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This bestselling Bible is an ideal beginning Bible for young Catholics, ages 5-7 and has sold over one million copies worldwide. All Gift Editions feature padded covers, gold edges, certificate pages, personal and family history pages and are gift boxed.

Size 4 1/4" x 6". 96 pages, hardcover

Available in white or maroon

Padded simulated leather cover with gold edges and Communion certificate page. Gift boxed.

Padded simulated leather cover with gold edges and Communion certificate page. Gift boxed.

This board book with bright, vibrant, and charming illustrations introduces young children to traditional and new prayers. On each two-page spread, they will see a picture that they can then recreate, using the nine included blocks.

Losing a child is devastating. For Catholic parents who lose a child before or shortly after birth, this profound grief often comes with distinctive, sudden, and difficult questions about God, the Church, and who they are now as parents to the child they have lost. Why did God let this happen? Where is my baby? Can the Church help me make sense of this? What do we do now?

In A Catholic Guide to Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Infant Loss, Abigail Jorgensen serves as a companion and guide through perinatal loss in light of Catholic teaching. She addresses difficult medical, theological, and practical questions asked by loss parents and the friends, family, pastors, ministers, and medical professionals who support them.

Jorgensen has first-hand experience, both as a mother who has lost children in miscarriage and as a Catholic bereavement doula—someone who walks with families through early child loss. Through her own experiences, she discovered how hard it can be to find adequate answers and spiritual help from within the Church, so she wrote the book that she and her clients have needed.

By Betsy Puntel and Hannah Roberts.

Bringing a very young child to Mass each week initiates him or her into the rhythm and spirit of the liturgy. By introducing young children to the words, gestures, and prayers of the Mass, you can help to cultivate a lifelong love of the Catholic faith. WithA Child's Book of the Mass, parents, grandparents, godparents, teachers, and catechists can guide young children through each moment of the liturgy, helping them to identify the various elements of our liturgical celebration. Accompanied by vibrant, life-like illustrations, this beautiful book will teach children about the celebration at the heart of our faith, encouraging them to watch, listen, and sing along as active members of their faith community.

978-1-61671-179-5| Hardcover| 48 pages| Language: English| Copyright Year: 2014

Featuring a fresh look on a traditional display, this bulletin ushers in Christmas hope. With white and red hues, simple imagery, and the words of Matthew 1:23, it is ideal for the advent season or Christmas itself.

Publication Date: 12/01/2011

A Concise Guide to Canon Law: A Practical Handbook for Pastoral Ministers

Pastoral ministers are faced with new questions and challenges every day, and answers aren't always easy to find. Canon law can provide the answers to some of the most complicated questions, but busy pastoral ministers don't always know where or how to find those answers. What's needed is a clear, concise, easy-to-use reference guide to church law, one that puts the answers right at your fingertips.A Concise Guide to Canon Law will do just that. This handy reference provides a compact overview of the most important canonical issues facing pastoral ministers today. Arranged by topic, it offers a thorough summary of church law including such topics as the sacraments and church organization and is complete with reference numbers to relevant canons in the Code of Canon Law. Helpful sections of "frequently asked questions and answers" at the end of the chapters make finding answers to the most often-asked questions even easier. With more and more lay people becoming involved with church administration, and with members of parishes and faith communities raising more complex and complicated questions, Understanding church law is vital and A Concise Guide to Canon Law makes it easy.

Author: Kevin E. McKenna

ISBN: 9780877939344

6" x 9" Paperback

128 pages

Topics related to Catholic social teaching emerge regularly in American political and civic discourse, often connected to discussions about religious freedom, abortion, immigrant rights, racism, capital punishment, and health care. This third edition of A Concise Guide to Catholic Social Teaching by Rev. Kevin E. McKenna incorporates the essential teachings of Pope Francis in Evangelium Gaudium, Laudato Si’, and Amoris Laetitia to offer a clear, beginner-level reference tool and study guide for Church leaders and other interested Catholics to help them navigate this vast body of teaching.

Building on core themes of human dignity, community, rights and responsibilities, option for the poor, dignity of work, solidarity, and care of creation, McKenna distills a vast amount of Catholic teaching into easily digestible summaries, each carefully referenced to its primary source and correlated to pressing issues making today’s headlines. 

This practical and thorough guide remains a perennial favorite for study and reference in Catholic parishes, universities, and ministry formation programs.

A Cord of three frame with rope cross. Can stand or hang, comes with both easel and hanger. Gift boxed.

Saying:

"A Cord of three strands is not easily broken"

Thomas Merton's sessions with the young monks at the Abbey of Gethsemani showcase Merton's brilliant ability to survey the key figures and synthesize their writings, inspiring his listeners and readers with what it means for the spiritual life. Like its companion volume, A Course in Christian Mysticism, this book is a collection of fifteen lectures that get to the heart of Merton's belief that monastic wisdom and spirituality are applicable for everyone. This compact volume allows anyone to learn from one of the twentieth century's greatest Catholic spiritual teachers. The study materials at the back of the book, including additional primary source readings and thoughtful questions for reflection and discussion, make this an essential text for any student of Christian desert spirituality.

Edited by: Jon M. Sweeney

Paperback 5-1/2 x 8-1/2

Pages 200

ISBN: 978-0-8146-8473-3

Publication Date: 05/15/2019

Greg Kandra's A Deacon Prays--the essential prayer book for Catholic deacons--is a practical, daily companion that speaks to deacons as no other book has because it comes from Kandra, creator of The Deacon's Bench blog and one of the most popular voices and enthusiastic advocates of the deaconate in the Church today.

Kandra left a successful career as a television news writer and producer to become a Catholic deacon after the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center. Covering the devastating story set Kandra on a spiritual quest that led to his ordination in 2007. He serves a parish in the Diocese of Brooklyn.

In A Deacon Prays, Kandra has written prayers to greatly strengthen a deacon's spiritual life and richly enhance his ministry. There are prayers

• for daily life and seasons;
• for service in particular ministries;
• to patron saints;
• of devotion tailored for deacons;
• of petition and intercession; and
• marking special times in the life of a deacon.

This is an indispensable addition to any deacon's prayer corner, briefcase, or glove compartment, and will be a popular gift for ordinations, birthdays, holidays, and other special occasions in the life of a Catholic deacon.

9" A Family is Circle of Love garden stone with bronze. The garden stone is made from resin/stone mix.

A Guide to the Period of Evangelization and Precatechumenate explores the distinctive vision and purpose of this foundational period of the initiation process. It provides initiation ministers with the practical tools needed to assess the parish’s current evangelizing ministry and to design an inquiry process aimed at helping seekers to hear and respond to the Good News, to undergo conversion, and to awaken and the desire to enter a relationship with God in Christ.

Inside this guide, initiation ministers will find everything needed for effective ministry in this period, including:

• An overview of the purpose and vision of the Period of Evangelization and Precatechumenate
• Practical tips for improving the evangelizing outreach of your parish
• Ideas for attracting inquirers
• An outline for an initial conversation with prospective inquirers
• Questions for reflection with the initiation team and with inquirers
• Sample inquiry sessions based on paragraph 42 of the OCIA
• Discernment questions for assessing an inquirer’s readiness to celebrate the Rite for Entrance into the Catechumenate
• Guidance for preparing and celebrating the Rite for Entrance into the Catechumenate
• A mystagogical session to help catechumens reflect on the Rite for Entrance into the Catechumenate and its meaning at this moment in their journey

9781616718008 | 7 x 10 | 96 Pages | Paperback