Prayer

Here is the Carthusian’s prayer of the presence of God, a habit of tranquil listening that allows God to enter our souls and establish His presence there.

Age Range: 10 and up

This “retreat-in-a-book” helps children ponder the truths of the Faith and calls them to live lives of holiness in accordance with those truths.

Learn how to listen for the soft voice of the Spirit calling from within, inviting you to know, love, and cooperate with Him in all things great and small.

Discover a way of growing holier through the simple things in life — work, play, and rest. Learn to avoid distractions and focus your energy on loving God!

Fr. Raoul Plus’s no-nonsense prayer manual shows how we can pray without ceasing — even at times when exhaustion is crippling and cares begin to sweep us away.

Written by Msgr. Fulton Sheen, this pocket-sized prayer book for soldiers and civilians was first proven in combat in World War II.

When Elizabeth Leseur's husband, Felix — an avowed atheist — discovered this diary, he converted and later answered God's call to become a priest.

This book is a tough, uncompromising handbook to help you deal with all the obligations and problems of the spiritual life.

No matter how dedicated to Christ you are, familiarity can blunt your fervor and even make you less vigilant against sin. That’s why you need this warm guide!

This volume brings you all of St. Thomas’s known prayers and hymns in their Latin originals, along with new English translations. 

Huge in scope, yet simple and readable, this book covers virtually everything there is to know about the Spirit’s role in our salvation.

The wisdom of this book will rescue your prayers from distraction and superficiality and transform them into real occasions for communion with God.

Msgr. Romano Guardini offers clear explanations of the Rosary and fresh insights into the Mysteries found within it.

Learn how to cultivate virtue so that you’ll please God in what you do— not just in what you don’t do. Here are ways to make the key virtues that lead you to God a permanent part of your character.

Perfect as an introduction to prayer — or as a guidebook for those who already pray — this book offers down-to-earth guidance on every aspect of prayer life.

Mr. Davies gives an impressive exposition of the facts and the meaning he attaches to them in the light of Trent, the Pontifical letter Apostolicae Curae of Pope Leo XIII, other official documents, and also the Canterbury Declaration on Ministry and Ordination in the Anglican and Catholic Churches. He rightly rejects the latter completely as a totally ambiguous document. 

In this more modest work, his Everyday Meditations, we encounter not Newman the intellectual but Newman the simple Christian, on his knees face-to-face with God.