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Rabbles Riots And Ruins
$17.95Add to cartJerusalem, Rome, Antioch, Alexandria, Ephesus, Carthage, Edessa . . . These were some of the ancient cities that once raged against the Gospel and persecuted the Church but later came to admirable faith. Each city had its own unique commerce, culture, and institutions. Each city was different from all the others, and each became more perfectly itself through the influence of Jesus Christ.
In the pages of this book, you’ll climb the hills of these cities, sail into their harbors, look up in awe at their titanic public works, walk their streets, push your way through their bustling markets. And you’ll see how all those things shaped the expression, practice, and history of the Christianity we know today.
This is your imaginative entry into the world of the Church Fathers, the saints, and sages who converted the world to Christ. During their era–and in their hostile cities–the Church grew at a steady rate of 40 percent per decade, and practices such as abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia went from commonplace to unthinkable. The Fathers have something important to teach the modern Church about evangelization.
Among Mike Aquilina’s many works about the Church Fathers, this is his most complete and compelling overview of the Fathers’ amazing achievements.
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Raising Faith Filled Kids
$12.95Add to cartOffers a generous collection of easy tips and tools to help parents realize a spiritual path and inspire virtue, discipline, and hope in their families. Writing from personal experience and drawing from the experiences of others, Tom McGrath shows fellow parents how to bring faith into everyday family life through familiar objects and regular routines. With twenty-three “Taking Action Tips,” this action-oriented book will help parents encourage faith in their children’s lives, from infancy through the teenage years.
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Raven And The Dove The Big Fish And The Stubborn Donkey
$17.99Add to cartFrom the snake in the Garden of Eden to the lost sheep in Luke’s parable, stories about fish and birds, rams and goats abound. We read about them, but they have no voice of their own. Here we allow the raven and the dove on Noah’s ark, the big fish that swallowed Jonah, and the donkey on which Balaam rode, to be the narrators of their own stories, to inform us and help us to re-imagine our stories. We learn something about the intrinsic value of all living beings, and something about ourselves.
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Real Life With Mary
$18.95Add to cartGrow in virtue and friendship with Mary through the chaos of life with these spirited, down-to-earth reflections by Kelsey Gillespy, author of In the Trenches. In this witty and profound guide to Christian discipleship for women, Gillespy contemplates the virtues of Mary and proposes practical and powerful ways to magnify the Lord–by folding laundry, raising kids, or training for elite athletics. Formatted for personal reflection or group discussion, Real Life with Mary features short chapters, discussion questions, and prayers.
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Reclaiming Vatican 2
$17.95Add to cartDuring the past five decades, the Second Vatican Council has been alternately celebrated or maligned for its supposed break with tradition and embrace of the modern world. But what if we’ve gotten it all wrong? Have Catholics–both those who embrace the spirit of Vatican II and those who regard it with suspicion–misunderstood what the council was really about?
Fr. Blake Britton discovered the truth and beauty of the council while he was in seminary and he has witnessed firsthand the power of its teachings in the life of his own parish. In Reclaiming Vatican II, Britton presses beyond the political narrative foisted upon the post-conciliar Church and contends that Vatican II was neither conservative nor liberal, but something much more beautiful and challenging.
Britton clears up misconceptions about the council and reveals how–when properly understood and applied–it fosters a richer experience of being the Church.
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Rediscover Catholicism : A Spiritual Guide To Living With Passion And Purpo
$17.95Add to cartOver the past 20 years, Matthew Kelly has seen more of the world than most presidents and more of the Church than most bishops. Now, in this unique and timely book, he proposes that Catholicism is not a lifeless set of rules and regulations, but a way of life designed by God to help each person reach his or her full potential. With remarkable insight, Kelly dispels dozens of myths that surround the rejection of Catholicism today and provides a profound and practical vision of what will lead the Catholic Church to thrive again in the future. Rediscover Catholicism is quickly becoming the most read catholic book of our times. From the spellbinding opening story, Kelly grips his readers and takes them on a life-changing journey to rediscover the genius of Catholicism.
