Liturgical Press imprint: 386 books
To Prefer Nothing to Christ
The Monastic Mission of the English Benedictine Congregation
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Monastic life involves a continual return to the Gospel and this exploration begins on the road to Emmaus, in the company of downhearted disciples who were astonished to discover the Lord in their midst. Inviting the reader to a renewed encounter with the Lord on the road, this book explores the Rule...
A Holy Yet Sinful Church
Three Twentieth-Century Moments in a Developing Theology
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
This text examines three key moments in the developing theology of the church’s holiness and sinfulness in the twentieth century: the ressourcement movement of the 1930s to the 1950s, the Second Vatican Council (1962–65), and the pontificate of John Paul II (1978–2005).
The aim of this...
by Joseph F. Kelly PhD
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Many Christians struggle to balance the religious and secular elements of Christmas, but the history of the feast shows that this is nothing new. The religious Christmas has changed over the centuries and, contrary to many critics, is thriving today. This brief, accessible account will explain that:
The...
Seeking Life
The Baptismal Invitation of the Rule of St. Benedict
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
In Seeking Life: The Baptismal Invitation of the Rule of St. Benedict, renowned author Esther de Waal returns to the Rule of Saint Benedict—the inspiration for Seeking God, her classic book published twenty-five years ago. Here, she focuses on the prologue to the Rule and shows how it contains the...
The Radical Christian Life
A Year with Saint Benedict
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Very little in this world stays fresh and life-giving for 1,500 years. But when that happens we should ask ourselves why and what that had to do with us.
In this book, The Radical Christian Life: A Year with Saint Benedict, Joan Chittister encourages us to look at that question. In an introductory...
by Wendy M. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The Lady of the Angels and Her City recounts Wendy Wright's visitations to her hometown's many Marian churches and shrines. But it is much more than a personal pilgrimage narrative. It offers important glimpses into the history of Los Angeles Catholicism, American Catholic culture, and Mary's place...
Monks and Muslims II
Creating Communities of Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
If Christians and Muslims are to live in peace, encouraging one another to grow in holiness and working together for the good of all God's creation, they must move beyond politicized and often negative images of one another. Monastic/Muslim dialogue issuing from friendship and focused on revelation,...
To Dare the Our Father
A Transformative Spiritual Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
The Lord’s Prayer accompanies the lives of Christians. When we are happy or sad, when we eagerly wait for a child to be born or silently keep watch as an elder dies, alone in the woods or together in liturgy, filled with gratitude or emptied by grief, driven to praise or dragged to repent, the Our...
Abiding Word
Sunday Reflections for Year A
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The church's cycle of scriptural readings for the liturgy offers believers an opportunity to immerse themselves in the word of God. It is a very real and tangible way of responding to the call of Jesus: Remain in me, as I remain in you."
In Abiding Word, Barbara Reid, OP, takes the Sunday...
Ecological Footprints
An Essential Franciscan Guide for Faith and Sustainable Living
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
The Franciscan Vision offers a powerful antidote to the moral malaise that prevents ordinary Christians from making the necessary choices to live more simply and share the world's goods more equitably. This is the driving conviction behind Ecological Footprints. Dawn M. Nothwehr unfolds the theological,...
Building Bridges, Not Walls - Construyamos puentes, no muros
Nourishing Diverse Cultures in Faith – Alimentar a las diversas culturas en la fe
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Are you a leader, clergy or lay, in a Catholic parish wrestling with how to bridge the multiple ethnic, linguistic, and racial communities that increasingly comprise your parish? With these cultural backgrounds frequently come diverse perspectives on everything from how to communicate with each other...
The Road to Eternal Life
Reflections on the Prologue of Benedict's Rule
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In the Prologue of his Rule, St. Benedict maps out the road that leads to heaven; he lays the foundation for life in a community that seeks God. The themes that are present throughout the Rule - obedience, humility, prayer, fear of the Lord, eternal life - are grounded in the Prologue.
By reflecting...
Spirit, Soul, Body
Toward an Integral Christian Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
A perennial problem for spiritual traditions of all sorts is dualism—either a positing of a false distance between the Divine and the created or a rejection of creation and the human body. Many contemporary spiritual seekers have sensed this problem and sought to remedy it through myriad solutions...
At Play in Creation
Merton's Awakening to the Feminine Divine
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
In this series of deeply meditative retreat conferences, Christopher Pramuk leads the reader through a sustained meditation on Wisdom-Sophia, the feminine face of God’s presence alive in the world, who speaks and sings in the writings of Thomas Merton. With the sensitivity of a poet and the intellectual...