Sj: 449 books
Gospel Spirituality and Catholic Worship
Integrating Your Personal Prayer Life and Liturgical Experience
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Returns to the mindset of Jesus as encountered in the Gospels to discover the unity between spirituality and worship.
by Thomas Reese, SJ
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical on the environment has captured the attention of millions of people all over the world. One of the most important documents of this century, the encyclical puts the Catholic Church firmly behind the environmental movement, calling the world to a conversion that will...
Wisdom
Volume 20
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In the book of Wisdom, we find the literary voice of Solomon, the model king and seeker of wisdom sharing his meditations. Concepts from Greek philosophy are integrated into Jewish tradition to present new insights into how wisdom can be both a quality of God and a human characteristic. Three affirmations...
Reimagining the Ignatian Examen
Fresh Ways to Pray from Your Day
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Following the example of St. Ignatius, we believe that praying the Examen will lead to a better life. The 500-year-old daily practice of honest self-assessment and reflection is a founding principle of Ignatian spirituality. What we don’t know is if St. Ignatius ever felt like changing it up a bit....
Reforming the Liturgy
A Response to the Critics
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
2009 Catholic Press Association Award Winner!
Perhaps no liturgical scholar of our time is better ale than John Baldovin to write with clarity and accuracy about the meaning of the church's liturgy and the history of its development in the last half century. In this summary volume on the reform...
Sacred Darkness
Encountering Divine Love in Life's Darkest Places
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Before there was light, God was. In fact, darkness is the medium God worked in to create the world, the universe, and all material things. Certainly, God lives in the warmth of sunlight and within our happiest days--but God also dwells in darkness.
In Sacred Darkness, Paul Coutinho, SJ, examines...
Eschatology, Liturgy and Christology
Toward Recovering an Eschatological Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
"If Christian hope is reduced to the salvation of the soul in a heaven beyond death," wrote Jürgen Moltmann, "it loses its power to renew life and change the world, and its flame is quenched." Thomas Rausch, SJ, agrees, arguing that too often the hoped-for eschaton has been replaced...
by Thomas P. Rausch SJ, Catherine Clifford
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
What is Catholicism? And where is the Catholic Church headed in the third millennium? These two questions provide the structure for Thomas Rausch's Catholicism in the Third Millennium. Here Rausch combines a faithful presentation of the tradition with a critical theological reflection and interpretation...
by SJ Springman
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
Paradise is a bustling city with everything going for it. On the surface, it is picturesque and lives up to its name. in reality, it does everything to be the opposite.
"Keep It Quiet" is an excerpt that takes a glance into the history of the city’s heavy mob influences. A key player...
The Letter to the Hebrews
Volume 11
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
When is a letter not a letter? When it is the Letter to the Hebrews. Daniel J. Harrington describes this text as the greatest Christian sermon ever preached or written" and its author as "the patron saint of preachers." The basic theological point of the sermon is that Christ is both...
Praying the Truth
Deepening Your Friendship with God through Honest Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
We don't question our desire to be open with our close friends about our feelings, even if those feelings are difficult to express. We recognize that being honest with our loved ones will only deepen our bonds and help us feel peace in being able to express our innermost thoughts. Why then is it so...
Life Abounding
A Reading of John's Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
The fourth gospel addresses the thirst for life that lies at the depth of every human heart. The life in question is not just physical life but the “more abundant life‘” (John 10:10) that is nothing less than a share in the “eternal life” of the divine communion of love. In Life Abounding,...
Divine Friendship
Reflections for Lent
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Many of us spend our lives searching for something to satisfy our deepest longings. Yet we will never find complete satisfaction in human relationships, possessions, or personal power. As Saint Augustine wrote, “Our hearts are restless until they find their rest in you [God].” Lent offers us the...
by Father Raymond G. Helmick SJ
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The Catholic Church in the United States and Europe has seen declining numbers both in regular attendance and in clergy and religious life.Scandals have torn at people's allegiance, and feelings of disappointment, disillusion, and anger have become widespread. Church authorities have seemed reluctant...