Holidays category: 1566 books
The Essential Advent and Christmas Handbook
A Daily Companion
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2000
This reader-friendly companion provides everything Catholics need for a richer experience of the Advent and Christmas seasons. Whether readers wish to follow a traditional, contemporary, or family program of devotion and prayer for Advent and Christmas, this all-in-one resource will be a treasured guidebook.
Stations of the Cross
Community Prayer Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Stations of the Cross: Community Prayer Edition offers parishes and other communities a unique and contemporary way to pray the Stations. It includes new prayers composed by Fr. Timothy Radcliffe, along with excerpts from his full-length meditations and the remarkable images that accompanied them...
by Walter White
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
A July Holiday in Saxony, Bohemia, and Silesia
Beyond Aschaffenburg the country improves. Wooded hills alternate with lengthy slopes of vines, deep shady 4coombs, and leafy valleys, where brooks frolic along in frequent windings, and villages nestle, and gray church spires shoot above...
Stepping on Cheerios
Finding God in the Chaos and Clutter of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Being a mother isn’t easy. Sometimes it’s hard to experience a personal connection with God and community when you are caught up in the chaos of just “doing family”.
Independent and self-sufficient, author Betsy Singleton Snyder lived a full and busy life as a pastor, missionary, and...
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Watching the Disciples - eBook [ePub]
Learning from Their Mistakes
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
LENT
This Lenten study looks at the twelve disciples as they tried to follow Jesus and live the challenging life to which he had called them. Examining the mistakes of the Twelve can help us to assess our own discipleship in order to see where it may need strengthening. During these weeks of...
by Dennis H. Ference
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2006
Easter and Pentecost offer seniors a special opportunity to look at faith from a new perspective — one that fosters fresh interpretation and heightened spiritual awareness.This treasury of heartwarming, tender, uplifting prayers helps senior adults live their elder years in a way that uniquely testifies...
Dethroning Mammon: Making Money Serve Grace
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In his first full-length book Justin Welby looks at the subject of money and materialism. Designed for study in the weeks of Lent leading up to Easter, Dethroning Mammon reflects on the impact of our own attitudes, and of the pressures that surround us, on how we handle the power of money, called...
by Bobby Bland
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
My memories of Christmas were just as fond. Both of my parents were from South Arkansas, several hours away, so our immediate family would have our Christmas early on Christmas Eve morning, then we would load up the station wagon and drive to Hot Springs and Malvern that day to see our family. We...
Opening the Gifts of Christmas
Practicing the Angelic Gifts of Faith, Hope, Charity, and Love
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
A lovely folktale holds that when Christianity first came to northern Europe, four spirits representing the virtues of Faith, Hope, Charity, and Love were sent from heaven to place lights on the original Christmas tree. Opening the Gifts of Christmas invites readers to honor those spirits year round...
Silent Night
The Stories Behind 40 Beloved Christmas Carols
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
You love Christmas carols—now learn the “story behind the story” for 40 of the best-known songs of the season, each with a devotional twist! From “Angels We Have Heard on High” to “We Three Kings of Orient Are,” from “The Birthday of a King” to “O Holy Night,” the carols of Christmas...
Yuletide Blessings
Christmas Stories that Warm the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
From the ancient biblical story to those modern holiday favorites we watch on television every year, for those who seek meaning in the chaos of Christmas, Yuletide Blessings gathers truths, myths, and legends that point readers back to "the reason for the season."
A perfect...
by Paula J Kampf
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Whether you’re a religious person looking to enrich your experience, a secular person wanting to find some meaning in these days, a tired person just wanting something to newly energize your sense of the season, or whoever, Becoming Light, is a little recipe for a new, expansive experience of these...
by Clement C. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Christmas is the most famous holiday of the year, and the word itself evokes images of Santa Claus, reindeer, snow, Christmas trees, egg nog and more. At the same time, it represents Christianity's most important event, the birth of the baby Jesus. Instantly, well known Christmas carols ring in your...
Gifts from Within
Women's Meditations for Lent
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2002
This volume eschews the negative, penitential focus of Lent, recognizing the needs of women who already struggle with issues of worth and self-esteem. Instead, it uses the words of women from various backgrounds to explore their uniqueness and the gifts of their feminine spiritual nature. Through...