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Title: The Silence of Mary Author: Ignacio Larranaga (Author), Villecco David (Translator) ISBN: 978-19414570 Price: 14.99 Publisher: Human Adventure Books Publication Date: September 1, 2015 Format: Paperback Description: Among the sixteen books written by the gifted Capuchin priest Ignacio Larran aga (1928-2013), The Silence of Mary is the best sold, printed in forty editions and twelve languages. The personality and history of the mother of Jesus has been reconstructed by means of a penetrating analysis based solidly on the canonical Scriptures without appealing to traditions or apocryphal writings. Although Catholic in its orthodoxy, Larran aga's description is valid for Christians of all denominations, which makes this book a sound basis for ecumenical dialog. Born and ordained a priest in Spain, the Capuchins sent him to the province of the Order of Capuchin Friars Minor in Chile at the age of thirty-one. In his eagerness for all to get a deep God experience, he traveled to many countries giving conferences and organizing courses and workshops. The Prayer and Life Workshops, which he founded, met with great success in the United More... |
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Title: Youcat ISBN: 978158617516 Price: 19.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: 4/1/11 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 330 Description: YOUCAT is short for Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church, which is the official catechism for World Youth Day. Written for high-school age people and young adults, YOUCAT is an accessible, contemporary expression of the Catholic Faith. The popular format includes Questions-and-Answers, highly-readable commentary, margin pictures and illustrations, summary definitions of key terms, Bible citations, and quotes from the Saints and other great teachers. What's more, YOUCAT is keyed to the Catechism of the Catholic Faith, so people can go deeper. It explains: What Catholics believe (doctrine) How they celebrate the mysteries of the faith (sacraments) How Catholics are to live (moral life) How they should pray (prayer and spirituality) The questions are direct and honest, even at times tough; the answers straightforward, relevant, and compelling. After the Bible, YOUCAT will likely become the "go-to" place for young people to learn the truth about the Catholic faith. Pope Benedict |
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Title: Book of Hours ISBN: 978888417051 Price: 15.00 Publisher: Nuovo Mondo Publication Date: 1993 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 230 |
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Title: In Search of the Human Face ISBN: 978194145702 Price: 10.00 Publisher: Human Adventure Books Publication Date: January 2016 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 176 Description: Proceedings of the New York Encounter 2015 |
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Title: The Complete Little World of Don Camillo Author: Giovanni Guareschi ISBN: NA Price: 23.00 Publisher: Pilot Productions Publication Date: December 12, 2013 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 272 Description: Reading ‘The Little World of Don Camillo’ is to travel to the Valley of the River Po, Italy’s widest and most fertile plain, with its unique atmosphere, culture and natural history. And to do so in the incomparable company of a cast of fictional characters who testify to the exquisite humour and humanity of their creator. In the Little World, eternal forces grapple with the absurd drama of everyday life, and hilarious and unearthly things can happen. If you keep this in mind you will have no difficulty in getting to know the village priest, Don Camillo, and his adversary, Peppone, the Communist Mayor. Nor will you be surprised when a third person watches the goings-on from a big cross in the village church and not infrequently intercedes . . . In story after story, the hot-headed Catholic priest, Don Camillo, and the equally pugnacious Communist mayor, Peppone, confront one another, sometimes More... |
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Title: Handmaid of the Lord Author: Adrienne Von Speyr ISBN: 978089870042 Price: 15.50 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: 10/85 Format: Trade Paperback Description: Von Speyr's masterpiece on the life, attitude, and prayer of the Mother of God. She shows how Mary's assent to God's will, as personified in her fiat, "let it be done to me according to thy word", is what defines and sanctifies every aspect of her life. New insights into Mary's holiness, suffering, prayer, and her role of spiritual motherhood for all mankind. |
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Title: Saint Augustine: Man, Pastor, Mystic Author: Agostino Trape ISBN: 0899421725 Price: 14.25 Publisher: Catholic Book Publishing Company Publication Date: 8/29/97 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 384 Description: As a philosopher, theologian, mystic,poet,and pastor, Saint Augustine has exercised a profound influence on the generations that have succeeded him. His works continue to be read because they deal with the pressing problems of existence, truth, love, freedom, grace, peace, communion, and salvation. |
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Title: Cancer Ward Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ISBN: 978037451199 Price: 20.00 Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Publication Date: 11/1/91 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 560 Description: "Cancer Ward," which has been compared to the masterpiece of another Nobel Prize winner, Thomas Mann's " The Magic Mountain," examines the relationships of a group of people in a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death. Through their stories, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has created a vivid portrait of life in the Soviet Union. |
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Title: The Betrothed Author: Alessandro Manzoni ISBN: 978014044274 Price: 20.00 Publisher: Penguin Classics Format: Paperback Pages: 720 Description: Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620's, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from marrying by the petty tyrant Don Rodrigo, who desires Lucia for himself. Forced to flee, they are then cruelly separated, must face many dangers including plague, famine and imprisonment, and confront a variety of strange characters - the mysterious Nun of Monza, the fiery Father Cristoforo and the sinister "Unnamed" - in their struggle to be reunited. A vigorous portrayal of enduring passion, The Betrothed's exploration of love, power and faith presents a whirling panorama of seventeenth-century Italian life and is one of the greatest European historical novels. |
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Title: Friendship with Jesus Author: Amy Welborn ISBN: 978158617619 Price: 14.95 Publisher: Ignatius Press Publication Date: 8/28/2011 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 32 Description: To receive Jesus in Holy Communion is to enter into a lifelong friendship with him. In this beautifully illustrated book, Amy Welborn, well-known author and blogger, introduces Pope Benedict's profound yet simple answers to various questions put to him by children in Rome who had recently made their First Holy Communion. Pope Benedict's answers, and the children's wonderful questions concerning this very important spiritual occasion in their young lives, provide inspiring text for this beautiful gift book for First Communion. |
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Title: Father Marquette and The Great River Author: August Derleth ISBN: 978089870664 Price: 12.95 Publisher: Ignatius Format: Paperback Pages: 140 Description: This Vision book for youth 9-15 years old tells the thrilling story of one of America's greatest missionaries who came down from Canada with explorer Louis Joliet to explore the mighty Mississippi River, the "great river" bordered by savage Indian tribes who killed white men on sight. Of the few who had dared explore this immense waterway, none had lived to return and report wherre it emptied. If he could travel to the mouth of the "great river", Father Marquette hoped to obtain new lands for France and new souls for Jesus Christ. |
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Title: Heart of the Christian Life Author: Benedict XVI ISBN: 1586174320 Price: 14.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: 1-Mar-10 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 120 Description: This is a collection of homilies given by Pope Benedict XVI during 2008, the year of the eucharist. The homilies were given on various occasions and throughout the World, as can be gleaned from a few of his remarks in them. But the message contained in all of them is universal and timeless. His homilies are always a pleasure to read, and an inspiring and uplifting reading material. The theme in all of the homilies contained here is either the eucharist or some other aspect of liturgy. The Pope brings his vast erudition to the table, making frequent and pertinent references to the Scriptures, Tradition, history and scholarly works. And yet, he manages to weave all those references seamlessly into accessible and spiritually uplifting message. |
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Title: Introduction to Christianity Author: Benedict XVI ISBN: 1586170295 Price: 19.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: October 2004 Revised Edition Format: Paperback Pages: 300 |
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Title: Test Book Author: Bob Campbell ISBN: 9876543210 Price: 34.56 Publisher: Incognito Press Publication Date: 2002-03-01 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 123 Description: This is a test book. This is a test book. This is a test book. This is a test book. This is a test book. This is a test book. |
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Title: The World, The Flesh and Father Smith Author: Bruce Marshall ISBN: 978194145709 Price: 12.00 Publisher: Human Adventure Books Publication Date: 12/18/17 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 230 Description: "Suddenly...he knew the answer to it all: how the lame and the sick should be healed and how the poor should be rewarded and ...how the banker might be last and the harlot first; how a priest’s hands never failed however flat his words; how the Church was all glorious within because the freight she carried healed all her cracks..." To ride along in the mind and heart of Father Smith is to experience the toil, frustration, humiliation, mercy, love, fear, and patience that brings this tender and simple priest to such a vision. This is a chronicle of Father Smith's priesthood, marked by relentless changes through the earthly passage of time, yet embraced by the constancy of human frailty and God's mercy. Bruce Marshall (1899-1987) followed a passion for writing throughout his life, and used his accounting profession to provide the funds that allowed him to hone his craft. His best More... |
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Title: St. John Bosco and St. Dominic Savio Author: Catherine Beebe ISBN: 978089870416 Price: 12.00 Publisher: Ignatius Format: Paperback Pages: 185 Description: Juggler, magician, acrobat, tailor, teacher and writer -- John Bosco became all of these in his efforts to lead boys and girls to God. A prayer was the price of admission to his shows; a friendly contest to match skill or strength was his answer to the hoodlums who laughed at hin. As a priest he was known as Don Bosco and built churches and schools. Don Bosco's schools were cheerful places where the school spirit ran high. This story of Saint John Bosco and his pupil, Saint Dominic Savio, will appeal to the young readers of today. |
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Title: The Chosen Author: Chaim Potok ISBN: 978044921344 Price: 14.99 Publisher: Fawcett Books Publication Date: April 12. 1984 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 304 Description: In 1940s Brooklyn, two boys who have grown up within a few blocks of each other, but in entirely different worlds, meet for the first time in a bizarre encounter -- a baseball game between two Jewish parochial schools that turns into a holy war. With dramatic force and simplicity that seizes the heart, "The Chosen" depicts the powerful bonds of love and pain that join father and son, the communions and quarrels of friendship, the true religionist's love of God, and the tumults by which the heart is made human. |
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Title: Strangers in a Strange Land Author: Charles J. Chaput ISBN: 978-16277967 Price: 26.00 Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. Publication Date: 2/21/17 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 288 Description: From Charles J. Chaput, author of Living the Catholic Faith and Render unto Caesar comes Strangers in a Strange Land, a fresh, urgent, and ultimately hopeful treatise on the state of Catholicism and Christianity in the United States. America today is different in kind, not just in degree, from the past. And this new reality is unlikely to be reversed. The reasons include, but aren't limited to, economic changes that widen the gulf between rich and poor; problems in the content and execution of the education system; the decline of traditional religious belief among young people; the shift from organized religion among adults to unbelief or individualized spiritualities; changes in legal theory and erosion in respect for civil and natural law; significant demographic shifts; profound new patterns in sexual behavior and identity; the growth of federal power and its disregard for religious rights; the growing isolation and elitism of the More... |
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Title: Religion and the Rise of Western Culture Author: Christopher Dawson ISBN: 978038542110 Price: 16.00 Publisher: Doubleday Religious Publishing Group Publication Date: 11/1/91 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 244 Description: In this edition of his classic work, "Religion and the Rise of Western Culture," Christopher Dawson addresses two of the most pressing subjects of our day: the origin of Europe and the religious roots of Western culture. With the magisterial sweep of Toynbee, to whom he is often compared, Dawson tells here the tale of medieval Christendom. From the brave travels of sixth-century Irish monks to the grand synthesis of Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century, Dawson brilliantly shows how vast spiritual movements arose from tiny origins and changed the face of medieval Europe from one century to the next. The legacy of those years of ferment remains with us in the great cathedrals, Gregorian chant, and the works of Giotto and Dante. Even more, though, for Dawson these centuries charged the soul of the West with a spiritual concern--a concern that he insists "can never be entirely More... |
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Title: Paradise Author: Dante Alighieri, translation by Anthony Esolen ISBN: 97808129772 Price: 18.00 Publisher: Random House Publishing Group Publication Date: 2/13/07 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 544 Description: In this, the concluding volume of "The Divine Comedy, Dante ascends from the devastation of the Inferno and the trials of Purgatory. Led by his beloved Beatrice, he enters Paradise to profess his faith, hope, and love before the Heavenly court. Completed shortly before his death, Paradise is the volume that perhaps best expresses Dante's spiritual philosophy about resurrection, redemption, and the nature of divinity. It also affords modern-day readers a clear widow into late medieval perceptions about faith. A bilingual text, classic illustrations by Gustave Dore, an appendix that reproduces Dante's key sources, and other features make this the definitive edition of Dante's ultimate masterwork. |
