Maria: 1071 books
by Clarence Enzler, Annika Nelson, Gertrud Mueller Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
For almost fifty years, the simple, intimate, and powerful words of Clarence Enzler’s perennially bestselling Stations of the Cross booklet have invited readers to grow closer to Christ by embracing the mystery of suffering in the world.
Beautiful, bold commissioned woodcuts by Annika Nelson...
Loved as I Am
An Invitation to Conversion, Healing, and Freedom through Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
When Sr. Miriam James Heidland’s life as a successful college athlete proved unfulfilling, she went searching for something deeper and ended up falling in love with Jesus. By charting her own journey toward wholeness, Heidland invites young Catholics to pursue their own relationship with Jesus....
A Catholic Mother's Companion to Pregnancy
Walking with Mary from Conception to Baptism
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
In A Catholic Mother's Companion to Pregnancy: Walking with Mary from Conception to Baptism popular Catholic blogger and speaker Sarah A. Reinhard presents the first book to accompany expectant mothers from conception to baptism. This book includes weekly reflections and prayers rooted in the mysteries...
The Four Keys to Everlasting Love
How Your Catholic Marriage Can Bring You Joy for a Lifetime
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Pope Francis, in his recent exhortation Amoris Laetitia (“Joy of Love”), praises marriage as a unique “friendship marked by passion” and “a free, faithful, and exclusive love.” We live in a culture that doesn’t cherish the permanence of marriage, according to Karee and Manuel Santos....
Getting Past Perfect
How to Find Joy and Grace in the Messiness of Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Winner of a 2018 Catholic Press Association Award: Family Life. (Second Place).
Do you ever feel like a raging tsumani, running through the house like a whirlwind and yelling at the top of your voice while the kids drag their feet and fight with one another as you desperately try to find lost...
Good Enough Is Good Enough
Confessions of an Imperfect Catholic Mom
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
The truth about parenting is that you don't have to get everything right and your family doesn't need to be perfect. Colleen Duggan learned those lessons through years of struggling with unrealistic expectations.
In this frank and intimate story, Duggan explores the emotional and spiritual...
What I Am Living For
Lessons from the Life and Writings of Thomas Merton
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
"If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, and ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for."—Thomas Merton
Some of today's most popular spiritual...
by James Finley
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
For forty years, James Finley’s Merton's Palace of Nowhere has been the standard text for exploring, reflecting on, and understanding the rich vein of Thomas Merton's thought. Spiritual identity is the quest to know who we are, to find meaning, to overcome that sense of “Is this all there is?”...
by Maria Rattà (edited By)
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2016
Christmas Novena composed of a biblical text, a brief reflection from the Magisterium of the Church (pope Francis, Benedict XV, John Paul II, Pius XII), Saint Jhon Paul II’s prayer to the Child Jesus, one Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory be to the Father.
Out of Solitude
Three Meditations on the Christian Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2004
Drawing on three moments in the life of Jesus, Henri Nouwen invites us to reflect on the tension between our desire for solitude and the demands of contemporary life. He reminds us that it was in solitude that Jesus found the courage to follow God's will. And he shows us that fruitful love and service...
Strange Gods
Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Renowned in the blogosphere as The Anchoress and as Catholic Portal editor of the popular Patheos.com, Elizabeth Scalia offers a powerful critique of the “gods” we worship today, reminding readers that life’s deepest desires can be satisfied only in Christ. Strange Gods, Scalia's debut book, is...
Experiencing God
The Three Stages of Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
In Experiencing God, Thomas H. Green, S.J., presents a brief and accessible guide to prayer. Green reminds readers that prayer life is, above all, a relationship with God and a deepening of our experience of God. Fr. Green, who died in 2009, spent a lifetime teaching fellow Christians to pray. Experiencing...
Choosing to Be Catholic
For the First Time or Once Again
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
First published in 2001, Choosing to Be Catholic has sold nearly 25,000 copies and maintains its status as a Catholic parish favorite. In this revised edition, Jesuit priest, master-teacher, and bestselling author William J. O’Malley, S.J., prompts seekers and skeptics alike to ask a new set of questions...
by Kevin E. McKenna
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
Topics related to Catholic social teaching emerge regularly in American political and civic discourse, often connected to discussions about religious freedom, abortion, immigrant rights, racism, capital punishment, and health care. This third edition of A Concise Guide to Catholic Social Teaching...