Francis Fernandez In Conversation with God, Volume 4  has meditations for all of Ordinary Time: Weeks 13-23, based on the daily gospels.  This is number 4 in the 7-volume set of In Conversation with God. This book has a brown vinyl cover with the words " In Conversation with God, Daily Meditaions Volume Four: Ordinary Time: Weeks 13-23, Francis Fernandez" all …

Francis Fernandez In Conversation with God, Volume 5  has meditations for all of Ordinary Time: Weeks: 24-34, based on the daily gospels.  This is number 5 in the 7-volume set of In Conversation with God. This book has a maroon vinyl cover with the words " In Conversation with God, Daily Meditaions Volume Five: Ordinary Time: Weeks 24-34, Francis …

Francis Fernandez In Conversation with God, Volume 6  has meditations for Special Feasts: January-June, based on the daily gospels.  This is number 6 in the 7-volume set of In Conversation with God. This book has a light blue vinyl cover with the words " In Conversation with God, Daily Meditaions Volume Six: Special Feasts: January-June, Francis …

Francis Fernandez In Conversation with God, Volume 7  has meditations for Special Feasts: July-December, based on the daily gospels.  This is number 7 in the 7-volume set of In Conversation with God. This book has a red vinyl cover with the words " In Conversation with God, Daily Meditaions Volume Seven: Special Feasts: July-December,  Francis Fernandez" …

By Marko Ivan Rupnik, Translated by Susan Dawson Vásquez Foreword by Cardinal Tomáš Špidlík, S.J. The term "spiritual" today means many things to many people. This inspiring book gives Christians a surer footing, showing what church tradition teaches regarding true spirituality and how it can best be lived out amid the hectic pace of modern life. …

The greatest pain of the world today is loneliness. Loneliness is a part of the journey of faith. When loneliness comes upon you, you want to go and hide in some corner—self-pity carries you like a big, huge wave on a beach all full of stones. You see that beach in your mind and you think you are going to be broken up on the rocks... But in the depths of every heart there is a garden enclosed. …

Doubts come to everyone—but you are not alone. In her new book, Catherine Doherty walks with us through some of the doubts that trouble us most in this day and age. Doubts are part of the journey of faith. When you’re affronted by doubts, when you can’t get a handle on the answers that make you feel secure, you are walking in the company of the saints. Doubts come: Does God exist? Where is …

"Who do you say that I am?"  Maybe that sounds like an easy question if we remember our catechism.  How about this one:  "Why are you afraid?" Jesus asked His disciples these questions 2000 years ago, and he's still asking them today.  How will we answer? Long a favorite for his spellbinding stories and his profound knowledge of Scripture, Msgr. Richard C. Antall - a …

The montfort path is the same one which Wisdom took to enter the human family: the Immaculate Mary. Her spirit permeates every aspect of Father de Montfort's staunchly Christ-centered doctrine. To be bathed in her spirit is the turning point of our advance into a renewed baptismal consecration of union with the triune God. The key, then, to an understanding of montfort spirituality is to grasp …

“The Jesus Prayer has historically been passed on face-to-face, from one Christ-loving person to the next, down the generations ever since the desert saints. It is learned in a community of fellow-believers, all of whom are aware of their need and sin, trying daily to resist temptation better and love God more. As you form the habit of saying this prayer in the back of your mind all the …

“15 Days of Prayer” Collection Now distributed by New City Press, this popular series is perfect for those looking for an introduction to a particular spiritual guide, those searching for gift ideas, and those who merely wish to know more about the person and his or her spirituality. Additional volume planned in 2 to 3 months intervals. Each volume contains: • A brief …

In one series, the original writings of the universally acknowledged teachers of the Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish, Islamic and Native American traditions have been critically selected, translated and introduced by internationally recognized scholars and spiritual leaders. I abandoned and forgot myself Laying my face on my beloved; All things ceased; I went out from …

Translated by Edmund Colledge and James Walsh     'My thoughts on the spiritual exercises proper to cloistered monks'; the ninth prior of La Grande Chartreuse, Guigo II,  (†1180) articulates the monastic contemplative tradition in distinctively western terms. '...reading, meditation, prayer and contemplation. These make a ladder for monks by which they are lifted up from …

With the rediscovery of Ignatian spirituality spurred by the Second Vatican Council, individual directed retreats of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola are commonplace. On any given day in the United States, hundreds of people are making the Exercises. As a result of this recovery of tradition, the Spiritual Exercises have taken on a new life in the church. Having served as a …

Light And Images - Elements Of Contemplation One of Adrienne von Speyr's most cherished concerns was to rekindle Christians' desire for contemplation and thus to renew the Church's prayer. Light and Images is one of the most important of her works on the subject. She sets forth the deepest theological foundations of contemplative prayer according to the reciprocal relationship between "light" …

Even though she never bore a child physically, Gonxha Agnes Bojaxhiu deserves the name by which everyone knows her: Mother Teresa of Calcutta, now beatified and on her was to becoming a saint. Her sayings reveal the qualities that we treasure in every mother: playfulness, compassion, humility, calmness, evenhandedness, the ability to reprove wrongdoing with firmness and love, and to maintain a …

The Little Book of the Holy Spirit by Fr. Bede Jarrett, O.P. CHRIST SAID THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT DWELLS WITHIN EACH OF US - loving us, sanctifying us, protecting us from sin, and leading us in the ways of virtue and prayer. In these pages, Fr. Bede Jarrett helps you penetrate this great mystery of God's presence in our hearts. He explains the ineffable dignity that this presence gives you, no …

Translated by Norman Russell, Introduction by Sister Benedicta Ward SLG Eyewitness accounts of the lives and teachings of the fourth-century Desert Fathers from the Historia monachorum in Aegypto. This book is a Cistercian publication. ". . . may make a good source for the historian; it may give some information and pleasure for the casual reader. But the spiritual man will never forget the …

Christoph Cardinal Schonborn Christoph Cardinal Schonborn, the editor of the monumental Catechism of the Catholic Church , a world-wide best seller, provides a brief and profound commentary on the fourth part of the Catechism, the Paths of Prayer. Schonborn gives an incisive, detailed analysis of the Paths of Prayer, providing a specific meditation for each week of the year on how to develop a …

Embracing Ignatian Spirituality. In Making Choices in Christ , Fr. Joseph A. Tetlow, SJ, reveals how the ordinary person in modern times can embrace Ignatian spirituality through the extraordinary theology of St. Ignatius of Loyola and the Jesuits. In the process, Tetlow explains, the individual deepens and enriches his or her relationship with God. Written in a warm and wise fashion, this …