Handbook for Today's Catholic, popular for decades, is now even more valuable. This revised and updated edition includes a new introduction, the current list of the Holy Days of Obligation observed in the United States, the prayer for vocations favored by Pope John Paul II, a new section on how to prepare for a sick call, and much more. Handbook for Today's Catholic, Revised Edition, retains all the features of the previous edition presented in easy-to-understand language, with content divided into the following four sections: Beliefs, Practices, Prayers, and Living the Faith...

The media and the world that surrounds us are contributing to the destruction of the family. But there is always room for hope regarding the problem of marriages breaking up. This is the story of a couple where an outsider tries to persuade the husband to try again. But what a headache he arranged for himself! "Is it worth it ?" This is a timely topic for everyone, lovers, the engaged, the married... and principally those who are drifting towards breaking up their family...

Through Death to Life is a manual designed to facilitate family involvement in preparing for, personalizing, and taking part in the Funeral Mass of Christian Burial for loved ones...

With more than 500 full-color photos, illustrations, maps and charts, What the Bible Is All About® is the most interesting and user-friendly Bible handbook ever! A perfect introduction to the Bible for new believers, yet this valuable resource is comprehensive enough for pastors, Sunday School teachers and seminary students. You will appreciate the easy-to-use, visually engaging format as you witness the Bible unfold before your eyes. Discover What the Bible Is All About®—the world’s best-selling Bible handbook!..

Have you ever started to read the Bible and found yourself giving up, frustrated or disappointed? A first time Bible reader will appreciate this easy guide that seeks to address such frustration. Journeying A beginner's Guide to the Bible. presumes little or no knowledge and accompanies the reader on a wonderful journey through the major types of writing that are present in the Bible. Each chapter concludes with questions for personal reflection or group study. A final chapter suggests how to continue on this journey...

Why Rites of Reconciliation matter, For two millenia Christians have pondered the scope of the forgiveness Jesus taught and lived. They have celebrated practices and rites that have enabled the faithful to forgive, to be forgiven, and to accept that God brings reconciliation even when we find it almost impossible to forgive. This book traces that history to the present, offering. a sense not only of how rites of reconciliation matter to Catholics but how our struggles with forgiveness are a real contribution to reconciliation in our world...

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..

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Grace Community Prayer Forgiveness The spiritual journey is far more complex than being either hot or cold, passionate or dull, full of the Spirit or weighted down with the barnacles of tradition. Spirituality knows both the joy of ecstasy, and the pain of the dark night of the soul. From Reflection 7 A Thoughtful and Passionate Faith “While we may wish for an ever-present spiritual clarity and for an unquestioning certainty of faith, we are often called to walk a more difficult road. On this road it is often more a matter of being held in God’s hand than of holding God’s hand. Light has its shadows and grace has its pains. Joy is not without sorrow, and despair has the fragile veins of hope. This meditational reader seeks to reflect something of this kind of textured picture of the Christian journey, and hence these are the whispers from the edge of eternity.’’ Charles Ringma From the Introduction ..

The Holy Bible: The Good News Translation offered here in Electric Blue. This Pocket Bible has a zip, marker ribbon and coloured quick-find book indexing...

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Pope Francis encourages every Christian to rediscover the joy of a personal encounter with Jesus and to engage with renewed vigour in the mission of spreading that joy of the Gospel and becoming spirit-filled evangelizers. “I have chosen to present some guidelines which can encourage and guide the whole Church in a new phase of evangelization, one marked by enthusiasm and vitality… I have decided, among other themes, to discuss at length the following questions: -the reform of the Church in her missionary outreach; -the temptations faced by pastoral workers -the Church, understood as the entire People of God which evangelizes; -the homily and its preparation; -the inclusion of the poor in society; -peace and dialogue within society; -the spiritual motivations for mission.”(Evanglii Gaudium 17) The Holy Father puts his vast pastoral experience and the outcome of the Synod on the New Evangelization in 2012 at the service of the whole Church and encourages every member to act on this rene..

The scriptures say: "No one can live only on food. People need every word that God Has spoken"..

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Our Lord of Divine Mercy is the central figure of this wooden triptych, flanked either side by an angel. The Divine Mercy message was given to a Polish Nun, Sister Maria Faustina Kowalksa, in order to relate to mankind the great love God has for us and His desire to draw us closer through His unfathomable mercy, shown to us by His Divine Son, Jesus. A beautiful edition to any altar or prayer space and a lovely gift for any occasion. Measurements 12.5cm x 9cm...

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...