Abbey Press: 125 books

Book offers inspirational and practical advice for daily situations.

The modern day proverbs tucked into the pages of this book, like the commandments, are pearls of wisdom that God shares with us, not to restrain or constrain us, but to give us the discipline we need to be truly free. Scripture’s Way to Live Each Day combines insightful messages and meaningful...

We are a world in need of forgiveness. In our local and world communities, we see violence and escalating conflict. Author Carol Ann Morrow hopes to instill the virtue of forgiveness in young hearts. Young readers learn, along with little elfin friends, that sometimes we all need another chance.

Children aren’t immune to stress. Kids are especially prone to feel fear before stressful events in their lives. Family, school, and team sports’ schedules have been crammed into their daily activities so extensively that many children are robbed of their free recreational “growth” time, and...

Everyone needs a best friend—someone who knows you and loves you just the way you are. Someone who hugs you when you’re sad and celebrates when you’re happy. Best friends like to spend time with each other. Best friends stay in touch and help each other out. This book introduces children to...

Learning to do the right thing is a lifelong task. Because children are newcomers on the path of social, moral, and spiritual development, they need caring guides to help them along the way. In Making Good Choices: A Book about Right and Wrong . . . Just for Me!, author Lisa O. Engelhardt helps...

Families blend together for a variety of reasons. Widowed or divorced parents choose to remarry. An ailing or elderly relative can no longer live alone and moves in with his son’s family. A family chooses to adopt a child. Economic circumstances force family members to combine households. Regardless...

This new book from the Elf family celebrates the many ways pets enrich our lives and the gifts, both simple and profound, they offer. These affirmations are sure to bring a smile of recognition, a seed of new thought, and a renewed awe of God’s wisdom in creation, all reminders of the blessing your pet has been for you.

Nature heals. This little book of Nature Therapy shows just how all of creation—by delighting and inspiring us, by teaching us, by feeding and providing for us, and, finally by engaging us—does its therapeutic good work on our weary or broken or over-stressed selves.

People come in all shapes and sizes. That’s the way God makes us. How boring would it be if we all looked the same? Some things we can’t change, like how tall we are or the color of our eyes. Some things we can, like how we treat other people or how we take care of our bodies. This book is about...

The five authors in this concise handbook serve as wonderful “grief-guides.” While they all acknowledge that the world is now a different place without our parents, the important thing now is to pay close attention to the healing of our hearts.

Losing one’s partner, one’s soul mate, one’s spouse, “demands” the greatest inner strength one can apply. And it requires the help and wisdom of fellow grief-travelers such as those you will find in the five sections of this booklet.

Book offers inspirational and practical advice for daily situations.

Whether the circumstances are chronic or urgently critical, we all encounter difficult periods in life. And in one way or another, we seek healing, comfort, or simply the strength to endure. This book offers encouraging words of hope. Rooted in the Catholic tradition, the chapters in this book express...