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Title: Inferno Author: Dante Alighieri, translation by Anthony Esolen ISBN: 978081297006 Price: 16.00 Publisher: Random House Publishing Group Publication Date: 1/3/12 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 528 Description: "Crisp and clear, Esolen's version avoids two modern temptations: a slavish literalness to the Italian or a taking of liberties inn the attempt to make this greatest of medieval poems esthetically modern ... In addition to his scholarly tact, Esolen is simply one of the most vigorous English translators of Dante ever." |
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Title: Purgatory Author: Dante Alighieri, translation by Anthony Esolen ISBN: 978081297125 Price: 16.00 Publisher: Random House Publishing Group Publication Date: 3/9/04 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 544 Description: A new translation by Anthony Esolen Illustrations by Gustave Dore Written in the fourteenth century by Italian poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri, "The Divine Comedy "is" "arguably the greatest epic poem of all time presenting Dante s brilliant vision of the three realms of Christian afterlife: "Inferno, Purgatory, "and" Paradise." In this second and perhaps most imaginative part of his masterwork, Dante struggles up the terraces of Mount Purgatory, still guided by Virgil, in a continuation of his difficult ascent to purity. Anthony Esolen s acclaimed translation of "Inferno, " Princeton professor James Richardson said, follows Dante through all his spectacular range, commanding where he is commanding, wrestling, as he does, with the density and darkness in language and in the soul. It is living writing. This edition of "Purgatory" includes an appendix of key sources and extensive endnotes an invaluable guide for both general readers and students." |
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Title: Medieval Exegesis Author: DeLubac ISBN: 0802841457 Price: 45.00 Publisher: William B. Berdmans Publishing Company Publication Date: April 1998 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 489 Description: "In Medieval Exegesis one of the greatest Catholic thinkers of the twentieth century opens the way to exploration of the vast intriguing but little known land of medieval theology. Henri de Lubac shows how medieval authors gathered and joined multiple kinds of biblical interpretation, yielding them an immense harvest of theology that can still richly profit contemporary readers of the Bible" Robin D. Young |
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Title: Kateri Tekakwitha Author: Evelyn Brown ISBN: 978089870380 Price: 12.95 Publisher: Ignatius Format: Paperback Pages: 182 Description: This is the inspiring story of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, a holy young Indian woman, who was converted to Christianity by the French missionaries led by St. Isaac Jogues during the 1600's. Kateri's mother was a very devout Christian woman who, after being captured by the Iroquois, was not allowed to baptize her daughter. Kateri's whole family died of small pox, and she was adopted by a chief who was very anti-Christian. When she was baptized and converted by the missionaries, Kateri became ostracized from the tribe. With the help of the priest, she made a daring escape, and thereafter lived a life devoted to God. Denied her desire to become a nun, she declined marriage and lived as a single woman with deep faith, offering her sufferings and life to Christ. She died at the age of twenty-four and is affectionately known as the "Lily of the Mohawks." Kateri was recently More... |
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Title: Flannery O'Connor: The Complete Stories Author: Flannery O'Connor ISBN: 978037451536 Price: 20.00 Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Publication Date: 1/1/71 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 555 Description: The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime—Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find. |
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Title: The Habit of Being Author: Flannery O'Connor ISBN: 978037452104 Price: 24.00 Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Publication Date: 8/1/88 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 624 Description: Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award "I have come to think that the true likeness of Flannery O'Connor will be painted by herself, a self-portrait in words, to be found in her letters . . . There she stands, a phoenix risen from her own words: calm, slow, funny, courteous, both modest and very sure of herself, intense, sharply penetrating, devout but never pietistic, downright, occasionally fierce, and honest in a way that restores honor to the word."—Sally Fitzgerald, from the Introduction |
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Title: Consecration to St. Joseph Author: Fr. Donald H. Calloay, MIC ISBN: 978159614431 Price: 14.95 Publisher: Marian Press Publication Date: 1/1/2020 Format: Paperback Pages: 326 Description: In the midst of crisis, confusion, and a world at war with the Church, it's time to come home again to our spiritual father, St. Joseph. In this richly researched and lovingly presented program of consecration to St. Joseph, Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC, brings to life the wonders, the power, and the ceaseless love of St. Joseph, Universal Patron of the Church and the Terror of Demons. |
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Title: The Cure' D'Ars Author: Fr. George Rutler ISBN: 978089870180 Price: 16.25 Publisher: Ignatius Press Publication Date: 4/28/88 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 273 Description: Cardinal John O'Connor "Everyone who thinks Vianney is already well known will find not simply new information, but what has new meaning for each discoverer. That meaning may well differ for each reader. The descriptions of the Curé's encounters with Satan and "his lesser angels" and of the hours in the confessional were my own personal crucial rediscoveries. The retreat by Pope John Paul II given at Ars is an extraordinary bonus in this extraordinary work.... An important, fascinating work by an important, fascinating author." |
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Title: Jesus of Israel Author: Fr. Richard Veras ISBN: 978086716772 Price: 14.99 Publisher: St. Anthony Messenger Press & Franciscan Communications Publication Date: 1/28/07 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 142 Description: Not only was Jesus a Jew, his coming was foreshadowed in stories from Genesis to the prophets. Father Richard Veras invites us to enter a more intimate relationship with Jesus Christ through the doors of familiar and not-so-familiar incidents in the Old Testament. Ever wonder, for example, why God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac? Even more, why Abraham was willing to do it? Puzzled as to why there are two creation accounts in Genesis? What's the problem with being a Samaritan? And what does any of this have to do with Jesus and our life in him? The author explores these and other issues with one goal in mind: to "aid the reader to come to a deeper certainty about Jesus Christ." |
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Title: The Song of Bernadette Author: Franz Werfel ISBN: 978158617171 Price: 21.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: 10/28/06 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 615 Description: This is the classic work that tells the true story surrounding the miraculous visions of St. Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes, France in 1858. Werfel, a highly respected anti-Nazi writer from Vienna, became a Jewish refugee who barely escaped death in 1940, and wrote this moving story to fulfill a promise he made to God. While hiding in the little village of Lourdes, Werfel felt the Nazi noose tightening, and realizing that he and his wife might well be caught and executed, he made a promise to God to write about the "song of Bernadette" that he had been inspired by during his clandestine stay in Lourdes. Though Werfel was Jewish, he was so deeply impressed by both Bernadette and the happenings at Lourdes, that his writing has a profound sense of Catholic understanding. |
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Title: A Presence Within a Gaze Author: Fraternity of Communion of Liberation ISBN: 112233445526 Price: 5.00 Publisher: Human Adventure Books Publication Date: 6-18-15 Format: Paperback Pages: 122 Description: Fraternity Exercises of Communion and Liberation 2015 |
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Title: The Life of Christ Author: Fulton Sheen ISBN: 978038513220 Price: 19.00 Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group Publication Date: 8/28/1977 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 476 Description: Widely proclaimed a classic work of Christian faith, Life of Christ has been hailed as the most eloquent of Fulton J. Sheen's many books. The fruit of many years of reflection, prayer, and research, it is a dramatic and moving recounting of the birth, life, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Christ, and a passionate portrait of the God-Man, the teacher, the healer, and, most of all, the Savior, whose promise has sustained humanity for two millenia. With his customary insight and reverence, Sheen interprets the Scripture and describes Christ not only in historical perspective but also in exciting and contemporary terms -- seeing in Christ's life both modern parallels and timeless lessons. His thoughtful, probing analysis provides new insight into well-known Gospel events. An appealing blend of philosophy, history, and biblical exegesis, from the best-known and most-loved American Catholic leader of the twentieth century, Life of Christ has long been a source of More... |
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Title: The Karamazov Brothers Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky ISBN: 978019283509 Price: 14.95 Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication Date: August 1998 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 1054 Description: Bound up with this intense drama is an exploration of many deeply felt ideas about God, freedom, the collective nature of guilt, the disastrous consequences of rationalism. The novel is also richly comic: the Church, the law and even the author's most cherished causes and beliefs are presented with irreverance, so that orthodoxy and radicalism, sanity and madness, love and hatred, right and wrong are no longer mutually exclusive. |
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Title: Crime and Punishment Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky ISBN: 978014044913 Price: 15.00 Publisher: Penguin Classics Publication Date: December 2002 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 718 Description: Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St. Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption. |
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Title: Demons Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky ISBN: 978014144141 Price: 18.00 Publisher: Penguin Classics Publication Date: 06/24/08 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 880 Description: Verkhovensky and Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell. Their aim is to overthrow the government, destroy society and seize power for themselves. But when it seems their motley group is about to be discovered, will their recruits be willing to kill on of their own circle in order to cover their tracks? Partly based on the real-life case of a student murdered by is fellow revolutionaries, Dostoyevsky's expansive novel is a powerful and prophetic, yet also lively and often comic depiction of nineteenth-century Russia, and a savage indictment of the madness and self-destruction of those who use violence to serve their beliefs. |
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Title: The Idiot Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky ISBN: 978019283411 Price: 11.95 Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication Date: 08/01/08 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 688 Description: "The main idea of the novel isto depict the positively good man, There is nothing more difficult than this in the world, especially nowadays." Dostoevsky Into a compelling real portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society Dostoevsky introduces his ideal hero, the saintly Prince Myshkin. the tensions subsequently unleashed by the hero's innocence, truthfulness, and humility betray the inadequacy of his moral idealism and disclose the spiritual emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate him. Mushkin's mission ends in idiocy and darkness, but it is the world that is rotten not he. |
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Title: St. Thomas & St Francis Author: G.K. Chesterton ISBN: 97808987094 Price: 16.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: 10/1/02 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 275 Description: "Here, together in a single volume, are the two biographies that many critics consider to be Chesterton's best and the best short portraits ever written of these two great saints. St. Francis of Assisi was first published in 1923, shortly after Chesterton was received into the Catholic Church. It is a profoundly Catholic work, explaining and illuminating the life of St. Francis in a way no other biography has. The spiritual kinship the author felt with his subject enables the reader to delve into insights on the character of Francis that have eluded many." St. Thomas Aquinas was written later in Chesterton's career. It also is enriched by the author's unique ability to see the world through the saint's eyes, a view that shows us Aquinas in a fresh way. Chesterton's pen brings the author of the Summa vividly to life. |
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Title: The Diary of a Country Priest Author: George Bernanos ISBN: 978-07867096 Price: 16.99 Publisher: Da Capo Press Publication Date: (January 9, 2002) Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 304 Description: Follow a young Catholic cleric as his faith is laid bare through his reflections on his parishioners in the "Best Spiritual Book of the 20th Century" (USA Today). In this classic Catholic novel, Bernanos movingly recounts the life of a young French country priest who grows to understand his provincial parish while learning spiritual humility himself. Awarded the Grand Prix for Literature by the Academie Francaise, The Diary of a Country Priest was adapted into an acclaimed film by Robert Bresson. "A book of the utmost sensitiveness and compassion...it is a work of deep, subtle and singularly encompassing art." -- New York Times Book Review |
