Prayer

The Catholic Book of Prayers from Catholic Book Publishing is printed in giant size type and especially helpful for use in dimly lit churches and for those with limited vision. Today's most popular general prayer book, the Catholic Book of Prayers offers prayers for every day, as well as many special prayers including prayers to the Blessed Trinity, Our Lady, and the Saints. Compiled and edited by Rev. Maurus FitzGerald, O.F.M., this giant type book has a lovely brown imitation leather cover with a ribbon for convenient place-keeping and can be carried easily in a purse or pocket. With a helpful summary of our Catholic Faith, this useful prayer book will prove invaluable for making regular prayer easy and meaningful. 

• Pages: 256
• Author: REV. MAURUS FITZGERALD
• Size: 4 X 6 1/4
• Color: BROWN
• Binding: DURA-LUX

The Catholic Book of Prayers from Catholic Book Publishing is printed in giant size type and especially helpful for use in dimly lit churches and for those with limited vision. Today's most popular general prayer book, the Catholic Book of Prayers offers prayers for every day, as well as many special prayers including prayers to the Blessed Trinity, Our Lady, and the Saints. Compiled and edited by Rev. Maurus FitzGerald, O.F.M., this giant type book has a lovely green imitation leather cover with a ribbon for convenient place-keeping and can be carried easily in a purse or pocket. With a helpful summary of our Catholic Faith, this useful prayer book will prove invaluable for making regular prayer easy and meaningful. 

• Pages: 256
• Author: REV. MAURUS FITZGERALD
• Size: 4 X 6 1/4
• Color: GREEN
• Binding: DURA-LUX

Great are you, O Lord ... because you have made us and drawn us to yourself, and our heart is unquiet until it rests in you. (Confessions I, 1, 1)

Saint Augustine's Confessions is considered one of the literary masterpieces of the Western world, one of the classics of civilization. Imbedded in The Confessions are awesome, moving prayers, which depict Augustine's passion for life, his thirst for God, his compassion on his neighbor, and, above all, his love for humanity in God. These are collected in the present collection, which opens up to the reader the intimate relationship of love of one of Christianity's greatest souls.

Let me seek you, Lord, even while I am calling upon you, and call upon you even as I believe in you; for to us you have indeed been preached. My faith calls upon you, Lord, this faith which is your gift to me, which you have breathed into me through the humanity of your Son and the ministry of your preacher. (Confessions I, 1, 1)

The Confessions is a prayer in itself, from the beginning of Book I to the ending of Book XIII. Augustine wrote this prayer to give praise and thanks to the all-powerful and all-knowing God for the many wonders manifested in his journey and for the providential designs in his life. Augustine remembers his past, reflects on the present, and puts his faith and hope in God’s future plan for the remaining years of his life.

Page Count 144 pages

The Catholic Childrens Prayer Book.

The most complete offering of traditional Catholic prayers for children. The text covers everything fromWho is God, To the Mass, the Saints, the Rosary and basic prayers.

148 pages, 4 x 5 1/2 Hardcover.

A Catholic Woman's Book of Days

Author: Amy Welborn has created a one-volume daily devotional for Catholic women. While a number of successful devotionals for women have been published for the general Christian market, A Catholic Woman's Book of Days is the first resource of its kind specifically for Catholic women.

The entries are brief, pointed, and written to help Catholic women connect their everyday concerns with God's Word in the context of their Catholic faith. Each entry is introduced by a Scripture verse and followed by a one-sentence prayer.

A Catholic Woman's Book of Days will appeal to the sensibilities of modern Catholic women while honoring the sacred traditions of their two-thousand-year-old faith.

Amy Welborn is the author of Loyola Kids Book of Heroes, Loyola Kids Book of Saints (Loyola Press) and the Prove It! series of apologetics books for youth (Our Sunday Visitor). She is also the editor of the Loyola Classics series (Loyola Press). Amy resides in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with her family.

MY MEDITATION ON THE GOSPEL

My Daily Bread

Author: Rev. Anthony J. Paone, S.J., 574 pages

Hear Christ speak to you like never before.

My Daily Bread is a series of short, daily reflections on the spiritual life. Written with loving care by Father Anthony Paone, this devotional will strengthen your love for Christ and his teachings.

Written as a dialogue with Christ himself, Father Paone leads the reader through the three ways of the spiritual life: Purification, Imitation, and Union. Arranged for daily reflection, this pocket-sized book is an indispensable guide to the spiritual life.

My Daily Bread overflows with reflections and prayers specifically designed to help you grow in the spiritual life and overcome failings, including:

• How to cultivate, recognize, and follow your conscience (p. 18)
• A contemplation of the Four Last Things that will help keep our focus on the eternal (p.25)
• The power of prayer as the first remedy to temptation (p. 99)
• A detailed guide on how to conquer a host of bad habits (p. 153)
• How to overcome our fear of suffering and instead embrace it as Christ embraced it (p. 203)
• How to live for Christ daily through spiritual reading, prayer, overcoming distractions, and cultivating devotions
• Achieving union with Christ through the Eucharist (p. 382)
• And much more…

Each daily reflection begins with Jesus speaking directly to you, kindly, patiently, and with great love. The next part of the reflection asks you to consider the truths presented in the words of Jesus. The final part consists of a prayer asking for God for the help to receive His wisdom and use it fruitfully in your life.

With more than one million copies sold, My Daily Bread is a true Christian classic. Its simple yet carefully crafted daily reflections have led thousands to a drastically improved interior life and a deeper love for Christ.

My Imitation of Christ

Author: Thomas A Kempis

Illustrated

For five centuries the "Imitation of Chirst" has been the most popular spiritual book second only to the Sacred Scriptures. It presents the fundamental principles of the spiritual life. The christian soul is invited to follow Christ who is the way, the truth and the life. As we study its contents we are convinced that without that way there is no going, without that truth there is no knowing, without that life there is no real living.

This edition of the "Imitation of Christ" has been revised to free the text of archiac expressions without destroying its original flavor, and illustrations have been added.

Pocket Size - 474 pages.

My Daily Life is the follow-up title, and natural complement to Father Paone’s indispensible My Daily Bread. While the latter focused on the interior life, My Daily Life focuses on the exterior life, offering practical advice on daily living and getting to the heart of human nature.

This powerful little volume will help you navigate a world that is “no paradise, neither…an utter hell.” My Daily Life offers sound advice on a host of daily struggles, including:

• How to strive for earthly fulfillment within the bounds of reason, reality, and morality (p. 12)
• How to overcome our insecurity in a world that we cannot control (p. 59)
• How to achieve self-possession by controlling undue anger (p. 87)
• How to face life with a realistic outlook and avoid being overly emotional (p. 122)
• How the theological virtue of hope can benefit us in our earthly goals as well (p .273)
• And much more…

Father Paone presents the readings in “bite-sized” portions that make it easy to maintain a daily devotional schedule. This convenient, palm-sized book is overflowing with common sense, compassion, and holiness. The passages in the book will help transform belief into realization and theory into practice. My Daily Life is an essential and relatively unknown part of the canon of great Catholic literature.

My Daily Life is a practical guide that will help you to persevere in the holy resolutions which you make at the time of confession, Holy Communion, missions, retreats, or any moment of grace.