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Rekindled : How Jesus Called Me Back To The Catholic Church And Set My Hear
$15.95Add to cartMallory Smyth has been where many young Catholics are today. But the difference between her and other fallen-away Catholics is that she figured out that when she overlooked the shortcomings of the Church as an institution, she fell in love with Jesus and rediscovered the beauty and truth of her faith.
In Rekindled, Smyth’s raw, relatable account of her own disillusionment and departure is sure to resonate with anyone who has struggled to feel at home in the Church. For anyone who has left the faith or has one foot out the door, this powerful book just might illuminate a path back home-to a Church that is both holy and in need of perfection.
Shallow homilies. Hypocritical authority figures. Trite answers to pressing questions. These and other shortcomings of the Church have led plenty of Catholics to question their faith-or to abandon it entirely.
Rekindled is for those who have left the Church and those with one foot out the door. Smyth’s account of her own disillusionment and departure is relatable and honest. She understands and validates the pain and doubt that many Catholics and former Catholics feel. Smyth also provides you with practical guidance for keeping your faith even when what you encounter in the Church falls short:
*How to recognize Christ’s presence even in the most mediocre Mass experiences.
*Strategies for finding faithful role models when authority figures let you down.
*Where to turn when the answers and pastoral guidance you receive don’t reach the heart of the issue.
*How to find fulfillment in Christ and in the community of the saints even when joy seems to be in short supply in the Church.
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Return : A Guided Lent Journal For Prayer And Meditation
$13.95Add to cartReorient your mind and heart this Lent so you can more fully experience the joy of Easter-Christ’s victory over sin and death.
In this beautiful guided journal for prayer and meditation, Fr. John Burns-author of the bestselling and award-winning book Adore-invites you to strip away your confusion, attachments, and sin so you can return to the Lord and undergo real and lasting conversion.
In the liturgy’s first reading on Ash Wednesday, the prophet Joel call us to wholehearted conversion: “Even now, says the Lord, return to me, with your whole heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning, rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the Lord, your God” (Jl 2:12-13).
Each week throughout Lent, Burns breaks down these two verses:
Week 1, return to me-recognize the need to reorient our lives through Lent;
Week 2, return to me with your whole heart-reorient not only the mind but also the heart to the Lord;
Week 3, return to me with fasting-acknowledge hardness of heart and the value of discipline;
Week 4, return to me with weeping and mourning-bring forward personal agonies and unbind hidden bitterness that divides us from God; and
Week 5, Rend your hearts, not your garments, return to the Lord, your God.
Then, during Holy Week and the Resurrection on Easter, you are invited to weave your own stories into that of the Paschal Mystery.Burns uses the opening prayer of each day’s Mass-called the Collect-as a starting point for your meditations through the forty days leading up to Easter Sunday. He also focuses on the traditional Lenten practices of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, which come together as our sacred penance during this solemn season, and ultimately lead us to heaven.
Each day of Return includes the prayer from the Collect, an inspiring meditation, thought-provoking reflection questions, and a prayer. There’s plenty of space for journaling as well.
Return features stunning original art by Josiah Henley of Heart of IESVS. Free weekly companion videos, a downloadable discussion guide, and other resources make this book perfect for parish-wide, individual, and book club use leading up to Easter.
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Return To The Heart
$24.95Add to cart“He is most intimately present to the human heart, but the heart has strayed from him. Return to your heart, then, you wrongdoers, and hold fast to him who made you.”-St. Augustine
St. Augustine’s Confessions is the first autobiography in Western literature and a perennial classic of rhetoric, philosophy, and theology. It is also one man’s journey away from and back to God, finding himself along the way. And though Augustine’s sin and his desires for love, happiness, and peace are his own, in them we can recognize aspects of our own experience.