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Title: The End of the Affair Author: Graham Greene ISBN: 978014029109 Price: 18.00 Publisher: Penguin Group Publication Date: 11/28/99 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 192 Description: "This is a record of hate far more than of love," writes Maurice Bendrix in the opening passages of The End of the Affair. And it is a strange hate indeed that compels him to set down the retrospective account of his adulterous affair with Sarah Miles -- a hate bred of a passion that ultimately lost out to God. Now, a year after Sarah's death, Bendrix seeks to exorcise the persistence of that passion by retracing its course from obsessive love to lovehate. At the start he believes he hates Sarah and her husband, Henry. By the end of the book, Bendrix's hatred has shifted to the God he feels has broken his life but whose existence he has at last come to recognize. Originally published in 1951, The End of the Affair was acclaimed by William Faulkner as "for me one of the best, most true and moving More... |
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Title: The Power and the Glory Author: Graham Greene ISBN: 978014243730 Price: 18.00 Publisher: Penguin Group Publication Date: 2/25/03 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 240 Description: In a poor, remote section of Southern Mexico, the paramilitary group, the Red Shirts, have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest is on the run. Too human for heroism, too humble for martyrdom, the little worldly “whiskey priest” is nevertheless impelled toward his squalid Calvary as much by his own compassion for humanity as by the efforts of his pursuers. In his introduction, John Updike calls The Power and the Glory, “Graham Greene’s masterpiece . The energy and grandeur of his finest novel derive from the will toward compassion, an ideal communism even more Christian than Communist.” |
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Title: St. Edmund Campion: Hero of God's Underground Author: Harold Gardiner ISBN: 978089870387 Price: 12.95 Publisher: Ignatius Format: Paperback Pages: 180 Description: An inspiring dramatic account of the colorful and courageous life and death of the martyr, St. Edmund Campion, "hero of God's underground: during the persecutions of the Catholic Church in England in the 15pp's. This exciting story is reprinted from the famous "Vision Books" series of lives of saints that is one of the most popular and well-told series of stories for young people. Campion, the most celebrated young scholar of his day, was on his way to becoming the Archbishop of Canterbury until a crisis of conscience turned him back to his Catholic faith. He fled England, became a Jesuit priest, and was sent back to be the leader of the underground ministry to the persecuted Catholics until, after a long and frustrated search, the government finally captured him and brutally executed him. His daring and brillant underground ministry to Catholics all over England, his zeal for the faith, More... |
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Title: The Splendor of the Church Author: Henri de Lubac ISBN: 978089870742 Price: 21.95 Publisher: Ignatius Format: Paperback Pages: 384 Description: Drawing deeply from Scripture and Tradition, de Lubac provides readers with a spiritual and theological feast. His is a rich and profound meditation on the Church, revealing her multifaceted, mysterious reality as both a visible, hierarchical community and an invisible, spiritual communion. At the same time, de Lubac reflects on the Church as a community moving through history to its consummation in Christ, as well as her being the spotless and glorious Bride of Christ. Also treated is the mysterious relationship between the Church and the Eucharist, the "heart of the Church" (a relationship upon which Pope John Paul II's encyclical on the eucharist, Ecclesia de Eucharistia, drew). Other important themes include the Church as the Sacrament of Christ , as Mother of Christians, and as profoundly united to Mary, Virgin and Mother, the model of the Church. In short, The Splendor of the Church is a monumental doctrinal and More... |
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Title: The Drama of Atheist Humanism Author: Henri de Lubac ISBN: 978089870443 Price: 26.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: 10/28/95 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 539 Description: De Lubac traces the origin of 19th century attempts to construct a humanism apart from God, the sources of contemporary atheism which purports to have "moved beyond God." The three persons he focuses on are Feuerbach, who greatly influenced Marx; Nietzsche, who represents nihilism; and Comte, who is the father of all forms of positivism. He then shows that the only one who really responded to this ideology was Dostoevsky, a kind of prophet who criticizes in his novels this attempt to have a society without God. Despite their historical and scholarly appearance, de Lubac's work clearly refers to the present. As he investigates the sources of modern atheism, particularly in its claim to have definitely moved beyond the idea of God, he is thinking of an ideology prevalent today in East and West which regards the Christian faith as a completely outdated. |
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Title: Bernadette Our Lady's Little Servant Author: Hertha Pauli ISBN: 978089870760 Price: 12.95 Publisher: Ignatius Format: Paperback Pages: 192 Description: This is the story of the girl to whom the Blessed Virgin appeared as "a little young lady" and revealed herself as the Immaculate Conception. Bernadette Soubirous lived with her parents, brothers, and sisters in the abondened jail of the French village of Lourdes, never dreaming that the very name of Lourdes would one day bring inspiration and hope to millions. Bernadette studied her Catechism, took care of her brothers and sisters, and gathered firewood - and no one knew she would become a saint. |
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Title: The Soul of the Apostolate Author: Jean-Baptiste Chautard ISBN: 978089555031 Price: 10.00 Publisher: St. Benedict Press / Tan Publishing Publication Date: 3/28/92 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 298 Description: In this age of relentless activity it is easy for Christians, particularly those involved in good works, to fall into the pattern of the activist. But mere activity and material results are not sufficient for a successful apostolate. |
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Title: Pope Francis on Heaven and Earth Author: Jorge Mario Bergoglio / Abraham Skorka ISBN: 978-07704350 Price: 22.00 Publisher: Image Publication Date: 4/19/13 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 256 Description: This remarkable book wonderfully demonstrates the warm and positive relationship Pope Francis has developed with Jews and Judaism. These honest and respectful exchanges between then-Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio and Argentinian Rabbi Abraham Skorka on a wide range of sensitive and complex topics - God, religion, fundamentalism, politics, and the Holocaust - is a model not only for Jews and Catholics but for all those seeking productive interfaith dialogue in helping to repair a broken world. -- Rabbi Eric J. Greenberg, Director, Department of Interfaith Affairs Anti-Defamation League |
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Title: Credo for Today Author: Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger ISBN: 1586172476 Price: 19.95 Publisher: Ignatius Press Publication Date: 10-Apr-09 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 225 Description: In our Generation the Christian faith finds itself in a much deeper crisis than at any other time in the past. In this situation is no solution to shut our eyes in fear in the face of pressing problems, or to simply pass over them. If faith is to survive this age, then it must be lived, and above all, lived in this age. And this is possible only if a manifestation of faith is shown to have value for our present day, by growing knowledge and fulfillment.” |
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Title: Meaning of Christian Brotherhood Author: Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger ISBN: 898704464 Price: 9.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: April 93 Format: Paperback Pages: 93 Description: Written over three decades ago, Cardinal Ratzinger's profound treatise on the true menaing of Christian brotherhood is perhaps even more timely and important now as a clear statement on the biblical grounds for cooperation among believing Christians. In treating Christian brotherhood from the perspective of salvation history. Ratzinger opens up the meaning of both the Old and New Testament in this most essential area. After establishing the distinctively Chrsitan sense of brotherhood (vis-a-vis Judaism, Hellenism, Stoicism, the Enlightenment, and Marxism), he shows how fraternal charity can only be perfected through God's fatherhood, Christ's divine sonship, and our brotherhood in Christ. |
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Title: Milestones Author: Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger ISBN: 0898707021 Price: 12.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: November 1998 Format: Paperback Pages: 156 Description: “This book is a masterpiece of simplicity and clarity! It tells with modest objectivity the frame work and events of a life of inner depth, intellectual work, theological struggle, and spiritual passion in the service of the Divine Truth.” Christoph Cardinal Schonborn Author, Loving the Church |
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Title: Pilgrim Fellowship of Faith Author: Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger ISBN: 898709636 Price: 17.95 Publisher: ignatius Publication Date: May 2005 Format: Paperback Pages: 381 Description: On the occasion of Ratzinger's seventy-fifth birthday, his former students selected essays, lectures, letters, and conferences that Ratzinger has written in recent years- wtiting that they feel best represents his position on issues of theology, the modern world, secuarism, non-Christian religions, and other key topics of the Catholic Church. This book, characterized by Ratzinger's concisely reasoned style, is an invaluable resource to those who wish to understand the modern Church, and the thinking of Pope Benedict XVI, as well asa treasured volume for those who are students of Ratzingers theology. |
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Title: Salt of the Earth Author: Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger ISBN: 0898706408 Price: 0.00 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: 10-1-97 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 283 Description: On of the most arresting, enjoyable books I’ve read in years. The Joseph Ratzinger who emerges from these pages is amazingly frank and engaging - a man with a superb intellect but also with a simple, humble, generosity of spirit. In his pursuit of Christian truth without rancor and in his optimism about the future of the Church, Cardinal Ratzinger offers us tremendous encouragement as we begin a new era for the faith.” Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M., Cap. Archbishop of Denver |
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Title: The Ratzinger Report Author: Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger ISBN: 0898700809 Price: 14.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: Augst 1987 Format: Paperback Description: A Cardinal and a layman meeting in the Tyrlean Alps for an interview of several days. Ratzinger responded with extreme candor to Messori's many questions- including the most controversial. It is the longest and most complete interview with a head of a Congregation whose name has been linked for centuries with mystery and secrecy. Here is the complete text of a meeting many have called a "historical turnabout" in the church. The roots of the crisis that has troubled Catholics in the twenty years since the council are analyzed with forthright clarity by one of the most authoritative voices in the Vatican. Here is a clear and uncompromising report on the dangers that threaten the Faith, from one who everyday receives the most reliable information from every continent. Yet Ratzinger's observations are as hopeful and balanced as they are clear-sighted, More... |
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Title: Paul of Tarsus Author: Joseph Holzner ISBN: 978090613861 Price: 15.95 Publisher: Scepter Publication Date: 12/1/02 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 539 Description: Rev. Joseph Holzner's extensive biography of St. Paul is rigorously based on biblical and other sources. The reader's attention is drawn to the Apostle's Christian virtues, to his faithful response to the divine call, his union with God, his apostolic spirit in tackling every difficulty.... Pauline doctrine is described with in the context of the culture in which it was developed, this is the key to a deeper understanding of the Letters of St. Paul. |
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Title: Literary Converts Author: Joseph Pearce ISBN: 97815861715 Price: 24.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: 1/28/06 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 452 Description: The twentieth century has been marked by both belief and unbelief. While church attendance has declined, the lives of many of the more salient figures of our times have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Literary Converts is a biographical exploration into the spiritual lives of some of those figures. It takes us on a journey into the deepest beliefs of some of the great writers in the English language -- from G. K. Chesterton to Evelyn Waugh, Edith Sitwell to Siegfried Sassoon. Many will be intrigued to know more about what inspired their literary heroes; others will find the association of such names with Christian belief controversial. Whatever our viewpoint, Literary Converts touches on some of the more important questions of the twentieth century, making it a fascinating read. |
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Title: Literary Converts Author: Joseph Pearce ISBN: 97808987079 Price: 24.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: 3/01/00 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 452 Description: The twentieth century has been marked by both belief and unbelief. While church attendance has declined, the lives of many of the more salient figures of our times have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Literary Converts is a biographical exploration into the spiritual lives of some of those figures. It takes us on ajourney into the deepest beliefs of some of the great writers in the English language -- from G. K. Chesterton to Evelyn Waugh, Edith Sitwell to Siegfried Sassoon. Many will be intrigued to know more about what inspired their literary heroes; others will find the association of such names with Christian belief controversial. Whatever our viewpoint, Literary Converts touches on some of the more important questions of the twentieth century, making it a fascinating read. |
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Title: Behold the Pierced One Author: Joseph Ratzinger ISBN: 0898700876 Price: 14.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: Feb-87 Format: Paperback Pages: 128 Description: Cardinal Ratzinger calls the faithful to -behold the Pierced One-, who's excruciating wounds, received in prayer on the Cross, have become gloriously resplendent in the Resurrection triumph over sin and death. Ignatius Press adds to its growing prestige by publishing this beautiful collection of Ratzinger's studies. Surely those who are his admirers will eagerly seek to absorb his wisdom. Fr. Richard Gilsdorf, Reflections. |
