and novelist Marge Piercy creates her own Passover seder with a group of family and friends. Babies have been born and grown up, friends have moved or divorced, but the principals continue to gather in her rustic Cape Cod home to participate in a seder that Piercy takes joy in tweaking...

All about Hanukkah for Jews and Christians

Remember, retell, recreate, and relive the Exodus experiencewith the stories, rituals, foods, and songs of Pesah.This revised and expanded edition of the classic spiritual sourcebook offers updated information, more ideas, and new resources for every aspect of the Festival of Freedom.An inspiring and...

Based on the popular spiritual healing program designed by Bob Schuchts and the John Paul II Healing Center, Lenten Healing offers a twist to traditional Lenten fasting: instead of giving up chocolate, give up your sin. This daily Lenten devotional offers a unique approach to fasting, helping you...

Twenty-five meditations paired with original woodcuts reflect on how wild animals adapt when darkness and cold descend. We hear as if for the first time the ancient wisdom of Advent: The dark is not an end but the way a new beginning comes.

Do you feel like Christmas comes and goes faster and faster every year? Do you feel like it leaves you grasping at straws? This year, instead of getting tossed around by the holiday hustle and bustle, join Heather Hart in Christmas is Coming and learn to anticipate the holiday like never before. Christmas is coming, is your heart ready?

Few people know that “Joy to the World” – the world’s most popular Christmas song – wasn’t written for Christmas at all. Isaac Watts wrote it in imitation of Psalm 98. That psalm has nothing to say about the coming of the Messiah as a child; it is instead about the Messiah who comes in...

Prayerfully journey through Lent with Sister Genevieve Glen’s fresh and meaningful reflections on the daily Mass readings. In just minutes per day, the insightful meditations of Not by Bread Alone can deepen your experience of this solemn season of prayer and penance and prepare you to participate more fully in the joy of the great Easter mystery.

During Lent we are surrounded by visual reminders of Jesus’ last hours. In Stations of the Cross, renowned author and spiritual master Timothy Radcliffe, OP, offers readers a thoughtful meditation on this powerful devotion. Through word and image Radcliffe offers a profound experience of reflecting...

Pray the Pre Vatican II, Traditional Roman Catholic Breviary, in English totally in order! No back and forth flipping, no excessive clicking, no complex calculating what Day it is or which propers, or antiphons - just click the Date and pray the Liturgy of the Hours. Super easy. *Optimized...