With the help of a generous grant from the Catholic Marriage Initiatives Fund, the bishops of California joined together in 2024-25 to encourage Catholic couples to Radiate Love into the world around them, starting at home. Perfect for married couples of all ages, marriage preparation, or even couples in a dating relationship, the reflections, prayers, and activities in this book will add spiritual depth and a radiant shine to the way they live their love. In collaboration with Communio and Our Sunday Visitor, the California Catholic Conference offers these tools to Catholic couples everywhere — for their own benefit, for the good of their children, and as a light to the world.

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This activity book is packed with fun and interesting things to read, learn, and do — all related to the seasons of Lent and Easter. With games, crafts, read-aloud stories, and appealing art, OSV Kids Lent Activity Book helps introduce young children to the teachings of the Catholic Church regarding this significant season of the liturgical year. Lent is a time for Catholics of every age to reflect on and remember the great sacrifice Jesus made in dying on the cross for our salvation and his triumphant resurrection on Easter.

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Married deacons have a unique opportunity to serve the Church through the graces of their dual vocation to marriage and holy orders. In this book, Deacon James Keating provides the theological background and practical points of formation to help married deacons live out both sacraments in harmony and balance.

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Through photos and archaeological discoveries, nourished by the works of inspired artists from all eras and cultures, With Jesus in Jerusalem helps you experience the Stations of the Cross and the seven last words of the crucified Jesus in a new, profound way.

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Essential Guide to Seasons and Saints explores basic elements of the liturgical calendar and the seasons that make up the liturgical year, and it identifies the characteristics of each season that should inform liturgical planning and celebration. This resource takes a brief look at the saints celebrated in the Liturgical Calendar for the Dioceses of the United States of America, highlighting some special observances associated with particular months and days.

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Travel all through Rome with the pope as he chases after his puppy in this fun, imaginative, "if, then" story. With vivid imagery of Vatican and Roman landmarks, including the Sistine Chapel and the Colosseum, this book will help children appreciate the long and rich history of the Church in Rome. The pope's adventure demonstrates that joy and wonder are at the heart of being Catholic.

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Meg Hunter-Kilmer helps you see Jesus anew by taking you through his life as told in the gospels, breaking open the familiar and shedding light on the foreign so that you can see the face of Jesus in the pages of Scripture and learn to love him more in his word. Eyes Fixed on Jesus provides biblical context that makes sense of Jesus' actions, cultural tidbits that shed new light on old stories, and connections between the New Testament's miracles and parables and the centuries of revelation found in the Old Testament.

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In this revised and expanded third edition of The Mass of the Early Christians, renowned author, speaker, and patristics scholar Mike Aquilina reveals the Church's most ancient Eucharistic beliefs and practices. Using the words of the early Christians themselves — from many documents and inscriptions — he traces the history of the Mass from the earliest days of the Church through the fourth century. That the Mass has always stood at the center of the Church's life is evident in Scripture, as well as in the earliest Christian sermons, letters, artwork, tombstones, and architecture.

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Behold the Heavens invites you on a journey of encounter and prayer. This book is a pilgrimage through the night sky, where we meet God through the beauty of his creation, the words of Sacred Scripture, and the call to prayer. This is not a book about definitions of astronomical objects, but an invitation to experience the night sky through biblical eyes and with childlike wonder.

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I Wait in the Night presents the prison journal of Fesch, translated by and with commentary from Fr. Rupert Allen, Cong. Orat. In a frank and sometimes brutally honest way, these pages tell the story of the hope that has come to a young man in a five-by-two-meter cell while he waits to be executed for a murder he committed in the course of a robbery.

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In Beyond the Baptism, Fr. Jeffrey Kirby provides practical guidance to godparents in a brief, approachable way. He walks you through the role of the godparent as a ministry of faith and accompaniment and helps you go deeper in your ongoing call to be a godparent.

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Joy Within His House offers those who live on the outside of the cloister a glimpse into the experience of those who live within. Dominican Sister Mary Magdalene of the Immaculate Conception Prewitt shares the joy she finds in living the life of a cloistered nun and following Christ. Several dozen captivating photographs from inside the cloister, many by award-winning photographer Jeffrey Bruno, help illustrate the prayer, study, work, and recreation that order the nuns' days.

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Cultivating a Contemplative Heart and Becoming a Person of Prayer challenges laypeople to pursue the heights of holiness and the depths of contemplative spirituality no less than any clergy or consecrated religious. This book explores the various qualities of a contemplative heart and how to nurture them.

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In his encyclical letter Rerum Novarum, Pope Leo XIII takes up the condition of the working classes and the challenges facing the world following the Industrial Revolution, focusing on the relationship between labor and capital, the rights of workers, and the role of the Church in promoting justice. Promulgated in 1891, this foundational text has shaped Catholic social teaching and influenced more than a century of the Church's balanced approach to defending workers' rights while upholding the right to private property and rejecting socialism.

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In his first apostolic exhortation, Dilexi Te ("I have loved you"), Pope Leo XIV focuses on poverty and love for the poor. The Holy Father signed this first magisterial document of his pontificate on October 4, 2025, the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi.

In Dilexi Te, Pope Leo XIV reflects on Saint Francis and his radical life of poverty. Like Saint Francis, we must seek to imitate Christ by detaching ourselves from earthly glory and possessions to better serve God and our neighbor, especially the poor and most vulnerable among us.

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