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The Catholic Priest, Image of Christ

Through Fifteen Centuries of Art
Steen Heidemann - Editor
"Usually images speak louder than words and are more expressive than words and, therefore, a work devoted to the priesthood acquires a very special dimension when, alongside the various texts, the reader can look at illustrations chosen from paintings of the Old Masters who portrayed eminent priests at various stages of their lives.

The priestly minstry is a fundamental element of the Church, exactly as Our Lord Jesus Christ wished. He Himself was and is, for all eternity, the sovereign and eternal Priest of the New Covenant, because, as the Epistle to the Hebrews teaches us. He offered to the Father, on the Cross, the sacrifice of perfect adoration, of thanksgiving, propitiation of sins of the world and the granting of grace for all the spiritual and temporal needs of mankind. In this holiest of Sacrifices which is made by the whole Church every time the Eucharist is celebrated, Christ is present as Priest, Victim and Altar.

This is the Catholic image of the priest and this handsome book will greatly help towards appreciating its very rich facets and the endless ways the grace of God shines through each priest for the glory of the Blessed Trinity and the spiritual welfare of the Church and each Christian within Her."
His Eminence Jorge Cardinal Mendina Estévez

978 085244 178 7 320 pages 560 colour illustrations £40.00hb available
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Christ in His Mysteries
Blessed Columba Marmion
This is Blessed Columba Mamion's great meditation on the treasure-house of grace Christ offers us in the Church's liturgical year. In the clear inspiring language that made him a favourite of Popes and lay faithful alike, he explains:
* How the Mysteries of Jesus are now our mysteries- springs of living water we are meant to drink from.
* How Christ's wisdom, His holiness, His strength, are now our wisdom, our holiness, our strength.
* How to acquire special graces during each liturgical season.
"Writings of deep insight and great value... An authentic treasury of original truth." Pope John Paul II

978 085244 735 2 496 pages £17.99 February 2010

The Church and the World

978 085244 588 4 230 pages £9.99 available

Come Apart and Rest a While

978 085244 691 1 128 pages Illustrated in colour £7.99 available

Conversations

978 085244 629 4 460 pages £20.00 available

Creation and Scientific Creativity

Paul Haffner
Father Stanley Jaki (1924-2009) was one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century and his contribution to Catholic thought and culture has been profound, especially regarding the relationship between science and religion. This work focuses on the close link joining science and Christianity, despite the differences between them. Through his study of modern science, theology, and history, Stanley Jaki showed faith and reason are not mutually exclusive. The problems arise because of those ideologies which seek to eliminate God from the ultimate equation. Jaki highlighted the Christian origins of the modern natural sciences. He showed that the concept of the cosmos as both contingent and rational, together with the acceptance that God could work through secondary causes, providing the unique environment for the natural sciences to flourish, from the Middle Ages onwards. He explored the crucial role played by belief in creation out of nothing and in time, reinforced by faith in the Incarnation, in enabling this birth of science. This book contains the firest systematic treatment of the ideas of the late Stanley Jaki, and is the only complete work, with an entire bibliography, approved by him during his lifetime.

978 085244 454 2 332 pages £14.99 available

Dominus Est - It is the Lord!

Reflections of a Bishop of Central Asia on Holy Communion
The Most Reverend Schneider
Holy Communion is not just a convivial moment of spiritual nourishment; it is the most personal encounter possible in this life between the faithful Christian and his Lord and God. The best interior attitude to this encounter is one of receptivity, humility, and spiritual childhood. Such an attitude, by its very nature, is expressed through gestures of adoration and reverence. We have eloquent witnesses to this truth from the tradition of the Church, summarised by the sayings cum amore ac timore (with love and fear) from the first millennium and quantum potes, tantum aude (dare to do as much as you can) from the second. To illustrate how this attitude manifests itself, the author shares stories of three "Eucharistic women" known to him from the Soviet Underground. This book encourages Catholics of the third millennium to treat the Lord, in the august moment of Holy Communion, in a manner appropriate to the Church's tradition.
'I have read the whole book with delight. It is excellent' - Francis Cardinal Arinze

978 097788 461 2 64 pages £5.99 available

Early Carthusian Writings

Echoing the Silence

978 085244 193 0 134 pages £7.99 available

Elizabeth Hayes

Strongly committed to living a Franciscan way of life, as foundress, teacher, religious sister and journalist, Elizabeth's desire for mission in foreign places fired her with a courageous determination. Concerned for the poor, she had a bold and broad vision yet her capacity to mingle comfortably with key religious and literary figures of the period in England, Paris, Rome and North America set her apart.