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Title: Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures Author: Joseph Ratzinger ISBN: 1586171429 Price: 24.00 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: 14-Feb-06 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 117 Description: Written shortly before his election to the Papacy, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger addressed the crisis of culture that is evident in Europe today, and the Western World in general. Some of the results of the crisis are greater threats to security, growing poverty, the dangers of genetic engineering, and a deline in moral energy. |
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Title: God is Near Us Author: Joseph Ratzinger ISBN: 0898709628 Price: 17.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: Sep-03 Format: Paperback Pages: 152 Description: In this felicitously unified collection of lectures, pastoral letters and homilies, Cardinal Ratzinger presents aspects of the revealed truth that is central to the Gospel. He writes as a theologian with the heart and experience of a pastor, giving an exposition of faith in the presence of God as divine self-communication in the Church and, supremely, in the Eucharist. With the insight of personal experience he shows how communion with the Son of God brings us into the openness and freedom the spirit craves. This is teaching that elicits from the reader a Yes to Jesus Christ who exists for others. :: Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I. Archbishop of Chicago |
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Title: Gospel, Catechesis, Catechism Author: Joseph Ratzinger ISBN: 0898706335 Price: 13.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: Sep-97 Format: Paperback Pages: 101 Description: Cardinal Ratzinger has produced a small and worthwhile book consisting of short lectures and articles presenting his insight into the Catechism of the Catholic Church. In the preface, he notes with satisfaction that the Catechism has been enthusiastically adopted by the Christian public although some establishment academics hold it askance. In this book, he assists those eager to embrace the Catechism with his accessible commentary on various aspects of the Catechism. In my view, the most significant chapter deals with the "biblical realism" of the Catechism which treats the Jesus of the Gospels as the real Jesus, in contrast to the absurd reconstructions of idle professors who peddle their fictions as the so-called "historical Jesus." He also has a chapter on the relation of Judaism and Christianity which is in welcome contrast to the recent defective and mediocre reflection on the issue by a group associated with the U.S. Bishops' More... |
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Title: A Study Guide for Jesus of Nazareth Author: Joseph Ratzinger ISBN: 158613189 Price: 7.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: October 15, 2008 Format: Paperback Pages: 93 Description: Study guide for Jesus of Nazareth: from Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration. |
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Title: Called to Communion Author: Joseph Ratzinger ISBN: 0898705789 Price: 15.25 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: Mar-96 Format: Paperback Pages: 165 Description: 165 pages The five chapters of this book attempt to offer a sort of primer of Catholic ecclesiology. Te first three chapters were written for a theology course in Rio de Janeiro that drew a gathering of around a hundred bishops from every quarter of Brazil between the twenty-third and the twenty-seventh of July 1990. The principal question concerned the relationship between the universal Chruch and the particular Church, with special regard to the primacy of the successor of Peter and its relation to the ministry of the bishops. |
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Title: Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week Author: Joseph Ratzinger ISBN: 1586175009 Price: 19.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: March 10, 2011 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 362 Description: "Jesus of Nazareth: From His Transfiguration Through His Death and Resurrection" challenges both believers and unbelievers to decide who Jesus of Nazareth is and what he means for them. |
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Title: Study Guide for Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week Author: Joseph Ratzinger ISBN: 1586176056 Price: 7.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: March 01, 2011 Format: Paperback Pages: 120 Description: A user-friendly aid for readers of Pope Benedict XVI's Jesus of Nazareth: Part Two -Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection, this Study Guide is excellent for individual or group study, for formal class instruction or informal study. Excellent for parish groups, high school programs, college classes, and graduate studies. The Study Guide does not replace Benedict XVI's book, but it makes it more accessible and beneficial to the average reader--whether lay, religious, or clergy--as well as the knowledgeable student. |
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Title: The Teachers Will Save US Author: Jose` Rodelgo-Bueno ISBN: 97809823561 Price: 14.99 Publisher: Human Adventure Books Publication Date: 8/17/12 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 238 Description: The Teachers Will Save U.S. is an inspiration for American teachers. “The economic crisis and the tumultuous international climate have propelled teachers into the forefront, making them indispensable in the struggle to save our children and our nation. In their hands rests the American dream, economic progress, social stability, and world peace.”According to Dr. Rodelgo, we are living a crisis that is much more than just economic, political, or social; it is a human crisis. Therefore, educators have a crucial role because it is through education that we can address the crisis. Many school leaders would like to implement an education that can respond effectively to the challenges of the twenty-first century. However, it is difficult to know how to do so. The issue at hand is finding the appropriate method of education. In this country, many educational reforms have been implemented in the last hundred years, but these reforms More... |
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Title: Disarming Beauty Author: Julian Carron ISBN: 978-02681019 Price: 25.00 Publisher: Notre Dame Press Publication Date: May 2017 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 304 Description: In 2005, Father Julián Carrón became the leader of the global ecclesial movement Communion and Liberation, following the death of the movement’s founder, Father Luigi Giussani. Disarming Beauty is the English translation of an engaging and thought-provoking collection of essays by one of the principal Catholic leaders and intellectuals in the world today. Adapted from talks given by Fr. Carrón, these essays have been thoroughly reworked by the author to offer an organic presentation of a decade-long journey. They present the content of his elaboration of the gospel message in light of the tradition of Fr. Giussani, the teachings of the popes, and the urgent needs of contemporary people. |
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Title: Press On To Make Him My Own Author: Julian Carron ISBN: 112233445525 Price: 5.00 Publisher: Human Adventure Books Publication Date: June 2014 Format: Paperback Pages: 144 Description: CL Fraternity Exercises 2014 |
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Title: 2016 FE: Author: Julian Carron ISBN: 237000034013 Price: 5.00 Publisher: Human Adventure Books Publication Date: 6/29/16 Format: Trade Paperback Description: Transcript of the 2016 Fraternity Exercises of Communion & Liberation. |
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Author: Julian Carron ISBN: 978194145707 Price: 10.00 Publisher: Human Adventure Books Publication Date: 8/12/17 Format: Paperback Pages: 186 Description: New York Encounter 2017 |
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Title: 2018 FE Author: Julian Carron ISBN: 112233445528 Price: 5.00 Publisher: Human Adventure Books Publication Date: 2018 Format: Paperback Description: 2018 Spiritual Exercises of the Fraternity of CL |
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Title: 2019 SE Author: Julian Carron ISBN: 112233445529 Price: 5.00 Publisher: Human Adventure Books Publication Date: 2019 Format: Paperback |
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Title: The Radiance In Your Eyes Author: Julian Carron ISBN: 978-19414571 Price: 6.40 Publisher: Human Adventure Books Publication Date: August 5, 2020 Format: Paperback Pages: 154 Description: In this book the president of the Fraternity of CL engages with this dramatic time in which nothingness presses down so powerfully on the life of everyone, making one suspect the positivity of living and the ultimate consistency of reality itself. It appears that everything ends in nothingness even our very selves. Paradoxically, this context reveals how intolerable it is to live without meaning and shows us the strength of that indestructible desire to be wanted and to be loved. We have here a winning comparison of life with present events and with the insufficient attempt to survive using distraction and forgetfulness. The author points to an answer that measures up to this challenge: a "you" that embraces the cry of our humanity awakening a love for ourselves and for our life. The encounter with a living Christian community which makes our common journey become fascinating. It is a witness of More... |
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Title: Where is God Author: Julian Carron ISBN: 978-02280009 Price: 19.95 Publisher: McGill Queens Publishing Publication Date: 2/20/2020 Format: Paperback Pages: 176 Description: Should we battle a plural and relativistic society by raising barriers and walls, or should we accept the opportunity to announce the Gospel in a new way? This is the challenge Christians are facing today. In an extended interview with Vatican expert Andrea Tornielli, Julián Carrón examines the historical moment we are living through in order to revive the essential core of Christian faith. Starting from the realization that the world is experiencing an evolution in which the difficulty of finding shared values and natural morality makes sincere dialogue between believers and non-believers challenging, Carrón reflects on the possibility of communicating the essence of the Christian faith in a form that can inspire interest in modern times. Addressing the central questions concerning the announcement of Christian faith in today's less regimented society, Where Is God? discovers and rediscovers the contents of Christianity and asks how they can be witnessed again More... |
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Title: Where is God? Author: Julian Carron ISBN: 978-0228000 Price: 19.95 Publisher: McGill Queens Publishing Publication Date: 2/20/2020 Format: Paperback Pages: 176 Description: Should we battle a plural and relativistic society by raising barriers and walls, or should we accept the opportunity to announce the Gospel in a new way? This is the challenge Christians are facing today. In an extended interview with Vatican expert Andrea Tornielli, Julián Carrón examines the historical moment we are living through in order to revive the essential core of Christian faith. Starting from the realization that the world is experiencing an evolution in which the difficulty of finding shared values and natural morality makes sincere dialogue between believers and non-believers challenging, Carrón reflects on the possibility of communicating the essence of the Christian faith in a form that can inspire interest in modern times. Addressing the central questions concerning the announcement of Christian faith in today's less regimented society, Where Is God? discovers and rediscovers the contents of Christianity and asks how they can be witnessed again More... |
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Title: Education Author: Julian Carron ISBN: 978-19414571 Price: 6.00 Publisher: HAB Publication Date: 1/27/2021 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 96 Description: Julian Carron, President of Communion and Liberation proposes the thesis that those who educate are not those who make propaganda, but those who are committed to rousing something in a young person, to setting freedom in motion. |
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Title: IS THERE HOPE? THE FASCINATION OF THE DISCOVERY Author: jULIAN CARRON ISBN: 978-1-941457 Price: 18.00 Publisher: Human Adventure Books Publication Date: 7/9/2021 Format: Paperback Pages: 220 Description: In this volume, the President of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation faces one of the most widespread questions in this time dominated by uncertainty. “Is there hope?” The impact with the harshness of reality has caused all one’s human need to emerge. Also, and perhaps even more in these dramatic times, each person’s heart does not settle for partial answers, and cries out its desire for something that is truly commensurate to the challenge. “An unexpected event is my only hope,” said Montale. The announcement of this something unexpected rang out in history, and the hearts of the first ones to encounter Jesus leapt for joy. The seed of hope entered the world, and from then on has continued to take root in people; encountering them, one’s heart rekindles and revives. Through the power of a present experience, one finds within a “strange positiveness” and the audacity to challenge evil, pain and even death. |
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Title: My Heart is Glad Because You Live, Oh Christ Author: Julius Carron ISBN: 112233445527 Price: 5.00 Publisher: Human Adventure Books Publication Date: 8/15/17 Format: Paperback Pages: 144 Description: 2017 Fraternity Exercises of CL |
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Title: Love and Responsibility Author: Karol Wojtyla ISBN: 978089870445 Price: 18.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: 8/28/94 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 319 Description: Drawing from his own pastoral experience as a priest and bishop before he became Pope John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla has produced a remarkably eloquent and resourceful defense of Catholic tradition in the sphere of family life and sexual morality. He writes in the conviction that science--biology, psychology, sociology--can provide valuable information on particular aspects of relations between the sexes, but that a full understanding can be obtained only by study of the human person as a whole. |
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Title: Praying with Benedict Author: Korneel Vermeiren OCSO ISBN: 978087907790 Price: 18.95 Publisher: Cistercian Publications Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 132 Description: Praying with Benedict explores the spirituality of the monastic tradition and draws out the essence of a way of praying that embraces the whole of the Christian's life. Korneel Vermeiren begins by examining the spirituality of the early monastic tradition from the fourth to the sixth centuries. He looks at the central place of prayer in the Rule of St Benedict and the tradition of continuous prayer, exploring the teaching of such formative figures as Basil the Great. He then reflects on the Benedictine precept: 'nothing is to be preferred to the work of God'. Praying with Benedict looks in practical terms at the how, when, and where of prayer; at bodily postures, various types of prayer, and the importance of emotional and spiritual readiness. Finally, the place of the Eucharist in the life of prayer is discussed with reference to Benedict's teaching and the eucharistic practices of pre-Benedictine monasticism. This book offers More... |
