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Little Spark Of Life
$18.99Add to cartA new baby is coming! It’s time to celebrate! With exciting rhymes and vibrant illustrations Little Spark of Life will help families get ready and learn more about the miracle of life.
All children are a gift from the Lord — fearfully and wonderfully made! In a safe and cozy family setting, author Courtney Siebring tells the whole story of how every “little spark” grows into a one-of-a-kind, wonderful creation of human life. She explains how every detail — boy or girl, blue eyes or brown, curly or straight hair — is set in place from the very beginning, and how week by week the baby inside Mom grows and changes until Baby is finally ready to be born! Little Spark of Life:
*Is the perfect book for big brothers and sisters ages 4-8 getting ready for a new baby to come
*Makes a wonderful gift for baby showers
*Provides parents, grandparents, and caregivers a wonderful narrative to help explain the miracle of life
*Supports the value of life messaging and the worth of every child
*Gives a biblical perspective and Christian worldview regarding when life begins and the wonder of human development
*A valuable resource for homeschooling families, librarians, children’s ministers, Sunday school teachers, and Christian school educators
It’s never too early to impart little ones with respect and love for the Creator, and every single life in his care! Little Spark of Life demonstrates the great love that families can share in together as they embark on the journey to welcome a new baby, and will provide a wonderful platform for conversation about just how much every child is needed, loved, and uniquely valued.
Learn more and find free resources at littlesparkoflifebook.com
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Look And Learn
$12.99Add to cartFrom Ambo to Zuchetto — everything a Catholic kid needs to know about church!
The church is full of beautiful and mysterious things – things we can see and touch, and some we can’t see, but we speak, sing, and believe in our hearts. This handy book introduces kids to all the fascinating things they’ll find in the sanctuary. Sparking curiosity and faith in young believers — something the whole family will enjoy!
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Look And Learn Toddler Edition
$10.99Add to cartThis brightly illustrated look-and-learn board book helps toddlers discover and name the fascinating things that are part of the Catholic faith! Written to help engage her young child during church, Look and Learn – Toddler Edition: First Words for Catholic Kids board book by Casey Pawelek makes faith fun.
Sit with your child and go on a “treasure hunt” to explore the colors, sights, and sounds of a typical parish church. Peek at the altar, discover the fruits of the spirit, the rosary, the books of the Bible, and much more.
Look and Learn – Toddler Edition: First Words for Catholic Kids board book:
*Will hold a child’s interest with colorful illustrations that name people, places, and things
*Is the perfect book for young children ages 1-3 to bring to church!
*Sparks spiritual curiosity in young children and plants seeds for conversations with parents and teachers
*Invites children to experience the Catholic faith from a very early age as lively, fun, and engaging
Makes a great gift for new babies, toddlers, new parents, and children’s ministry leaders
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Lord Have Mercy Senor Ten Piedad
$67.95Add to cartLord, Have Mercy provides your faith community with a dignified space for recording prayer petitions throughout the year. Each page is inscribed with a comforting biblical quotation in English and Spanish and also provides lines on which the faithful can neatly write their prayers. The beautifully designed cover makes this a wonderful compliment to your worship space, vestibule, or other prayer space.
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Lord Save Me
$15.95Add to cartWe all face moments when the weight of our problems feels too heavy to bear. In times of doubt, fear, or hopelessness, it can be hard to find the right words to ask for God’s help. Lord, Save Me! offers just that–a source of wisdom, encouragement, and heartfelt prayers to guide you in your most difficult moments.
Bestselling author Gary Zimak understands the grip of anxiety and has experienced the peace that comes from an intimate relationship with Jesus. For more than a decade, he has helped others transform fear into faith through his speaking and writing. Following the success of his book Give Up Worry for Lent!, Zimak now offers Lord, Save Me!, a treasury of 120 prayers designed to help you surrender your worries to God.
This book addresses ten common situations that often cause worry, for each one offering:
*A scripture verse that speaks directly to the struggle you are facing,
*A practical reflection that sheds light on your burdens through the lens of faith,
*An original, personal prayer to guide you in reaching out to the Lord.With Lord, Save Me!, Zimak provides a trustworthy resource filled with insights and prayers to help you navigate suffering and rediscover your trust in Jesus Christ–the friend, Lord, and Savior who brings us peace and the fullness of life.
“Even though Jesus is a real person who loves us and is capable of easing our burdens,” Zimak writes, “we can sometimes lose sight of that in the middle of a crisis. I wrote this book to remind you of that fact and to help you connect with him in the middle of the storm. Jesus is real and will help you just as he helped sinking Peter. No matter how you feel, lean on your faith and give him a chance. He won’t let you down.”
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Love Heals : A Biblical Plan To Restore Our Emotions, Memories, Souls, And
$16.95Add to cartAre you ready to stop suffering from feelings of fear and unworthiness? Are you ready to heal the pain in your most important relationships? Are you ready to love and be loved?
