In this highly anticipated English translation according to the Second Typical Edition, the Ordo Celebrandi Matrimonium \is presented with an enrichment of the Introduction, rites and prayers, and with certain changes introduced in keeping with the norm of the Code of Canon Law promulgated in 1983\ (Decree of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments). The revision of this Ritual Edition, which is divided into four chapters and includes three Appendices, incorporates changes in accord with the Third Typical Edition of The Roman Missal, updated Lectionary texts, and The Revised Grail Psalms. This Clothbound Edition includes all the enhanced features that celebrants have come to know and trust from Catholic Book Publishing: large, easy-to-read type; printed and reinforced end papers; a sturdy cover; and satin ribbon markers to add an elegant finishing touch. Specially produced acid-neutral cream paper from established, quality mills ensures a high level of opacity and consistency of the highest degree. While providing highly readable type for text and music, this volume also boasts a proven layout that respects functional page-turns.

From author and vicar, Ally Barrett, Making the Most of Your Church Wedding is a short, attractive, full-colour guide to the Anglican wedding service aimed at couples planning a church wedding.

This church wedding handbook is an essential title for anyone planning a church wedding, from couples to clergy. It uses the words and the actions of the Anglican marriage service to enable couples to explore the big questions of life, relationships, commitment, God, family and more. Ideal for use in Christian wedding planning, this visual and informative book contains questions and activities to help you achieve the perfect church wedding and its lead up.

From information and guidance on choosing readings, making The Vows and the Blessing of the marriage, this helpful guide will help couples plan and prepare for their church wedding.

Communion--the Lord's Supper, the Eucharist--is concerned with the way we live our lives. It always has been, although sometimes Christians focus so much on the spiritual that we neglect the physical, earthly, social implications of the sacrament. Do This re-embodies Communion through reflections, fresh liturgies, and original hymn texts.

God Is Still Speaking, (R) The Writers' Group is composed of United Church of Christ ministers and writers who collaborate on resources for people in the church, outside the church, and not sure about the church. The Writers' Group and affiliated contributors are known for their whimsical piety, providing honest inspiration and progressive theological reflection for Christians who strive to be literate but not literal in nurturing their faith.

This handy-sized edition of Pastoral Care of the Sick/Cuidado Pastoral de los Enfermos from Catholic Book Publishing contains the abridged Rites of Anointing and Viaticum in English and Spanish for personal use. Includes Communion of the Sick, Anointing of the Sick under various circumstances, and Pastoral Care of the Dying (Viaticum within and outside Mass, Commendation of the Dying, Prayers for the Dead, and Rites for Exceptional Circumstances). This edition of Pastoral Care of the Sick/Cuidado Pastoral de los Enfermos also features a convenient edge-marking index and is bound in a flexible green imitation leather cover. An indispensable resource for chaplains and other ministers who care for the sick.

Although frequent Confession is meritorious, one can easily become complacent and fall into a routine that diminishes sorrow for sins. This classic compendium provides preparations and thanksgivings to guide you step-by-step through the Confession process to help you develop a firm resolution, make reparation for sins, and become more disposed to receive God's grace.

Whether you are a recent convert or someone who confesses regularly, this book is for you. Fr. Hubert McEvoy, S.J., breaks open the true purpose of the sacrament and offers practical tips to help you grow in appreciation for God's abundant mercy.

The preparations and thanksgivings in these pages reveal the many benefits that the practice of frequent Confession provides besides the forgiveness of sins. Fr. McEvoy offers an atmosphere of freshness for each Confession by focusing our attention on themes associated with the rich and varied graces of this powerful sacrament. He explores topics ranging from self-knowledge, compunction, and penance to gratitude, forgiving others, and developing specific virtues.

Through stirring reflections on Scripture, and prayers and meditations from esteemed spiritual authors, you will learn:

- Why confessions of devotion are beneficial for your soul
- How Christ's gift of forgiveness in the sacrament restores peace
- St. Francis de Sales's advice for avoiding scrupulosity
- How to make a fruitful examination of conscience
- Practical advice and steps on making a good confession
- How to focus on core faults and ways to manage emotions

An extensive index and list of resources are also included, in addition to numerous scriptural passages for further meditation.

Despite our imperfections, Fr. McEvoy shows us how to humbly detest our sins while trusting in God and persevering with confidence and joy. By uniting our hearts more closely to God's will, he explains, we also grow in charity and help to build up the unity of His Church.

To hasten daily progress along the path of virtue, We wish the pious practice of frequent confession to be earnestly advocated. Not without the inspiration of the Holy Spirit was this practice introduced into the Church. By it, genuine self-knowledge is increased, Christian humility grows, bad habits are corrected, spiritual neglect and tepidity are purified, the will strengthened, and grace is increased in virtue of the sacrament itself (Pope Pius XII, The Mystical Body).