In the 'age of journalism', she ventured confidently into an arena where most women writers struggled for acknowledgement and even took on male pseudonyms in order to succeed. Many journals proved ephemeral yet Elizabeth's monthly periodical published first in Minnesota, then in Georgia and finally in Rome was to endure. No minor player in Victorian Catholic journalism, she wrote, edited, published and distributed through her Sisters the first English Franciscan journal, initiated in 1874. She continued these roles for twenty-one years until her death and her periodical itself continued for a century.

Elizabeth carved out a fresh Franciscan path that indicated how she grasped the purpose of her life and the importance of good journalistic literature for society. Annals' subscribers were more than readers with needs; they collaborated in a seven-hundred year old Franciscan way of life with its rich history, traditions, missions and Franciscan spirituality through her confraternity. This was the cornerstone of the ultimate success of Elizabeth's mission through journalism, a mission that responded exactly to the needs for Catholic evangelism following the great migrant influx (1825-50) in North America.

978 0 85244 209 8 348 illustrated pages £14.99 available

Elizabeth Prout: 1820-1864
A Religious Life for Industrial England
Edna Hamer
A revised edition of this classic biography of a remarkable woman, a heroine of the Industrial Revolution who immersed herself in the chaos of Manchester's worst slums and brought comfort, education and hope to the poorest of the poor - the largely Irish and immigrant Catholic mill workers. All this was almost incidental to her overriding vocation, for Elizabeth Prout was the founder of a religious order whose members were themselves mainly from working-class backgrounds. Without endowments or wealthy patrons, these Sisters of the Cross and Passion worked tirelessly both to support themselves and to help the slum dwellers amongst whom they lived.

978 085244 171 8 376 pages Illustrated £20.00 March 2010

English Catholic Heroes

978 085244 604 1 224 pages Illustrated £9.99 available

English Catholic Heroines

978 085244 185 5 328 pages £9.99 available

The Family and Descendants of St.Thomas More

Although it is approaching five hundred years since he died, interest in Sir Thomas More, one-time Chancellor of England, lives on. His story is well known, but for the first time this extended biography asks 'What happened to his family?'. Written by one of his descendants, it traces the family from Tudor England to the middle of the nineteenth century, when after the death in 1795 of the last male heir, Fr Thomas More SJ, the remaining family estate has passed to his sister. By this time Catholics had been received back into the society from which they had so long been excluded.

978 085244 681 2 308 pages £17.99 available

Following the Silence

978 085244 492 4 96 pages £6.99 available

From Hermes to Benedict XVI

978 0 85244 699 7 288 pages £14.99 available

The Gargoyle Code

The Gargoyle Code makes for un-put-downable reading at any time, but it is especially designed as a book to be read during Lent. The letters from the tempters begin on Shrove Tuesday and follow day by day, taking the reader on an entertaining enlightening and sobering journey to Easter Day.

978 1 935302 00 1 128 pages £8.99 available

George Myers: Pugin's Builder
Patricia Spencer-Silver
George Myers (1803-1875) was one of the mid-nineteenth century's great masterbuilders. From his workshops, first in his native Hull and later in London, he directed a nationwide contracting business executing many large and important contracts. These included the original army camp at Aldershot, military hospitals, asylums, workhouses, banks and commercial premises, country houses and restorations - among the last was the Norman Chapel of St.John in the tower of London.
But it was as the favourite builder of the prolific Gothic-revival church architect, designer and polemicist, A.W.N.Pugin, that Myers became well known, to the extent of earning himself the soubriquet 'Pugin's builder'. Described by Pugin as 'a rough diamond, but a real diamond', Myers executed most of Pugin's English commissions, among them no fewer than four Catholic cathedrals - Birmingham, Southwark, Newcastle and Nottingham - all built within the space of a single decade.