For more than a decade, renowned “Scripture Evangelista” Sonja Corbitt has inspired Catholic audiences with her teachings on how to read the Bible and apply its principles to everyday life. In her flagship book Love Heals, Corbitt distills her years of ministry and teaching to explore scripture as a profound source for healing. She emphasizes that the key to whole-person healing is found in the greatest commandment: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength . . . and your neighbor as yourself” (Mark 12:30). According to Corbitt this commandment is not given for God’s benefit but for ours “because God’s love has the power to heal every part of us: painful emotions, fears, and memories; judgments, deficits, and wounds of love; oppressive, anxious, negative thoughts; and weary, diseased bodies.”
Drawing from the healing stories of the gospels as well as her own life experiences, Corbitt shows how the love of Jesus brings healing to every wounded and broken part of us so that we can, in turn, pour that love into everyone we meet. Love Heals will teach you to:
*recognize areas of your life that are wounded by sin, neglect, and weakness and respond to God’s invitation for healing (Mark 12:30);
*heal “blind spots” in your emotions and memories and address the root cause of your suffering–just as Jesus healed blind Bartimaeus (Mark 10:46-52);
*encounter Christ through the sacraments, affirming your identity in Christ and his Church, and be healed of sinful and painful judgments and actions–just as Christ healed the Samaritan woman at the well (John 4:4-42);
*find release from toxic patterns of thinking that take root and multiply in your life so that you can begin to hear and respond to the truth, just as the deaf man was able to hear the proclamation of the Gospel message (Mark 7:31-37);
*give and receive forgiveness in order to begin the process of physical healing, alleviating suffering brought on by negativity and other spiritual strongholds–just as Jesus was able to heal the man by the pool of Bethesda (John 5:1-15).
In Love Heals, Corbitt will walk with you, hand in hand, through the process of opening your heart, mind, and soul to the healing love of God–not because th
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Love Holds You
$21.99Add to cartFrom the introduction by Christine Valters Paintner
Most of these poems were written during the time of pandemic. The call to compassionate retreating came naturally for my strong hermit side. I found myself, rather then getting bored with home, falling more in love with the mundane aspects of my life. The boxes on our patio growing herbs, the way my favorite chair has shaped itself to my body, my dog’s daily eagerness for walks and cuddles. As I lingered more than usual I found deep appreciation for the radical ordinariness of my days.
In the heart of a season filled with anxieties around personal health and well-being, around economic impact, around tremendous collective grief and loss, I found that there was one thing I wanted to remember daily. My prayers were calling me back to the ground of love that I believe undergirds us all. This isn’t always easy to remember, and sometimes reading the news I question whether it is even true. Writing poems about love became an act of cultivating trust. The moments that trust dissolved, I would pick up my pen and try and remember what I loved or how love had been made visible to me that day.
Most of these poems are not directly about the pandemic per se. They are love poems that arose out of a desire to pay close attention when things seemed to be falling apart and to name what it was that endures. Many of the poems are dreamlike settings, where a new reality erupts into the everyday.
Love doesn’t make our struggles vanish. It doesn’t mean carrying perpetual optimism into our days or even having to believe that everything will be okay. Those things are not seductive for me in a world when so many have so much to grieve. It does mean that I believe Love is the foundation of everything and holds us in our sorrow as well as our delight. This is in large part why I write poems, to hold this tension of living in a world that can be so devastating and also so staggeringly beautiful.
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Lunatic Liar Or Lord
$17.95Add to cartDoes your intellect ever challenge your faith? Do you wish Catholicism felt more tangible and verifiable?
C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity is renowned for its powerful, rational defense of the Christian faith, exploring foundational truths that have guided seekers for generations. Originally delivered as legendary radio broadcasts during World War II, this timeless classic continues to shape the way we understand morality, human nature, marriage, sin, forgiveness, faith, and hope.
In Lunatic, Liar, or Lord: Unveiling the Truth of Catholicism with C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity, theologian and popular Benedictine College professor Andrew Swafford brings fresh insight to Lewis’s work, making it even more engaging and relevant for today’s readers. Swafford examines Mere Christianity through the lens of Catholic teaching, revealing how Lewis’s arguments naturally point to the truth found in the Church.
Through this thought-provoking exploration, you’ll wrestle with life’s biggest questions:
*Why should I care about God?
*Are there compelling reasons to believe?
*Does Catholicism best explain my experiences?
*Can faith truly transform my life?
*Who is Jesus, and how can we be sure?
*What difference does Jesus make–and why does it matter?
*Did Jesus establish an institutional Church?More than just an analysis, Lunatic, Liar, or Lord is an invitation to experience Catholicism in a way that speaks to both the heart and the mind. With clarity, depth, and intellectual rigor, Swafford helps you see faith through a transformative new lens–one that respects reason while nurturing belief.
If you’ve ever questioned, wrestled, or wondered, this book is for you.