This step-by-step guide on how to make a Particular Examen is rooted in the five wounds of Jesus and includes prayers, sample format, and predominant faults to avoid in prayer, work, study, and recreation. As most of us struggle with the same assortment of sins, these targeted reflections will assist you in conquering your faults.

This reprint of the 1952 classic contains prayers for each topic from the traditional Roman Missal that help you foster the proper spirit of mind and unction of heart for fruitful meditation.

Here is a valuable resource for any Catholic -- priest, consecrated, or lay -- wishing to develop a plan for spiritual holiness. It provides self-inventory questions for each vice to help determine angles of attack and addresses misconceptions about each vice. You will learn ways to defeat your vices, and thus serve God more wholeheartedly, and will find rules for practicing fraternal charity by contemplating the cardinal and theological virtues.

If your root sin is a type of pride, this book will show you how to cultivate the corresponding virtue of humility by meditating on the lives of Jesus and Mary. By the same token, if your predominant fault is avarice, the biblical references provided will bolster your resolve and engender thoughts of poverty in spirit instead. Penetrating reflections are offered to overcome lust with purity, anger with
meekness, gluttony with temperance, envy with common sense, and sloth with zeal.

You will also acquire tips on how to:

• Read the Bible more efficaciously to reflect on Christ and grow in union with God
• Thank God for His goodness and the many graces He showers upon you and others daily
• Ask the Holy Ghost for self-knowledge, growth in virtue, and the seven gifts
• Determine your dominant sin and assess your progress daily through the Particular Examen
• Practice the presence of God in imitation of Our Lady in every circumstance
• Develop personal and practical resolutions and a firm purpose of amendment

Hidden saints embolden the Church in times of persecution. Take up your cross. Defend your faith for God's glory and the salvation of souls.

An ideal gift and very highly recommended for all parents in the Christian community wanting to memorialize the baptism of their child, Let's Remember Your Baptism: Readings, Memories, and Records of a Special Day is a simply lovely and enduringly appreciated keepsake to help a child remember and reflect on their baptismal covenant. --Midwest Book Review

This child has been reborn in Baptism. This is now a child of God.
This beautiful, illustrated book for memories and reflections of a day your child will honor for the rest of his or her life includes:

• Presentation Pages
• Space for Family and Friends to Write
• Prayers and Scripture
• Responsibilities of Family and Friends
• The Baptism of Our Lord
• Jesus's Blessing for Little Children
• The Calling of the Baptized

Let's Remember Your Baptism: Readings, Memories, and Records of a Special Day is a beautiful keepsake to help a child remember and reflect on their baptismal covenant.

Baptism is the beginning of your child's life of faith. As the primary educators of their children, parents have the privilege and duty of carrying this new son or daughter of God into Christ's family, the Church. With the priest or deacon, godparents, parish, friends, and family, your baby's baptism will be a celebration and sign of lifelong love and grace.

Part of the Liguori Sacramental Preparation Series, this book will prepare you for your baby's special day and remind you of your own baptismal promises and calling. It includes:

• A short history of baptismal practices and traditions
• The meaning of the sacrament and its symbols
• A step-by-step guide to the rite

Liguori's easy-to-use First Communion program, written by the much-loved Francine M. O'Connor, reinforces the importance of the sacrament of the Eucharist and the message that Jesus loves us.

The eight nested handouts include topics such as Jesus Shows His Love, A Wonderful Gift, This Is My Body, A Time to Remember and Celebrate, and We Though Many Are One.

The program uses a variety of techniques that hold a child's attention. Classroom activity pages reinforce the lessons. There are also notes to parents which review the material covered and suggest ways they can get involved in the sacramental preparation of their child.

The subject of infant baptism is undoubtedly a delicate and difficult one ... But this must not make members of the Church of England shrink from holding decided opinions on the subject. That church has declared plainly in its Articles that 'the baptism of young children is in any wise to be retained, as most agreeable with the institution of Christ.' To this opinion we need not be afraid to adhere. J. C. Ryle This book aims to help Anglican Evangelicals recover that same gracious yet unashamed confidence shown by Bishop Ryle in the nineteenth century. The authors defend biblically the doctrine of infant baptism and its proper evangelical practice within the Church of England. They expound a covenantal understanding which has impeccable evangelical credentials in order to reassure a new generation of Anglican Evangelical 'paedobaptists' that theirs is no new or peculiar doctrine, and to persuade those who may not have fully appreciated the Reformed heritage we in the Church of England enjoy. Dr. John R. W. Stott CBE is Rector Emeritus of All Souls, Langham Place in London and over the last 60 years has been one of the most influential leaders of evangelicalism worldwide. Dr. J. Alec Motyer is the former Principal of Trinity College, Bristol, and was for many years incumbent of St. Luke's, West Hampstead and later minister of Christ Church, Westbourne Lee Gatiss is Associate Minister of St. Helen's Bishopsgate and Editor of The Theologian (www.theologian.org.uk).

