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A Carmelite Psalter with a 4-week selection of Psalms, Antiphons, Readings, Responsory, Canticles, Intercessions, and Prayer. Includes a calendar which indicates the proper week of the psalter to use for the years 1997-2020...

These reflections about life experience and liturgy, written in the form of letters to God, leads readers to the heart of a paradox--to a God who is both transcendent and personal, to a life experience that is both unique and repetitous. But the book is an open one, one that invites readers to pick it up and enter into the journey. ..

Using simple and colloquial language, this book deals with the spiritual realities of 2 Corinthians 5,17: "And for anyone who is in Chris, There is a new creation"...

Father David Knight maps out a new path to a fuller life in Jesus Christ. Father Knight offers readers a clear and compelling guide. Those who choose to follow it will know where they are, what steps they have already taken, and what steps they need to take next in order to arrive at the abundant life Jesus came to give ...

To help us better understand the Sunday and weekday Gospel readings, David Knight has collected his reflections for the lectionary year B in this handy book. Each brief reflection is based on the Gospel of the particular Sunday or weekday. For each weekday, the author has chosen one line from the day's Gospel and offered one question to stimulate reflection. To help us integrate the Gospel into our daily lives, Knight provides in a section called "Living This Week's Gospel" five suggested responses we can make to the Sunday Gospel each week. He bases his suggestions on five words which summarize our identity as Christians: Christian, disciple, prophet, priest and king. Finally, Knight adds a prayer that we can say each day all week, asking for the grace to live by the values proposed in the Sunday reflection...

Like the sower in the parable of Jesus, catechists, teachers, religious educators and parish ministers are called to continue sowing the seed by proclaiming through voice and action the word of God. Catechists are also charged with the task of preparing the soil to receive the word and creating an environment for the seed to take root and multiply a hundredfold. Veteran catechist Judith Dunlap offers those who teach children, teens and adults much inspirational and practical help about the call to serve, the gift of faith, the gift of prayer and ritual, the gift of community and the gift of self. She helps these "sowers" to unwrap each of these gifts and discover new ways to share them in their ministry...

Fr John Fuellenbach is a Divine Word Missionary. He reaches Fundamental Theology at the Gregorian University, at the Beda College both in Rome and at the School of Theology in St. Augustine, Germany. He holds a doctorate from the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. For seven years he taught at the Divine Word Seminary School of Theology in Tagaytay, Philippines and for shorter periods in a variety of places. He wrote several books. The most recent are: Proclaiming His Kingdom (Manila: Logos Publications, 4th ed., 1994); the kingdom of God Jesus Central Message (Orbis, New York, 1995) and Throw Fire (Manila: Logos Publications, 2nd ed., 1998). Integrating missiology and ecclesiology in a vision of a church in mission made up of all the world’s peoples. Fuellenbach explores the church’s life as worshiping community, as communion, as Body Christ working to make the world reflect Kingdom values. “With his guiding image of the Church in service of the Kingdom, Fuellenbach has..

Written On Our Hearts (Third Ed) Teaching Manual ..

There is no doubt that Jesus called his first disciples, and he calls us, to conversion. Yet the sacrament of penance has fallen on hard times over recent decades. The author explores the rise of the varied forms of the sacrament of penance, locating them within their respective ecclesial and social contexts and highlighting the considerable transitions through which this sacrament has gone..

With such a shortage of good resources for Catholic men, Fuel is a welcome resource for new or existing men's faith groups. It provides clear meeting formats and meaningful insights for Catholic lay men to grow in their faith, share fellowship in Christ, and learn to apply their faith to family, work, and the community...

The encounter with the Sacred Scriptures should never leave the Christian unmoved. On the contrary when Christ explained the scriptures on the road to Emmaus, the disciples' hearts burned within them. This booklet lays the foundations for a deeper appreciation of the infinite beauty of the word of God. ..

Extracts from the address of His Holiness Pope John Paul II to the Plenary Meeting of The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments...

