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Sacrament
Personal Encounters with Memories, Wounds, Dreams, and Unruly Hearts
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
This collection of perceptive personal essays brings the meaning of the sacraments to life with unflinching realism and compassion. Drawing on his experiences as a priest as well as memories of childhood and adolescence, Patrick Hannon weaves his stories with quirky characters and startling insights...
Reconciliation
Celebrating Gods Healing Forgiveness
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Here is a practical, pastoral book for all Catholic Christians--laity as well as clergy--to foster renewed understanding and practive of the sacrement of reconciliation. The most thorough and informative handbook of its kind, Reconciliation is at once informative, intstructive, and pastorally sound.
The...
A Heart on Fire
Rediscovering Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
In A Heart on Fire: Rediscovering Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Rev. James Kubicki, S.J., presents a a persuasive and engaging guide to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, an age-old and often misunderstood Catholic devotion. He delves into the rich theological and spiritual roots of the devotion...
I'm Not Being Fed
Discovering the Food that Satisfies the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
In "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...
Cornerstones of Faith
Reconciliation, Eucharist and Stewardship
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Originally written as pastoral letters to the people of the Archdiocese of Edmonton, these reflections from Cardinal Collins offer all Canadian Catholics clear explanations of three core practices of Catholic life: Reconciliation, Eucharist and Stewardship. These practices help us live as disciples...
An Invitation to the Spirit-Filled Life
The Promise, the Power, the Gifts, the Fruit
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Charles Whitehead, an international leader of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, encourages us to take a fresh look at the person and promise of the Spirit as revealed in the Scriptures and throughout two thousand years of Church teaching and history. In clear and simple language, Whitehead describes...
by Lukefahr, Oscar
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 1996
Father Oscar Lukefahr, a leading expert on Catholic teaching, has created a user-friendly guide to the Catechism. It provides a summary of the Catechism's content, explains difficult issues, and draws attention to areas of special importance -- all in Father Lukefahr's popular, easy-to-ready style!
by Joyce Springer
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Teaching about the Sacraments breaks out of its traditional mold with Handbook of Sacraments for Today's Catechist. This quick-reference guide for today's catechist includes activities as well as instruction, and fills the need for an energetic, complete, and easy-to-understand exploration of the...
Gold Tested in Fire
A New Pentecost for the Catholic Priesthood
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The recent Year for Priests focused considerable attention on the priesthood, resulting in many books, articles, retreats, conferences, and symposia. In Gold Tested in Fire, Ronald D. Witherup, SS, makes an important new contribution. Intersecting scriptural and theological context with lived pastoral...
The Shadow of God
A Journey Through Memory, Art, and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The Shadow of God is part memoir, part spiritual autobiography, and part tour of great works of art, literature, and music. In the form of a journal written over the course of a year, Charles Scribner shares childhood recollections of a household where figures like Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald...
by St. John of the Cross, Wyatt North
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Dark Night of the Soul comes complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents, divided by each section, and bonus religious images. Dark Night of the Soul is the title of a poem written by 16th-century Spanish poet and Roman Catholic mystic Saint John of the Cross, as well as of a treatise he wrote...
Will Many Be Saved
What Vatican II Actually Teaches and Its Implications for the New Evangelization
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The question of whether and how people who have not had the chance to hear the gospel can be saved goes back to the beginnings of Christian reflection. It has also become a much-debated topic in current theology. In Will Many Be Saved? Ralph Martin focuses primarily on the history of debate and the...
by William May
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2003
Faith & Morals
Here - carefully documented, footnoted, and indexed - is not only what the Church teaches but also why it is obligated to do so. And, why its members are obligated to examine and to apply that teaching.
This updated and expanded edition of a text long trusted and widely...
At the Heart of Christian Worship
Liturgical Essays of Yves Congar
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Cardinal Yves Congar is universally known and respected as the great ecclesiologist of Vatican II whose seminal ideas helped to reconfigure the landscape of Catholic theology following the council. Less well known is his role in contributing far-reaching insights to the emerging liturgical movement...