Liturgical Press imprint: 386 books
Oscar Romero
Love Must Win Out
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
People of God is a brand new series of inspiring biographies for the general reader. Each volume offers a compelling and honest narrative of the life of an important twentieth or twenty-first century Catholic. Some living and some now deceased, each of these women and men have known challenges and...
The Gospel According To Luke
Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Luke continues to challenge our lives. Focusing on Jesus and his earthly ministry among the early church, Michael, F. Patella, OSB, opens the Gospel of Luke to the 21st-century reader.
Patella presents literary, textual, and historical criticism in a readable manner to give readers a solid...
Navigating Pastoral Transitions
A Staff Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
As a parish staff member, you have a unique leadership role when there is a change in pastors. In that transitional time when the current pastor hasn't quite left and the new pastor hasn't quite arrived, you are an anchor that the rest of the parish turns to for guidance.
Navigating Pastoral...
An Ignatian Journey of the Cross
Exercises in Discernment
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
This book is a collection of fifteen spiritual exercises for people who seek to experience God in everyday life with the help of Ignatian discernment. At times, life looks like a way of the cross. Pain is there, uninvited. Art and beauty have long been able to deepen our spirituality. By contemplating...
Life Abounding
A Reading of John's Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
The fourth gospel addresses the thirst for life that lies at the depth of every human heart. The life in question is not just physical life but the “more abundant life‘” (John 10:10) that is nothing less than a share in the “eternal life” of the divine communion of love. In Life Abounding,...
Connecting Pulpit and Pew
Breaking Open the Conversation about Catholic Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Whether you preach from a pulpit or sit in a pew, you hope (and pray) for a homily that connects the Good News with life. But what does it mean to connect? In a world that buzzes with the synapses of technological “connection,” can the human touch of preaching make a difference anymore? Connecting...
Welcome to the Feast
The Story of the Eucharist in Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Welcome to the Feast is an invitation to explore the theme of celebrating God’s unfolding covenant relationship with humanity in the context of a meal. Starting with Abraham’s hospitality in providing a feast for three divine visitors, the menu in Welcome to the Feast begins with ample servings...
Scandal
The Catholic Church in Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize - winning coverage of clergy sexual abuse of minors in 2002 led to what few would hesitate to call the most significant scandal in the history of the Catholic Church in the United States. In contrast, Catholics themselves disagree about whether the voting records...
Desperately Seeking Spirituality
A Field Guide to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
In Desperately Seeking Spirituality, sacred spelunker and sociologist Meredith Gould, combines practical wisdom with lived experience to explain why and when traditional practices don’t work for today’s seeker and then how to choose ones that will. In short, easy-to-read chapters and with characteristic...
Come, Lord Jesus
A Study of Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2018
New Edition with Discussion Questions and a Critique of the Rapture
How can Christians today understand the book of Revelation and its meaning and implications for our lives? Mark Braaten, a pastor and scholar who has spent years studying and teaching Revelation, answers the many questions...
Project Holiness
Marriage as a Workshop for Everyday Saints
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Project Holiness: Marriage as a Workshop for Everyday Saints celebrates the holiness of the ordinary and the goodness of married discipleship. Vatican II’s Lumen Gentium reminds Catholics of the universal call to holiness. Each person—lay and ordained alike—shares this vocation to holiness,...
by John C. Endres SJ
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In the era in which the Chronicler writes, the pressing question is: How will Judeans reestablish themselves after the Babylonian exile? The Chronicler's answer is to encourage the people of Israel to live out of their memory of God's mercy and compassion. Knowing and cherishing the books of Samuel...
Sauntering Through Scripture
A Book of Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
The Bible presents a landscape rich with characters whose stories and prophecies, wisdom and woes, parables and prayers describe our very human struggle to know and respond to the love of God. Repeated reading and retelling make these texts familiar, and yet we encounter them anew in these fresh,...
Saint Benedict for Boomers
Wisdom for the Next Stage of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Saint Benedict for Boomers is based on the idea that no one can retire from being a Christian; we are to love God and our neighbor throughout our life. And it recognizes that aging presents us with change, loss, and death, as well as new growth and opportunities for deep gladness and peace. The Christian...