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Title: Peace Like a River Author: Leif Enger ISBN: 978080213925 Price: 17.00 Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Publication Date: 8/28/2002 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 320 Description: Born with no air in his lungs, it was only when Reuben Land's father, Jeremiah, picked him up and commanded him to breathe that Reuben's lungs filled. Reuben struggles with debilitating asthma from then on, making him a boy who knows firsthand that life is a gift, and also one who suspects that his father is touched by God and can overturn the laws of nature. The quiet 1960's midwestern life of the Lands is upended when Reuben's brother Davy kills to marauders who have come to harm the family. The morning of his sentencing, Davy -- a hero to some, a cold-blooded murderer to others -- escapes from his cell, and the Lands set out in search of him. Their journey is touched by serendipity and the kindness of strangers, and they cover territory far more extraordinary than even the Badlands where they search for Davy from their Airstream trailer. Sprinkled More... |
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Title: The Robe Author: Lloyd C. Douglas ISBN: 978-03959577 Price: 19.99 Publisher: Mariner Books Publication Date: 4/7/1999 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 528 Description: A Roman soldier, Marcellus, wins Christ's robe as a gambling prize. He then sets forth on a quest to find the truth about the Nazarene's robe-a quest that reaches to the very roots and heart of Christianity and is set against the vividly limned background of ancient Rome. Here is a timeless story of adventure, faith, and romance, a tale of spiritual longing and ultimate redemption. |
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Title: God at the Ritz Author: Lorenzo Albacete ISBN: 978082452472 Price: 18.95 Publisher: Crossroads Publishing Publication Date: 9/25/07 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 208 Description: Lorenzo Albacete, a close friend of Pope John Paul II, physicist, and New York Times columnist, shows that religion has a place amid conversations on science and contemporary culture. With humor and honesty, Albacete answers questions about life and death, good and evil, science and religion, religion and politics, and other issues |
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Title: What Is Christian in Christianity?: A Journey to the Heart of the Christian Experience Author: Lorenzo Albacete ISBN: 978-19414571 Price: 14.95 Publisher: Human Adventure Books Publication Date: 1/15/19 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 242 Description: Encounter with Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete through a selection of his teachings and homilies. |
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Title: The Spear Author: Louis de Wohl ISBN: 978089870604 Price: 17.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: September 1998 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 380 Description: This panoramic novel of the last days of Christ ranges from the palaces of imperial Rome to the strife-torn hills of Judea -- where the conflict of love and betrayal, revenge and redemption, reaches a mighty climax in the drama of the Crucifixion. For this is the full story of the world's most dramatic execution, as it affected one of its least-known participants -- the man who hurled his spear into Christ on the Cross. |
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Title: Lay Siege to Heaven Author: Louis de Wohl ISBN: 978089870381 Price: 17.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: September 1991 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 361 Description: Continuing his popular series of novels about saints of the Church, de Wohl devotes his considerable talents to an interpretation of one of the most unusual women of all time, St. Catherine of Siena. The daughter of a prosperous dyer in fourteenth-century Siena, Catherine never forgot the mystical experience of her extreme youth; at the time she devoted herself to Christ. It was, however, a shock to her family when, refusing marriage, she insisted on giving her life totally to God. Her career was extraordinary. In that confused and dangerous era of history, the Pope was living at Avignon: Catherine persuaded him to return to Rome. The City-States of Italy were at war with each other: Catherine subdued them. There was pestilence: Catherine served and saved. She performed miracles, she received the stigmata, she drew about her a crowd of devoted men and women. A saint who would not let More... |
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Title: The Quiet Light Author: Louis de Wohl ISBN: 978089870595 Price: 17.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: October 1996 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 377 Description: The famous novelist Louis de Wohl presents a stimulating historical novel about the great St. Thomas Aquinas, set against the violent background of the Italy of the Crusades. He tells the intriguing story of St. Thomas who - by taking a vow of poverty joining the Dominicans - defied his illustrious, prominent family's ambition for him to have great power in the Church. The battles and Crusades of the 13th century and the ruthlessness of the excommunicated Emperor Frederick II play a big part in the story, but it is Thomas of Aquino who dominates this book. De Wohl succeeds notably in portraying the exceptional quality of this man, a fusion of mighty intellect and childlike simplicity. A pupil of St. Albert the Great, the humble Thomas - through an intense life of study, writing, prayer, preaching and contemplation - ironically rose to become the influential figure of his age, More... |
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Title: Set All Afire Author: Louis de Wohl ISBN: 978089870351 Price: 17.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: February 1991 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 280 Description: St. Francis Xavier's life is, in itself, a dramatic story. With humility and deep religious conviction, the famous Catholic novelist Louis de Wohl takes us into the mind and heart of this great missionary and saint who went by order of St. Ignatius of Loyola to "set all afire" in the Orient. Louis de Wohl captivates the reader as he follows Xavier's life from student days in Paris, through his meeting with Ignatius, his rather reluctant conversion, and his travels as one ofthe first Jesuits. The story takes the reader from Europe to Goa, India, Malaysia, Japan, and finally, to an island off the coast of China, where the exiled Xavier dies virtually alone. The book captures the dramatic struggles and inspiring zeal of this remarkable saint, giving at the same time an enthralling picture of the age in which he lived. |
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Title: The Golden Thread Author: Louis de Wohl ISBN: 978089870813 Price: 16.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: 3/01/02 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 315 Description: As in his other popular novels, Louis de Wohl, with humility and deep religious conviction, takes us into the mi d and heart of a saint, giving at the same time an enthralling picture of the era in which he lived. Here is a skillful weaving of the story of St. Ignatius Loyola's conversion and pilgrimage with the colorful and dangerous history of Spain and Italy in the early sixteenth century. The life of the very human, very great Basque nobleman who founded the Jesuit Order makes for one of de Wohl's finest novels. Seriously wounded at the siege of Pamplona in 1521, Don Inigo de Loyola learned that to be aKnight of God was an infinitely greater honor (and infinitely more dangerous) than to be a Knight in the forces of the Emperor. Uli von der Flue, humorous, intelligent and courageous Swiss mercenary, was responsible for the canon shot which More... |
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Title: The Joyful Beggar Author: Louis de Wohl ISBN: 978089870814 Price: 19.00 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: 3/28/01 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 378 Description: In this magnificent and stirring novel, Louis de Wohl turns his famed narrative skill to the story of the soldier and merchant's son who might have been right-hand man to a king . and who became instead the most beloved of all saints. Set against the tempestuous background of 13th Century Italy and Egypt, here is the magnificent and inspiring story of Francis Bernardone, the brash, pleasure-loving young officer who was to become immortalized as St. Francis of Assisi. The story teems with action, pageantry and intrigue with finely conceived characters-the beautiful, saintly Clare, Frederick, the hawk-faced King of Sicily and Holy Roman Emperor, the Sultan Al Kamil, Pope Innocent III. The scene shifts from Assisi, Rome and Sicily to the deadly sands of Egypt. |
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Title: The Living Wood Author: Louis de Wohl ISBN: 978158617227 Price: 19.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: 3/28/08 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 370 Description: The renowned novelist De Wohl, with his usual crisp language and descriptive narrative, as well as irony and humor, presents the colorful and tumultuous times of the early Christian era in this story of intrigue, romance and power politics revolving around Helena, the devoted and saintly mother of Constantine, the first Christian emperor. This historical novel tells the story of the quest for the True Cross through fifty years of the most exciting events in Roman and Christian history. The narrative begins when the Tribune Constantius, a Roman officer stationed in Britain, meets and wins Helena, only daughter of the mystical and oracular King Coel of Britain. Through the course of their early lives together, and during their ten-year separation when Constantius returns to Britian as a conquering Caesar and Helena has become a rejected wife, devoted mother, and militant Christian, there is a sure and convincing portrayal of character growth More... |
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Title: The Restless Flame Author: Louis de Wohl ISBN: 978089870603 Price: 18.95 Publisher: ignatius Publication Date: 9/28/97 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 303 Description: Here is a novel that glistens with the imaginative and vivid drama that epitomized St. Augustine's tumultuous life, presented with a master story-teller's characteristic flair for graphic description, sensitive portraiture, and fascinating historical lore. |
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Title: The Last Crusader Author: Louis de Wohl ISBN: 978158617414 Price: 19.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: 3/01/10 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 497 Description: Don Juan of Austria, one of history's most triumphant and inspiring heroes, is reborn in this opulent novel by Louis de Wohl. Because of the circumstances of his birth, this last son of Emperor Charles the Fifth spent his childhood in a Spanish peasant's hut. Acknowledged by King Philip as his half-brother, the attractive youth quickly became a central figure in a Court where intrigues and romances abounded. Don Juan's intelligence, kindness and devout attachment to the Church enabled him to live unscathed in an environment of luxury, violence and treachery. De Wohl paints in brilliant color the vivid scenes and characters at the Court of King Philip, Juan's campaign against rebel Moriscos in Andalusia, and the amazing climatic victory at Lepanto where he saved the Christian world from Islamic dominance. Here is a novel of high adventure which brings to life the turbulence of the sixteenth century with its conflicts of More... |
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Title: Citadel of God Author: Louis deWohl ISBN: 978089870404 Price: 17.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: March 1994 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 345 Description: The streets of Rome are crowded as Theoderich, the "barbarian" Gothic king, makes his triumphal entry into the conquered city. Suddenly a boy rushes into the street and attempts to stab the king with his stylus. Kicked aside by the king's guard, he is rescued and carried to safety by a young man. The boy is Peter, adopted son of the noble Roman philosopher, Boethius. His rescuer is Benedictus, a student, who becomes Peter's tutor, and tries to curb the boy's reckless determination to succeed at all costs. So begins this vivid story which follows Benedictus through a disillusioning experience with a beautiful woman of Rome, his years as a hermit and his work in establishing religious communities that were truly citadels of God in the decadence of sixth=century Rome. Peter, meanwhile, has dedicated himself to overthrowing the Goths--partly to further is own ambition and partly to win the beautiful More... |
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Title: Is It Possible To Live This Way? #3 Author: Luigi Giussani ISBN: 0773535152 Price: 20.95 Publisher: Mcgill Queens University Press Publication Date: September 2009 Format: Paperback Pages: 157 Description: This volume of "Is It Possible to Live this Way", a translation of Luigi Giussani's "Si Puo Vivere Cosi?", addresses the virtue of charity. A compilation of Giussani's conversations with young people who have chosen the path of the consecrated life in the Church - that is, have chosen to live their lives in the world according to the 'evangelical counsels' of poverty, chastity, and obedience - it proposes an unusual yet reasonable approach to living as a Christian. As in all his works, Giussani encourages young people to be serious about their own existence and loyal to their experience. The conversations reported here are fascinating and insightful, providing support for a way of life that today is frequently questioned, rejected, or censured. |
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Title: Is It Possible To Live This Way? #2 Author: Luigi Giussani ISBN: 0773534466 Price: 20.95 Publisher: Mcgill Queens University Press Publication Date: October 2008 Format: Paperback Pages: 162 Description: Is It Possible to Live this Way? Vol. 2 is a translation of the first part of Luigi Giussani's Si Può Vivere Così?, addresses the virtue of hope. A compilation of Giussani's conversations with young people who have chosen the path of the consecrated life in the Church - that is, have chosen to live their lives in the world according to the "evangelical counsels" of poverty, chastity, and obedience - it proposes an unusual yet reasonable approach to living as a Christian. As in all his works, Giussani encourages young people to be serious about their own existence and loyal to their experience. The conversations reported here are fascinating and insightful, providing support for a way of life that today is frequently questioned, rejected, or censured. |
