St Benedict Press Llc: 45 books
by Lorraine V. Murray
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Some people are just dying for change! St. Rita's was a vibrant suburban church whose parishioners liked things on the traditional side: old-fashioned hymns from the choir and no-nonsense preaching from the priests, pious devotions in the chapel and warm pastries in the rectory kitchen. All that ended...
Popes Who Resigned
Benedict Xvi and 13 Other Popes Who Retired (or Were Deposed)
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
On February 11, 2013, Pope Benedict XVI shocked Catholics and the world by announcing that he would resign from the papacy. It was the first papal resignation in 600 years, and it has caused Catholics the world over to scramble for answers. Now, in Popes Who Resigned, Thomas J. Craughwell answers...
You Shall Worship One God
The Mystery of Loving Sacrifice in Salvation History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
It is by means of worship that man recognizes his absolute dependence upon God, comes into His presence, and gains practical knowledge of His goodness and sovereign majesty. Father Marie-Dominique Philippe, founder of the Congregation of St. John and one of the twentieth century s most profound theological...
Charity as Divine and Human Friendship
A Metaphysical and Scriptural Explanation According to the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The purpose of this work is to explore and explain St. Thomas’ curious description of charity as a “kind of friendship of man for God.”
This is achieved in two symphonic movements:
An investigation into the metaphysical substructure of friendship;
Analysis of St. Thomas’...
Nabre
New American Bible Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Saint Benedict Press is a proud publisher of the New American Bible Revised Edition (NABRE), the first major update to the New American Bible (NAB) text in twenty years. Reflecting the work of nearly 100 scholars and extensively reviewed and approved by the USCCB, the NABRE takes into account the...
A Year with the Church Fathers
Patristic Wisdom for Daily Living
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
NEW! Now in Paperbound! Times change, but human nature does not. Neither do the daily struggles that all Christians experience in their walk with the Lord. Today as two thousand years ago we fight anger, pride, lust, spiritual sloth. Now as then we strive to be more diligent in prayer, more faithful...
The Encounter
Discovering God Through Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
In The Encounter, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture guides the readers through the spiritual life with the same retreat he gave to Pope Benedict just days before his resignation. This small book presents a unique opportunity for readers—believers and non-believers...
Doors of Mercy
A Journey Through Salvation History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
We are living in an extraordinary time: A Time of Mercy. But what is mercy? What does it mean to be living in a Time of Mercy? How can we receive God's Mercy? And how should we respond? In Doors of Mercy, authors Fr. Jeffrey Kirby and Brian Kennelly answer these important questions. They act as your...
The Judas Syndrome
Seven Ancient Heresies Return to Betray Christ Anew
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Throughout two millennia of Christian history, the great heresies have tried to destroy the Faith by perverting the truths that Christ taught the apostles. Beginning in Jesus' own time with the betrayal of the arch-heretic Judas, and continuing through the centuries, waves of error have threatened...
The Abbess of Andalusia
Flannery O'connor’s Spiritual Journey
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Flannery O'Connor has been studied and lauded under many labels: the Southern author whose pen captured the soul of a proud region struggling to emerge out of racism and poverty, the female writer whose independent spirit and tragically short life inspired a generation of women, the Catholic artist...
The Essential Belloc
A Prophet for Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Hilaire Belloc was a poet, polemicist, and prose stylist without peer, but above all, an entire generation's mighty champion for the Catholic faith. He was a prolific historian who authored many important works such as How the Reformation Happened, Europe and the Faith, and The Crusades. The Essential...
Death Panels
A Novel of Life, Liberty, and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The year is 2042. American Christians are decimated, persecuted. Most of them huddled together on a federal reservation, the rest forced to worship in secret underground communities. The State knows all and controls all: what you eat, what you watch, how you think and pray. Tolerance is the highest...
Pope Francis
The Pope from the End of the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
On March 13, 2013, the world waited in hushed anticipation for the announcement of the new Successor of Peter and leader of the Roman Catholic Church. For weeks the news had been filled with discussions and speculation of leading papabili. Now, finally, the new pope would be revealed. But when Jorge...
A Year with Mary
Daily Meditations on the Mother of God
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
“Of Mary, there is never enough!” Books about the Blessed Virgin abound, yet the words of St. Bernard of Clairvaux still ring true: “Of Mary, there is never enough!” She is a mystery that faithful Christians seek to understand more fully, an ocean “full of grace” still awaiting deeper...