The Sacrament of Reconciliation
A Helping Hand in Finding Grace

Whether going to Confession for the first time, a frequent penitent, or a prodigal son, you can find the tools you need to make a good confession every time.

If you know a child making his or her First Confession we have a number of guidebooks for children, that are easy to read and appropriate for a child's examination of conscience. If you'd like to commemorate your child's First Reconciliation we offer custom holy cards, Reconciliation Certificates, and the illustrated book Today I Made My First Reconciliation, a customer favorite!

For teens and adults who have been to Confession many times we have resources to enhance your understanding of the Sacrament of Reconciliation and make its reception even more fruitful. For a quick examination of conscience we have offer a Guidebook for Confession by John Paul II or the more robust How to Make a Good Confession. If you'd like to share the value of confession with your parish you will find our Confession pamphlet useful.

If it's been a while since making a good Confession we suggest reading Confession: A Little Book for the Reluctant. Not only will you read about the importance of forgiveness through the Sacrament, you will get answers to the tough issues may be holding you back.

With these Reconciliation gifts, guides, and booklets, you will always have the Helping Hand you need to receive God's grace and forgiveness.

Many Catholics avoid the Sacrament of Reconciliation simply because they don't remember how to confess their sins. They simply don't know what to say and are too embarrassed to ask. How to Make a Good Confession , the newest pamphlet from Our Sunday Visitor, gives Catholics those words, describing the actions and responses for each step of the sacrament. It also serves as a practical guide to …

This guidebook was prepared particularly for your children between 9 and 13 years old. It is fully illustrated and simple in approach to make it interesting and easy reading for a child.  It explains the meanings of sin, Confession, and Penance; and how to prepare oneself for a good Confession. Encourage the child to make a thorough examination of  conscience before going to …

The sacrament of reconciliation and penance is one of the great helps to friendship with God and spiritual progress. This booklet advises on ways to prepare for confession -- a necessary step to making a good confession and avoiding the routine which can so easily creep into religious practice.

One of the best gifts you can give your child is a better understanding of the Catholic Faith. That's exactly what you'll do with this beautiful little book, The Seven Sacraments. Fr. Manousos has found an excellent way to explain the mystery of sanctifying grace to children in a profound and memorable way. The explanation, based on St. Thomas Aquinas, compares the natural development (from …

The Faith of Our Fathers: A Plain Exposition and Vindication of the Church Founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ by James Cardinal Gibbons The Faith of Our Fathers always has been an incredibly popular and successful book explaining the basic tenets of the Catholic Faith and why we hold them. It delves into the historical background of virtually everything people find hard to understand about …

Benedict Baur Frequent Confession presents convincing and strong evidence for the benefits of frequent reception of the sacrament of Penance for the health and growth of the spiritual life of all faithful. "To win the battles of the soul, the best strategy often is to bide one's time and apply the suitable remedy with patience and perseverance."  So wrote St. Josemaria Escriva, the …

We are all at least a little bit reluctant about going to Confession, principally because none of us really wants to face the fact that he or she is not perfect. But a host of other reasons can also arise to suggest themselves to various people as to why they should not go to Confession. In this famous little booklet, Msgr. de Segur, an eminently popular French Catholic writer of the 19th …

Fr. John Laux Mass and the Sacraments is a brief but very thorough and extremely precise and interesting explanation of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Seven Sacraments, Indulgences and the Sacramentals.  His explanation of the nature, institution and history of the Mass will prove enlightening to all but the very best informed of readers.  For there is not an important aspect of …

  In three separate sessions, from 1545 to 1564, the Fathers of the Church met in Ecumenical Council at a small town in the Austrian Tyrol, named Tridentum-in English, Trent. That meeting-the Council of Trent-produced a large number of canons and decrees, condemned the errors of the Protestant Reformation, and shown as a beacon to all the world. Of the twenty Ecumenical Councils of the …

Rev. Lawrence G. Lovasik, S.V.D. This full-color illustrated book is a perfect guide for young children in making a good confession.  It explains the method of receiving the Sacrament, plus it has a good examination of conscience based on the 10 Commandments.  Also included are prayers to be said after Confession.

Today I Made My First Reconciliation Dianne Ahern Today I Made My First Reconciliation , is both a storybook and a keepsake book written to help children, their friends, and their family to love and practice this Sacrament. Best friends Maria and Riley just seem to get deeper and deeper into trouble after they accidentally break a window then lie to their parents about it. Their guilt makes …

Adrienne von Speyr Hans Urs von Balthasar calls this "one of her most central works". She discusses the moral and practical aspects of the sacrament in great depth. Some of the many areas covered include conversion, scruples, contrition, spiritual direction, laxity, frequency of confession, the confessions of religious and lay people, even the confessions of saints. One of the most …

An illuminating, reassuring explanation of the Catholic Church's teachings on confession and forgiveness by the bestselling author of The Lamb's Supper and Hail, Holy Queen. Jesus told his first clergy, "If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained." In Lord, Have Mercy, Scott Hahn explores the sacrament of reconciliation and …

This wonderful and practical little booklet explains clearly and thoroughly how to make a good Confession-but in much greater detail than covered in most catechisms. It includes an Examination of Conscience (plus a discussion of lax, scrupulous and doubtful conscience), contrition and its necessary qualities, the purpose of amendment and its necessary qualities, avoiding the near …

The fallen nature of man and tendency toward sin is a reality that has lost credibility of late. But for John Henry Cardinal Newman "Original sin became to me almost as certain as that the world exists, as the existence of God." Far from being the breaking of arbitrary and external laws, the author shows us that sin damages not only our relationship with God, but affects the …

My Confession Book is a little classic from 1958 that has assisted many children with their First Confession as well as with their subsequent Confessions. Boys and girls who use this book will receive wonderful help with making a careful Examination of Conscience in accord with the Ten Commandments, hhavingtrue sorrow for their sins, making a firm Purpose of Amendment, and remembering what to …

Quizzes to a Street Preacher are 10 pamphlets on subjects people most often ask about the Catholic religion.  They are written by Fathers Rumble and Carty of Radio Replies Press fame, experts in the field of apologetics and convert-making (Father Rumble was himself a convert).  Each one is a 32-page, vest-pocket booklet of questions and answers that are brief, economically …

John H. Hampsch The mercy of God is mentioned directly in the Bible in more than 400 places.  It is mentioned indirectly in hundreds more, from parables to prayers.  Too often, though, we fail to acknowledge God's enduring mercy.  Sometimes this is because we are confused or depressed; sometimes because we fear our sins have placed us beyond His reach.  Fr. Hampsch tells …

Fr. Francis Randolph Fr. Francis Randolph presents a very positive and practical understanding of the immense value of the sacrament of confession for the modern Catholic. Father Randolph helps the reader to see how the sacrament of confession meets the deepest needs of the penitent on the spiritual, emotional and psychological levels. Step by step we follow the different stages of the rite, …

Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation of His Holiness Pope John Paul II Reconciliation and Penance in the Mission of the Church Today "To speak of reconciliation and penance is for the men and women of our time an invitation to rediscover, translated into their own way of speaking, the very words with which our savior and teacher Jesus Christ began his preaching: 'Repent, and believe in the …