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Title: Is It Possible To Live This Way? #1 Author: Luigi Giussani ISBN: 0773535152 Price: 20.95 Publisher: Mcgill Queens University Press Publication Date: September 2009 Format: Paperback Pages: 157 Description: Is It Possible to Live this Way?” Vol # 1 is a translation of the first part of Luigi Giussani's "Si Puo Vivere Cosi?", addresses the virtue of faith. A compilation of Giussani's conversations with young people who have chosen the path of the consecrated life in the Church - that is, have chosen to live their lives in the world according to the 'evangelical counsels' of poverty, chastity, and obedience - it proposes an unusual yet reasonable approach to living as a Christian. As in all his works, Giussani encourages young people to be serious about their own existence and loyal to their experience. The conversations reported here are fascinating and insightful, providing support for a way of life that today is frequently questioned, rejected, or censured. |
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Title: Why the Church Author: Luigi Giussani ISBN: 0773517073 Price: 29.95 Publisher: Mcgill Queens University Press Publication Date: March 2001 Format: Paperback Pages: 288 Description: From its beginnings, the Church has presented itself as a human phenomenon that carries the divine within it. As a social fact, its reality given form by men and women, the Church has always affirmed that its existence surpasses the human reality of its components and that it stands as the continuation of the event of Christ's entry into human history. "Why the Church?", the final volume in McGill-Queen's University Press's trilogy of Luigi Giussani's writings, explores the Church's definition of itself as both human and divine and evaluates the truth of this claim. Giussani begins by focusing on the Church as a community composed of people who are aware of themselves as defined by the gift of the Spirit, from which they derive a new conception of existence, the fruit of conversion. He then describes the Church's developing self-awareness of its dual elements of the human and divine. Concerned More... |
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Title: The Origin of the Christian Claim Author: Luigi Giussani ISBN: 0773516271 Price: 24.95 Publisher: Mcgill Queens University Press Publication Date: January 1, 1998 Format: Paperback Pages: 144 Description: In this inquiry into Christ's Incarnation, Luigi Giussani examines Christ's "claim" to identify himself with the mystery that is the ultimate answer to our search for the meaning of existence. Giussani argues that if we accept the hypothesis that the mystery entered the realm of human existence and spoke in human terms, the relationship between the individual and God is no longer based on a moral, imaginative, or aesthetic human effort but instead on coming upon an event in one's life. Thus the religious method is overturned by Christ: in Christianity it is no longer the person who seeks to know the mystery but the mystery that makes himself known by entering history. At the Origin of the Christian Claim presents an intriguing argument supported with ample documentation from the gospels and other theological writings. |
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Title: The Risk of Education Author: Luigi Giussani ISBN: 978077355718 Price: 18.95 Publisher: McGill Queens Publishing Publication Date: February 28, 2019 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 112 Description: The fundamental idea in the education of the young is the fact that it is through the younger generations that society successively rebuilds itself; therefore, the primary concern of society is to teach the young. What does education consist of, and how does it take place? The Risk of Education explores what is at our origins as human beings. It presents the argument that without the fundamental factors of tradition00something lived out in the present that proposes and gives its reasons--and criticism--asking yourself why?--the young person is merely a fragile leaf separated from its branch. |
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Title: Journey to Truth is an Experience Author: Luigi Giussani ISBN: 978077353148 Price: 22.95 Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press Publication Date: October 12, 2006 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 160 Description: As a young priest, Luigi Giussani was troubled by Catholicism's inability to effectively deal with secularism or laicism. In 1954 he began to develop a vision of faith rooted in experience. His ideas resonated with students and led to the birth of the Gioventù Studentesca (Student Youth) movement. Known today as Communion and Liberation, the movement is flourishing in Italy and around the world, including Canada, the United States, Brazil, Uganda, and Britain. The Journey to Truth Is an Experience is the first English translation of Il Cammino al vero è un'esperienza, Giussani's early works on the Christian experience, written from 1959-64. It begins with a guide on how to live the Christian life within the Student Youth community, followed by a call to base one's relationship with Christ on the example set by the apostles and other figures in the New Testament. Giussani concludes by outlining the movement's mission and More... |
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Title: Generating Traces in the History of the World Author: Luigi Giussani ISBN: 978077353768 Price: 22.95 Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press Publication Date: September 30, 2010 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 184 Description: Generating Traces in the History of the World is a synthesis of Monsignor Luigi Giussani's reflection on the Christian experience. His exploration of Christianity as an unforeseen and unforeseeable event in which the mystery became a man reveals how, by acknowledging this fact, an individual is simultaneously able to use reason and be moved by affection. Discussing the ways in which Christ continues to be present in history through the companionship of those whom He joins to himself in Baptism, Giussani illuminates how a sense of Christ's mercy can overcome negativity and encourage a useful life. A profound and moving work, Generating Traces in the History of the World will interest all those who have been inspired by Giussani's thought. |
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Title: American Protestant Theology: A Historical Sketch Author: Luigi Giussani ISBN: 978-07735430 Price: 34.95 Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press Publication Date: 8/30/14 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 288 Description: In American Protestant Theology, Luigi Giussani traces the history of the most meaningful theological expressions and the cultural significance of American Protestantism, from its origins in seventeenth-century Puritanism to the 1950s. Giussani clarifies and assesses elements of Protestantism such as the democratic approach to church-state relations, "The Great Awakening," Calvinism and Trinitarianism, and liberalism. His rich references and analytical descriptions reconstruct an overview of the development of a religion that has great importance in the context of spiritual life and American culture. He also displays full respect for the religious depth from which Protestantism was born and where it can reach, and expresses great admiration for its most prominent thinkers and spiritual leaders, including Jonathan Edwards, Horace Bushnell, Walter Rauschenbusch, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Paul Tillich. Further testament to Giussani's clear-minded and comprehensive knowledge of Christianity, A |
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Title: To Give One’s Life for the Work of Another Author: Luigi Giussani ISBN: 978-0228011 Price: 22.95 Publisher: McGill Queens University Press Publication Date: February 28, 2022 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 168 Description: Father Luigi Giussani engaged tirelessly in educational initiatives throughout the course of his life. Much of his thought was communicated through the richness and rhythm of oral discourse, preserved as audio and video recordings in the archive of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation in Milan. This volume presents the last three spiritual exercises of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation, drawing from the transcripts of these recordings. In these exercises Giussani investigates the rise of ethics and the decline of ontology that have accompanied modernity and the spread of rationalism. Bearing up against old age and illness, he resisted the urge to withdraw, instead finding new avenues of communication and the technological means to reach all corners of the movement. To Give One’s Life for the Work of Another explores the nature of God, the powerful human experience of self-awareness, and the fundamental components of Christianity, in the unmistakable More... |
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Title: In the Vineyard of the Lord Author: Marco Bardazzi ISBN: 978084782801 Price: 16.95 Publisher: Rizzoli Publication Date: 5/31/05 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 128 Description: Who is Joseph Ratzinger, the man who will forever be known as Pope Benedict XVI? What led to his ascension to this position of supreme power and responsibility in the Roman Catholic Church? This up-to-the-minute biography covers his life -- from a childhood in Bavaria during World War II to a meteoric rise in academia with professorships at Germany's most prestigious national universities, from his emergence as a brillant young theologian at Vatican II to his position as one of Pope John Paul II's closest advisors and friends "In the Vineyard of the Lord" is an essential and thought-provoking read about the controversial figure who is sure to become one of the most influential people of our time. |
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Title: Vincent De Paul Author: Margaret Ann Hubbard ISBN: 978089870870 Price: 12.95 Publisher: Ignatius Format: Paperback Pages: 164 Description: This Vision book for youth tells the exciting inspirational story of the great French saint of charity, St. Vincent de Paul. From his days of youth as a shepherd boy to his slavery in North Africa, his escape to France, his priestly service to the poor and to abandoned children, his founding of both the Vincentian Order and the Daughters of Charity, clashes with the Jansinists and his political adventures at court, this is a dramatic story sure to inspire all readers. |
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Title: A Soldier of the Great War Author: Mark Helprin ISBN: 978015603113 Price: 16.00 Publisher: Harvest Publication Date: June 01, 2005 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 864 Description: From acclaimed novelist Mark Helprin, a lush, literary epic about love, beauty, and the world at war Alessandro Giuliani, the young son of a prosperous Roman lawyer, enjoys an idyllic life full of privilege: he races horses across the country to the sea, he climbs mountains in the Alps, and, while a student of painting at the ancient university in Bologna, he falls in love. Then the Great War intervenes. Half a century later, in August of 1964, Alessandro, a white-haired professor, tall and proud, meets an illiterate young factory worker on the road. As they walk toward Monte Prato, a village seventy kilometers away, the old man--a soldier and a hero who became a prisoner and then a deserter, wandering in the hell that claimed Europe--tells him how he tragically lost one family and gained another. The boy, envying the richness and drama of Alessandro's experiences, realizes that this magnificent More... |
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Title: Together On The Road Author: Massimo Camisasca ISBN: 0982356129 Price: 15.00 Publisher: Human Adventure Books Publication Date: May 4, 2010 Format: Paperback Pages: 120 Description: "Together on the Road" offers a fresh vision of Christian community rooted in friendship with one another and with Christ. Its engaging reflections encourage us to reject the widespread isolation, loneliness, and activism that mark contemporary life, and to embrace a renewed sense of belonging to each other in Christ as the most wonderful event of our lives. In particular, Massimo Camisasca invites priests to renew their passion for living and giving themselves in communion with one another. He candidly admits: "Priestly fraternity has helped me discover that friendship is an answer to my deepest desires."Essential for priests, men and women religious, and those committed to community, it also offers all believers a compelling model of lived Christianity, one that celebrates a purposeful, passionate belonging to the Church, and that believes absolutely in its future. |
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Title: The Challenge of Fatherhood Author: Massimo Camisasca ISBN: 0982356137 Price: 12.00 Publisher: Human Adventure Books Publication Date: 9/25/2009 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 118 Description: "The world needs fathers, and Christ wants us to become fathers, an echo as it were of He who gave us existence and the light to live by, He who has saved us from nothingess and has opened the door to the greatest adventure there is: forgiveness. We are called to meet men and women everywhere and without fear, as traveling companions. We are called to be the embrace which does not hold back before the sick, the elderly, children, the abandoned, the dying. With them, we begin to experience the revelation of the glorious life which has no end." |
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Title: Father, Will there still be priests in the Church's future? Author: Massimo Camisasca ISBN: 978098235619 Price: 15.00 Publisher: Human Adventure Books Publication Date: March 01. 2012 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 134 Description: A blueprint for reform in the Catholic Church. The author draws on twenty-five years at the head of a young missionary order which he founded, and proposes a road forward out of the quagmire the Catholic Church and its priests find themselves in today. "Will there still be priests in the Church's future? Has not the time come for us to humbly inquire into the direction change should take?" So writes Mons. Massimo Camisasca. He dedicates nearly half of his book to silence, prayer, liturgy, and the Mass, and then moves on to discuss several commonly underdeveloped themes (study, fatherhood, common life, and friendship). He closes with three chapters on hot-button issues (virginity, women, mission) which he treats on the basis of the preceding reflections. With a preface by Mons. Brugues, secretary of the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education. |
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Title: Pope Francis Author: Matthew Bunson ISBN: 978-16127871 Price: 16.95 Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor Publication Date: 4/5/13 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 224 Description: "Make me an instrument of your peace." St. Francis of Assisi When the curtains were drawn and our new Holy Father stepped out into view of the 150,000 people waiting in St. Peter's Square, it was a humble and gentle man from Argentina who greeted them, not in triumph, but with a gentle wave. He's a pope of "firsts" - the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from the Americas, and the first to choose the name of Italy's most famous saint. He is the son of an immigrant railway worker, and sibling of four. He was an active, social young man who trained to be a chemist before pursuing a religious vocation. He is a Jesuit priest and beloved spiritual director who even as archbishop of Buenos Aires was referred to as Father Jorge. He is an outspoken leader More... |
