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Selected 2023-2024 titles


Aquinas’s Lenten Meditations
40 Day’s with the Angelic Doctor
Saint Thomas Aquinas


A magnificent treasury of sixty-three of Aquinas’s Scripture-based sermons specially selected for the holy season. From Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday, you’ll learn how to deepen your prayer life, conquer temptation, resist the evils incurred by sin, and equip yourself for spiritual battle.

978-1-64413-706-2  220 pages  £14.99



Credo
Compendium of the Catholic Faith
Bishop Athanasius Schneider

For the first time in over fifty years, a Catholic bishop has published his own comprehensive presentation of the Faith—what to believe, how to live, and how to pray as Christ taught. Sure to be a classic for generations to come, This book offers a clear and readable summary of Catholicism as a whole, given in the pastoral style of the apostles. Bishop Schneider shares a bold new articulation of timeless truths, while also engaging current issues with courage and kindness.

978-1-64413-940-0  496 pages  £19.99 Hardback





Everyday Miracles of Lourdes
Twenty Extraordinary Experiences Along the Way to the Grotto
Marlene Watkins

Though they escape the notice of many, stunning miracles of healing take place each and every day at Our Lady’s Grotto in Lourdes, France. Inexplicable, biblical-like healings of body, mind, and spirit leave visitors with the gifts of peace and renewed faith. Here is the book that will move you, deepen your faith in Our Lady’s active involvement in our world, and help you personally encounter Our Lord.

978-1-68278-344-3   272 pages  £16.50


Ceremonial for Priests
Msgr. Marc Caron


Provides you with the directions and indications needed to carry out the various rites found in the liturgical books of the Catholic Church. This manual aims to restore the grammar and syntax to the body language demanded by the celebration of Mass, the sacraments, and sacramentals. The scope is limited to those rites that the typical parish clergy are most likely to celebrate on a regular basis. It will assist priests and all those who exercise liturgical ministries with a detailed description of liturgical celebrations commonly found in parishes.

978-1-64413-934-9  448 pages  £24.99



Contemplating the Seven Sorrows of Mary
A Chaplet with St. Alphonsus Liguori

by Joseph Hollcraft, Ruth Berghorst

 
About Our Lady’s Seven Sorrows and how to overcome temptations and trials as she did. Among the many sufferings she endured, these particular sorrows flowed from Satan’s efforts to undermine her crucial role in our redemption. This book aims to acquaint Catholics with these vital sorrows — and the advantages Our Lady has linked to this devotion.

                     979-8-88911-168-9  192 pages £14.99



Holy Silence
A Practical Guide to Recollection in God
Basil Nortz

Masterfully builds upon the classic reflections of Sr. Marie-Aimée de Jésus, a nineteenth-century spiritual mystic and Carmelite nun, on the twelve degrees of silence. By cultivating these types of silence, you will find out how you can — even amid your busy days filled with chatter, commotion, and noise — listen to the voice of God.


978-1-64413-910-3  208 pages  £14.99



The Interior Life of St Thomas Aquinas
     
Martin Grabmann

St Thomas Aquinas’ intellectual prowess is well known but the private spiritual life of this illustrious Doctor of the Church has received less attention. In this revealing book by a foremost authority on Aquinas, you will gain insights into Aquinas’s heart through his works and the acts of his canonization process. It highlights three areas in the saint’s interior life: wisdom, charity, and peace. Through St Thomas’s own words you will come to understand how and why he learned more at the feet of the Crucified One than in the innumerable books he read.

979-8-88911-092-7   144 pages   £12.50  



Inside the Cloistered Life
Personal Letters of a Carmelite Nun

Letters from Sr. Marie, a young novice, answer all of her family’s questions in an endearing, conversational way and explains all aspects of her new life as a Carmelite nun. Her profound reflections and the down-to-earth, often humorous stories she tells will enable you to taste the Carmelites’ life-giving vocation and discover how you can imitate their devotion in your own daily life.


979-8-88911-098-9  200 pages  £12.99



A Primer on Fundamental Moral Theology
Fr Brian Thomas Becket Mulladay, O.P., S.T.D.

This book is invaluable for anyone who wants a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental principles of Catholic moral teaching. In these powerful pages, Fr Mullady unpacks how the Church is called to help form the culture and not vice versa. He explains a spectrum of truths, from man’s ultimate end, to the role of the will, to conscience and responsibility, to types of sins, virtues, and laws, and ultimately, to grace.


