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Hope Always : Out Anchor In Life’s Storms
$16.95Add to cartIn Hope Always, Kris Frank, a popular Catholic speaker and youth minister, offers his down-to-earth and personal reflections on hope and how this crucial but often-misunderstood virtue can change our perspective on life’s difficulties. Sharing stories from his own life, along with Scripture passages and theological commentary solidly grounded in Church teaching, Frank teaches by example, demonstrating how the practice of hope can help any person, in any state of life, and in any situation.
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Hour With Jesus 1
$15.00Add to cartThis book is designed to be an aid to those who spend time with the Lord in His hidden form in the tabernacle, or exposed in the Blessed Sacrament. It is further offered as an aid for anyone who wishes some private, quiet time with the King of Kings, be it in their own home.
This book provides an extensive segment of mediations, which also includes a prayer response. There is an additional segment devoted to a variety of prayers, and another, which offers a prepared format covering a one-hour period. It is especially suggested to those who might have difficulty with meditation.
In the fares on Gethsemane, before His Crucifixion, Jesus asked His Apostles, “Could you not keep watch with me for one hour?” Spending one-hour with Jesus this became a tradition in the Church.
Today, we are beginning to see a renewal of adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. A practice that somehow slipped away during the past twenty-five years. It is urgently needed.
The bountiful graces of Eucharistic Adoration are flowing thanks to a widespread revival of this beautiful devotion. This booklet was designed to enhance your time spent with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. It includes a prayer format
to use in Adoration with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. It includes a prayer format to use in Adoration with rosary meditations, prayer and spontaneous meditation topics. -
Hour With Jesus 2
$14.00Add to cartPrayer is a dialogue with God. Ideally, it is a communication from the heart, not just from the lips. At times, both seem to fail is. In the Spring of 1994, we produced a small book titled “An Hour with Jesus.” It was designed as a meditative aid for those who spend time before the Blessed Sacrament, those involved in Perpetual Adoration, and those who just spend a little time with the Lord through a visit to Church.
The demand for the book became overwhelming, so much so, that we decided to produce a second edition. This book, “An Hour with Jesus-Volume II,” is once again a book of meditations. There are no formal prayers, chaplets, or litanies included. It is presented as an aid for dialogue with God from our hearts
The phenomenal success of the first volume of prayers to be used in Eucharistic Adoration and Holy Hours led to the completion of a second book. It contains additional meditations for prayer time but no traditional prayers.
Thirty mediations are provided. They cover everyday situations and faith concerns. Many questions are included to provoke thought and further meditation on the part of the reader.
Some of the topics include a prayer response to the meditation some request your input and reflection, and some provide a suggested response from the Lord. All are offered in the heartfelt hope that a closer dialogue will result between the reader, and He who created us. -
How To Be His
$18.95Add to cartThis thirty-three-day dedication is a powerhouse of grace to help you grow in loving union with Jesus in the Holy Eucharist to experience and foster an ongoing Eucharistic revival.
Taste the richness of the Church’s teaching on the Real Presence.
As you grow in Eucharistic wisdom and amazement, you will savor the writings of saints who were great lovers of the Blessed Sacrament-including John Paul II, Charles de Foucauld, Peter Julian Eymard, John of the Cross, Pier Giorgio Frassati, Teresa of Calcutta, Manuel Garcia Gonzalez, and Catherine of Siena-and absorb fresh insights through penetrating reflections about them.
Additionally, you will meditate on the mystery of God’s Word and thereby drink at the source of divine revelation to ignite your interior life.
As you let the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus transform you, you will learn:
*How to fall in love with our Eucharistic Lord and “waste time” with Him
*The secret to releasing God’s healing power and grace in your life and in the world
*How Holy Communion and Eucharistic Adoration will help you grow from virtue to virtue
*Ways obedience to God’s Word opens your heart to a flood of Eucharistic graces
*The connection between Eucharistic devotion, love of the poor, and charitable worksThis must-read book includes short reflection questions at the end of each chapter, a sample dedication prayer, and potent Eucharistic prayers and is ideal for parish, small-group, and personal enrichment. The profound meditations in its pages will inspire you to give Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament the time, reverence, love, and adoration that He deserves from you. They will urge you to more fruitful preparation for Mass and thanksgiving after Mass and, above all, will guide you in deepening your personal relationship with Jesus and stirring you to become intentional about promoting Eucharistic Adoration.
