“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 …
The pontificate of the first non-Italian since the sixteenth century has left a lasting imprint on the Church. As the world has faced the tremendous theological, social, economic and political realignment of the last half of the twentieth century, Pope John Paul II has offered clear guidance for Roman Catholics and innumerable others. The moving selections from his writings contained here …
Some thirty years now have passed since the new Rite of Penance was promulgated after the Second Vatican Council to renew the Sacrament of Reconciliation and encourage a more fruitful reception of the sacrament. Three forms of the Rite have been made available to cover a wide variety of contingencies: private confession with individual absolution, a communal penance service with private …
The new prayer journal for 2009, in honor of Mary, Mother of the Redeemer. The journal's user-friendly format offers you ample space each day to write out reflections on your encounter with Jesus or on the Scripture passages that seem especially to speak to you that day. Or perhaps you'll find it helpful to note your daily challenges and victories, summarize what you learn from times in quite …
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 …
Take a new look at With Open Hands , Henri Nouwen's first book on spirituality, and a treasured introduction to prayer for over thirty years. With Open Hands gently encourages an open, trusting stance toward God and offers insight to the components of prayer: silence, acceptance, hope, compassion, and prophetic criticism. Provocative questions invite reflection and self-awareness, while simple …
Do you believe that God answers all prayers? Does God answer all your prayers? As Christians, we believe that God always answers our prayers, but we don’t always get the answers we want. Popular Catholic author Woodeene Koenig-Bricker has discovered a prayer that asks God for gifts that he wants to give us--and our Lord’s answers will delight us! The prayer, written by the beloved …
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 earth …
These short meditations are a perfect way for Catholic women of any age to start or end their days. Anne Costa helps us to see beyond the daily clutter of our lives to our real purpose--fulfilling the great calling God has given to women, whose unique gifts can change the world. While acknowledging the struggles and temptations that women face, Costa always leaves them with hope that they can …
This noted spiritual writer, Fr. Maloney here demonstrates how the indwelling Trinity calls us to ecstasy through the transforming power of intimate love. Described here are personal and sacramental methods for emptying ourselves in order to allow the inner light of the Divinity to fill us and radiate from us. The book explores the ways our communication and communion with God deepens our …
Let's Go to Heaven! We all long for heaven, and yet, we have only vague notions about what it's like. But maybe we've already been to heaven -- maybe heaven is all around us and we simply don't see it. In this deeply thoughtful and inspiring book, popular author Elizabeth Kelly helps us to see our lives with "heavenly eyes." Drawing on our rich Catholic tradition, Kelly explores 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 biography …
The Philokalia is a collection of texts on prayer and the spiritual life, written between the fourth and fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Eastern Christian tradition. First published in Greek in 1782, translated into Slavonic and later into Russian, The Philokalia has had a decisive influence upon the Eastern Churches (both Catholic and Orthodox) during the …
Someone once described the world in which we live as one drunk with power, lacking in compassion, steeped in selfishness and driven by a consumer-oriented, materialistic mentality. As a result we often find ourselves doing that which we do not want to do and not doing that which we intend. We hurt one another and are wounded in the process. When our thoughts turn to things that really matter, …