978-1-68278-360-3    336 pages  £17.99


New Scientific Evidence for the Existence of God
Jose Carlos González-Hurtado

Here is the book you need to challenge atheists and agnostics to defend their ideologies logically and rationally and to fortify your own beliefs. In this distinctive book, which draws from all fields of science, the author presents a preponderance of empirical evidence for theism in a way that you can easily understand and explains how atheism twists reality to justify its view by “selective skepticism.”

978-1-68278-383-2  336 pages  £15.50



The Saint Edmund Campion Missal
For the Traditional Latin Mass

Perhaps the most beautiful and accessible missal ever published, This Missal stands alone among Extraordinary Form missals, serving as an elegant and dignified congregational book presenting the Traditional Latin Mass. Lavishly designed with large fonts, beautiful artwork, photographs, and Gregorian chant. Featuring not only the Sunday and Feast Day propers and readings in both Latin and English, it also has plainchant for the Kyria, Gloria, Credo, and Sanctus. Also, other sacraments and rites in the Extraordinary Form, such as marriage, confirmation, and funerals.

978-1-64413-455-9  832 pages  £24.99 Hardback


The Secret of the Cure D’Ars
Henri Gheon
Foreword by G.K. Chesterton

The life of St. John Vianney (1784–1859) was marked by boundless humility and obedience to God. Acclaimed dramatist Henri Ghéon presents a model of great holiness whom all readers can appreciate. Vianney “cured souls and bodies,” he writes. “He read hearts like a book. And the Blessed Virgin visited him, and the foul fiend dragged him by the heels but could not prevent him from being a saint.”


978-1-64413-844-1   176 pages  £14.99


The Shroud of Jesus
And the Sign John Ingeniously Concealed
Gilbert Lavoie

Invites you on a fascinating adventure to examine the Shroud of Turin, juxtaposing scientific findings with John’s Gospel account of the death and resurrection of Jesus. This story of the life of Jesus comes alive through relatable, real-world scientific witnesses who explore whether the image on the shroud is the work of human hands, a natural phenomenon, or a supernatural event. Highly illustrated.


978-1-64413-886-1  256 pages  £16.50


Guidance in Spiritual Direction
Advice from the Holiest Men and Women of All Time
Msgr. Charles Hugo Doyle


Lays out the classic principles of Catholic spirituality and distills advice from saints who were commonly regarded as the greatest spiritual directors of their time. The author shares wisdom and practical advice on the process that holds rewards not only for priests but for lay faithful as well.


979-8-88911-066-8  368 pages  £16.50


Understanding St Paul
A Concise Guide to His Theology, His Letters, and His Life
Bob Evans


Lays out how St. Paul’s letters are organized and his view about important topics including grace, the struggle against evil, and the resurrection of the dead. Best of all, you will grow in knowledge of and fervor for the Holy Eucharist, Sacraments and charisms. Saint Paul will teach you how Christology evolved and ways to most prudently order your life. Also provided are guidelines based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church for understanding Scripture.

978-1-64413-814-4  192 pages  £15.50




God’s Presence in the Eucharist and in the World
Meditations for Union with God
Cardinal Gerhard Műller

Cardinal Müller deftly breaks open Sacred Scripture and the writings of theologians and philosophers in addressing misconceptions about the nature of God and divine revelation. Through his penetrating insights and counsel, you will find the enlightening horizon through which natural reason operates.


979-8-88911-248-8  224 pages  £15.50



The Habsburg Way
Seven Rules for Turbulent Times
Eduard Habsburg, Archduke of Austria


F
ew families in history are as renowned as the Habsburgs, one of the principal sovereign dynasties of Europe from the thirteenth to the twentieth century. These enthralling pages provide glimpses into the lives of their esteemed members. The lessons that their lives teach will help guide your family in faith and will help you live in peaceful prosperity and grow in holiness. Their maxims could also provide a roadmap for healing the world we live in.


978-1-64413-810-6  176 pages  £16.50 Hardback



Building a Wholesome Family
 in a Broken World

Eduard Habsburg, Archduke of Austria


Discover concrete ways to nurture and educate your children to be truly happy in a world in which wholesome family life has become countercultural. As this scion of one of the great Catholic families in Western history reminds us, “This is the way!”


979-8-88911-256-3  176 pages  £16.50

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