The Catholic Biblical Theology of the Sacraments series provides readers with a deeper appreciation of God's gifts and call in the sacraments through a renewed encounter with God's Word.

In The Bible and Marriage, leading Catholic teacher and popular speaker John Bergsma offers a biblical theology of marriage rooted in the Old and New Testaments that will be interesting and informative to the church catholic. This book shows the biblical basis for the teaching that marriage is a sacrament. It provides lay teachers with background and depth on a topic taught frequently in the parish, making it suitable for classroom use and parish ministry.

Series editors Timothy C. Gray and John Sehorn teach at the Augustine Institute Graduate School of Theology. Gray is also president of the Augustine Institute.

You've been baptized. But do you understand what it means?
Baptism is the doorway into membership in the church. It's a public declaration of the washing away of our sin and the beginning of our new life in Christ. But the sacrament that is meant to unite us is often a spring of division instead.
All Christians use water to baptize. All invoke the triune name. Beyond that, there's little consensus. Talk about baptism and you're immediately plunged into arguments. Whom should we baptize? What does baptism do? Why even do it at all?
Peter Leithart reunifies a church divided by baptism. He recovers the baptismal imagination of the Bible, explaining how baptism works according to Scripture. Then, in conversation with Christian tradition, he shows why baptism is something worth recovering and worth agreeing on.

On many occasions throughout the history of the Catholic Church, God has provided visible proof of the invisible reality of the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist.

In her book, Eucharistic Miracles, Joan Carroll Cruz documents 36 such miracles which occurred from 800 AD to the present day. This book tells of consecrated Hosts which have visibly turned to human flesh, have bled, levitated, and which have become hard as flint when received by a person in mortal sin. It details the official investigations that have been made into these miracles by scientists throughout the world, and where some can still be venerated today. Eucharistic Miracles also recounts miraculous Eucharistic phenomena in the lives of saints: saints who lived with only the Eucharist for sustenance, received Communication miraculously, or experienced raptures, ecstasies, levitations, visions, locutions, and more.

Pictures and photographs of the miracles, the churches they took place in, and the people involved are also included, adding the final touch to a comprehensive, detailed, and extraordinary overview of these miraculous happenings.

Eucharistic Miracles is a superb compilation of God's visible testimony of the truth of the Catholic Faith, proving the reality of one of its loftiest mysteries -- the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist.

(352 pgs., PB.)

Hold's a child's attention with full-color illustrations, lessons in an easy-to-grasp verse, and entertaining games and puzzles. Also helps parents understand and get involved in the sacramental preparation of their child. Referenced to the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Eight nested handouts cover topics such as God Loves Me, Love One Another, God's Rules, Jesus Forgives a Sinner, Coming Home Again, Families Work Together, and A Brand New Beginning.

There is miraculous power in the sacrament of communion.

More than a religious ritual, communion is a doorway into untapped realms of God's glory and miracle-working power.

In this 40-day prayer and devotional experience, Beni and Bill Johnson take you on a prayer journey through the Lord's supper as it is revealed in Scripture.

Discover communion as...

• A sacred place of intimacy with God.
• A weapon of spiritual warfare.
• A prophetic act that creates dynamic change.
• A catalyst for total healing.

Join Beni and Bill Johnson on this journey of rediscovery, and open yourself to a powerful encounter with the living God!

This is the book you need to discover the significant advantages of frequent Confession and the keys to making each Confession more fruitful. Spiritual master Fr. Benedict Baur quells criticisms of frequent Confession and shares why it is more efficacious for vanquishing sin and repairing the damage due to sin.

In this exceptional book, Fr. Baur shows you how to develop a well-formed conscience, properly confess your sins, and develop a firm, practical purpose of amendment. He also shares how to make a meticulous examination of conscience and daily examen, and offers methods for compiling a detailed inventory of your sins. Moreover, Father provides a reflection on the most common sins of omission that lead many to fall into dangerous self-righteous dispositions.