978 085244 184 8 294 illustrated pages £20.00hb March 2010

The Gift of Thérèse of Lisieux

John Udris
'Perfection lies in being just what he wants us to be.' Thérèse of Lisieux understood our unique identity in God, and spent her life bringing others to know this truth, leading her to describe herself once as "the mother of souls". But Therese is also widely known as "The Little Flower" for her simplicity and her belief in smallness as an attitude before God. Allied to smallness is weakness and Therese found this to be an essential part of the Christian's journey, encouraging us to be joyful in it as it leads us to God on a daily basis. Such gratitude overflows her thinking, making her praise and prayer simple and immediate.

This book is written by the noted Thérèse scholar John Udris, Dean of Northampton Cathedral, and superbly illustrated by well-known calligrapher Lynne Muir.

978 0 85244 598 3hb 128 pages Illustrated £7.99 available

A Glimpse of Heaven DVD

Great Catholic Churches of England and Wales
When Christopher Martin's survey of Catholic churches 'A Glimpse of Heaven', with photography by Alex Ramsay, was published in 2006 it was a great and immediate success. It was "A revelation" according to both The Times and The Independent on Sunday, a "landmark" and "a pioneering survey". Now the author has created a DVD which tells the extradordinary story of how the Catholic faith in England and Wales survived after the Reformation. The architectural legacy is breathtaking ranging from the imperious Gothic of Pugin and the High Victorians to theByzantine magnificence of Westminster Cathedral or from a simple village in Cumberland to the unflinching Modernism of Liverpool Cathedral. The story ends with a triumphant return to the Classical style at Brentwood Cathedral - the last important Catholic commission in Britain. Taking part are architects, distinguished historians, churchmen and conservationists including Marcus Binney, Lord Camoys, Gavin Stamp, Mark Girouard, Abbot Geoffrey Scott OSB, Sophie Andreae, Bishop Thomas McMahon, Quinlan Terry and Austin Winkley. The DVD features Alex Ramsay's splendid still photography which is intercut with the brilliant cinematograohy of Charles Chabot.

978 085244 697 3 (2 DVD set) 110 minutes £12.99

A Glimpse of Heaven

The Holy Eucharist
Studies on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, its Celebration and Concelebration
Joseph de Sainte-Marie, OCD
Without calling for a change in the post-Conciliar discipline of the Latin Church, the author offers a complete and trenchant historical and dogmatic critique of the recent neglect of the individuallly celebrated mass in favour of concelebration.
978 085244 310 1 472 pages £20.00 March 2010

An Illustrated Catechism

A wonderful teaching resource for children and an introduction to the basics of Catholic faith for adults. Beautifully illustrated in an intensely vibrant style reminiscent of medieval illuminations, this book is organised according to the outline of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, with a section corresponding to each of the four main parts: The Creed, The Sacraments, The Commandments and Prayer.

978 085244 679 9 142 pages £12.99 available

In a Great and Noble Tradition

The Autobiography of Dom Prosper Guéranger
Translated and edited by Br David Hayes, OSB and Sr Hyacinthe Defos du Rau, OP
The life of the founder of the Benedictine Abbey of Solesmes in France. While Guéranger (1805-1875) published many liturgical and spiritual works, this highly personal account of his early life and events surrounding the foundation of Solesmes in 1833 was never intended for publication, remaining in the archives of the Abbey for well over a hundred years. This account of his spiritual and intellectual awakening provides impetus for a renewed contemporary appreciation of his convictions, which are of perennial value for all who are seeking God. The monastic community he founded bears witness to the transforming power of contemplative liturgical spirituality lived in and for the Church and the world. As such, monastic life serves as an exemplar of spiritual and human values whose relevance extends far beyond the cloister.

978 085244 309 5 278 pages £12.99 available

John Lingard

978 085244 491 7 384 pages Illustrated £20.00hb available

An Introduction to the Liturgical Year

978 085244 293 7 98 pages £7.99 available

Old Testament Priests and the New Priest

978 085244 003 2 333 pages £14.99 available

The Origins of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi

The four branches are tales of love, adventure and magic, but also rape, adultery, betrayal and attempted murder. Although most scholars agree that the four stories are the work of a single author, there has been no agreement on where and when they were composed. It has always been assumed that they were the work of a male author, however, Andrew Breeze's sensational analysis convincingly shows they were composed by a female author.

