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Our Lady of Emmitsburg, Visionary Culture, and Catholic Identity
Seeing and Believing
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
This ethnography explores the community of believers in a series of Marian apparitions in rural Emmitsburg, Maryland, asking what it means to call oneself a Catholic and child of Our Lady in this context, what it means to believe in an apparition, and what it means to communicate with divine presence...
by Various Authors
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Classic Christian Hymns is a collection of Christian hymns, from the time of antiquity and the early Church to modern. Included are hymns from Church fathers like St. John Damascene, St. Francis Xavier, St. Clement and more. Throughout the book of hymns, Christian artwork by painters such as El Greco,...
Forbid Them Not Year C
Involving Children in Sunday Worship
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Comprising 52 reproducible full page worksheets related to each Sunday's worship theme and based on the Revised Common Lectionary, these resources show how to create meaningful worship experiences for children. Includes suggestions for prayers, litanies, and sermon illustrations. Indexed for non-lectionary...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
A most valuable resource, Chalice Worship provides 132 complete services and parts of services and more than 900 individual worship resources, both original and from around the world, to assist worship leaders in preparing for various worship occasions.
by Robin Parry
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In these interviews, Dr. Robin Parry talks with us about the importance of a Trinitarian approach to worship, the role of lament in the Psalms and in Christian life, and the role of Israel in salvation history.
by Mary Grace Melcher OCD
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Inspired by her daily contemplation and meditation on the Scriptures, Carmelite Sister Mary Grace Melcher offers this book of deeply meaningful prayers of the faithful for every day of the year. Cycles A, B, and C for Sundays and the two-year cycle for weekdays are all included. These beautiful intercessions...
God's Good Earth
Praise and Prayer for Creation
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
God’s Good Earth offers Christians and their communities an engaging resource for prayer, reflection, and worship that reflects and nourishes their efforts to serve God and care for God’s creation. Compilers Anne and Jeffery Rowthorn have prepared 52 beautiful, ready-made prayer services, each...
A Pilgrim's Guide to Fatima
And the Surrounding Area
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Since 1917, when three Portuguese shepherd children received apparitions of the Virgin Mary, the Child Jesus, and Saint Joseph, Fátima has been the destination of many millions of pilgrim visitors. The apparitions occurred at a time of great turmoil in the history of mankind: The Great War was in...
Wonder Reborn
Creating Sermons on Hymns, Music, and Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
This book explores an issue at the nerve of the long term health of all churches: how godly wonder can be reborn through renewed attention to the place of beauty in preaching and worship. The book opens with an exploration of the theological and cultural difficulties of defining beauty. It traces...
Annulment
A Guide for RCIA Candidates, Ministers, and Others
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Annulment simplifies and demystifies the Catholic Church’s annulment process for anyone with an “irregular marriage” situation who seeks to join the Church.
Three Great Days
Preparing the Liturgies of the Paschal Triduum
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
As the summit of the church’s liturgical year, the Paschal Triduum requires the energy, time, and talents of many people within the parish community. In Three Great Days, Jeremy Helmes draws on rubrics, liturgical theology, the church’s tradition, and plenty of lived experience to offer a sound...
Light in the Darkness
Preparing Better Catholic Funerals
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Although the Catholic funeral rite has not changed in the past few decades, society has. Parishes have new questions to face that their liturgical book does not consider: eulogies by family members, the final disposition of cremated remains, and the collapse of the traditional three-stage funeral...
The New Handbook of the Christian Year
Based on the Revised Common Lectionary
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
The New Handbook of the Christian Year: Second Edition, by Hoyt L. Hickman, Don E. Saliers, Laurence Hull Stookey, and James F. White. Lectionary, prayers, responses, and Communion services updated for consistency with books of worship from several denominations. Includes: glossary of Christian symbols,...
Liturgy and the New Evangelization
Practicing the Art of Self-Giving Love
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
In Liturgy and the New Evangelization, Timothy O’Malley provides a liturgical foundation to the church’s New Evangelization. He examines questions pastoral ministers must treat in order to foster the renewal of humanity that the New Evangelization seeks to promote. Drawing on narrative, as well...