Drawing on the wisdom gleaned from thriving mega-churches and innovative business leaders while anchoring their vision in the Eucharistic center of Catholic faith, Fr. Michael White and lay associate Tom Corcoran present the compelling and inspiring story to how they brought their parish back to life. Rebuilt is a story of stopping everything and changing focus. When their parish reached a breaking point, Fr. Michael White and lay associate Tom Corcoran asked themselves how they could make the Church matter to Catholics, and they realized the answer was at the heart of the Gospel. Their faithful response not only tripled their weekend mass attendance, but also yielded increased giving, flourishing ministries, and a vibrant, solidly Catholic spiritual revival. White and Corcoran invite all Catholic leaders to share the vision, borrow their strategies, and rebuild their own parishes. They offer a wealth of guidance for anyone with the courage to hear them...

For fifteen centuries Benedictine monasticism has been governed by a Rule that is at once strong enough to instil order and yet flexible enough to have relevance fifteen hundred years later. ...

“This is a fabulous book! A must read for every daughter’s mother.” —BETH MOORE If you are the mother of a daughter eighteen years old or younger, especially one in the tween or teen years, you know that you are in a war for her mind, body, and soul. Best-selling author Vicki Courtney’s Your Girl addresses the times in which our daughters live, the high calling of motherhood, and the necessity to enter the battle to counteract negative influences of the culture. “Father God, help us to raise this generation of girls to be Yours, and Yours alone,” Vicki writes. She encourages moms to rely on God’s Word while passing down key godly attributes including worth, modest, and purity. Your Girl also helps mothers teach their daughters to stand for truth, protect their hearts, and navigate the uncertain currents of girl politics...

Teresa of Avila's Interior Castle is one of the most celebrated books of Christian mysticism ever written. In this new edition, the classic translation by E. Allison Peers is united with fresh spiritual commentary by Dennis Billy, C.Ss.R., making it the only edition of this work to provide spiritual nourishment in an accessible form while remaining completely faithful to Teresa's mystical vision...

How to survive being married to a Catholic (or just knowing one) uses a lively cartoon format to illustrate and explain the central beliefs of Catholics in thirteen cheeky chapters. You'll also find frank answers to more than eighty of the questions most commonly asked about Catholicism,plus a glossary of Catholic terms and suggestions for further reading. If you aren't Catholic, but your partner is; if you aren't Catholic, but you're just CURIOUS, if you need the skinny on Catholics, read this book. And remember, you're allowed to laugh...

Here is a guide for all Christians aspiring to union with God, which, according to Brother Lawrence, is the ultimate goal of every soul. The new Image edition of The Practice of the Presence of God is a reissue of the 1977 translation that was the first to appear in decades. It features an in-depth Introduction by John J. Delaney that examines what is known about Lawrence's life, how the book came to be, and its ongoing relevance throughout the ages. In the words of this humble seventeenth-century lay Carmelite, "we must trust God once and for all and abandon ourselves to Him alone." This difficult task necessarily requires perseverance and continual conversation with God in all activities great and small: "speaking humbly and talking lovingly with Him at all times, at every moment, without rule or system..." In reading these conversations, letters, and spiritual maxims, we learn the key to endless joy. In short, this little spiritual classic -- in its fresh, contemporary English tra..

We are a Missionary church. Instead of simply maintaining their buildings and meeting the needs of their parishioners, parishes are called to go further and embrace their mission, which is to make disciples. Divine Renovation offers a blueprint for doing just that. Rooted in Church teaching and filled with proven practical ideas, it provides inspiration and guidance for parishes and pastors alike. It's time to start making disciples. The future of the Church depends on it...

Becky Feinstein is well-acquainted with unexpected tragedy. Growing up in New York City during the turbulent 1960s, she has already experienced her brother’s death in Vietnam and her family’s gradual drifting apart. So when her closest friend suddenly becomes gravely ill, this nice Jewish girl decides to give her an unconventional gift by lighting a candle in a big gothic church on Lexington Avenue. Little does she realize, as she passes through the heavy wooden doors of Saint Vincent Ferrer’s, that after this afternoon nothing will ever be the same. For there, lighting a candle for a friend, she discovers someone waiting for her in the “still, quiet place” of her heart . . ...