Liturgical Press: 724 books
Welcome to the Feast
The Story of the Eucharist in Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Welcome to the Feast is an invitation to explore the theme of celebrating God’s unfolding covenant relationship with humanity in the context of a meal. Starting with Abraham’s hospitality in providing a feast for three divine visitors, the menu in Welcome to the Feast begins with ample servings...
Scandal
The Catholic Church in Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize - winning coverage of clergy sexual abuse of minors in 2002 led to what few would hesitate to call the most significant scandal in the history of the Catholic Church in the United States. In contrast, Catholics themselves disagree about whether the voting records...
Desperately Seeking Spirituality
A Field Guide to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
In Desperately Seeking Spirituality, sacred spelunker and sociologist Meredith Gould, combines practical wisdom with lived experience to explain why and when traditional practices don’t work for today’s seeker and then how to choose ones that will. In short, easy-to-read chapters and with characteristic...
Come, Lord Jesus
A Study of Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2018
New Edition with Discussion Questions and a Critique of the Rapture
How can Christians today understand the book of Revelation and its meaning and implications for our lives? Mark Braaten, a pastor and scholar who has spent years studying and teaching Revelation, answers the many questions...
Project Holiness
Marriage as a Workshop for Everyday Saints
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Project Holiness: Marriage as a Workshop for Everyday Saints celebrates the holiness of the ordinary and the goodness of married discipleship. Vatican II’s Lumen Gentium reminds Catholics of the universal call to holiness. Each person—lay and ordained alike—shares this vocation to holiness,...
by John C. Endres SJ
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In the era in which the Chronicler writes, the pressing question is: How will Judeans reestablish themselves after the Babylonian exile? The Chronicler's answer is to encourage the people of Israel to live out of their memory of God's mercy and compassion. Knowing and cherishing the books of Samuel...
Sauntering Through Scripture
A Book of Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
The Bible presents a landscape rich with characters whose stories and prophecies, wisdom and woes, parables and prayers describe our very human struggle to know and respond to the love of God. Repeated reading and retelling make these texts familiar, and yet we encounter them anew in these fresh,...
Saint Benedict for Boomers
Wisdom for the Next Stage of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Saint Benedict for Boomers is based on the idea that no one can retire from being a Christian; we are to love God and our neighbor throughout our life. And it recognizes that aging presents us with change, loss, and death, as well as new growth and opportunities for deep gladness and peace. The Christian...
by Mary Grace Melcher OCD
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Inspired by her daily contemplation and meditation on the Scriptures, Carmelite Sister Mary Grace Melcher offers this book of deeply meaningful prayers of the faithful for every day of the year. Cycles A, B, and C for Sundays and the two-year cycle for weekdays are all included. These beautiful intercessions...
Spirituality: An Art of Living
A Monk's Alphabet of Spiritual Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Spirituality: An Art of Living was born out of a generous impulse: to pass on lessons from the monastic tradition to lay people so as to help them achieve a more ardent and fulfilling spiritual life. In this book, Benedictine monk, teacher, and scholar Benoît Standaert provides ninety-nine entries...
God's Good Earth
Praise and Prayer for Creation
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
God’s Good Earth offers Christians and their communities an engaging resource for prayer, reflection, and worship that reflects and nourishes their efforts to serve God and care for God’s creation. Compilers Anne and Jeffery Rowthorn have prepared 52 beautiful, ready-made prayer services, each...
Catholic Economics
Alternatives to the Jungle
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Inequality, unemployment, degradation of our environment: these and other practical economic problems reflect faulty economic theories. We have been led astray by ideas that made some sense in the past but are unsuited to our times and by ideas that are fundamentally mistaken.
The Catholic...
Ezra, Nehemiah
Volume 11
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The books of Ezra and Nehemiah relate the return of the Jewish exiles from Babylon during the rule of the early Persian kings. For a long time, interpretations of these two books by Christian exegetes characterized the Judaism of the post-exilic age as narrow and nationalistic. This interpretation...
Deepening Faith
Adult Faith Formation in the Parish
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Since the ending of Vatican II, the church has officially published no fewer than eight major documents calling for adults to be the center of the church’s educational mission. And the Catholic faithful are calling on the church to quench their thirst for a deepening of their lived faith. They realize...