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For the first time, Carlo's simple and insightful words have been collected into one book. Carlo's Simple Wisdom demonstrates that it is possible even today to live in harmony with the will of God. Carlo's life was a race, fast and brief. He has reached the goal he longed for, and he wants nothing more for us than to join him in heaven.
Whether you already know your temperament — some combination of deep Melancholy, peaceful Phlegmatic, take-charge Choleric, or playful Sanguine — or you have never been introduced to the four classic temperaments, My Type of Holiness provides meaningful, practical insight and guidance, interspersed with inspiring profiles of saints. This book helps give you a fuller understanding of the way God made you and how he wants to perfect you.
Prophet of Hope places Sheen in dialogue with eight of the leading thinkers of his day — John Dewey, H. L. Mencken, Henry Luce, Margaret Mead, B. F. Skinner, Jack Kerouac, Betty Friedan, and Michael Harrington — showing how he confronted the key philosophical, psychological, economic, and societal issues facing the world in his time. Drawing on his radio broadcasts, television show, and writings, this book presents Sheen grappling with the influences that shaped modern culture, including atheism, isolation, cynicism, anxiety, and despair. His prophetic voice of hope still resonates today.
If a saint had a song in her heart, she would burst out into a beautiful melody!
And if the other saints in heaven hear her, they'll probably sing along.
Find out what happens next in this fun, imaginative, "if, then" story. Prompted by just one saint with a song, soon all the saints and angels in heaven are rejoicing together and praising God in their own unique ways: singing, dancing, celebrating, playing, and showing love for one another.
Father Drew, What Do You Do? helps children learn about a priest's role as Father, the many ways the priestly vocation is lived out, what priests do for fun, and how priests administer the sacraments to the faithful. And, as all priests do, Father Drew also introduces children to Jesus' love and invites them to consider how God is calling them to share that love with others in their own lives.
Jesus Heals guides women through selected Bible stories of Jesus' tender care of ordinary people, all suffering in some form. Through story, Scripture reflections, and discussion questions, this prayer journal and Scripture study shows how Jesus is still healing us today, even when his healing doesn't happen in the way we expect. Whether he heals us physically or spiritually, he fulfills the promise of his words in John 10:10, "I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly."
Rejoice Always draws wisdom and inspiration from Sacred Scripture and six saintly companions to help us cultivate a burning desire to joyfully love the Lord. Whether we're facing suffering and loss or the humdrum reality of life, the saints highlighted here — and author Sheri Wohlfert's own down-to-earth stories — give us a relatable, achievable, and authentic path to holiness. Each section of this book focuses on a gift from the Father, and one of the saints demonstrates how to joyfully embrace each gift.
We live in a culture that inundates us with conflicting opinions and heated debates. Now, more than ever, we need a wise and charitable approach to navigating the controversies all around us. Providentially, we have been blessed with just such a guide in the towering figure of Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger).
In Enchanted by Eternity, Fr. William Slattery shows how Catholicism proposes an enchanted and enchanting view of self, nature, society, and the future of each human person, created to live in a resurrected body in "the new heavens and the new earth." As this book reveals, rediscovering a truly Catholic worldview will change the way we live — and it might even change the world.
Following God's voice, this children's book with captivating illustrations paints a moving picture of some of the most important lessons of our faith. When God Speaks culminates in the Eucharist with Jesus' words, "This is my body" and "This is my blood."
Through this book, children will learn to open their hearts to the voice of God, because when God speaks, something beautiful happens.
Beautifully illustrated with an uplifting message, God's Little Flowers is a wonderful way to show young girls that they are each bestowed with particular gifts from being made in the image and likeness of God. Through this book, every girl may come to rejoice in the glorious reality of God's unending love for her.
Planting with Prayer: The Catholic Gardening Handbook shows you how to develop a contemplative outdoor space that moves you in this season of your life and spiritual growth. Whether you are a new gardener or a sage veteran, Advanced Master Gardener Margaret Rose Realy will guide you in a step-by-step approach to create and maintain a meaningful sacred space — a place close at hand that you can easily step into and that brings you, in all your individuality, to inner quietness.
In this combined edition of the full texts of Laudato Si' and Laudate Deum, Pope Francis draws all Christians into a dialogue with every person on the planet about our common home. As human beings we are united by concern for our planet and every living thing that dwells on it, especially the poorest and most vulnerable.
This edition includes discussion questions, making it perfect for individual or group study.
Hope, the theme for the Jubilee of 2025, opens the door to a certain evangelical realism. There is today a great need for hope, because this new culture we live in causes people to experience fear, anxiety, and uncertainty. This can lead to feelings of desperation if people are not properly supported. Humanity needs to hear a message that restores the certainty of true hope.
Jubilee of Hope is an invitation to be strong in a faith that supports hope. Christian hope does not deceive or disappoint because it is grounded in the certainty that nothing and no one may ever separate us from God's love.
The Stations of the Cross help us to better understand the Eucharistic mystery. Given for You reflects on Jesus' passion and death and points us back to the present reality of the Eucharist, where we encounter his self-gift in a close, personal way. In praying these stations, may we come to love Jesus more and run to him, truly present in the sacrament of his body and blood.
The Prayer of Jesus explores the unique experience of the fatherhood of God, whom Jesus calls Abba — which in his native Aramaic language means "Dad." Throughout his earthly life, Jesus is in constant dialogue with Abba. From his Baptism in the Jordan through his public ministry and ultimately his crucifixion, this relationship will mark him forever, transforming his life and our lives, too.
Saints are people of authentic prayer, and authentic prayer inflames with a fire of love. Only in this way is it possible to lift the world and bring it near to the heart of God. To pray in truth, we must present ourselves before God with the open wounds of our smallness and our sin, allowing our encounter with God be one of liberation and redemption.
In giving us his Son, the Father has given us the very mystery of prayer, of the possibility of praying — that is, of entering into real communion with him. Prayer, in its deepest core, is nothing other than our welcoming of this desire of God to be with each of us personally, to give us himself, to make us participants in his life.
En Dilexit Nos, el Papa Francisco nos invita a reflexionar sobre los aspectos del amor del Señor que podrían iluminar el camino de la renovación eclesial y resonar significativamente en "un mundo que parece haber perdido el corazón". Esta encíclica, que incluye reflexiones de las Sagradas Escrituras y de enseñanzas anteriores del magisterio, reintroduce a la Iglesia en la devoción espiritualmente profunda al Sagrado Corazón.
The Psalter is the quintessential book of the Bible, meant for prayerful pause and contemplative silence. This little guide to the Psalms is divided into four sections: a general reflection on prayer; the breath of the soul, a panoramic look at the texts of the psalms; a portrait of the two protagonists, God and the worshiper, but also of the intrusion of the presence of evil; an anthology of brief commentaries on the psalms most dear to tradition and the liturgy.