978 0 85244 553 2 164 pages £9.99 available

The Pelican in the Wilderness

978 085244 621 8 172 pages £7.99 available

Pure Attraction

978 085244 539 6 130 pages £6.99 available

Restoring the Anglican Mind: New Edition

978 085244 695 9 140 pages Illustrated £7.99 available

Ronald Knox and English Catholicism

978 085244 250 0 232 pages £12.99 available

Sermons Preached on Various Occasions

978 085244 408 5 hb 408 pages £25.00 available
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St Thérèse of Lisieux "I Choose All"

978 085244 452 8 258 pages £9.99 available

The School of Compassion

This book is the fullest systemic treatment of the moral status of animals within the Roman Catholic tradition. It is the result of painstaking scholarship, wide reading, and, most of all, insightful theological exploration.

Revd Professor Andrew Linzey

978 0 85244 731 4 256 pages £14.99 available

The Spiritual Writings

Cardinal Merry del Val
Edited and translated by Harriet Murphy
Raphael, Cardinal Merry del Val, Secretary of State to Pope St.Pius X from 1903 to 1914, was born in the Spanish Embassy in London in 1865, the son of a distinguished Spanish diplomat of Irish origin and English mother. Educated by the Jesuits, he was to become a priest after a brilliant period of study, first in England then in Rome. Jealousy long supposed he owed the prodigious rise of his career to a privilege of birth, the truth is very different - far from seeking honours he only ever wished to be an ordinary priest - however, from an aristocratic background and speaking many languages, the Vatican had great duties for him. He died in Rome in 1930 and is buried in St.Peter's Basilica. This collection of his work includes sermons, prayers, writings on the Saints, Sacraments and Mary, addresses to conferences and letters of spiritual direction.

978 085244 122 0 242 pages £9.99 available

Teresa Helena Higginson

978 085244 181 7 404 pages £17.99 available

Towards a Theology of the Environment

978 085244 368 2 362 pages £15.99 available

A Trappist Meeting Monks from Tibet Bernard de Give

The invasion of Tibet in 1950, followed by the voluntary exile of the Dalai Lama and of a significant number of Tibetans, though a disaster was also an opportunity for this traditional culture to become accessible to Westerners eager for a spirituality which would correspond to their needs. The author, a Trappist monk since 1972, has travelled extensively in his meetings and dialogue with non-Christian monastic orders. He presents the history and spirituality of monasticism, detailing his personal encounters with monks of the East, and looking at the differences and agreements he concludes with a theoretical comparison of the philosophies.

978 0 85244 535 8 416 pages £20.00 March 2010

Try a Little Lowliness

978 085244 694 2 256 pages £9.99 available

Turkey in Europe

Roberto de Mattei Translated by John Laughland
European Governmeantsand other institutions are currently engaged in complex negotiations over the question of the accession of Turkey to the European union. Many doubts and reservations on this matter have been raised in the past years. Those who support Turkey's joining the EU maintain that it would prove to be a natural ally of the West in the fight against Islamist Fundamentalism. However, Turkey today is no longer the lay country of Kemal Ataturk: with the 2002 elections, further confirmed by the 2004 elections, the "party of the veil" led by the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the President Abdullah Gul, both with a proven background of radical Islamist fundamentalism, came into power. The Treaty of Lisbon stipulates that each State in the European Union has a political weight directly proportional to its demographics. Turkey, with its almost 85 millions inhabitants, would therefore be the most populated country and, as a consequence, the most represented in the European Parliament. While Europe is giving up on its Christian roots, Turkey exhibits an extremely well-defined and strong religious - political identity and its request to join the EU has not been put forward in order to renounce such identity, but, on the contrary, to impose it more widely. With or without Erdogan, Turkey would become the leader of the Islamic minority within the European institutions, where it will no doubt play a central role. So would the potential joining of Turkey be of benefit or, instead, an irreparable catastrophe for our Continent? This book poses the question and raises the alarm.