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How To Get Along With Almost Everybody
$18.95Add to cartStrained or broken relationships are an unfortunate fact of life for most of us. Friends fall away, siblings drift apart, children sever ties with their parents, and despite our best efforts, these painful fissures are difficult to mend.
Bestselling author and clinical psychologist Dr. Ray Guarendi shares practical wisdom and usable strategies to aid you in navigating your way through such situations. With strong doses of humor and hope, he will help you form healthy habits in the ways you talk, think, act, and react to strengthen your relationships and live a more virtuous life.
Through Dr. Ray’s down-to-earth style, professional experience, and personal stories, you will learn his tried-and-true rules for life and profit from them. You will discover the key to neutralizing insults and offenses and changing any relationship for the better. In these engaging pages, you’ll also learn:
*Three conversation killers to avoid
*The truth about your motives and those of others
*The secret to becoming a real listener
*Tips on offering (and receiving) different types of criticism
*Ways to manage your expectations
*When (and how) to speak upDr. Ray teaches you techniques for avoiding “psychological claptrap,” for responding better to hurtful comments, and for improving your communication skills. He shows you how to become more easygoing, more forgiving, less driven by reactive emotions-in short, a better practitioner of the Golden Rule-and sets you on the path toward peace of mind, heart, and soul.
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Hungry Souls : Supernatural Visits Messages And Warnings From Purgatory
$18.95Add to cartHungry Souls: Supernatural Visits, Messages, and Warnings from Purgatory After a week of hearing ghostly noises, a man is visited in his home by the spirit of his mother, dead for three decades. She reproaches him for his dissolute life and begs him to have Masses said in her name. Then she lays her hand on his sleeve, leaving an indelible burn mark, and departs… A Lutheran minister, no believer in purgatory, is the puzzled recipient of repeated visitations from demons who come to him seeking prayer, consolation, and refuge in his little German church. But pity for the poor spirits overcomes the man’s skepticism, and he marvels at what kind of departed souls could belong to Christ and yet suffer still… Hungry Souls recounts these stories and many others trustworthy, Church-verified accounts of earthly visitations from the dead in purgatory. Accompanying these accounts are images from the Museum of Purgatory in Rome, which contains relics of encounters with the Holy Souls, including numerous evidences of hand prints burned into clothing and books; burn marks that cannot be explained by natural means or duplicated by artificial ones. More than just a collection of Catholic ghost stories, Hungry Souls also discerns from these accounts important truths about the afterlife, about God’s mercy, and ultimately, about the urgent necessity to pray and perform suffrages for our brothers and sisters in purgatory, and to reform our lives so as to shorten our own stay in that place of real and awful suffering.
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I Believe In Love
$18.95Add to cartThis spiritual classic has long been beloved by Catholics for its wondrous distillation of the teaching of St. Therese of Lisieux into a reader-friendly set of meditations. It’s perfect as a personal retreat when you have only a few moments to spare each day – and for spiritual reading anytime and anywhere.
Fr. Jean C. J. d’Elbee, a French priest deeply imbued with St. Therese’s spirit, brings you St. Therese’s teachings on God’s love and the confidence in Him that it should inspire in your soul; humility, peace, and fraternal charity; the apostolate; the Cross; and what it means truly to abandon yourself to Divine Providence.
I Believe in Love has helped countless souls embark on the way to the Father. It will help you focus on Him throughout each day, rest in Him amid your troubles, and live joyfully with Him at every moment!
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I Heard God Laugh
$25.00Add to cartIs Your Life Working?
Most of us are trying to put together the jigsaw puzzle we call life without a very important piece. Over time this becomes incredibly frustrating. In this extraordinary book, Matthew Kelly powerfully demonstrates that we cannot live the life we have imagined, or experience the joy we yearn for, unless we learn to tend the soul. From there, with his classic style of practical wisdom, he teaches us how to remedy this problem.