Most importantly of all, Fr. Baur reveals what is really meant by Christian perfection and how to attain it in this life. He describes concrete ways to grow in knowledge of self, acquire the strength to uproot sins, and conquer self-love. Youï 1/2ï 1/2ï 1/2ll deepen your spiritual life measurably as you learn how to:

• Focus on the root causes of sin and surmount sins that you habitually commit
• Overcome thoughts and impulses that are occasions of sin
• Detect when you are becoming lukewarm and promptly revive your love for God
• Grow in reverential love for God and conform your life to His will
• Atone for the temporal punishment due to sin - now, before Purgatory

With clarity and wisdom, Fr. Baur explains why your conscience is holy and must therefore be obeyed. He conveys how frequent Confession increases sanctifying grace in your soul, gives glory to God, and brings healing, joy, and fulfillment. An invaluable resource, this book will enrich your sacramental life and inspire you to greater charity for your neighbor. It will also move you to more frequent and fervent reception of Holy Communion.

San Manuel González García, renombrado Obispo del Sagrario Abandonado y aclamado como el mayor sacerdote eucarístico desde el Cura de Ars, reflexionó Pretendo despertar la curiosidad, que en este caso verdaderamente puede llamarse santa, para comprender y descubrir lo que hace, dice y siente el Corazón de Jesús en el Sagrario.

Prometo encantadoras sorpresas, descubrimientos inestimables, horizontes inimaginables, a quienes se dejen despertar por esta curiosidad.

A través de estas meditaciones profundas y prácticas, a veces escritas desde la perspectiva de Jesús hablándote, serás guiado a una intimidad más profunda con nuestro Señor Eucarístico y te inspirarás para compartir su amor con los demás. A través de esta experiencia refrescante y transformadora, descubrirás:

• Por qué los evangelios nos llevan al Sagrario y el Sagrario nos lleva a los Evangelios
• Cómo Jesús no está inactivo ni silencioso en su Presencia Eucarística
• La misión de los más cercanos de Jesús en los Evangelios y cómo imitarlos
• Las tres formas en que el Corazón de Jesús mira a las almas y cómo Él te mira a ti
• Mayor fervor al recibir la Sagrada Comunión y rezar en la Adoración Eucarística
• El secreto para tocar el Corazón de Jesús en el Santísimo Sacramento para recibir sanación

También hay una sección conmovedora al final del libro sobre lo que el Corazón de Jesús en la Sagrada Eucaristía dice a los sacerdotes.

San Manuel escribió incansablemente estas reflexiones, publicadas originalmente como artículos, para ipredicar a las almas activas la necesidad, importancia y fecundidad de permanecer en el Sagrario porque el Amor que allí habita no es amado sino abandonado! San Manuel te mostrará cómo cultivar el asombro y la reverencia mientras disfrutas de la Presencia Eucarística de nuestro Señor y dejas que su poder impregne tu vida. A medida que se profundice tu amor por el Corazón Eucarístico de Jesús, aprenderás a consolarlo como Él te consuela a ti y a inflamarte para ofrecer tu vida en testimonio de tu fe.

Sobre todo, en la Sagrada Eucaristía encontrarás al Amigo que siempre espera para escucharte con su Corazón y siempre habla a tu corazón. A la luz del Sagrario aprenderás a crecer en la virtud, a vencer la tentación y a vivir sin miedo.

There are countless books about the sacraments -- but few books about sacramentals. These powerhouses of grace are often overshadowed but should not be overlooked. Here is the book that will help you understand various types of sacramentals and receive the abundant graces that flow from their use.

During the last decades, sacramentals seem too often to have been marginalized, even though they are supposed to be the daily bread of any priest, as well as of the laity, affirms Fr. Ralph Weimann. Drawing from Scripture and the Tradition of the Church, Fr. Weimann has succeeded in closing this gap by striking a proper balance between the natural and the supernatural, between reason and revelation. He breaks open how sacramentals developed in the history of the Church and their definition in modernity, both in the liturgical documents of Vatican II and the Code of Canon Law.

Sacramentals are meant to produce spiritual effects in the daily lives of the faithful, Father shares. He further explains:

• Four categories of sacramentals (See if you can name them!)
• Two elements that are integral in each sacramental (Do you know?)
• How sacramentals are acts of divine worship and are intrinsically linked to the Faith
• The real meaning of consecration and three levels of this type of blessing
• Nine important spiritual effects of holy water
• Five temporal and spiritual benefits received from the blessings of persons

Additionally, Fr. Weimann provides an extensive framework about exorcisms and their significance as a sacramental, noting that when faith weakens, there is often a rise in superstition and the occult. Included are sample blessings (both new and old versions) and commentary about their relevance today.

You will see how sacramentals help us on our journey to God and the wondrous graces that emanate from them. Most significantly, you will find that how we use sacramentals demonstrates the maxim As we worship, so we believe. As Fr. Weimann reflects, The indwelling grace of the sacred signs is usually hidden to our eyes. However, they become visible through the eyes of faith, causing spiritual effects.