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.

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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.

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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.

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What characterizes, in a singular way, Jesus's teaching on prayer is the recourse to parables. Jesus did not invent a new system for praying. Jesus was not a hermit, a Buddhist monk, or a yogi. He instead chose the daily life of his people to teach prayer with parables. This book explores the parables in the Gospels explicitly related to prayer, with Jesus as your guide.

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The saints whose writings on prayer and meditation are explored in this book are among the most celebrated in the great spiritual tradition. The aim of this book is to discover what help the great saints can offer those of us who desire to make progress in the life of prayer but who find ourselves being constantly deflected from our purpose, our tentative efforts undermined perhaps most of all by human weakness.

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This beautifully illustrated board book presents Mary's Magnificat as prayed in the Liturgy of the Hours, introducing children to one of the most beautiful songs in Scripture and in the prayer of the Church.

The Magnificat will help little ones to hold this magnificent prayer in their hearts, making it their own as they begin to learn, live, and love their Catholic Faith.

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The Our Father was taught by Christ to his Apostles and took shape in the experience of the early Church, and it has been seen as the synthesis of the whole gospel. The Prayer Jesus Taught Us identifies the theological-biblical structure underlying the Lord's Prayer and situates it in the living environment of the early Church. This book examines the antecedents in Mark, the systematic presentation of Matthew, Paul's push forward, the accentuation of Luke, and the mature synthesis found in John.

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When Mary has appeared anywhere in the world, the locations of her apparitions have points in common with the biblical places where she stayed and lived. This book reviews these places, examining what they reveal to us about Mary's identity and what the inner spaces are that Mary asks us to dwell in today. This book also explores the unique relationship Saint Catherine Labouré and Saint Bernadette each had with Mary, leading us toward a new, deep revelation of Mary's closeness to each of us.

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In Dilexit Nos, Pope Francis invites us to reflect on aspects of the Lord's love that could illuminate the path of ecclesial renewal and resonate meaningfully with "a world that seems to have lost its heart." This encyclical, which includes reflections from Sacred Scripture and previous magisterial teachings, reintroduces the Church to the spiritually profound devotion to the Sacred Heart.

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Pray with Us invites us to connect with 365 saints, blesseds, venerables, and servants of God — one for each day of the year. Each day's entry includes a brief biography of the saint and a prayer. This book provides a concise, approachable format for individuals and families to form the habit of daily prayer and to rely more purposefully on the intercession of the saints.

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Sharing the Gospel with Our Lives is an inspiring, informative, and empowering resource for your ministry with Catholic teens. This is the book that helps you realize that Catholic youth ministry is more than putting a meeting together or teaching a class; it's about getting to know teens and sharing Jesus with them.

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Ars Celebrandi: Serving the Mystery of Christ in the Eucharist infuses the contemporary preparations for the Eucharist with a new focus for a greater purpose. This book walks through each part of the Mass, discussing the directives for the celebration through the lens of the ars celebrandi, to help priests, deacons, and seminarians authentically join with Christ in his eternal Sacrifice with deeper faith, confidence, and reverence.

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In Entering Heaven on Earth, Fr. Lawrence Lew, OP, shows you how to decode the signs and symbols found in our churches and to identify the saints depicted in them. This richly illustrated book filled with photographs the author has taken of churches from around the world will help you to see the churches you worship in or visit from a fresh perspective and to remember the true purpose of a church building.

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One Hour for My Priest provides clear instruction on how to pray a holy hour asking our Lord Jesus Christ to bless, heal, and have mercy on the soul of one of our beloved priests. By entering into the divine moments of Jesus' life, the reader prays for one particular priest so that he may be given grace in this life and gain his eternal reward in heaven.

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The document begins with a preface letter addressed directly from the U.S. Bishops to youth and young adults and continues with the three-part framework text for pastoral ministers, families, and young leaders in the Church.

El documento comienza con una carta prefacio dirigida directamente por los obispos estadounidenses a los jóvenes y jóvenes adultos y continúa con el texto marco en tres partes para los ministros de pastoral, las familias y los jóvenes líderes de la Iglesia.

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This book is an invitation to joy, an invitation to discover the little-known daily lives of monks to help us understand the peace that dwells within them. Their confined existence, which one might imagine to be monotonous, is in reality extraordinarily rich.

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El Catecismo Católico de los Estados Unidos para Adultos es una ayuda y una guía para que individuos y grupos pequeños profundicen su fe.

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In this revised and expanded edition, author Jason Craig, cofounder of Fraternus, a Catholic mentoring program for boys, demonstrates how we can actually do something to address this crisis. Leaving Boyhood Behind resets our understanding of the gift of manhood and the wisdom of traditional rites of passage.</p

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