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Lenten Cookbook
From delicious soups and salads to zesty curries and classic Lenten staples, Chef Geisser offers here a uniquely Catholic way of celebrating the Lenten season in your home each year.
The Pain of Christ and the Sorrow of God
Lenten Meditations
In seven chapters marked by originality and striking clarity, Fr. Vann gets under the rind and into the heart of every aspect of Christ's Passion. Fr. Vann emphasizes that in neither our spiritual lives nor our lives in the world can we ignore a crucial aphorism that will play a role in determining our destiny: "the importance of small things."
Praying with Jesus and Faustina/Lent
and in Times of Suffering
Susan Tassone presents the Diary's words of Christ and St. Faustina on his sorrowful Passion. The book will engage you in Jesus' horrific sufferings, giving you grace, light and strength to bear your own sufferings.
Way of the Cross (Ganswein)
Archbishop Gänswein's stunning reflections on the Stations of the Cross will give life to your own Stations of the Cross devotions and awaken in you a love and sympathy for our Lord greater than any you have felt before.
A Devotional Journey into the Easter Mystery
How Prayerful Participation in the Paschal Mystery Brings Life, Joy, and Happiness
A Devotional Journey into the Easter Mystery shows readers how prayerful participation in the Paschal Mystery brings life, joy, and holiness. It's a powerful aid for every Christian who seeks to make Lent and Easter a truly life-changing experience.
Lenten Journey with Mother Mary
A Lenten Journey with Mother Mary invites you to walk with the world's singular model of faith and purity - the Virgin Mary herself - each day of your Lenten spiritual pilgrimage to Easter.
The Road to Spiritual Fitness
A Five-Step Plan for Men
Retired NFL star Danny Abramowicz shares key details of his journey down the Road to Spiritual Fitness and provides you with some of the first-class tools that have sustained him along the way (and will sustain you, too).
Holy Thursday
The Night that Changed the World
A Catholic Novelist's Dramatic look at the events of Holy Thursday, Nobel laureate Francois Mauriac walks you through the Last Supper and more in this enduring classic. In this beautifully drawn and moving portrait, he brings you closer to the great mysteries that won salvation for us all.
Cries of Jesus from the Cross
A Fulton Sheen Anthology
For the first time ever, Archbishop Fulton Sheen's complete writings and reflections on Christ's last words have been compiled into this one book..
The Handbook of Spiritual Perfection
Fr. Philip Dion shows you how to pray more deeply, how to identify and root out your faults, how to make your confessions more fruitful, how to abandon yourself to God's will, and more.
Last Hours of Jesus
From Gethsemane to Golgotha
Here for the ordinary reader is an unforgettable moment-by-moment account that brings to vivid life the powerful events that transpired between Jesus' Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane and His death on the Cross at Golgotha.
Relics from the Crucifixion
Where They Went and How They Got There
Here you'll read of the tree from which the Cross was made, the Nails, the Crown, the Thorns, and even His Blood, all treasured by Christians for generations.
Strength in Simplicity
The Busy Catholic's Guide to Growing Closer to God
Essential (and easy) reading for busy Catholics, Strength in Simplicity shows you how to grow closer to God in the things you already do every day.
When God Is Silent
Finding Spiritual Peace Amid the Storms of Life
Martinez shows how you can make better sense of your life once you realize that God has actually been closest to you when He seemed farthest away.
Treasury of Catholic Meditations
This four-volume set of meditations have been carefully selected to lift your soul to God while affording you an admirable distillation of the doctrines and piety of our Holy Catholic Church.
Meditations for Lent
Bishop Bossuet's eloquence will have you not merely remember the events of Christ's Crucifixion; it will have you spiritually walk with Him on His journey.
Meditations Before Mass
For the restless or distracted at Mass, here you'll learn how to quiet your soul in order to grow more receptive to the graces Christ offers you in the Mass.
Finding Confidence in Times of Trial
Letters of St John of Avila
In these pages St. John of Avila, doctor of the Church, explains how suffering is frequently the means by which God reveals His mercy and design for our lives.
The Good Galilean
Lessons in Living from the Son of Man Himself
Our Lord was Perfect Man because he was also God. Christ alone reveals that our existence has a meaning, a direction, and that holiness is worth striving for
Awakening
Age Range: 8 and up. A young girl, taken back to the time of Jesus, gets a first-hand account of the Crucifixion.
Saints for Sinners
Nine Desolate Souls Made Strong by God
God's grace can conquer every human flaw . . . Christ came not to call saints but to make them - often out of weak, stupid, and sinful men.
The Year and Our Children
Catholic Family Celebrations For Every Season
Celebrate the Faith with your kids - all year round; give them the gift of a fully lived faith, every day and in every season.
Am I Living a Spiritual Life?
Questions and Answers for Those Who Pray
If you're ready to take the next step on the path of spiritual progress, these pages will help you to identify the greatest challenges you face as you seek to live a spiritual life, and you'll discover sound strategies you can use to overcome each one of those challenges.
How to Make Sense of Suffering
Learn to bear your troubles well, and how to avoid the mistakes that make your spiritual burdens heavier.
Spiritual Combat
How to Win Your Spiritual Battles and Attain Inner Peace
St. Francis de Sales carried a copy of this book in his pocket for 18 years. It doesn't just describe the Christian life - it also shows you how to live it.
The Spiritual Life
A Comprehensive Manual for Catholics Seeking Salvation
This book is a tough, uncompromising handbook to help you deal with all the obligations and problems of the spiritual life.
How to Resist Temptation
Here an experienced priest shows you how to direct your heart away from temptations and toward God, and how to overcome the world in Christ.
How to Make a Good Confession
A Pocket Guide to Reconciliation With God
Here you'll get solid guidelines to help you make the most of this sacrament and carry its grace into your daily life. Try it!
Christian Self-Mastery
How to Govern Your Thoughts, Discipline Your Will, and Achieve Balance in Your Spiritual Life
Christian Self-Mastery explains why following Christ can be so difficult - and how you can start to make progress even in the most vexing areas of your life.
Comfort for the Sick and Dying
Here is a goldmine for Christian caregivers and essential reading for those who wisely want to be ready for serious illness and death.
Finding God’s Will for You
Learn what God's will is and how He reveals it - in even the seemingly random events of your life.
Humility: Wellspring of Virtue
Discover the incredible strength of humility, the only virtue that has the power to drive pride - the most dangerous sin of all - from your soul.
What Jesus Saw From the Cross
Written by Rev. A. G. Sertillanges, this acclaimed devotional classic gives you vivid and dramatic details not included in the Gospel.
Fire of Love
Understanding Purgatory
St. Catherine of Genoa's sensible view of Purgatory, tainted neither by superstition nor by skepticism, reveals the glow of God's love in those purifying fires.
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