Liturgical Press imprint: 386 books
Still Hungry at the Feast
Eucharistic Justice in the Midst of Affliction
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
In Still Hungry at the Feast, Episcopal priest and professor Samuel Torvend invites readers to expand their experience and understanding of the Mass, the Holy Eucharist, as more than a personal encounter with the risen Christ. Drawing on recent Jesus research, the long history of eucharistic reflection...
by Waldemar Turek
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
“Late have I loved you, Beauty so ancient and so new,” prayed Saint Augustine. He searched long and passionately so, moving through various philosophies like a lost sheep. In the end, however, he discovered that God is near, within himself, in the depths of his soul. Augustine’s Confessions...
What Makes Us Whole
Finding God in Contemporary Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Books abound on the topic of our longing for wholeness, the goal of every person's lifelong journey. But what, exactly, is wholeness? In this volume, Noel Cooper explores the essential elements for successful personal growth, grounding that exploration in the teachings of Jesus. For Christians, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
In June of 2012, an astounding 360 people gathered at the University of Notre Dame for a major conference on Catholic preaching. With contributions by a wide variety of theologians and practitioners, We Preach Christ Crucified gathers the fruits of those days spent reflecting on the importance of...
The Gospel According to Mark
Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
New Collegeville Bible Commentary
The Gospel According to Mark
Volume 2
The absence of stories of Jesus' birth and infancy, a minimum of Jesus' parables and a resurrection scene without sight or sound of the risen Jesus have tempted readers to shortchange Mark's Gospel. Thanks to the insightful...
The First Five Years of the Priesthood
A Study of Newly Ordained Catholic Priests
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Catholic Press Association Award Winner!
Reports indicate that many newly ordained men are feeling demoralized and some are resigning. The accounts raised many questions. How widespread is the problem? What difficulties are the recently ordained priests facing? Is the problem due to changes...
Illuminating Justice
The Ethical Imagination of The Saint John's Bible
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
Illuminating Justice explores the call to social ethics in The Saint John’s Bible, the first major handwritten and hand-illuminated Christian Bible since the invention of the printing press. Situating his close analysis of The Saint John’s Bible’s illuminations in the context of contemporary...
Paul Farmer
Servant to the Poor
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Bill 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...
The Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be
Prose Prayers and Cheerful Chants against the Dark
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Proems, taut tales, small stories with rhythm and blues and grace and bruise and laughter between the lines. Brian Doyle’s The Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be is a book of cadenced notes on the swirl of miracle and the holy of attentiveness; a book about children and birds, love and grief and everything alive, which is to say all prayers.
The Our Father
A New Reading
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Can Christians still pray the Our Father in the twenty-first century? We can, and we must.
Gerhard Lohfink breaks open its strange phrases like “hallowed be thy name,” its off-putting language like “Father” and “kingdom,” and its apparently harsh demands like forgive us as we have forgiven...
Faces of Easter
Meeting the Paschal Mystery in the People Around Us
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Using vignettes set in or near his monastery in downtown Newark, New Jersey, Benedictine monk Albert Holtz helps us to see that the Easter mystery, which can often seem abstract and distant, is in fact present all around us. As we accompany him through the fifty days of the Easter season, we listen...
No Peace Without Prayer
Encouraging Muslims and Christians to Pray Together; A Benedictine Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Abbot Timothy Wright proposes sowing a small seed from which might grow a greater respect between the world's two largest religions, Christianity and Islam. Indeed, he believes that the seed has already been planted. Christians give unique value to their revealed Scriptures as the "Word of God."...
Hold Nothing Back
Writings by Dorothy Day
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Dorothy Day (1897–1980) was a well-known American journalist, activist, and Catholic convert whose cause for sainthood has been endorsed by the US bishops. She wrote numerous articles over a period of several decades for the prominent lay Catholic magazine Commonweal. Hold Nothing Back is gleaned...
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...