978 085244 732 1 104 pages £12.99 @ special price £9.99 available

The Venerable English College

The Venerable English College in Rome has played a crucial role in the history of Catholicism in England from the Reformation period to our own time. It is over twenty years since this remarkable history of the English College first appeared and it has long been out of print. Now republished in a revised and updated edition, with many illustrations from the College's collection, it includes a new chapter 'from Post-War to Post-Conciliar Rome'; the notes and appendices have been expanded to take account of recent research and publication.

978 085244 048 3 356 pages +8 colour Illustrated £14.99hb

Vita Communis

978 085244 201 2 330 pages £15.99 available

With Christ in His Passion: Elizabeth Prout

978 085244 183 1 96 pages £5.99 available

A Year Book of Seasons and Celebrations

In the twenty-one years since the publication of her best-selling Book of Feasts and Seasons Joanna Bogle has assembled a wealth of further material to help us restore the traditions of the Church Year to our lives - here are fresh ideas for things to make, eat, do and sing around the whole year. An enriching resource for home, school and parish alike. This book celebrates Christian values, culture and history, giving opportunities for hopitality, friendship and learning.

978 085244 129 9 128 pages available £7.99

Other titles due for publication:

May/June 2009
From Hermes to Benedict XVI (Nichols, A) 9780852446997 £14.99 available
Early Carthusian Writings (St.Bruno) 9780852446898 £7.99 available
In a Great and Noble Tradition (Guéranger, Dom Prosper) 9780852443095 £12.99 available
The Origins of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi (Breeze, A) 9780852445532 £9.99 available
St.Thérèse of Lisieux "I Choose All" (Margaret, Sr Teresa) 9780852444528 £9.99 available

July 2009
Elizabeth Hayes (Shaw, F) 9780852442098 £14.99 available
The Gift of Thérèse of Lisieux (Udris, J) 9780852445983 £7.999hb available
The School of Compassion (Jones, D) 9780852447314 £14.99 available

August 2009
Vita Communis (Bertram, J) 978852442012 £15.99 available
Creation and Scientific Creativity (Haffner, P) 9780852444542 £14.99 available

October 2009
The Gargoyle Code (Longenecker, D) 9781935302001 £8.99 available
Old Testament Priests and the New Priest (Vanhoye, A) 9780852440032 £14.99 available
Pure Attraction (Murphy, P) 9780852445396 £6.99 available

November 2009
A Glimpse of Heaven paperback 9781905624621 £20.00 available
Ronald Knox and English Catholicism (Tastard, T) 9780852442500 £12.99 available
English Catholic Heroines (Bogle, J (ed)) 9780852441855 £9.99 available
Turkey in Europe (de Mattei, R) 9780852447321 £9.99 available
Following the Silence (Alexander, G) 9780852444924 £6.99 available

December 2009
The Catholic Priest, Image of Christ (Heidemann, S (ed)) 9780852441787 £40.00hb available

February/March 2010
Christianity in Iraq - New Edition (Rassam, S) tba
Christ in His Mysteries (Marmion, C) 9780852447352 £17.99
Elizabeth Prout (Hamer, E) 9780852441718 £20.00hb
The Story of the Rosary (Vail, A) 9780852443750 £7.99
The Great Prayer (Ross Williamson, H) 9780852442951 £9.99
Climbing the Mountain (Tolhurst, J) 9780852443729 £9.99
First Initiation into the Carthusian Life (Carthusian, A) 9780852441473 £7.99
A Trappist Meeting Monks from Tibet Bernard de Give 9780852445358 £20.00
Christianity and Jerusalem (O'Mahoney, A (ed)) 9780852446461 £20.00
Mystery of Creation - Revised Edition (Haffner, P) 9780852443163 £15.99
The Holy Eucharist (de Sainte-Marie,J) 9780852443101 £20.00
Blessed John Henry Newman: A Very English Saint (Chisnall, P) 9780852446836 £15.99
A Father of Souls:The Priestly Life of Blessed John Henry Newman (Skinner, G) tba
George Myers: Pugin's Builder (Spencer-Silver, P) 9780852441848 £20.00
Path to Rome - Revised Edition (Blamires, C (ed)) tba

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