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Magnificat : I Can Pray
$14.95Add to cartThis beautifully illustrated board book presents Mary’s Magnificat as prayed in the Liturgy of the Hours, introducing children to one of the most beautiful songs in Scripture and in the prayer of the Church.
The Magnificat will help little ones to hold this magnificent prayer in their hearts, making it their own as they begin to learn, live, and love their Catholic Faith.
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Make Today Matter
$17.95Add to cart2019 Illumination Book Awards, Gold in Self-Help/Recovery 2018 Independent Press Award, Distinguished Favorite: Inspiration
As mentioned by Forbes!
Everybody wants to live a better life. Whether we are graduating college or encountering post-retirement opportunities and challenges, we want to stay on track and contribute to what is good, inspiring, and helpful in the world. But how?
Chris Lowney, a popular speaker on leadership, corporate ethics, and decision making, wants to share with you his ten simple, daily habits that will help you build a better life one day–one moment–at a time. Lowney outlines how to implement these ten simple habits and practices in the fast-changing and everchallenging reality of our daily lives. And he illustrates how these small things performed every day will not only change us for the better but, through our individual influence, make the world better too.
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Man Who Left His Mark
$15.95Add to cartIn this unusual book on the Gospel of Mark, the brilliant and prolific Peter Kreeft presents 252 contemporary questions that modern man asks about every aspect of the meaning of life, faith, love, suffering, friendship, death, eternity, God, Jesus and more.
He then gives an answer to each question taken directly from Mark’s Gospel, which are always pointed and often suprising, and makes us ponder more deeply about the meaning of the Scripture passage in relation to our own lives. Kreeft says that Mark’s Gospel is “the quickest and ‘busiest’ of the four – the Gospel for Americans.” He describes the book as “a series of sudden shocks and surprises because that is how Jesus appeared to Mark and others who followed him – full of shocks and surprises.”
Kreeft’s goal of this book is for us to allow Jesus to speak more directly to us, to answer our questions in a personal and profound way, so that we will learn more about ourselves, and about Him. And thus how to know, love and follow Him more closely in our lives.
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Manchester Christmas : A Novel
$16.99Add to cartA young writer is drawn to a small New England town in search of meaning for her life. Soon, she encounters kindness, romance, and is pulled into a mystery centered on an old, abandoned church and the death of a special girl. Are the images that only she can see in the church’s stained-glass windows a warning, or is someone trying to reach her, to help heal this broken community? Manchester Christmas illustrates how God often uses the most unlikely among us to spread grace and healing in a wounded world. Full of love, hope, and forgiveness, this debut novel from an Emmy-winning writer will touch your heart and have you longing for Christmas in Manchester.
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Map Of Life
$14.95Add to cartConsidered one of Frank Sheed’s best books, A Map of Life is also regarded as one of the best and most popular short summaries of the Catholic faith ever written. Focusing on the major truths of our existence and purpose in life, Sheed draws on God’s revelation to show what the divine master plan is for us and how each part of the plan is related.
Beginning with “The Problem of Life’s Purpose” and “The Problem of Life’s Laws”, he covers such important parts of the map of life as “The Creation and Fall”, “The Incarnation”, “The Mystical Body”, “The Trinity, “Law and Sin”, “The Supernatural Life”, and “Heaven, Purgatory, Hell”.
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Marching Orders : A Tactical Plan For Converting The World To Christ
$14.95Add to cartAs a Marine officer, Dan McGuire learned the “operations order”- the standard five-part procedure that militaries use to conduct combat missions. Today he’s a theologian and evangelist, and in Marching Orders he adapts the operations order to the mission of spiritual combat: the battle to save souls. Each of us is charged by our commander-in-chief Jesus Christ with the solemn mission to preach the gospel to the whole world (Matt. 28:16-20). This is not an optional duty, meant only for the exceptionally smart, holy, or extroverted- it’s for all of us. Nor is it a job for the fainthearted. It takes virtues like courage and resolve, inner strength and daily acts of conversion. And it takes smart planning. In Marching Orders, Dr. McGuire gives you the virtue-building tools and resources-your weapons for the fight- you need to be a faithful disciple, and a battle-tested plan for turning your faith into evangelism. Your mission is to spread the Faith. Do you accept?
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Margarets Night In Saint Peters
$10.99Add to cartBang! Slam! Boom! Loud sounds in St. Peter’s Square had been going on for nearly an hour already. Margaret was annoyed, because as you may know, cats like to sleep. A lot.
The apartment where Margaret lives with the Pope, ever since he adopted her off the streets of Rome, looks out onto St. Peter’s Square. And the noises down there kept waking Margaret up.
She rolled over, covering her ears with her paws.
A few minutes later, the sounds began again, as more trucks arrived to unload even more chairs. Beep, beep, beep, beep went the trucks as they backed up to where men in yellow jackets were waiting to unload them. Then came Bang! Slam! Boom! all over again, as the men arranged the chairs in rows facing the portico of St. Peter’s Basilica.
All of this was in preparation for a special event to take place the following day, Christmas.