Return to the Heart: The Biblical Spirituality of St. Augustine’s Confessions invites readers to follow in the footsteps of an enduring spiritual master. Bringing St. Augustine’s wisdom to a new generation, Shane Owens reveals that it is only in the heart-to-heart encounter with God that we become whole and understand ourselves.
Return to the Heart gives convincing testimony from St. Augustine to the reality that an ever-present God is at work in our lives to bring us to conversion-and to eternal life.
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Revelations Of Divine Love
$16.99Add to cartJulian of Norwich, the famous fourteenth-century anchoress, was seriously ill and preparing for death when she received a series of 16 visions of the passion of Christ. As a result of these visions, she dedicated the rest of her life to solitary prayer, and wrote down the content of the visions, which became the first book in English known to have been written by a woman. The first vision includes her famous meditation on the hazelnut, which for her becomes an image of God’s love because God made it, loves it and keeps it.”The most original and revolutionary reading of Christ’s gospel since that of St Paul.’ (A. N. Wilson, from the Introduction)
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Revitalizing Catholicism In America
$17.95Add to cartThe Catholic Church in the United States has reached a tipping point. The crisis is painfully visible in the sharp declines that have already taken place in many essential areas of Church life, from Catholic marriages and infant baptisms to Sunday Mass attendance and the number of priests. Meanwhile, the number of semi-active and inactive Catholics is rising, and the number of ex-Catholic “nones” is skyrocketing.
What happens in the immediate future will determine how the Church in America will emerge from this crisis: a smaller but more committed body of faithful Christians or a stagnant, inward-looking remnant. The American Catholic laity must decide whether they will be passive onlookers or will choose to act.
Revitalizing Catholicism in America provides nine practical action items every faithful Catholic can undertake – nine steps which, all together, will form the building blocks of a renewed Catholic subculture.
No matter what your specific gift or walk of life, you have a role to play in revitalizing Catholicism in America. This book will show you how.
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Room 24 : Adventures Of A New Evangelist
$14.95Add to cartFive years after she graduated from high school, teacher, youth minister, and sought-after speaker Katie Prejean McGrady returned to her alma mater in Lake Charles, Louisiana, to teach freshman theology in room 24. In the early years of her career, McGrady’s hormonal, sometimes grumpy, and often confused students taught her what it means to evangelize. Her frequently witty and always candid stories-and the ten lessons she offers-will inspire anyone who works with youth in the Church today.
As she began her first year of teaching, Katie Prejean was eager to impart the Catholic doctrine she loves to her class in room 24 at St. Louis Catholic high school, but she was quickly rattled by the magnitude of the task, especially when she was challenged by a teen who said he didn’t believe. In ten brief and compelling chapters, Prejean shares humorous and hopeful interactions she’s had with her students that helped her learn that teaching them about Jesus and his Church is not as important as knowing them, loving them, and inviting them to know and love Jesus as a personal friend and savior.
Her frequent mistakes and occasional successes with her students taught Prejean how to evangelize young people by building relationships in joyful, humble, and prayerful ways. Likewise, Prejean determined that the power of inviting conversation, welcoming questions, and witnessing to faith through personal stories engages students and helps them fall in love with Jesus.
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Katie Prejean has spoken throughout the United States and in Canada to crowds from ten to ten thousand at venues such as the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress and the New Orleans World Youth Day.
Prejean has been published in Project Youth Ministry and Catechetical Leader and has appeared on EWTN’s Life on the Rock and Bookmark. -
Rosary Litany
$4.95Add to cartExperience the wonder of the mysteries like never before with A Rosary Litany. Simple phrases within each Hail Mary describe Jesus –
Jesus, announced by the angel Gabriel
Jesus, born for us in Bethlehem
Jesus, risen from the deadAnd his mother –
Mother of God, standing at the foot of the Cross
Mother of God, who held the child Jesus
Mother of God, who kept these things in her heartThe suggested invocations can be used privately or in public recitation of the Rosary. Through this little book you will discover a new richness in the Rosary and grow closer to Christ through Mary.
