Liturgical Press imprint: 386 books
Courage and Conviction
Unpretentious Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Today, many Christians, concerned and challenged by contemporary trends in society and religion, are bewildered and perhaps tempted to leave the Church and manage on their own. Courage and Conviction is addressed to discerning adult Christians who seek something between high theology and pious platitudes....
Field Hospital Catechesis
The Core Content for RCIA Formation
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
If, as Pope Francis says, the church is a field hospital, then what does it mean to care for the wounded and heal the wounds? What would we do first? Indeed, God sends all of us—especially catechists and teachers—to heal the world. And the first thing we have to do is this: proclaim that Jesus...
Not by Bread Alone
Daily Reflections for Lent 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Prayerfully journey through Lent with Mary DeTurris Poust’s fresh and meaningful reflections on the daily Mass readings. In just minutes per day, the insightful meditations of Not by Bread Alone can deepen your experience of this solemn season of prayer and penance and prepare you to participate more fully in the joy of the great Easter mystery.
Waiting in Joyful Hope
Daily Reflections for Advent and Christmas 2017-18
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Prepare spiritually for the coming of Christ with this popular, easy-to-use annual guide. During the especially busy Advent and Christmas seasons, this book offers brief, down-to-earth reflections that bring prayer and Scripture into everyday life in a thought-provoking and lasting way. Through Mary...
A New Friendship
The Spirituality and Ministry of the Deacon
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
What is a deacon?" "What does a deacon do?" These are two questions pastors, parishioners, and even deacons themselves often ask.
In A New Friendship Monsignor Edward Buelt answers these questions through an engaging conversation with the Scriptures, the eucharistic liturgy,...
After Emmaus
Biblical Models for the New Evangelization
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
The New Evangelization calls Christians to return to the New Testament to understand its essential content but also to discover different ways of proclaiming the Good News. By exploring the witness and different missionary approaches of Jesus and the apostles Marcel Dumais, OMI, offers foundational...
by John J. Pilch
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
The fifty-six essays in this book present cultural reflections on the gospel reading assigned for each Sunday in Cycle B of the Roman Lectionary. Each essay highlights aspects of the first-century, Eastern Mediterranean cultural world in which Jesus lived and suggests across-cultural comparison with...
Seek the Living God
Five RCIA Inquiry Questions for Making Disciples
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
We all know that a one-size-fits-all approach to RCIA catechumenate formation doesn’t work. But until now, many of us were stumped trying to find a viable alternative*. Seek the Living God: Five RCIA Inquiry Questions for Making Disciples* is the answer to your prayers. After just a few meetings...
Come, Creator Spirit
Meditations on the Veni Creator
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Written particularly for the Charismatic Renewal in the English-speaking world, Come, Creator Spirit is a helpful guide for a better understanding of the Holy Spirit. In this detailed commentary on the famous hymn Veni Creator, sung at the beginning of every new year, ecumenical council, and priestly...
Icons in the Western Church
Toward a More Sacramental Encounter
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Within the Eastern tradition of Christianity, the eikon, or religious image, has long held a place of honor. In the greater part of Western Christianity, however, discomfort with images in worship, both statues and panel icons, has been a relatively common current, particularly since the Reformation....
Rekindling the Christic Imagination
Theological Meditations for the New Evangelization
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
The Second Vatican Council marked the beginning of the New Evangelization. It sought to communicate the Gospel's perennial newness to the contemporary world in a spirit of joy and hope. Yet despite the exhortations of Paul VI and John Paul II, a number of ecclesial and cultural factors deflected the...
Praise the Name of the Lord
Meditations on the Names of God in the Qur'an and the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Christians and Muslims both have an abundance of names for God. The Bible provides Christians with a rich array of names for God, and the ninety-nine Names that Islam gives traditionally to God are drawn from the Qur’an. Praise the Name of the Lord is an offering of texts, from the Qur’an and...
Wisdom
Volume 20
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In the book of Wisdom, we find the literary voice of Solomon, the model king and seeker of wisdom sharing his meditations. Concepts from Greek philosophy are integrated into Jewish tradition to present new insights into how wisdom can be both a quality of God and a human characteristic. Three affirmations...
Introduction to the Bible
Volume1
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
When we first pick it up and open it, the Bible can seem confusing and perhaps even frightening. Here is this bulky book, made up of seventy-three sections with unfamiliar titles such as Deuteronomy, Ecclesiastes, Colossians, and Corinthians, with numbers in front of almost every sentence, rarely...