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This Gift Edition of the New Catholic Bible (NCB) from the World Catholic Press imprint is a welcome addition to the expanding line of NCB offerings. Both the text and the rich explanatory footnotes of this fresh, faithful, and reader-friendly translation are set in highly readable fonts.
A fine companion for the spiritual journey, this edition is intended to be used by Catholics during private prayer, meditation, and study. The convenient 51/2 x 8⅝ format with gold-stained edges comes in an attractive variety of colors, other bindings, and varied price points.
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Has your participation at Mass become automated? Do you desire to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of the Eucharist? Father DeGrandis, S.S.J., has done a marvelous service to every Catholic with this book. Filled with hundreds of scriptural references, personal testimonies of healing from people from all walks of life, survey responses, and healing reflections, this book is a great source of hope and healing for the reader.
A collection of recipes from members of Father Jim's extended family that is as unique as the story each dish has to tell. Discover how this is not so much a book for those who want to be good cooks as it is a resource for those who want to dance with God and loved ones around the table of plenty. Most of the recipes are simple and don't require exotic ingredients. You will find many favorites that you will cook again and again. A great gift at any time!
This small but powerful volume is most appropriate for parishes that hold pro-life prayer services. A Rachel Rosary will be of special interest during special days of prayer for victims of abortion and post-abortion syndrome (to be celebrated annually on January 22 or 23) as called for by the American Bishops. For those who pray a daily Rosary, praying The Rachel Rosary once a week can offset any complacency or boredom that comes with repetition.
Any place you open this book will provide you with opportunities for growth and healing. This exquisite book of meditations gently directs the reader to see the gift of self in an entirely new and beautiful light. It presents a spirituality of self-love not based on narcissism, but as a response to the divine invitation to self-nurturing. My hope is that this book can serve to remind us that loving ourselves is the link between loving God and loving others, and it is for God\'s sake that we do all three. From the New Preface to this edition
The Healing Rosary: Meditations for Those in Recovery from Alcoholism and Addictions from the Resurrection Press imprint of Catholic Book Publishing invites the reader to open their mind and heart to God's mercy. Using the simple, repetitive prayer of the Rosary can help people to get out of the way and let God get in. Mike D. correctly links the experience of Bill W. with the ancient devotion to the Mother of God. He writes with the authoritative experience of a recovering addict and at that same time with the faith of a believer. Although ideally for those in recovery, the meditations in The Healing Rosary will strengthen the prayer life and convictions of anyone who reads it seriously and prayerfully.
Father Jim's reflections on Pope John Paul II\s apostolic letter The Rosary of the Virgin Mary and each of the Mysteries, including the Mysteries of Light, will help you to focus your mind and heart on each event so that you can prayerfully and joyfully own the richness of this blessed and holy prayer form. It gives rich, new meaning for today to an ancient practice that has nourished people in all walks of life for generations. Discover how reclaiming the full meaning of the Rosary can transform your life.
Can we draw on our faith to help us overcome our fears and insecurities and to heal our wounded selves? In his book, Father John has adapted the methods he uses successfully in individual therapy and in workshops and retreats. Using simple questionnaires, we are able to identify attitudes and behaviors that create stumbling blocks to leading happier, holier lives. And with clear and compelling examples, the author provides psychological and spiritual strategies to help people to enjoy the freedom that comes with loving yourself, others, and God.
This little book will help you to deal with your feelings of anger, shame, rejection, etc., by bringing them to God, seeing how others have successfully dealt with their negative feelings, and praying for those with similar struggles. It is about parts of ourselves that we sometimes don't want to admit, but the merciful and loving God opens great fountains of grace into our negative emotions and painful experiences often bringing deep growth and healing into our lives.
Fr. Lauder, philosopher, teacher, and pastoral priest invites us to meditate more fully on our own relationship with God using themes from the writings and homilies of Pope Francis.With keen imagination, this extraordinary storyteller uses art, literature, and cinema to enhance our appreciation of God's mysterious and awesome love for each person.
In this small volume, John Flanagan, a deacon for over 35 years, shares the fulfillment and joy in his life and ministry. This book is filled with his practical and spiritual experiences to help deacons, retired deacons, and deacon-candidates to reflect on their vocation, and most importantly their personal relationship with God and others. The chapter How Other Deacons Experience and Maintain Joy in Their Ministry is particularly helpful to those who need a boost on a difficult day or week of serving Christ's body.
Spanish translation of the popular The Joy of Being a Eucharistic Minister.
Best-selling author and teacher Linda Schubert gently guides the reader on a journey to experience an intimate and rich relationship with God, our true and lasting home. In six short chapters, sharing the ups and downs of her personal and spiritual journey, Linda invites us to listen, reflect, and rejoice in our own journey and in the love and mercy of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Profoundly moving and empowering: in this book, Joni Woelfel bestows hope and courage on those seeking guidance, solace, and support in the wake of losing a loved one to suicide. Each of the forty meditations contains a Scripture passage and a prayer from the heart of one who knows the pain and hope of those left behind. As a heartbroken mother of a son lost to suicide, Woelfel helps survivors to unlock and unblock their grief-torn hearts, allowing hope to gently seep in by allowing God to support and befriend them. Starting life over, Woelfel gently guides survivors through their tremendous pain and suffering to a renewed sense of purpose and passion in life.
Through the use of concrete, familiar examples from his life, from the books that he has read, and from popular music and television shows, Father Jim Vlaun's story will resonate with everyone who has grown up in this fast-paced world. Discover how the consciousness examen of St. Ignatius can become the road to Jesus. Father Jim is an exceptional teacher who uses his wit and wisdom to help us understand who we are in God's eyes and who we can become by using the consciousness examen to know, love, and serve God and each other.
This small book is chock full of suggestions, both practical and spiritual, for gaining or maintaining our vision. It is a perfect Christmas or end-of-year gift for new catechists, catechists in training, or catechists who have been in the field for a long time.
The author's 30-day prayer, action, scripture, and journaling routine offers guidance and consolation while being simple enough for the newly widowed to manage. Although it touches on many of the newly widowed fears and feelings, the suggestions are simple and reasonable. This meaningful gift will help a grieving friend to find wholeness and peace once again.
Linda Perrone, a medical professional and caregiver, offers practical advice and encouragement for those who are caregivers. Every hospital--especially--ICUs-- should have copies available for the families of those who suffer a traumatic injury.
There is no correct way to use this book. If all you do is hold it on your lap as a reminder that someone else has walked this path before you, and survived, it will have served its purpose. From the author\s Prologue
This small book shows us how to keep our prayers glorifying God and bringing peace to those we pray for. Even if we are bombarded with problems and don't feel as if our prayers can make a difference, the author insists that our simple act of reaching out to those in need not only helps them but changes us and our situations.God's power in us can move mountains--of hurt, loneliness, pain, depression, and doubt.
Like many great orators throughout history, Fulton Sheen was able to reach the minds and hearts of millions around the world through a small screen. This small book communicates to the reader the extraordinary gift of Jesus' life and death. Small as it is, you may spend many hours reflecting on the illuminating words that capture some of the events in Jesus' life.
The guidance that you will find in this book will refresh your memory of the power of Archbishop Sheen\'s clear thoughts and deep personal spirituality. -from the Foreword by Msgr. Eugene V. Clark