When our bodies are hungry, our stomachs growl. When our souls are hungry, we become irritable, restless, confused, overwhelmed, exhausted, anxious, discontent, and tend to focus on the things that matter least and neglect the things that matter most.
Are you taking care of your soul? Are you feeding it and nurturing it? Or are you ignoring it and neglecting it? The reality is, most people have never really been taught how to tend their souls. I Heard God Laugh will help you to do just that, and so much more.
If you ever wondered how Matthew Kelly has been able to write and speak the way he has over the past three decades, he is about to share his secret with you. As he shares what transformed his life, along with intimate details of his own journey and struggle, he teaches us how to apply the great spiritual lessons learned to our own lives.
At every turn he floods the reader with hope and demonstrates unmistakably that the best is yet to come!
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I Own A Bible And Im Not Afraid To Use It
$16.95Add to cartHave you ever played Bible roulette? You know, the game where you randomly open the Bible and pray for just the right page? In this engaging book, Laura Stierman invites you to find guidance and inspiration in the words of Scripture in a different, more thoughtful way. Through a simple, concise, and meaningful technique applied to the stories of eight women in the Bible, discover how God’s word is indeed fascinating, hopeful, and relevant to our daily lives.
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Ignatian Guide To Forgiveness
$13.99Add to cartForgiveness is hard. But Jesus knows how much we need it.
True forgiveness can be complicated because the pain of betrayal, loss, deception, and personal attack clings tightly to our emotions, memories, even our bodies. We may intend to forgive yet become stuck in our own mixed motives, others’ silence or anger, and the skewed stories we believe and tell about our lives.
In The Ignatian Guide to Forgiveness, Marina McCoy delves into the principles of Ignatian spirituality and uses gentle honesty to lay out 10 steps toward forgiveness, including:
*Sort out true desires
*Honor anger while deepening compassion
*Make friends with time
*Create a new story
*. . . and more.Each chapter offers stories, real-life steps to take, and a powerful prayer for healing
Forgiveness is hard, but it’s also possible–with our “habits of mercy” and God’s abundant grace.
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Imitation Of Christ
$29.99Add to cartRead the same wisdom that has inspired many great saints.
Since the beginning of creation, men and women have been made to share in the very life of God. Yet the constant call to holiness is often met with the distractions and temptations of the world.
The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas a Kempis, speaks directly to this struggle: How can we live in the world while pursuing Christ and a life of holiness?
Rooted in Scripture, The Imitation of Christ offers practical wisdom for daily Christian living, helping us loosen our grip on worldly concerns so that we may hold fast to Christ.
This spiritual masterpiece has shaped the lives of countless saints like St. Teresa of Avila, St. Thomas More, St. Ignatius of Loyola and continues to guide ordinary people in their every walk of life.
Written with an exclusive translation, Ascension’s edition of The Imitation of Christ presents all the teachings of this classic in a fresh, accessible way, making it the perfect companion for anyone seeking to grow in prayer, faith, and intimacy with Jesus.
This special edition includes:
*Expert commentary to illuminate and contextualize the text
*An exclusive English translation by Fr. Dylan Schrader which is faithful to the original translation, yet accessible for today’s reader
*Beautiful sacred art insert of Christ the King from Ascension’s Sacred Art Collection of Holy Men and Women by Tianna Williams
*A general introduction to set the stage for your reading
*Elegant design with a hard, leatherlike cover, foil stamping, and a ribbon bookmark-ideal for prayer, reflection, and daily use
While reading The Imitation of Christ, you will draw closer to God through wisdom that has inspired saints for centuries, and walking step by step toward a life more fully united with Christ.
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Imitation Of Christ
$13.00Add to cartBook 1: Useful Admonitions For The Spiritual Life
65 Pages In 25 ChaptersBook 2: Considerations For Leading An Interior Life
97 Pages In 12 ChaptersBook 3: On Interior Conversation
235 Pages In 59 ChaptersBook 4: On The Blessed Sacrament And Devout Exhortations For Holy Communion
279 Pages In 18 ChaptersPassages In The Imitation Of Christ
Prayers P. 285
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This treasured book has brought peace to readers for many ages by showing how to follow the life of Christ to which all are called.