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Title: Christ: The Life of Life Author: Mauro Giuseppe Lepori ISBN: 2370001646186 Price: 5.00 Publisher: Human Adventure Books Publication Date: 6/29/22 Format: Paperback Pages: 98 Description: 2022 Spiritual Exercises yes |
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Title: Rediscovered Face of Jesus Author: Meeting of Rimini ISBN: 978-09823561 Price: 30.00 Publisher: Human Adventure Books Publication Date: 12/13/2013 Format: Paperback Pages: 120 Description: There is a long and sacred history of venerating the holy images of our Lord, Jesus Christ. At Christmas time, we in- cense the Holy Infant in the manger and re- call his humility and love. During Lent we walk with devotion through the Stations of the Cross, tracing the steps that lead to our salvation. And on Easter morning we stand before the empty tomb, filled with awe in the presence of the Angels at the wondrous works that God has done. Images of Christ have the power to move our hearts, they can catechize without words and allow us to contemplate the beautiful face of God revealed in His own Son. - Cardinal Sean O'Malley, From the Introduction |
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Title: Changing the Equation: Christ Changes Everything Author: Michael Carvill ISBN: 1941457126 Price: 25.00 Publisher: Human Adventure Books Publication Date: March 2022 Format: Paperback Description: “Fr. Michael Carvill speaks as a true pastor, feeding God’s people by unpacking the Word with clarity and conviction. I recommend these sermons to all who are seeking greater intimacy with the Lord by entering more deeply into the great mysteries of the liturgical year.” Most Rev. Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila The eighth bishop for the Archdiocese of Denver |
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Title: Father Elijah Author: Michael O'Brien ISBN: 978089870690 Price: 20.00 Publisher: Ignatius Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 597 Description: "Enthralling reading. This book deserves the very exalted tribute of being reminiscent of Tolstoy and Charles Williams. One is almost agog at the dexterity - the artistry really - with which O'Brien shapes enormously charged material into a narrative which exhibits the integrity one finds only in the very best fiction." Thomas Howard |
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Title: Sophia House Author: Michael O'Brien ISBN: 978158617039 Price: 21.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: 3/28/05 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 488 Description: Sophia House is set in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Pawel Tarnowski, a bookseller, gives refuge to David Sch"fer, a Jewish youth who has escaped from the ghetto, and hides him in the attic of the book shop. Throughout the winter of 1942-43, haunted by the looming threat of discovery, they discuss good and evil, sin and redemption, literature and philosophy, and their respective religious views of reality. Decades later, David becomes a convert to Catholicism, is the Carmelite priest Fr. Elijah Sch"fer called by the Pope to confront the Anti-christ in Michael O'Brien's best-selling novel, Father Elijah: an Apocalypse. |
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Title: The Master and Margarita Author: Mikhail Bulgakov ISBN: 978067976080 Price: 18.00 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication Date: 3/28/96 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 384 Description: Publishers Weekly Bulgakov's satire of the greed and corruption of Soviet authorities illustrates the redemptive nature of art and faith, and Julian Rhind-Tutt's superb interpretation does the classic full justice. With a dramatic flair and a deep, multilayered voice, he pulls off a host of fantastical characters including Professor Woland (Satan) and several of his associates, Pontius Pilate and Jesus Christ, witches and madmen and a variety of early 20th-century Moscow literary and theater types. Two minor caveats: a few characterizations are too nasal, and his cockney accents for low-class Russian characters are a bit disconcerting. (June) Joyce Carol Oates A wild surrealistic romp…. Brilliantly flamboyant and outrageous. —The Detroit News |
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Title: Christ: God's Companionship with Man Author: Msgr. Luigi Giussani ISBN: 978-07735456 Price: 16.95 Publisher: McGill Queens University Press Publication Date: July 1, 2015 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 121 Description: This volume is a selection of the most significant writings by Monsignor Luigi Giussani, founder of the Italian Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation, which is practiced in eighty countries around the world. Presented by Julián Carrón, Giussani's successor as head of Communion and Liberation, Christ, God's Companionship with Man is the most succinct introduction to the breadth of Giussani’s thought, including memorable passages from works such as The Journey to Truth Is an Experience, At the Origin of the Christian Claim, Why the Church?, Generating Traces in the History of the World, and Is It Possible to Live This Way? Many speak of Giussani as a friendly presence, a man who believed that it was possible to live in faith every day and in any circumstance. Revealing that spirituality and community can be found in ordinary ways, Christ, God’s Companionship with Man will inspire all who read it. |
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Title: Miguel Manara Author: Oscar Vladislas de Milosz ISBN: 978194145703 Price: 12.00 Publisher: Human Adventure Books Publication Date: 12/25/16 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 96 Description: Miguel Mañara, written 1912, is undoubtedly Milosz’s best known work. It is the story of the original Don Juan, who ended his days in a monastery following a disordered life. It is a play in six acts, which tells the story of a nobleman of that name. It is a story of dissatisfaction of the human heart with a life of selfish instinctivity, a story of conversion. It is a story of how a true love opens a path towards the reconciliation of the heart with all things. It is a story of the journey of a human heart to holiness. Oscar Vladislas de Milosz was born in Lithuania in 1877 and died at Fontainebleau, Paris in 1939. He is the author of many works but is little known in the English-speaking world. He wrote drama, poetry, and prose. He treated subjects including philosophy, politics, archeology and biblical exegesis. |
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Title: Barabbas Author: Par Lagerkvist ISBN: 978067972544 Price: 16.00 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication Date: 11/28/1989 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 160 Description: Barabbas is the acquitted; the man whose life was exchanged for that of Jesus of Nazareth, crucified upon the hill of Golgotha. Barabbas is a man condemned to have no god. "Christos Iesus" is carved on the disk suspended from his neck, but he cannot affirm his faith. He cannot pray. He can only say, "I want to believe." Translated from the Swedish by Alan Blair |
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Title: The Tidings Brought to Mary Author: Paul Claudel ISBN: 0982356102 Price: 15.95 Publisher: Human Adventure Books Publication Date: 03/01/2009 Format: Paperback Pages: 192 Description: HAB is happy to re-propose after many years Paul Claudel's play The Tidings Brought to Mary, a play in a translation by Louise Morgan Sill. A significant introduction by Luigi Giussani, founder of the Catholic lay ecclesial movement of Communion and Liberation, helps the reader to be drawn more deeply into the drama of the play and to find described there the drama which faces each of us. Pope Benedict XVI once made the point that world history is a struggle between two kinds of love: "self-love to the point of hatred for God, and love of God to the point of self-renunciation. This second love brings the redemption of the world and the self." This is the claim, the proposal of the play The Tidings Brought to Mary. After nearly a hundred years, as we watch this Infinite Love generate the play's heroic characters, we find ourselves begging in More... |
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Title: Benedictus Author: Peter Cameron, Pope Benedict ISBN: 978096761865 Price: 19.95 Publisher: Ignatius Press Publication Date: 11/28/06 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 415 Description: "The Benedictus refers to the advent of the incarnate God in our midst. Christ's eucharistic coming makes a present occurrence out of a promise, and brings the future into the here and now." Pope Benedict XVI |
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Title: Angels & Demons: What do we really know about them Author: Peter Kreeft ISBN: 0898705509 Price: 15.50 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: 12/12/95 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 157 Description: In response to actual questions many people have asked him about angels & demons, well-known author and philosophy professor Peter Kreeft separates fact from fantasy and myth from reality as he answers 101 common questions about these spiritual beings. Based on a very popular college course he teaches on this subject, this book responds to the incredible amount of interest in angelic beings and attempts to clear up some of the misinformation abounding in numerous books today on what we really know about these mysterious spirits |
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Title: Seek That Which is Above Author: Pope Benedict ISBN: 978158617187 Price: 17.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: 9/28/07 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 135 Description: In this beautifully illustrated book, Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) gives us profound meditations on what our life in Christ should be like as it is lived through the various Seasons and Feasts of the liturgical year. This book also includes thoughts on other spiritual and secular themes such as the true nature of peace, why it is difficult for so many to experience joy, the relationship between spirit and matter, vacation and rest, etc. These inspiring insights from the man who became Pope, show how Joseph Ratzinger's deeply spiritual and theological experience, together with his wider literary and cultural interests are a gift to the Church in the modern world. Here is a shepherd leading the faithful entrusted to his care to deep springs of refreshing, life giving water. |
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Title: Church Fathers Author: Pope Benedict XVI ISBN: 158617245X Price: 16.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: 30-Oct-08 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 196 Description: This rich and engrossing survey of the early Church includes those churchmen who immediately succeeded the Apostles, the "Apostolic Fathers": Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Justin Martyr, and Irenaeus of Lyon. Benedict also discusses such great Chrstian figures as Tertullian, Origen, and Cyprian of Cathage, the Cappadocian Fathers, as well as the gians John Chrysostom, Jerome, and Augustine. This book is a wonderful way to get to know many of the most prominent early Christians and the tremendous spiriutally rich patrimony they have bequeathed to us. |
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Title: Jesus of Nazareth Author: Pope Benedict XVI ISBN: 0385523416 Price: 26.00 Publisher: Doubleday Religion 7th Ed Publication Date: 5/15/2007 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 400 Description: In this bold, momentous work, the Pope seeks to salvage the person of Jesus from recent "popular" depictions and to restore Jesus' true identity as discovered in the Gospels. Through his brilliance as a theologian and his personal convictions as a believer, the Pope shares a rich, compelling, flesh-and-blood portrait of Jesus and invites us to encounter, face-to-face, the central figure of the Christian faith. |
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Title: Jesus of Nazareth Author: Pope Benedict XVI ISBN: 1586171984 Price: 16.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: 9/15/2008 Format: Paperback Pages: 389 Description: In this bold, momentous work, the Pope seeks to salvage the person of Jesus from recent "popular" depictions and to restore Jesus' true identity as discovered in the Gospels. Through his brilliance as a theologian and his personal convictions as a believer, the Pope shares a rich, compelling, flesh-and-blood portrait of Jesus and invites us to encounter, face-to-face, the central figure of the Christian faith. |
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Title: Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives Author: Pope Benedict XVI ISBN: 978038534640 Price: 20.00 Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group Publication Date: 11/21/12 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 144 Description: The momentous third and final volume in the Pope’s international bestselling Jesus of Nazareth series, detailing how the stories of Jesus’ infancy and childhood are as relevant today as they were two thousand years ago. In 2007, Joseph Ratzinger published his first book as Pope Benedict XVI in order “to make known the figure and message of Jesus.” Now, the Pope focuses exclusively on the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ life as a child. The root of these stories is the experience of hope found in the birth of Jesus and the affirmations of surrender and service embodied in his parents, Joseph and Mary. This is a story of longing and seeking, as demonstrated by the Magi searching for the redemption offered by the birth of a new king. It is a story of sacrifice and trusting completely in the wisdom of God as seen in the faith of Simeon, the More... |
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Title: Amoris Laetitia Author: Pope Francis ISBN: 1681920026 Price: 12.95 Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor Publication Date: April 22, 2016 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 236 Description: “All of us are called to keep striving towards something greater than ourselves and our families, and every family must feel this constant impulse. Let us make this journey as families, let us keep walking together.” Pope Francis, Amoris Laetitia In his groundbreaking work on modern family life, Amoris Laetitia: On Love in the Family, Pope Francis continues to guide and lead the Church, calling us to be a sign of mercy and encouragement for families of all shapes and sizes. |
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Title: Let This Holy Prophetic And Missionary Restlessness Burn In Your Hearts Author: Pope Francis ISBN: 902160677777 Price: 5.00 Publisher: HAB Publication Date: 12/1/22 Format: Trade Paperback Description: Audience of CL with Pope Francis on October 15, 2022 in St. Peter's Square, Rome, Italy. |
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Title: Rilkes Book of Hours Author: Rainer Maria Rilke ISBN: 978159448156 Price: 16.00 Publisher: Penguin Group Publication Date: 11/1/05 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 272 Description: "These poems of spiritual yearning and discovery composed by the Rilke one hundred years ago feel very fresh and moving in the beautifully transparent, supple versions of Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy. With their psalm-like directness and emotional urgency, they nourish and quicken the life of the spirit." Chana Bloch, translator of "The Song of Songs" |
