Liturgical Press: 724 books
by William T. Ditewig
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
The deacon's exercise of charity and justice extends the loving hand of God's constant love and mercy to all who are in need. The Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education has called this work “the ministry most characteristic of the deacon."
In The Deacon’s Ministry of Charity...
Whose Mass Is It?
Why People Care So Much about the Catholic Liturgy
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
When changes happen to the Catholic Mass, opinions are strong and diverse. Everyone feels in some way that the Mass is theirs. It is. Or is it? Whose Mass is it? And what should people do to claim it?
Whether or not adult Catholics attend Mass regularly, they strongly bond with it. Within a...
By What Authority?
Primer on Scripture, the Magisterium, and the Sense of the Faithful
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Few topics are as important, and as controversial, as the proper role and exercise of authority in the Roman Catholic Church. Inspired by Pope Francis's bold rereading and determined implementation of the teaching of Vatican II, Richard Gaillardetz has completely revised and expanded his book By...
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...
by Joseph F. Kelly PhD
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
The title of this book may be a bit puzzling 'a Catholic introduction to the New Testament? The New Testament belongs to all Christians, and the modern study of the New Testament has benefited from the contributions by scholars of all Christian denominations. But there are questions and issues in...
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,...