Liturgical Press imprint: 386 books
Longing to See Your Face
Preaching in a Secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Thomas Scirghi, SJ, has trained priests, deacons, and lay ecclesial ministers in the art and theology of preaching for decades. In Longing to See Your Face, he makes his insights and experience accessible to a much wider audience.
Scirghi begins with a discussion of the purpose of preaching...
Fire Starters
A Companion to the Weekday Lectionary Readings in Ordinary Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Though daily Mass is held most frequently, resources for daily homilies can be in short supply. In this book, Bishop Sklba offers a rich collection of ideas — fire starters — for preparing brief, spiritually nourishing homilies for daily Eucharist. Like building a campfire, where one ignites the...
by Juan I. Alfaro
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Homilaas sobre los evangelios de domingos: Ciclo A es el primero de tres volamenes de pistas paralas homilaas escrito en Espanol para Ciclos A, B y C. Estas pistas para homilaas son concebidas parala diversa comunidad hispana en los Estados Unidos y seran recursos atiles paralos homilistas.
Juan...
A Pastor's Toolbox 2
More Management Skills for Parish Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
The remarkable success of the book A Pastor’s Toolbox: Management Skills for Parish Leadership has demonstrated that the demands of time and financial challenges continue to impact the work of today’s parish leaders. The need has become even greater for practical tools to assist in the many aspects...
A Pastor's Toolbox
Management Skills for Parish Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Today’s parish leaders are expected to be holy and prayerful spiritual guides, great preachers and compassionate confessors, but also to make important decisions in key areas like finance, budgeting, hiring and firing, fundraising, risk management, relationship-building, and more—often with virtually...
Navigating Pastoral Transitions
A Parish Leader's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
A change in pastors can be one of the most difficult times in parish life. Navigating Pastoral Transitions: A Parish Leader's Guide helps make the transition smooth and successful. By helping parish leaders understand their unique role in managing change, this guide enables communities to turn crisis...
Catholic Identity or Identities?
Refounding Ministries in Chaotic Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
How can Catholic leaders effectively train and form members of our institutions in the Gospel values that are the ultimate foundation of Catholic identities?
Internationally recognized author, educator, and facilitator Gerald A. Arbuckle argues that it is time to acknowledge that the programs...
Schools of Solidarity
Families and Catholic Social Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
The church has much to teach and much to learn from families about the gifts and challenges of building a more just and compassionate society. Families are schools of solidarity, working each and every day to deepen relationships within the family itself and with other families both near and far....
The Social Media Gospel
Sharing the Good News in New Ways
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
If you are responsible for managing digital communications in your parish, staying current with trends in the rapidly changing world of social media can seem like an overwhelming task. Which social medium platforms make sense for your church community? How can you make them an effective tool for ministry?
As...
Stewardship
Living a Biblical Call
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
In Stewardship: Living a Biblical Call, Bernard Evans presents an accessible and easily understood biblical and theological foundation for giving that both parishioners and stewardship leaders will find practical and valuable. In focused chapters, the many aspects of stewardship are named and described,...
How Human is God?
Seven Questions about God and Humanity in the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Walter Cardinal Kasper has written, “It is time, it is the right time, to speak of God.” This book invites readers to use their God-given ability to work through important questions that many people have about God today: Why is God so angry in the Bible? Is the biblical God male or female...
Numbers
Volume 5
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Irene Nowell admits that the book of Numbers rarely makes the top ten list of favorite biblical books." But through her insightful interpretations and practical reflections, readers will gain a new and positive appreciation of the text. With Nowell, readers will relish the harassment and humor...
by Philip Sheldrake
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Desire is at the heart of what it is to be human. The power of desire, while embodied and sensuous, is God-given and the key to all human spirituality. Humanity is blessed with a deep longing that is infinite in extent and can only ultimately be satisfied in God. Befriending Our Desires portrays the...
A Shimmer of Something
Lean Stories of Spiritual Substance
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Prose poems, chants, litanies, simple songs, cadenced prayers, brief bursts of rhythmic observation, elegies to little moments that are not little at all in the least whatsoever—welcome to the melodic world of Brian Doyle’s “proems,” swirling with voices unreeling tales, souls telling stories,...