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Title: The Crusaders Author: Regine Pernoud ISBN: 978089870949 Price: 17.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: 10/03 Format: Trade Paperback Description: Régine Pernoud presents for us a living picture in which we can view, first hand, the awe of the Christians as they beheld the Muslim world, the myriad ordeals they sustained while traveling for years in unknown lands, and the remarkable way in which they managed to adapt, to colonize, to erect churches and fortresses. |
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Title: Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses Author: Regine Pernoud ISBN: 978081281260 Price: 16.95 Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Publication Date: 1/25/69 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 316 Description: This is historical biography as it should be written...The author uses the letters, chronicles, and testimony at Joan's trial to thrust the legendary aspects of this young girl's life into the background and create an alive, believable human being. The translator, Edward Hyams, received the Scott-Moncrireff Translation Prize in 1965 for this book." 'Library Journal |
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Title: Martin of Tours Author: Regine Pernoud ISBN: 978158617031 Price: 14.95 Publisher: Ignatius Press Publication Date: 3/1/06 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 199 Description: Regine Pernoud, the highly acclaimed French medieval historian, and author of best-selling titles on Joan of Arc and Hildegard of Bingen, as well as the book Those Terrible Middle Ages, presents an enlightening biography of one of France's most revered saints, and a man whose impact on France, and Europe, continues to this day. Martin of Tours lived in the 4th century, at that great turning point in history when the Roman Empire fell and the Church took charge in the West. He left a successful career in the military life to become a monk, and later a Bishop who traveled extensively, evangelizing the countryside and creating that particular sort of community life in a village that is now called a "parish". More than four hundred towns and some four thousand parishes in France are named after St. Martin. The term "chapel" is derived from the actual church where pilgrims More... |
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Title: Convicted by Mercy: The Journey of Frank Simmonds from the Streets to Sanctity (Extraordinary Lives) Author: Rita A. Simmonds ISBN: 978-19414571 Price: 18.00 Publisher: Human Adventure Books Publication Date: December 31, 2019 Format: Paperback Pages: 300 Description: This riveting book by Rita Simmonds tells the true story of a saint. A saint who was a crack addict. A saint who was a shoplifter and did time. A saint who once lived in a cardboard shack on the roughest streets of New York City. A saint who, one cold night, told God that he would serve him for the rest of his life, and who was able to make good on that promise in the most extraordinary of ways. And yet, this is not the tale of a man who was “bad” and became “good.” Rather, it is the story of a long and transformative relationship, between a man and his God. It is the story of an ordinary New Yorker named Frank Simmonds, who had an extraordinary and unbiased openness to what was good in his life, and who allowed himself to be slowly but radically transformed, More... |
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Title: The Kings Achievement Author: Robert Hugh Benson ISBN: 978159818996 Price: 16.95 Publisher: Alan Rodgers Books Publication Date: 9/1/06 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 360 Description: Benson tells the story of a fictitious family during the time of King Henry VIII's dissolution of English monasteries. The brothers of the Torridon family make their way in the world -- the eldest, Ralph, in service to Cromwell and the youngest, Christopher in service to God and the Catholic Church as a monk in the Priory at Lewes. Their paths carry them to completely different destinations and Ralph is instrumental in turning Christopher and his fellow monks out of their monastery. Christopher, however, manages to rise above his pride and anger and ministers to Ralph in his hour of need. |
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Title: The Friendship of Christ Author: Robert Hugh Benson ISBN: 978188933440 Price: 13.95 Publisher: Scepter Publication Date: 1/28/02 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 148 Description: The Friendship of Christ shows you how to enjoy a relationship with God the Son that’s as easy and intimate as that between two old friends. Robert Hugh Benson explains how Christ works in the souls of those who seek Him, and how Christ is the one ideal friend in whom we find, perfect and complete, that for which we look in the faces of our human lovers. Examining Christ in the Church, the Eucharist, and in His earthly ministry, he introduces you to this ideal friend. |
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Title: Lord of the World Author: Robert Hugh Benson ISBN: 0870612980 Price: 20.00 Publisher: Christian Classics Publication Date: February 5, 2016 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 352 Description: In an airplane news conference on his return from the Philippines in January 2015, Pope Francis mentioned Robert Hugh Bensons Lord of the World. It was not the first time the Holy Father praised the book. This 1907 futuristic narrative has been hailed as the finest work of this unsung, but influential author and son of the Archbishop of Canterbury whose conversion to Catholicism rocked the Church of England in 1903. The compelling book includes a new introduction, a biography of Benson, and a theological reflection. Popular young adult books such as The Hunger Games and Divergent, as well as literary classics such as Walker Percys Love in the Ruins and Cormac McCarthys The Road, have created a growing interest in dystopian novels. In one of the first such novels of the twentieth century, Robert Hugh Benson imagines a world where belief in God has been replaced by secular humanism. Lord More... |
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Title: Catholic Martyrs of the 20th Century Author: Robert Royal ISBN: 97808245241 Price: 20.95 Publisher: The Crossroad Publishing Compsny Publication Date: 10/06 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 448 Description: In the twentieth century, more Catholics were persecuted, tortured, and martyred than in any previous century. The willingness to die for one's beliefs is the ultimate test of faith. The willingness to slaughter others for their faith is the ultimate proof of tyranny. Never before have faith and tyranny clashed with the ferocity of the twentieth century. From the atholic martyrs at Auschwitz to Oscar Romer; from Ita Ford and her companions to the recent murders of Christians in India: it is estimated that more than one million believers died for their faith in the "century of progress" we have just experienced. |
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Title: The End of the Modern World Author: Romano Guardini ISBN: 978188292658 Price: 18.00 Publisher: Intercollegiate College Institute Publication Date: April 2001 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 220 Description: An extended inquiry into the nature of the modern age, as well as a historical, philosophical, and theological analysis of modernity's prospects in the next millennium. This expanded edition includes the original text of The End of the Modern World, as well as the entirety of its explicit sequel, Power and Responsibility. Guardini analyzes modern man's conception of himself in the world, and examines the nature and use of power. It is the principle of individual responsibility that weaves both works into a seamless, comprehensive, and compelling moral statement. Guardini tirelessly argues that human beings are responsible moral agents, possessed of free will and answerable to God and their fellow man. |
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Title: The Lord Author: Romano Guardini ISBN: 978089526714 Price: 24.99 Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, An Eagle Publishing Company Publication Date: 1/28/1982 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 629 Description: "This book is a masterpiece. It embodies the wealth of modern exegetical criticism opened by Protestant theologians like Karl Barth; the great traditions of 'devotio moderna'; French 17th century thought; the great insights of the Catholic mystics; and the matured speculation of scholasticism. But above all, it is an approach to Christ through the Gospels".--Commonwealth. |
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Title: The Rosary of Our Lady Author: Romano Guardino ISBN: 978091847778 Price: 11.95 Publisher: Sophia Institute Press Publication Date: 7/1/99 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 164 Description: The Rosary book for everyone: This charming book will help to awaken or deepen your devotion to this beautiful prayer. Msgr. Romano Guardini offers clear explanations of the Rosary and fresh insights into the Mysteries found within it. |
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Title: Hamlet Author: Shakespeare ISBN: 978019283416 Price: 10.95 Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication Date: June 1998 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 416 |
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Title: The Wife Author: Sigrid Undset ISBN: 978014118041 Price: 15.99 Publisher: Penguin Group Publication Date: 12/28/97 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 336 Description: Set in fourteenth-century Norway, "The Wreath" begins the life story of Kristin Lavransdatter. Starting with Ktristin's childhood and continuing through her romance with Erlend Nikulaussen, a dangerously charming and impetuous man, Sigrid Undset re-creates the historical backdrop in vivid detail, immersing readers in the day-to-day life, social conventions, and political undercurrents of the period. But the story she tells is a modern one, brought to life with clarity and lyrical beauty in this remarkable translation by Tiina Nunnally. Defying her parents and stubbornly pursuing her own happiness, Kristin emerges as a woman who loves with power and passion. |
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Title: The Wife Author: Sigrid Undset ISBN: 978014118128 Price: 17.00 Publisher: Penguin Group Publication Date: 11/28/99 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 448 Description: The Wife (1921) continues the story of a passionate and willful woman in medieval Norway. Kristin is now married to Erlend Nikulausson, a man whose single-minded determination to become an influential social and political figure forces Kristin to take over the management of Erlend's estate, Husbay, while raising their seven sons. Once again, Undset presents the rich historical detail and compelling characters that make her Norway's most beloved author. |
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Title: The Cross Author: Sigrid Undset ISBN: 978014118235 Price: 16.00 Publisher: Penguin Group Publication Date: 4/28/00 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 464 Description: The Cross (1922) finds Kristin returning with her husband, Erlend, and their sons to her childhood home, Jorundgaard. As the boys grow older, Kristin is increasingly worried about their prospects, and she and Erlend become estranged. The most devastating and emotional volume in the trilogy, The Cross chronicles the trials and losses Kristin must bear, and how she finds the strength to endure them. This final chapter in her story emphasized the medieval belief that the spiritual world has primacy over the material one, a belief with which Undset herself concurred but found lacking in most of her own contemporaries. |
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Title: The Story of a Soul Author: St. Therese of Lisieux, John Beevers (translator) ISBN: 978038590290 Price: 11.00 Publisher: Doubleday Religious Publishing Group Publication Date: 11/28/87 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 159 Description: Few spiritual figures have touched as many readers in the past century as Saint Therese of Lisieux, the saint popularly known as the Little Flower. Though she was on twenty-four years old when she died, her writings have had tremendous impact, making her one of the most popular spiritual writers in the twentieth century. Her autobiography, "The Story of a Soul," has been a source of priceless inspiration ever since it was written, and has become the great spiritual bestseller of our time. A hundred years after her death in 1897 millions of copies have spread throughout the world and it has been translated into more than fifty languages. |
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Title: Murder in the Cathedral Author: T. S. Eliot ISBN: 978015663277 Price: 9.99 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publication Date: 3/28/64 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 96 Description: T. S. Eliot's verse dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature The Archbishop Thomas Becket speaks fatal words before he is martyred in T. S. Eliot's best-known drama, based on the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1170. Praised for its poetically masterful handling of issues of faith, politics, and the common good, T. S. Eliot's play bolstered his reputation as the most significant poet of his time. A dramatization in verse of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury. |
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Title: Catholicism for Dummies 2nd Edition Author: Trigilio ISBN: 978111807778 Price: 34.99 Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated Publication Date: 11/11 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 432 Description: What does it mean to be Catholic? What are the fundamental beliefs and history behind this religion? Catholicism For Dummies, 2nd Edition is an intelligent and faithful look at Catholicism that will open your eyes to this religfion and answer many of the questions you may have about it. Plus, in this new edition, you'll find the updated text of theMass according to the Roman Missal, Third Edition, as well as all-new chapters on creation, deepening your faith, and what joining the Church is all about. |
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Title: Life Promises Life Author: Vincent Nagle ISBN: 0982356110 Price: 15.00 Publisher: Human Adventure Books Publication Date: May 1, 2009 Format: Paperback Pages: 116 Description: "Jesus did not eliminate human suffering: He came to suffer together with us." With these words Fr. Vincent Nagle introduces his readers to his work in the hospital where he has served for years as chaplain. Trite phrases just don't cut it when families are confronted by the mystery of suffering. "When I go into a hospital room, I go in with a broken heart, willing to share this adventure with these patients whose very selves are broken apart by illness. I don't want to give them false comfort, but real hope." Brief and intense fragments of hospital life are alternated with the fascinating story of Fr. Vincent's own journey to faith and the priesthood. "When I understood that in order to be truly alive I needed to return to the faith, my condition was that God not let me be separated from the difficulties of life." And God took More... |