Liturgical Press imprint: 386 books
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...
Benedict Backwards
Reading the Rule in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
In Benedict Backwards, Terrence Kardong builds the case that the Rule of Benedict is best read “backwards,” that is, with emphasis on the last chapters, not the first ones. Benedict starts out dependent on the Rule of the Master, but he ends on a much more self-assured note, revealing more about...
Saints on Sunday
Voices from Our Past Enlivening Our Worship
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
How might Ambrose of Milan, Hildegard of Bingen, and Catherine of Siena inspire us to improve Sunday worship? What about Lawrence, John of Damascus, Thomas Cranmer, Johannes Kepler, Margaret Fell, and Dorothy Day? Even Amy Carmichael can point our assemblies toward more profound worship. In Saints...
Where Justice and Mercy Meet
Catholic Opposition to the Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Where Justice and Mercy Meet: Catholic Opposition to the Death Penalty comprehensively explores the Catholic stance against capital punishment in new and important ways. The broad perspective of this book has been shaped in conversation with the Catholic Mobilizing Network to End the Use of the Death...
by Angelo Scarano
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Luke’s gospel contains a number of passages about compassion. One of the most beloved of these is commonly known as the parable of the Prodigal Son. In The Prodigal Father, Angelo Scarano focuses on the distinctive role of the father in the parable, the example he provides of being transformed by...
Advent of the Savior
A Commentary on the Infancy Narratives of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Advent is the season in which we reread and relive the experience of ancient Israel as it longed for the coming of the Messiah. It is also a time to reflect on the infancy narratives of Jesus which have enriched the lives of believers through the centuries. As an extension of Israel's longing for...
The God of Freedom and Life
A Commentary on the Book of Exodus
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Uses the New American Bible, Revised Edition!
The epic story of liberation and covenant-making flowers in the pages of the book of Exodus, making this study the perfect choice for the holy season of Lent. Exodus provides a deeper understanding of Passover and the journey to the Promised Land,...
by Stephen J. Binz
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
The passion and resurrection is the core of the Scriptures; it is also the heart of faith, liturgy, and prayer. This commentary will enrich will enrich the faith, worship, and prayer of all who look to the crucified and risen Jesus as the source of life.
All the writings...
Panorama of the Bible
New Testament
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
While every character, story, and book of Scripture is significant in itself, stepping back for a broad, panoramic view of the entire Bible helps us to take in and understand God’s single, unified plan for human history.
In this second of a two-part panorama of the Bible, noted Scripture scholar...